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mrweaseltoday at 1:24 PM1 replyview on HN

In principle I agree with you, there is just so much crap online that it's tempting to just add this one more extension to fix something.

Looking at my own installed extensions, I have a password manager, Privacy Badger and Firefox Multi-Account Containers, which I suppose is the three I really need. Then I have one that puts the RSS icon back in the address bar, because Mozilla feels that RSS is less important than having the address bar show me special dates, and two that removes very specific things: One for cookie popups and one for removing sign in with Google.

The only one of these I feel should actually be a plugin is my password manager. Privacy management (including cookies), RSS and containers could just be baked into Firefox. All of those seems more relevant to me than AI.

Maybe adding a GreaseMonkey lite could fix the rest of my problem, using code I write and control.


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notpushkintoday at 3:04 PM

> one for removing sign in with Google

You could use an adblocker rule instead:

  ||accounts.google.com/gsi/client$script
(I’m not sure if it’s possible to do that with Privacy Badger though)
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