Links Directory
My goal to browse different/indie website/not browse on the mainstream web starts here with my own stash of links that I've been carefully collecting. These links are either sites that I've been known and using for ages or new interesting sites that I've found.
For neocities sites refer to my button wall.
Disclaimer: I am just listing the websites that I like here and even though when I accessed them there wasn't anything adult/mature I can't say that I trust them with my eyes closed, so if you are minor or accessing at work, access these sites at your own risk. Also the opinion on these sites belong to their owners only and it doesn't express my own opinion.
There are total links in this page.
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Web Resources
Pixel collections:
- Animated glitter graphics
- Betty's graphics
- Bonnibel's graphic collection
- Engram pixel
- Food pixels
- Hxcx pixels
- Lost sozai (active blog)
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Lunas pixel palace
(active blog)
Pixel's scenery of Sayclub and Cyworld - Peachie's Collection (archived)
- Perfect pixels
- Pixel bug
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Pixel diary
Gyaru and tiny pixels -
Pixels dude
Gyaru gifs - Pixel garden
- Pixel harmony
- Pixelian
- Pixels
- Pixel scenery
- Pixel soup
- Pixel utopia
- Princess pixel
- Sayclub doll (active blog)
- Sayclub dollz 🇵🇹
Web materials:
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Cocorini
Cute seamless patterns - Cursors 4u
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Da lace 🇯🇵
Lace graphics -
Dinpattern
Seamless patterns -
Eggnored
Collection of seamless patterns, pixel backgrounds, favicons, cursors and more -
Fool lovers
🇯🇵
Cute web material (seamless patterns, icons, frames and more) -
Kawaii sozai webgraphics
(archived)
Directory of cute sozai sites (use the archived version of the sites listed since most sites don't work) -
Mirukuma's sozai
Pixels, dividers and renders -
Oh pixels'
Images for background master post - Tiled backgrounds
- Seamless patterns
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Snaappy
Images for background master post -
Tenshiikisu
Pixel dividers -
Tenshiikisu
Images for background master post - Transparent textures
- Toptal's Subtle patterns
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Vivarism
Renders digitalization of cute stickers -
Websets by Lynn
Dollz, glitter graphics, seamless patterns and more -
Whimsical
Cute pixel art web material -
Worlds greatest planet
Images for background master post - Yay backgrounds
Graphic resources:
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The 88x31 GIF Collection
Collection of 88x31 buttons -
Animated images
Site with tons of gifs -
Bewegende Plaatjes
🇳🇱
Cliparts, icons, buttons, gifs, smilies and seamless patterns - Blinkies
- Free blinkies
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Cantinho da Luma
🇧🇷
Tons of gifs and dolls -
Cute Kawaii Resources
Tons of graphic stuff -
Gifex 🇩🇪
Tons of gifs and cliparts -
Gifs Linda Lima
🇧🇷
Gifs, clipart and dolls -
Gifs para você
🇧🇷
Gifs, dolls, blinkies and more graphics -
Glitter graphics
Old site of everything glitter (icons, text, gifs, clipart etc) -
Itsumo resources
Textures, psds and atns -
Jans graphics
Collection of dolls, blinkies, graphics and more -
Kawaii Blossom
🇩🇪
100x100 avatars/icons, renders and other graphics -
Line store
Sticker's store of chat app Line -
Loveblush
Photoshop resources -
Magic Laterns graphics
Gifs and cliparts - My smilies
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Nancy's cat animation gallery
Cats gifs, tons of cats gifs and pixels - Nice smilies
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Pixabay
High quality royalty-free images -
Pretty Charm
🇧🇷
Gifs and other graphics - Reaction gifs
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Salvaged
00's Photoshop resources -
Silent tears
Everything graphic with glitter -
Skamu
100x100 Icons/avatars -
Tenor
Site with tons of gifs -
Web Badges World
Collection with 4000 web badges
Widgets and virtual pets:
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123 guestbook
Free guestbook -
Cactus Comments
"A federated comment system for the open web, based on the Matrix protocol" -
Cbox
Free chat box -
Gify pet
Customizable virtual pet -
HTML Comment Box
Free comment box (can be used as guestbook) -
imood
Customizable mood widget -
Mabsland's Adopt a panda
Panda's web rating adoptable -
Tamanotchi
Customizable virtual pet -
Web neko
Virtual cat that follows your mouse
Tools:
- 88x31 button maker
- 88x31 web button maker
