Welcome to Alajuela Online
For PC:
- BlockTheSpot - Video, audio & banner adblock/skip for Spotify.
- SpotX - Modified Spotify client. Blocks ads and updates, and more.
- Streamlink - Watch streams and videos in your media player of choice (I personally recommend MPV, or MPC-HC / MPC-BE with MadVR installed).
- TarTube - Front-end for YouTube-DL if you're not into writing command lines.
- YTDL-Patched - YT-DLP fork with some more features.
- YT-DLP - Video downloading software - A fork of YouTube-DL which works on a large variety of video, streaming and music platforms.
- ytdlp-interface - Windows graphical interface for YT-DLP, designed as a simple YouTube downloader.
- youtube-dl Viewer - This is a (cross platform, standalone) web app to display videos downloaded by youtube-dl (or similiar tools) and view them inside your browser in a nice (youtube-like) UI.
Browsers:
- Bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements.
- Firefox - uBlock Origin works on the android version of Firefox too.
- LibreWolf - (Win/macOS/Linux) - LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements.
- UnGoogled Chromium - (Win/macOS/Linux/Android) - Chromium based browser without any of the Google dependencies.
Add-ons/extensions for your browser:
- Bypass Paywalls Clean - Extension that allows you to read articles from (supported) sites that implement a paywall.
You can also add domains as custom site and try to bypass the paywall.
- Consentomatic - Extension which automatically fills out cookie popups based on your preferences.
- Redirect AMP to HTML - This web extension enables users to choose to opt-out of using Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and choose to use the standard web instead.
- Simple YouTube Age Restriction Bypass - A browser extension to bypass YouTube's age verification, disable content warnings and watch age restricted videos without having to sign in.
- SponsorBlock - Sponsor block for YouTube.
- The Free Internet Plugin! - This (Chrome based browsers only) extension removes paywalled content from Google search results.
- uBlock Origin - Open source adblocker.
Privacy friendly search engines:
Paywalls:
- https://12ft.io/ - Website to circumvent paywalls.
- https://www.spaywall.com/ - Avoid paywalls on many articles by redirecting you to an archived version.
- https://www.removepaywall.com/ - Remove Paywall works by finding archived versions of a website.
- https://archive.ph/ - If you can't circumvent the paywall you might be able to find it archived here.
- https://www.printfriendly.com/ - Some paywalls can be circumvented by converting the article into a PDF.
- I don't care about Cookies - Some paywalls can be circumvented by deleting the cookies to the specific domain/article you're trying to access (A good example would be news articles from Reuters). You can also browse in private mode to circumvent those paywalls if you don't want to use an extension. Another alternative is to use the "Bypass Paywalls Clean" extension instead, just remember to add the sites in the settings/options tab.
- Unpaywall - Get free text of research papers as you browse, using Unpaywall's index of ten million legal, open-access articles.
YouTube front-end (privacy friendly) alternatives:
YouTube alternatives:
If you watch Twitch streams on your computer:
Recommended media players:
- madVR - madVR video renderer. Combine this with your media player of choice to vastly improve the video quality and fidelity. Just beware that it takes a bit of time and effort to correctly set up, I recommend using a guide if you're new.
- MPC-BE
- MPC-HC - MPC-HC continuation project.
- MPC-QT - A clone of Media Player Classic re-implemented in Qt.
- MPV - Also available for Android.
- MPV.net - Fork of MPV with the focus on accessibility.
For Android:
For iOS phones/tablets:
- Sink It for Reddit - Sink It for Reddit is a super minimal, hyper focused Safari extension that de-clutters Reddit's web version and makes it usable. Tired of seeing tons of banners and buttons asking you to use the app or login? Sink It silently, and safely, removes all of them. Removes most of the "promotional" content too!
- uYouPlusExtra - uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users.
- YouTubeRebornPlus - YouTube Reborn but with even more features.
- YTLitePlus - A modified version of Youtube supercharged with YTLite (by @dayanch96) and +15 tweaks.
For Android based smart TV's:
Network wide blocking:
Filters for uBlock Origin/Pi-Hole/AdGuardHome etc: