#browser-extensions — Public Fediverse posts

🛡️ Cum poți folosi în continuare uBlock Origin pe Vivaldi și navigatoarele bazate pe Chromium! Odată cu eliminarea extinderilor Manifest V2 din magazinul oficial Chromium, celebrul uBlock Origin este dezactivat sau șters automat la repornirea browserului. Cu toate acestea, există încă o metodă manuală de încărcare (sideloading) care îți permite să folosești versiunea completă.✨ Pașii pentru instalare manuală:1️⃣ Descarcă extensia oficială:• Mergi pe pagina oficială de GitHub a proiectului uBlock Origin (la secțiunea Releases) și descarcă arhiva care se termină în .chromium.zip.
• Descomprimă arhiva descărcată într-un folder local pe calculator. 2️⃣ Activează Modul Dezvoltator:• Deschide pagina de extinderi din navigator (ex: vivaldi:extensions sau chrome:extensions) și bifează comutatorul Mod dezvoltator (Developer mode). 3️⃣ Încarcă extensia decomprimată:• Apasă pe butonul Carcă desempachetat (Load unpacked) și selectează folderul unde ai extras anterior arhiva zip. ⚠️ Aspecte importante de reținut:• Deoarece suportul oficial Manifest V2 este eliminat, browserul poate șterge extensia la repornire, fiind necesară reîncărcarea folderului.• Setările sau regulile personalizate se pot reseta, făcând ca extensia să funcționeze ca la prima instalare. O soluție temporară excelentă pentru cei care nu vor să renunțe la controlul complet oferit de uBlock Origin pe motoarele Chromium! 🚀#uBlockOrigin #Chromium #Vivaldi #Privacy #OpenSource #BrowserExtensions #AdBlocker #TechNews #SoftwareLibre

🤖 Kimi K3: Proof that we need #AI to do everything humans are too lazy to do—like clicking on a button to deploy 247 agents. 🚀 Because we totally needed another browser extension to clutter our tabs and crash our systems. 🙄 The #revolution is here, and it's in the form of yet another AI that promises to turn your Excel spreadsheets into Picasso masterpieces. 🎨
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3 #BrowserExtensions #ExcelArt #LazyTech #HackerNews #ngated

Cookie Guardian in Chrome store has a public GitHub repository, but, open-source?

Google, you are featuring this extension, right?

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cookie-guardian-auto-dele/gnoaanpbfnjakaddkecnnamnfkebhgle

https://github.com/CurlyEthan/cookie-guardian

#OpenSource #BrowserExtensions #Privacy #Chrome

MakeUseOf: Google’s latest updates for Chrome extensions are a big boon for privacy. “On July 1, Google announced some significant changes to the Chrome Web Store’s policies. These changes will impact Chrome extensions in several key ways, but the primary focus is on enhancing user privacy.”

Google to End Manifest V2 Support in Chrome, Disabling uBlock Origin and Other Ad Blockers, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://www.ghacks.net/2026/06/16/google-to-end-manifest-v2-support-in-chrome-disabling-ublock-origin-and-other-ad-blockers/?ref=frontenddogma.com

#chrome #google #browsers #browserextensions

uBlock Origin: Die letzten #Chrome-Workarounds fallen | iX Magazin https://www.heise.de/news/uBlock-Origin-Die-letzten-Chrome-Workarounds-fallen-11327170.html #ManifestV2 #ManifestV3 #Chromium #GoogleChrome #Browser #Webbrowser #BrowserExtensions #BrowserExtensions

PetaPixel: New Chrome Extension Brings Batch Editing to Google Photos. “According to creator Yair Levin, the idea for Batch for Google Photos came from a familiar frustration after returning from a family trip with hundreds of smartphone photos that needed the same adjustments before being shared with relatives.”

Drupal 11: Building A Link Directory: Part 2

A look at an alternative approach to generating screenshots for a custom link directory. This uses a combination of a REST API in Drupal and a browser extension to generate the images.

https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/drupal-11-building-link-directory-part-2
#drupal #drupalDevelopment #drupal11 #browserExtensions #javascript

Releasing Middleman Alerter, a Chromium Extension to Warn About Third-Party Reverse Proxies:

A mini-tool to make it transparent when another party can potentially access and correlate your online activity.

https://meiert.com/blog/middleman-alerter/

#tools #browserextensions #privacy #transparency #mitm #proxies

The list of starter and example blocklists for the AWAGAM TLD, Domain, and URL blocker has grown a little:

https://github.com/j9t/awagam-blocklists

If you’re in need of something more potent than a regular ad blocker, check out the AWAGAM extension—and roll your own, add new, or contribute to existing blocklists!