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Analyze/Webbkoll
"This tool helps you check what data-protecting measures a site has taken to help you exercise control over your privacy" - Antipixel button maker
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Color hex
Tons of information about colours -
Coolors'
Colour Palette generator -
Cool text
Text graphics and logo generator -
Dead Link Checker
Pop your site url here and it'll check for dead links on urls and images - Gradient Generator
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Image color picker
Find the colour's hex code of a certain image -
Make WordArt
Word art generator -
Name that color
A cool website that show the name of the hex colours -
Neocities
No introduction needed -
Patternico
Seamless pattern maker -
Screenfly
Tool to check your site at different resolutions -
Squoosh
Reduces size of images while keeping the quality -
Staticman
"Staticman is an Open Source application which enables static websites to accept dynamic content submissions, including things like comments." -
TEXTANIM
Animated text generator -
Tinylytics
"A joyful analytics tool for small websites, that's easy to use"
Non-graphic resources:
- 1001 free fonts
- Ascii Art Collection
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Catipsum
Cat themed lorem ipsum - Cursor effects
- DaFont
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Emoji combos
Mix of emojis + kaomojis + ascii art -
Japanese emoticons
Tons of kaomojis -
Place hold
Simple image placeholder - RV's free js/dhtml effects
- Scripted Resources
Free layouts:
Programming
Docs:
Learning & guides:
Other sites:
- 49 Ideas for Game Clones to Code
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Codepen
Online code editor -
Free code camp
Free programming courses -
From data to viz
Help to search what graph you need to a dataviz -
Kaggle
Community for ML and Data Science (has a free courses page)
Entertainment
Alternative social media, blogging platforms, forums and communities:
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32bit cafe
"A community of like-minded website hobbyists and professionals helping to make the personal web fruitful and bountiful again" -
Anime forums
A forum centered around anime -
Basement Community
"A forum purposed for general discussion with more niche topics contained in sub-forums" -
Bearblog
A blogging platform with customizable and defined by "privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast" by their creator -
Friend project
Another Myspace recreation with a customizable profile -
Indieweb
'A people-focused alternative to the "corporate web"' -
Juice Bar
Cute pixel themed forum -
Melonland forum
"This is a community for people interested in low tech & homebrew virtual worlds and websites" -
Multiverse
Customizable collaborative blogging platform -
Spacehey
Myspace recreation, "retro social media", has a customizable profile (I've never used myspace before so I dunno if it was customizable too) -
Status cafe
A small blog-like platform with customizable profile and widget to add to your website -
Terra Luna
"Community where everything is about the game The Sims 1"
Browser games:
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Azalea's dolls
Dress-up games (has exclusive games) -
Board Game Arena
Free board games (but if you want to play with someone from the same place you need to buy premium though) -
Chronophoto
Try to guess the year that when the photo was taken -
Crazy games
Free browser games from different categories -
Doll Divine
Dress-up games (has exclusive and old Rinmaru games) -
Dream room maker
Room maker using pixel art -
eLouai
Dollmakers and room makers (archived). -
HTML5 games
Free HTML5 games from different categories -
Mini Room Maker
Archived room maker game -
Pastelkatto games
Dress-up games (has exclusive games) -
Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
Online version for two players -
Vampires! The Dark Alleyway
Vampire choice game-like -
化け猫アイコンメーカー
🇯🇵
Cute kitten avatar creator
Fun and interesting websites:
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Chiaki
Anime characters quiz, anime sequel locator, watch anime order and more -
Developer excuses
Funny site that generates excuses for poor developer's work -
Future me
Write a letter to your future self -
Inspirobot
Motivational quotes AI generator -
Isocity
A project about building a pixel city where each plot is a website link (old and inactive and full of inactive links but cool to look at) -
Listal
Site to create lists of anything -
My 2000's TV
Sites that simulates browsing on TV from the 50s to the 00s -
