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For the best experience, optimal performance, and privacy protection, the following environment is highly recommended:

• UserScript Manager: Violentmonkey — Open-source, lightweight, and reliable.
  • Tampermonkey vs. Violentmonkey: Tampermonkey is the most widely used and mature option. Violentmonkey is recommended here primarily for its fully open-source nature and lower system resource footprint, which aligns directly with the open-source principles of this setup.
• UserStyle Manager: Stylus — Open-source and privacy-focused.
  • Why avoid Stylish and userstyles.org? It is strongly advised to avoid the Stylish extension and its primary repository, userstyles.org. Stylish has a known history of tracking user browsing data (Read more), as both Stylish and userstyles.org are controlled by the same analytics company. Furthermore, userstyles.org is practically unmaintained, notoriously slow, and heavily bloated with ads. Worst of all, the site actively restricts installations to its own Stylish extension, attempting to force users into their data-harvesting ecosystem. Stylus is a secure, spyware-free alternative. For discovering styles, the community relies on modern platforms like userstyles.world or GitHub.
• Ad Blocker: uBlock Origin — A highly regarded, open-source content blocker against ads, trackers, and fingerprinting scripts.
  • Note on Manifest V3 limitations: While a Manifest V3-compatible "uBlock Origin Lite" exists for Chromium browsers (Chrome, Edge), its functionality is significantly restricted. Due to Chromium's MV3 framework, the Lite version enforces strict limits on filtering rules and removes advanced features like dynamic filtering and remote resource fetching. To utilize uBlock Origin's full capabilities, a browser engine without these constraints is required.
• Supported Browsers: Firefox | Librewolf | Zen Browser | Mullvad Browser | Floorp Browser
  • Why these browsers? These Firefox (Gecko)-based browsers are highly recommended due to their approach to Manifest V3. According to Mozilla's official policy, Firefox will retain the crucial blocking webRequest API under MV3. This fundamentally differs from Google Chrome's restrictive implementation, ensuring that your UserScript managers and ad blockers (like the full version of uBlock Origin) will continue to operate at full capacity, uncompromised and securely.