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Nowadays the Web has become barely usable. Invasive advertisement are rampant, tracking is basically normal, to reveal our preferences and tastes to the big companies appear unavoidable.
Yet, we can do something to make the web almost as good as it was.
The browser of choice is Firefox because it implements containers that allow to open different tabs that cannot read each other data.
This is the addon necessary for using containers. However it forces to manage containers manually greatly reducing their utility.
Temporary Containers fixes the problem. It needs a bit of setup, but it can allow to open tabs in temporary ephemeral containers. The result is that easily each website only see their own stuff and it gets deleted quickly. It is still possible to setup a normal container for the websites where one wants to keep the state; for example to use webmail services.
When you connect to a page, most its data is downloaded to show ads and other bothersome material. uBlock Origin is a set of rules to stop those data to reach your computer.
Some website, like Quora, allows to use their content for free. Yet they put unreasonable restrictions like that one needs to be logged on. Bypass Paywalls allows to use this websites without interruptions. One logs in only if he needs to.
The European Union showing they have no idea how internet works or what are the real problems forced all the website to ask permission to uses cookies. A modicum of cookies is basically necessary, this addon will answer “Yes” to the request. Together with the ephemeral containers will allow to use the websites as intended, no distraction but also no invasive tracking.
Often one needs to focus on a part of a webpage or one needs to keep only a part of the page for printing. The Lizard add-on allows exactly that, once activated with few simple keystroke it allows to remove what is unneeded.
Internet has always been a fragile place, a website now is on and tomorrow is gone, when something interesting appears it has to be saved quickly. One possibility is to “print” in a .pdf file, but .html are better to be seen on a screen. SingleFile allows to store the whole page, as the name suggest, as a single file with everything embedded in. Great for storage.