Tootfinder

Users should be in control of what data their browser extensions can access, which is why Mozilla plans to build a data collection consent directly into Firefox's add-on installation flow
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/0

Wow, what a weird rabbit-hole I just ended up down.
So, the “Spread Mastodon" page (tutorial?) recommends a cool-sounding browser extension as an alternative to all those constantly-dead 'fedifinder' / Twitter-person-looker-upper-tools: the ‘Whosum Social Assistant' browser extension.
Sounds cool! Sounds like the correct solution to this problem!

GPTFootprint: Increasing Consumer Awareness of the Environmental Impacts of LLMs
Nora Graves, Vitus Larrieu, Yingyue Trace Zhang, Joanne Peng, Varun Nagaraj Rao, Yuhan Liu, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24107

GPTFootprint: Increasing Consumer Awareness of the Environmental Impacts of LLMs
With the growth of AI, researchers are studying how to mitigate its environmental impact, primarily by proposing policy changes and increasing awareness among developers. However, research on AI end users is limited. Therefore, we introduce GPTFootprint, a browser extension that aims to increase consumer awareness of the significant water and energy consumption of LLMs, and reduce unnecessary LLM usage. GPTFootprint displays a dynamically updating visualization of the resources individual users…

Two years ago at #CSUN I learned about what became my favorite browser extension, BeeLine Reader. I've been a subscriber ever since.
It's easy to set up on desktop, but has been some struggle to get working on Android. But this week I discovered it works with Microsoft's Edge Canary mobile browser, which has experimental support for extensions. Instructions are here:

I just installed Privacy Badger, a browser extension from @… that automatically learns to block invisible trackers https://privacybadger.org/

Privacy Badger

Novel browser extension idea: Site bookmarks
Sometimes bookmarks are only useful when you're on a specific website, when visiting a specific page, etc. This extension would let you create a bookmark that would only show up as a suggestion on specific pages
Extra credit: allow users to configure include/exclude rules for showing a bookmark

OH, this is nice! @… in the browser, by #duckdb and @…

The DuckDB Local UI
The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a local UI for DuckDB shipped as part of the ui extension.