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Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions?
An anonymous reader writes: One of the most powerful features of modern browsers is the ability to install third-party extensions. They allow third-party developers to work on really useful niche functionality, and let users customize their browser with the tools they need. Unfortunately, this environment has the same discover-ability and security problems as standalone software. Thus, my question: what are your most useful (and safe) browser extensions? I can't live without some privacy basics like NoScript, AdBlock, and Ghostery. I also find FoxyProxy helpful for getting around geolocation requirements for media streaming. OneTab works pretty well for saving groups of browser tabs, and Pushbullet keeps getting better at managing my phone while I'm at my PC.
When you hear "The Internet" in 2015, do you seriously still think of telnet, gopher, and ftp?
Telnet? Occasionally used to play nethack, or as a replacement for netcat missing on Windows machines
Gopher? Not really.
FTP? Erm, yes? Although I don't like the fact, it is still very relevant.
Because almost no one else does.
Since you decided to hand-pick examples which suit your argument, let me do the same.
When you hear "The Internet" in 2015, do you seriously still think of email, XMPP, bittorrent?
Because almost noone else does.(*)
(*) Oh, wait.
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So you're saying that the customer demands cross-site scripting hell, where to look at a simple article I have to have fifteen different sites' javascript enabled, including probably half a dozen ad/tracking sites that have nothing to do with reading text on a screen?
How do you think that "text on a screen" got arranged in just the right way to make it valuable? If you want an ad-free, script-free browsing experience with words on a screen, go get a fucking lorem ipsum generator. If you want valuable content, you are going to have to pay for it somehow (i.e. looking at ads and/or running scripts).