Steampeek
Website to search available games on Steam (just type a game and search similar games) -
Tier Maker
Create image rankings about nearly everything -
Typelit
Practise typing by typing entire novels -
Window Swap
See the view of other people's windows around the world
Pages/sites about the web and oldweb:
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Cameron's World
Literally a shrine about geocities, have links to various archived geocities -
Deceptive Patterns
Site dedicated to deceptive patterns. -
The Geocities Gallery
"A restored visual gallery of the archived Geocities sites, sorted by neighborhood." -
I'm a fucking webmaster
Page about being a webmaster in the 90s -
Make frontend shit again
Manifesto about bringing back old web shit design -
Motherfucking Website
A critique to how bloated websites are nowdays (or at least I understood this way) -
Web Design Museum
Show how websites design changed over the years -
Words
Page about how a website should be about the text on it
News and magazines:
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AniChart
Airing anime calendar (has seasonal anime from 2006 to the current year) -
Anime news network
From their logo "The Internet's most trusted anime news source" -
Beautiful Bizarre magazine
Online contemporary art magazine -
Catwalk yourself
Online fashion magazine -
Fake your Death Brasil
🇧🇷
Official MCR's brazilian news -
Five thirty eight
A variety of news with datavis -
MMORPG
MMO news -
MMORPGbr 🇧🇷
MMO news -
Sora news 24
News site with "a focus on fun, weird, and intriguing news from Asia, particularly Japan" -
Style Arena
Fashion news site about "'Tokyo Street Fashion' since June of 2002" -
Who what wear
Fashion website about "Celebrity Style and Fashion Trend Coverage"
Online databases and wikis:
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Anidb
Anime's database -
Anime characters database
Database of anime and anime characters with filter options to search characters -
Anime lyrics
Database of anime/game/jpop song lyrics -
The Cutting Room Floor
Wiki like with beta/pre-release info about video games -
Divine Pride
Ragnarok online database -
Generasia wiki
A wiki about asian media and artists -
Imdb
Movies and tv show's database -
Know your meme
Internet's meme database -
Moby Games
Biggest video game's database on Internet -
Rate my Server
Ragnarok online database and private server reviews -
The video game museum
A video game's online encyclopedia -
Vgmaps
Database of video game's maps -
Vndb
Visual novel's database -
Vocadb
Vocaloid database
Websites to create lists:
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Anilist
About animes, mangas, light novels and webtoons -
Filmow 🇧🇷
About movies and TV shows -
Goodreads
About books and other written media -
Grouvee
About video games -
lastfm
Scrobble all music that you listen to -
Myanimelist
About animes, mangas, light novels and webtoons -
Mydramalist
About asian movies, dramas and TV shows -
Skoob 🇧🇷
About books and other written media
Particular sites
Blogs & personal websites:
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Advanced Style
Cool fashion blog about senior's fashion -
Alien Melon
Personal site with a fun game-like layout -
The Frugal gamer
Personal site with a variety of stuff -
Gurney Journey
Art blog -
Lisaviolet
Personal cat-themed site and blog -
Lizclimo
Cute talking animals comics -
Lunatic Obscurity
A video game review blog about obscure/unknown games -
McMansion Hell
Fun blog about architecture -
Moda de Subculturas
🇧🇷
A blog about subculture fashion that is sporadic updated -
Our Incredible Journey
"Cataloging the thrilling opportunities start-ups are offered when their incredible journey continues by being bought by an exciting company" -
Pecado da gula
🇧🇷
Recipe book's blog -
This Victorian Life
Blog and personal site about a woman writer, who lives with her husband, who lives like it was in the Victorian era -
Viking Rune
Cool blog about vikings
Cat-related sites:
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Cat forum
A reddit-like forum about cats -
Cats
Archived cat themed geocities -
Cats.com
Modern cat focused website (the url says everything) -
The CatSite
Cat themed site with forum -
CatStuff
(archived)
Archived site with tons of cat graphics -
Cat therapy
Shows a cat picture every 4 seconds -
Cinema cats
A blog about cats in movies, television and cartoons -
Diabella loves cats
Cat themed website with a cool graphics section -
Goldfishies
Feed 3D goldfishes, not exactly a cat site, but a good cat entertainment -
I Can Has Cheezburger?
