My Favorite Firefox Addons

For my own posterity in case I ever lose them, or if anyone is curious, here’s what I use:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1password-x-password-manager/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/edit-cookie/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-search-options/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-enhancement-suite/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/soundcloud-dl/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-camelizer-price-history-ch/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-image-in-google-images/

July 23, 2021

An interesting problem I came across recently was how to set up a WordPress blog with an anonymous user. Now, a simple way would be to create a brand new user with fake information, but that’s too easy.

After looking for some prior art, I found the Anonymizer plugin in the WordPress.org plugin repository. Unfortunately, it’s not been updated in ten years! It doesn’t work well with modern WordPress–but I had this as a base to work with.

After doing a lot of testing, I came up with this solution:

A WordPress plugin to anonymize user data as much as possible on the site frontend.
https://github.com/emrikol/Pseudonymous
0 forks.
0 stars.
0 open issues.

Recent commits:

Removing unwanted code, GitHub
Bugfix to filter REST API dataAdded `rest_prepare_user` filter to stop data leaking fro the `/wp-json/wp/v2/users/2` REST API endpoint., Derrick Tennant
Initial Commit, Derrick Tennant
Initial commit, GitHub

This plugin adds a few more options in the user profile screen to add additional meta that will be displayed instead of the standard information.

Now, this is more of a toy or a proof of concept than an actual safe anonymous source. Plugins and themes can still gather user information through other means, including directly querying the database.

The only thing I’ve not tested yet is querying users via XML-RPC.

October 21, 2018

This is why I Ad Block

An article served an ad that hijacked my browser and would not let me go back. I had to kill the Chrome App and started fresh.

August 27, 2016

Tag: privacy

My Favorite Firefox Addons

Blogging Anonymously

This is why I Ad Block