Also on Github - https://github.com/Cutlight/Cutlight-Tech-Tips
## Welcome to Cutlight Tech Tips Paste, this is meant to be a general paste of just good-practice tips/suggestions for certain things to make your internet experience better.
## _If you're not using chrome or firefox, please go to the timeout corner._

First and foremost, most people I know online have no clue what their doing when it comes to their browser plugins. So here's a few suggestions. First the general stuff that I would say are ESSENTIAL, then the more niche plugins.

> Essential Plugins 

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/set-https-default-your-browser - Turning on HTTPS:// everywhere, keeps you safe while you browse.

https://ublockorigin.com/ - The only ad-blocker you'll ever need.

https://darkreader.org/ - Open source dark mode that you can configure site-based or just keep it on so all sites have dark mode by default.

> Niche Plugins 

https://www.one-tab.com/ - Saves & Converts tabs into list to save memory and your place so you can close your browser without worry.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container - Keeps Facebook cookies and other crap from tracking you (Firefox only).

## Now, tweaks and mods for Windows
- https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
CTT's winutil is a MUST HAVE for Windows tweaks and isn't some bloatware like CCleaner, you use it and when you're done it's done easy as that. I recommend watching his video if you need a tutorial on what to enable specifically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXyMScSbhk4

- https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Used to disable and turn off Windows built in spyware and tracking along with other tweaks. READ THROUGH SO YOU KNOW WHAT YOURE DISABLING.
- https://www.bleachbit.org/
BleachBit is a amazing tool you can use to clean up your computer, I recommend using it bi-weekly if you have a cluttered computer. READ THROUGH SO YOU KNOW WHAT YOURE REMOVING.

- https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-terminal/9N0DX20HK701
Windows Terminal to replace cmd prompt and powershell, can do it all. I only suggest doing this if you have basic knowledge of coding and commands on windows, it's not a essential to have just a quality of life change.

- https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.67.0
PowerToys is a ESSENTIAL and amazing suite of tools for Windows like a spotlight search feature similar to MacOS, a Text Extractor from images, Color Picker, File Locksmith and a whole bunch of other cool stuff. I personally just spotlight search the most.

## Next, suggestions / alternatives
> Anti Virus
- https://www.malwarebytes.com/ - Malwarebytes has a good buisiness model, you can completely exit it out unlike trash AVs such as avast and is very lightweight. Another alernative to Malwarebytes would be ByteDefender, both are good.
> VPNs
- https://mullvad.net/en/ - Mullvad VPN is the best of the best and there's no point in even arguing. 

> Authenticator
- https://authy.com/ - Authenticator App
- https://www.yubico.com/ - Physical Authenticator Key. Why use Google Authenticator? It's stupid and it's made by google.

> Discord Mods
- https://openasar.dev/
OpenAsar is a discord bootstrapper that rewrites some of the desktop portions of Discords app which unintentionally makes it run faster and quicker. You can also enable some privacy features within it.

## Websites
> https://urlquery.net/
Some of you desperately need this, used to see the pathing a url takes you to, and shows you the output image of what the result is. USE THIS ON SUS LINKS

> https://tinywow.com/
A BUNCH of free tools like file type converters, all the way to a background blurrer.

> https://hat.sh/
A simple secure client-side file encryption.

> https://simplelogin.io/
Open source email alias creator to make throw away aliases or ones for websites to prevent being compromised in data leaks.

> https://monitor.firefox.com
Will Monitor your email address to see if it's been leaked in data breaches.

> https://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=
Unicode Text Converter to convert your plain text into unicode 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬.

> https://monkeytype.com/
Minimalistic typing test that's the best out there.

## Discord bots
> https://sapph.xyz/ - Management bot
Sapphire is the all-in-one discord bot that replaces Mee6 and Dyno. All of it's features are completely free unlike Mee6 and Dyno and yet it has all of their features and more.

> https://discohook.org/ - Webhooks
Also comes with a bot that can be used to edit, make reaction roles and restore webhooks.