Home of the lolcats -
Infinite cat
A list of photos of a cat watching another cat and then so on -
Kitten War
Game where you decide which cat, between two oponents, is the cutest -
Love your cat
"Information about cats when it comes to breeds, nutrition, or kitty gear"
Music-related sites:
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The Hepster's Dictionary
Digitalization of Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary of Harlem musician slang (1938) -
Megaton Cafe Radio
Vintage radio station that plays music from the 20s to 50s and old radio commercials -
Online Radio Box
"Free Online Internet Radio Stations" -
Second hand songs
Cool Website to find the original version and cover of songs -
Vocaloid Radio
Online radio that plays Vocaloid music since 2012
Pixel & Dolls sites:
- Angelic garden
- Autumn pixels
- Catch a Star
- Colorful pixel (inactive)
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Custom RO Sprites Collection
A German site where people post edits of Ragnarok sprites - Design well (inactive)
- Disappeared Element (inactive)
- Dollicious (inactive)
- Dollz mania
- Dollz palace
- Dollz revival
- Hexed pixels
- Kawaiiness
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Living Worlds in HTML5
Pixel art that is animated by changing the colour palette's colours - Lovetiny pixels (archived)
- Pink land (inactive)
- Pixel dolls
- Ruber Rosis
- Sugarvamp dollz
Blog posts:
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Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
"About how not to replace an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditises people" -
Animes que foram exibidos em uma ou mais emissoras de TV
🇧🇷
A compilation of anime that were shown on Brazilian TV -
Benefits of a daily diary and topic journals
Why should you have a diary/journal -
Bring Out Your Blogs
Why should you blog, written on the anniversary of the "blog" word -
Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters
Why should you have a links page on your site -
No hello
Why you shouldn't say just hello in chat -
Rediscovering the Small Web
"About how, despite the dominance of the commercial web, a fun, creative and informative small web designed by regular people still exists and is worth exploring" - Webring History
My Stash Resources
Art:
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My Art resources page
Subdirectory with everything art related and more -
Blog post: Where to start, and where to go from there. A
roadmap to professional quality art
Game Making:
- Blog post: How To Make Good Small Games
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Indie GameDev Gaiden
Directory of links related to indie game making - Indie game jams
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Lazy Foo' productions
Article "Starting out on Game Programming", also has SDL and OpenGL tutorials -
Open Game Art
Free game assets - Tiled Map Editor
Pixel Art:
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2D Will never die
Pixel art themed website with a cool layout and tutorials - Drububu's Pixel art tutorial
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HD Index Painting in Photoshop
Pixel art tutorial - Kawaii Hannah's Pixel art
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Libre Sprite
Free pixel art editor - Make Games' Pixel art tutorial
- Open Game Art: Les Forges Pixel Art Course
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PixelDam
Archived pixels of what seems was a pixel city project -
Pixel Joint
A pixel art community. - Pixel Joint: Zi Isometric Pixel Art Tutorial - Roof
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Ragnarok Character Simulator
🇯🇵
Character simulator of Ragnarok Online jobs -
Ragnarok Online Job Class & NPC Sprite List
Sprite list of npcs, monsters, classes, homunculus and mercenaries and npcs illustrations of Ragnarok -
Studio Purloux
Pixel art tutor - Zoanoide's Isometric Building Tutorial
Uncategorized:
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20.000 names
Has names from different countries and special names categories -
Artcyclopedia
Online database of fine arts -
A World Building Checklist
A series of questions when creating a World -
Behind the name
Has names from different countries, also has a surname site -
Bloshka
Fascinating blog about historical fashion -
Castles on the Web
A online database of all things castle related -
Claire Hummel's Historical Fashion Reference & Resources
A google docs guide about what the title says -
The Costumer's Manifesto
Blog about historical fashion and historical makeup -
Europeana
"Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions" -
Gez.la
"Explore museums, galleries, aquariums, zoos and more around the world with virtual tours" -
The Ladies Treasure of Costume and Fashion
Personal site about historical fashion (has free clothing patterns), but it is inactive -
The Language construction kit