#blocking #awagam #browserextensions

ICYMI: Your ad blocker is selling your browsing data - and it's legal: Over 80 Chrome extensions with 6.5 million users legally sell browsing data, viewing history, and inferred health conditions to third parties, says LayerX. https://ppc.land/your-ad-blocker-is-selling-your-browsing-data-and-its-legal/ #AdBlocker #Privacy #DataProtection #BrowserExtensions #OnlineSafety

LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request

https://404privacy.com/blog/linkedin-is-scanning-your-browser-extensions-this-is-how-they-use-the-data/

#HackerNews #LinkedIn #BrowserExtensions #DataPrivacy #Cybersecurity #TechNews #Encryption

I don’t “market” these much and the tools are relatively new, but:

If you like to change your online footprint through random but realistic data, consider using New Tab Traffic Randomizer for fake traffic on opening new tabs, and/or Searcher for random automatically triggered searches.

Chromium browsers for now, but I plan to offer these for WebKit browsers as well.

https://iadefensa.com/solutions/

#privacy #browserextensions

Lifehacker: These 108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Are Stealing Google and Telegram Data. “As reported by The Hacker News, cybersecurity researchers with Socket’s Threat Research Team have identified 108 extensions available in Google Chrome that steal login credentials, user IDs, and browsing data. All 108 extensions route that information back to servers controlled by a single operator, […]

Installing Every* Firefox Extension, by @j:

https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension

#firefox #mozilla #browsers #browserextensions #overviews

Country Highlighter Chromium can now be enabled on all websites!

My own use is dual: Spot updates especially about Israel, their genocide on Palestinians, and their wars on Islamic countries, and to learn when people and orgs are supportive of these crimes (BDS).

That’s just one use case though—the extension can also help to, say, study other cultures or learn about travel destinations.

https://iadefensa.com/solutions/country-highlighter-chromium/

#browserextensions #transparency #bds

JSON Formatter Chrome Plugin Now Closed and Injecting Adware

https://github.com/callumlocke/json-formatter

#HackerNews #JSONFormatter #Adware #ChromePlugin #SecurityIssues #BrowserExtensions

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/04/04/linkedin-browser-extension-scanning-browsergate-investigation-xcxwbn/

LinkedIn Scans Browser Extensions on Every Visit

#LinkedIn #Microsoft #BigTech #Privacy #BrowserExtensions #Cybersecurity #DataProtection #EUDigitalMarketsAct #EuropeanUnion #WebBrowsers #GoogleChrome #Tracking #SocialMedia

LinkedIn scans for 6k+ browser extensions you've installed on your computer when you visit their website with a Chrome based browser.

This is fine.🐶🔥🏠

https://browsergate.eu/extensions/

#LinkedIn #dataPrivacy #browserextensions #Chrome

Releasing Searcher, a Configurable, Privacy-Minded Chromium Extension to Trigger Random Searches:

A mini-tool to make it costlier to invade your privacy.

https://meiert.com/blog/searcher/

#tools #misc #browserextensions #chromium #search #privacy

Tubefilter: PewDiePie was sick of suffering from “algo brain,” so he “fixed YouTube”. “The creator who was once the biggest thing on YouTube is now in his mad scientist era, and his tinkering has allowed him to develop a tool that takes the mental taxation out of social media scrolling. PewDiePie‘s browser extension, which he built using his personal AI model, takes users straight to […]

#Business #Announcements
Small Web just got bigger · Kagi’s people-first web directory arrives on mobile apps https://ilo.im/16bhdk

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#Humans #Directory #Blogs #Websites #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #Mobile #Android #iOS #BrowserExtensions

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/04/chrome-gemini-flaw-rogue-extensions-hijack-ai-panel-xcxwbn/

Chrome Gemini Flaw Let Rogue Extensions Hijack Chrome AI Panel

#AI #Google #GoogleChrome #Gemini #GoogleGemini #WebBrowsers #Cybersecurity #BrowserExtensions #SecurityVulnerabilities #SecurityFlaws #Exploits #SecurityPatches #AgenticBrowsers #RogueExtensions

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/19/microsoft-edge-145-password-manager-security-fixes-xcxwbn/

Edge 145 Rolls Out with Password Upgrades and Security Patches

#Edge145 #MicrosoftEdge #Microsoft #WebBrowsers #PasswordManagers #SecurityVulnerabilities #BrowserExtensions #PDF #ReadAloud #Chromium

ZDNet: The permissions behind your AI Chrome extensions deserve a closer look – they may be spying on you. “New research from data removal service Incogni finds that more than half of a sample set of AI Chrome extensions collect user data. Almost a third are ‘gathering personally identifiable information (PII).'”

https://yomitan.wiki/ is SO USEFUL for learning japanese.... it tells you about inflections and explains them when you click on them, and also has an audio function!

10ten reader is awesome, but yomitan is leagues above even if it is a little more complicated to setup.

dunno if it's useful to anyone else but I discovered it last week and it's been significantly useful already.

#LearningJapanese #Dictionary #BrowserExtensions #BrowserExtension #Tool #日本語習う #imatotalnewbatjapanesepleasedontbeoffended

MakeUseOf: This browser extension gets rid of every cookie pop-up on every site. “There’s a lot of malicious intent and security vulnerabilities that can come from sharing the wrong kinds of cookies. That’s why I use Consent-O-Matic, a browser extension that eliminates me having to deal with any cookie pop-ups that I don’t want to.”