Your curated web browsing experience

[dr. b 492]

What do you do to make the web less shitty? Browser extensions, custom CSS, other workarounds to make poorly designed sites more usable, whatever else -- share your favourite solutions here.

[Galeigh 308]

Every ad blocker I can find. Nukin that shit from orbit. 

[webhead 519]

• Used to use Stylish skins on Reddit because it looked like it was designed in 1993 but the new design is fine now.
• Google search fixer to make Google look the same in Firefox mobile as chrome.
• Ublock Origin
• YouTube blocker extension to hide those annoying fucking channels that post fake trailers and other YouTubers I find fucking annoying lol
• Bypass paywalls extension (especially on mobile) to get around the fucking only x free articles shit at news sites
• Redirect amp to HTML to go to normal websites and not the stupid amp versions
• I don't care about cookies to get rid of the fucking "we use cookies on this site" banners.  Not like I have a choice of telling them to turn that off lol.
• Custom skins and launcher web app for my various media center uh....programs.  They look like they belong together so it's nice.
• Firefox containers to keep my Facebook login isolated. Same for banking apps.

 

[dr. b 492]

That's a pretty good list web  

 

I've gone back to Chrome for a while now but have been thinking about switching to Firefox again. I really like what they've been doing with Firefox. I can't even remember now why I switched back to Chrome...

 

I like to use the Stylus extension to sprinkle in some custom CSS, mainly to hide elements and streamline websites (like to get rid of a bunch of shit on these forums when I'm on desktop )

[webhead 519]

I'd guess on mobile you went to Chrome because it's WAY faster than Firefox.  I'm still on Firefox Mobile because it has EXTENSIONS.  My god I can't believe I went so long on mobile without extensions.  UBlock alone is fucking night and day.  Firefox on Desktop seems as fast as Chrome and isn't trying to constantly steal my information.

 

I can't be bothered to try and mess with most websites.  I do wish the dark skin on Slickdeals wasn't broken and was thinking I might dick with it to fix the alerts page but then I just swapped back to the default skin because I'm fucking lazy.

 

Sometimes though yeah.  Some websites have some REALLY annoying shit on them.  Stylish is good for that.  Also ublock actually as well.  I was using that to block a couple sites that had annoying fucking autoplay videos (internal ones) by nuking a certain element on the page.  Now Firefox has the no autoplaying sound thing and that's good enough for me.  Thank fuck for that.