Google Removed ClearURLs Extension from Chrome Web Store

• ClearURLs-Addon

  64 3,918 3.5 JavaScript

  ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy.

  

I'd love to use ClearURLs, though last I checked it had a major flaw: it allows arbitrary code execution by the provider of the filter list. Among other things, it can redirect script URLs to an arbitrary source, which enables the filter list provider to perform a targeted attack.

https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon/wiki/Rules

https://kevinroebert.gitlab.io/ClearUrls/data/data.minify.js...

• web-bugs

  356 715 0.0

  A place to report bugs on websites.

  

Useful link where you can see and report browser-specific issues: https://webcompat.com/

> Webcompat.com is developed by volunteers and supported by Mozilla.

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• uMatrix

  68 4,134 3.4 JavaScript

  Discontinued uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type

To those looking for alternatives, use uMatrix: https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix.

It has the option “Block all hyperlink auditing attempts” enabled by default.

• bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

  346 - -

The Clean version is updated more frequently:

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...

Currently, the Clean version has 13,750 users while the original version has 9,864 users on addons.mozilla.org, so the fork might eventually become more popular.

• stealth

  26 992 0.0 JavaScript

  :rocket: Stealth - Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser/Scraper/Proxy

  

I agree with you there. For my stealth browser I decided to go with a different JSON based format [1] that can rewrite the URL parameters via wildcards (for both * at the start and end of both key and val).

It has the idea that you can audit a website and only list the allowed parameters there, so that a website search or sorting order or filters can still work.

I built my browser on an allowlist based concept because it seemed too impossible to maintain all bad urls, domains, parameters on the web. Most websites have more tracking than content in them, so I decided on maintaining lists to select the content rather than the ads and trackers.

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth/blob/X0/profile/p...

• uMatrix-issues

  5 98 0.3

  Discontinued This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uMatrix

  

Raymond Hill has stopped developing uMatrix and also stopped accepting PRs because it's currently too much work for him [1]. So be aware that bugs will probably not be fixed.

1: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uMatrix-issues/issues/291#is...

• uBlock-issues

  454 862 4.6

  This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin

  

Contrary to other posters here I'm not sure this is a conscious decision on Google's end. I know of plenty of add-ons that got delisted at random and that were promptly re-instated like ublock (https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/745) or firenvim (https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim/issues/518 ).

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• focus-ios

  16 1,260 9.3 Swift

  Discontinued ⚠️ Firefox Focus (iOS) has moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios

  

I use Firefox Focus on mobile which lets you reset your entire browser and cookie history with one click. It also has some built-in tracking protection and content blocking.

While it doesn’t solve the issue of add-ons, it has enough of a privacy focus to make me feel better about reducing my footprint on the mobile.

It’s a pity that development is not as active as it used to be, but looks like Firefox are still supporting the project [1]

1: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios

• webextensions-examples

  28 3,963 5.5 JavaScript

  Example Firefox add-ons created using the WebExtensions API

  

I personally do not know, just going by what's stated within the URL in the adjoining comment (https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/co...).

• copy-true-link

  2 5 0.0 JavaScript

  An add-on that copies True Link URL as shown at the status bar

I wrote a very basic extension Copy True Link https://github.com/dandanua/copy-true-link

It doesn't remove trackers from the URLs yet, but at least you can copy what is displayed at the status bar when you hover over the link. It's useful since a lot of tracking sites (like FB) substitute that status bar link for the tracking one before clicking.

I think I'll add some cleaning process in the future.

• Neat-URL

  4 604 0.0 JavaScript

  Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as Google Analytics' utm parameters.

Check out Neat URL - it's more basic, uses a comma-separated list of rules, and comes with some hard-coded presets you can override. I maintain my list in a text file and just update that and copy/paste in when I want to create one.

Of the defaults, I only override "cid, mbid" as blocking those on every site has ended up breaking some.

https://github.com/Smile4ever/Neat-URL

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