In principle I agree with you, there is just so much crap online that it's tempting to just add this one more extension to fix something.
Looking at my own installed extensions, I have a password manager, Privacy Badger and Firefox Multi-Account Containers, which I suppose is the three I really need. Then I have one that puts the RSS icon back in the address bar, because Mozilla feels that RSS is less important than having the address bar show me special dates, and two that removes very specific things: One for cookie popups and one for removing sign in with Google.
The only one of these I feel should actually be a plugin is my password manager. Privacy management (including cookies), RSS and containers could just be baked into Firefox. All of those seems more relevant to me than AI.
Maybe adding a GreaseMonkey lite could fix the rest of my problem, using code I write and control.
Moving the toggle for "accounts.google.com" to full blocking in Privacy Badger ought to do it.
Heads up, full blocking of "accounts.google.com" will break some login pages entirely. But it is a good domain to fully block as long as you're comfortable using the "Disable for this site" button when something goes wrong.
My honest reaction to your comment is "What? No!".
I want to block ads, block trackers, auto-deny tracking, download videos, customize websites, keep videos playing in the background, change all instances of "car" to "cat" [1], and a whole bunch of weird stuff that probably shouldn't be included in the browser by default. Just because the browser extension system is broken it doesn't mean that extensions themselves are a problem - if anything, I wish people would install more extensions, not less.
I know it doesn’t work everywhere, but I’m happy there are services like Uber and Lyft when I get older. I could see myself using those services a lot when I am no longer able to drive.
I wish Visual Studio Code would prioritize being a solid IDE and refrain from incorporating AI features. Users can opt for OpenCode, Claude Code, or any other agentic tool of their choice instead of the IDE attempting to impose a specific solution.
You'd have a better chance of winning the lottery. Cramming AI into every single application is how Microsoft justifies the billions of dollars they've spent on AI.
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