A website that helps your create your own language for your fictional world -
NYPL Digital Collections
The New York Public Library's digitized items
Useful sites
Alternative search engines:
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All the internet
Search engine that promises to search the whole Internet -
Gifcities
Gif search engine that search on archived geocities -
Marginalia
"Independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content" -
Old'aVista
Search engine for old archived websites -
Oldest search
Search engine for the oldest results on the web -
The Old Net
Search engine for old archived websites -
Phind
AI search engine -
Search my site
Search engine for personal and independent sites -
Startpage
"Private search engine" -
Trace.moe
Search an anime by a screenshot (don't always work though). -
Vhs search
Search engine for neocities -
Wiby
"Search engine for the classic web"
Idioms learning:
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Anki
A software and app to study faster using flash cards -
Blog de Lengua
🇪🇸
Blog about Spanish's grammar -
Cambridge's dictionary
English dictionary -
Conjugación de la lengua española
🇪🇸
Spanish verb conjugator -
Conjugator reverso
English verb conjugatorngua -
Duolingo
Most famous app to learn a new language -
How to pronounce
Pronunciation of words from different idioms by native people -
OneLook Thesaurus
Dictionary to find synonymous, related words and more -
Real academia española's dictionary
🇪🇸
Spanish dictionary -
Renshuu
App to learn Japanese, features a cute mascot
Utility sites & Tools:
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123 apps
Audio, video and pdf tools and file converters -
12 feet ladder
A website to remove other websites paywall -
Alternative To
A website to find alternatives to softwares/sites/apps -
Befunky
Online photo editor and collage maker -
Convertio
Convert files from any to any other format -
HERE WeGo
Alternative to Google maps -
Ico converter
Convert images to ico format -
I love img
Image tools (resize, convert, crop, rotate, edit etc) -
Just delete me
A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services -
Micro Digital tools
"Web based digital tools that work inside your browser" -
Online Stopwatch
Online stopwatch, countdown, timers and clocks -
Pdf to image
Convert pdf to other formats -
Photopea
Online photo editor, alternative to Photoshop -
Proton mail
Free email service that cares about privacy, also don't need cellphone number to create account -
Remove.bg
Remove background from images -
Small pdf
Pdf tools -
Virus total
Tool to scan urls, softwares, files etc for virus and more
PC personalization:
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Broken Tone
Anime wallpapers -
Catppucin
Cute pastel theme available to almost anything -
The Forgotten Lair
Wallpapers, brushes and anime renders -
Minitokyo
Site with anime wallpapers -
Wallhaven
"The best wallpapers on the net"
Websites directories:
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32bitcafe's Directory
Resources List for the Personal Web -
Anilinks
Directory about anime/manga/video game fansites/artsites/new sites and more -
The Anime Fanlistings Network
Directory of anime and manga fanlistings -
Awesome Search
Search quickly on an Awesome list -
Cats Directory
Directory for cat-related sites -
Cinni's Archive
Archive of cute pixel graphic sites -
Cinni's Ichigo directory
A directory of cute websites -
Curlie
A link directory with a variety of themes (and active!) -
The Fanlistings Network
Directory of fanlistings -
Hyperlink Node Directory
Directory of others web directories -
I.webthings directory
Personal eclectic directory -
Neo-neighboorhoods
A directory with neocities similar to the geocities districts categories -
Oocities
Directory of archived geocities of the 90's/00's -
Ooh! Directory
Directory of blogs -
Open Directory Project
A static snapshot of DMOZ's directory -
Open Source Game Clones
Directory of open source remakes of old games -
Sadgrl' Webmaster directory
Directory of links for web resources -
VE3ZSH'S Links
Has tons of great sites (mostly about programming) -
Ye Olde Blogroll
Directory of personal sites and independent blogs
Extra
Useful softwares:
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Advance renamer
Rename files in bulk -
f.lux
Monitor nightlight filter -
Foxit's pdf reader
Pdf reader with useful pdf editing features -
Free Cam
Screen recorder and video editing -
LightShot
Screen capture tool -
MusicBee
Music player that you can order properly all your music -
Obsidian
Note taking software (there is an Android version too)
Firefox extensions:
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Firefox Color
Allows to create Firefox themes -
Privacy badger
Block invisible trackers -
uBlock origin
Wide-spectrum content blocker -
Unhook youtube
Customizable hider of distractions from Youtube -
Youtube nonstop
Stop Youtube from pausing videos