[zeepzeep]

Let Googles AI solve Googles CAPTCHAs for you!

"Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans" is one of my top 3 browser extensions.

[Normille]

Buster is a godsend and has probably saved me from having to abandon half the internet sites I visit.

Now if only someone could come up with similarly useful extensions that got rid of the other two forms of cancer that are ruining the internet:

1: Cookie consent dialogues*

and

2: Those modal overlays that suddenly cover up what you're reading and ask you to subscribe to some poxy newsletter or mailing list.

*not "I Don't Care About Cookies". It slowed my browser to a crawl when I installed it.

[iDemonix]

Unfortunately the developers of those particular things (often like ad developers) use obscurity of things like div names to make the task less trivial.

[aloisdg]

So we have "Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans", "uBlock Origin" and what is the last one?

[grishka]

SponsorBlock?

[caenn]

I had no idea this extension existed, thanks a lot!

[quietbritishjim]

That is some ingenious bait for HN readers! Of course everyone is going to passionately defend their favourite.

(Mine is, of course, tree style tabs - I could never manage without it.)

[Normille]

Go on then. I'll play. My 'must have' half dozen which get installed first, on every browser on every device I use:

* Bitwarden

* HTTPS everywhere

* Privacy Badger/Possum/Other Furry Animal

* uBlock Origin

* uMatrix

* Windscribe

[zeepzeep]

> HTTPS everywhere

Not anymore, firefox has it by default now, just gotta turn a setting on.

> uMatrix

Sadly this is dead, I guess I'll switch to a fork once I have time to figure out who does what.

[Normille]

  >Not anymore, firefox has it by default now, just gotta turn a setting on.

I don't use Firefox as my main browser. I use Yandex. I do sometimes wonder if HTTPS everywhere is becoming a bit redundant these days anyway. Most sites seem to have moved to HTTPS these days.

  >Sadly this [uMatrix] is dead

Yes, that's a shame. It still works though. Hopefully whoever takes on the task of keeping it alive via a fork will make it a bit more mobile friendly. [The same could be said about uBlock Origin]

[Debug_Overload]

For me, it's Dark Reader. I can't browse the web without it.

[udia]

NoScript would be up there for me, or else Bitwarden.

[jgehring]

"I don't care about cookies"?

[zeepzeep]

uMatrix

[FeepingCreature]

TabMixPlus of course.

[superasn]

Lastpass for me

[hnuser123456]

Imagus, Bypass Paywalls, and Tampermonkey.