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Welcome to Cutlight Tech Tips Paste, this is meant to be a general paste of just good-practice tips/suggestions for certain things to make your internet experience better.
First and foremost, most people I know online have no clue what their doing when it comes to their browser plugins. So here's a few suggestions. First the general stuff that I would say are ESSENTIAL, then the more niche plugins.
Essential Plugins
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/set-https-default-your-browser - Turning on HTTPS:// everywhere, keeps you safe while you browse.
https://ublockorigin.com/ - The only ad-blocker you'll ever need.
https://darkreader.org/ - Open source dark mode that you can configure site-based or just keep it on so all sites have dark mode by default.
Niche Plugins
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container - Keeps Facebook cookies out (Firefox only).
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil - CTT's winutil is a MUST HAVE for Windows tweaks and isn't some bloatware like CCleaner, you use it and when you're done it's done easy as that. I recommend watching his video if you need a tutorial on what to enable specifically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXyMScSbhk4
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 - Used to disable and turn off Windows built in spyware and tracking along with other tweaks. READ THROUGH SO YOU KNOW WHAT YOURE DISABLING.
https://www.bleachbit.org/ - BleachBit is a amazing tool you can use to clean up your computer, I recommend using it bi-weekly if you have a cluttered computer. READ THROUGH SO YOU KNOW WHAT YOURE REMOVING.
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-terminal/9N0DX20HK701 - Windows Terminal to replace cmd prompt and powershell, can do it all. I only suggest doing this if you have basic knowledge of coding and commands on windows, it's not a essential to have just a quality of life change.
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.67.0 - PowerToys is a ESSENTIAL and amazing suite of tools for Windows like a spotlight search feature similar to MacOS, a Text Extractor from images, Color Picker, File Locksmith and a whole bunch of other cool stuff. I personally just spotlight search the most.
HP- https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/cat/laptops LG - https://www.lg.com/us/laptops Framework - https://frame.work/ All have their own benefits and downsides but it's really up to you. If you're planning on gaming with this laptop, make sure it has more than 8GB of RAM as a bare minimum, along with that look at the graphics. It's important to note that any gaming focused laptop will be MUCH more expensive compared to one to daily as a school laptop or something simple.
Treat Anti Virus programs like tools, not armor that makes your computer invicible. Do not download crap that can has any potential to be harmful, getting baited into downloading malware is stupider than getting scammed by Baljeet from Microsoft Headquarters
https://www.malwarebytes.com/ - Malwarebytes has a good buisiness model, you can completely exit it out unlike trash AVs such as avast and is very lightweight. Another alernative to Malwarebytes would be ByteDefender, both are good.
https://www.kaspersky.com/downloads/internet-security - Kaspersky has a suite of things and is kind bundled with other stuff. Decline the other apps and all the other crap and just their Anti Virus cuts no corners and will keep you as safe as you can be.
https://nextdns.io/ - NextDNS is a customizable DNS (Domain Name System) service that provides privacy and security to your online activity by blocking ads, trackers, malware, and other unwanted content. It allows you to block or allow specific domains, view your network activity, and customize your settings.
https://mullvad.net/en/ - Mullvad VPN is the best of the best and there's no point in even arguing.
iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/raivo-otp/id1459042137 - Backed up with your iCloud and straight to the point. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tofu-authenticator/id1082229305 - Another solid 2FA
Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.shadowice.flocke.andotp&gl=US - andOTP is TOTP(Time-based One-time Passwords) https://getaegis.app/ - Aegis Authenticator, both apps offer similar features to one another, just with slight variations.
Physical
https://www.yubico.com/ - Physical Authenticator Key. THE BEST.
https://javascript.info/intro - Start with JS and HTML, then advance from there, this is the best tutorial for JS known to mankind.
https://spectre.app/ - Spectre is the top tier password app. With it's own cipher it stores NON of your passwords and I use it personally for everything. Ensure that 'Your Spectre Secret' isn't easily guessable.
https://urlquery.net/ - Some of you desperately need this, used to see the pathing a url takes you to, and shows you the output image of what the result is. USE THIS ON SUS LINKS
https://tinywow.com/ - A BUNCH of free tools like file type converters, all the way to a background blurrer.
https://hat.sh/ - A simple secure client-side file encryption.
https://simplelogin.io/ - Open source email alias creator to make throw away aliases or ones for websites to prevent being compromised in data leaks.
https://monitor.firefox.com - Will Monitor your email address to see if it's been leaked in data breaches.
https://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text= - Unicode Text Converter to convert your plain text into unicode π₯π’π€π ππ‘π’π¬.
https://monkeytype.com/ - Minimalistic typing test that's the best out there.
https://sapph.xyz/ - Management bot - Sapphire is the all-in-one discord bot that replaces Mee6 and Dyno. All of it's features are completely free unlike Mee6 and Dyno and yet it has all of their features and more.
https://discohook.org/ - Also comes with a bot that can be used to edit, make reaction roles and restore webhooks.
https://openasar.dev/ - OpenAsar is a discord bootstrapper that rewrites some of the desktop portions of Discords app which unintentionally makes it run faster and quicker. You can also enable some privacy features within it.