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 5 Awesome Browser Extensions

1) uBlock Origin
Block 3rd party JavaScript, such as Google analytics

2) Decentralize
Recreate the Google JavaScript libraries locally on your computer that you blocked with uBlock Origin.

3) I don’t care about cookies
Block annoying cookie pop-up warnings when using European Union VPN exits

4) LibRedirect
Get an open source front end re-direct for popular spyware websites when your ignorant friends post links, such as Youtube, Tiktok, Medium, Wikipedia, Reddit.
(Twitter/Nitter usually works for profiles, but not search.  Search gets rate limited).  Reddit is NOT broken, libreddit works for me.

5) Flamingo
This Nostr web extension is great due to it being so easy and simple.  However, keep in mind that most of the Nostr websites use Cloudflare which is not private.  You can Nostr sign to comment on our website's videos w/ Flamingo (and our site doesn’t use CF or Google).  We did this to make it more like a Nostr Youtube/Reddit (for longer lasting discussion/search) and less like Twitter (where it scrolls off into irrelevance).

Reject big tech and embrace open source!