1. Also on Github - https://github.com/Cutlight/Cutlight-Tech-Tips

  2. ## 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.

  3. ## _If you're not using chrome or firefox, please go to the timeout corner._

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  5. 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.

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  7. > Essential Plugins 

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

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

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  13. 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.

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  15. > Niche Plugins 

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

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

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  21. ## Now, tweaks and mods for Windows

  22. - https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

  23. 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

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  25. - https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

  26. Used to disable and turn off Windows built in spyware and tracking along with other tweaks. READ THROUGH SO YOU KNOW WHAT YOURE DISABLING.

  27. - https://www.bleachbit.org/

  28. 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.

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  30. - https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-terminal/9N0DX20HK701

  31. 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.

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  33. - https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.67.0

  34. 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.

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  36. ## Next, suggestions / alternatives

  37. > Anti Virus

  38. - 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.

  39. > VPNs

  40. - https://mullvad.net/en/ - Mullvad VPN is the best of the best and there's no point in even arguing. 

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  42. > Authenticator

  43. - https://authy.com/ - Authenticator App

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

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  46. > Discord Mods

  47. - https://openasar.dev/

  48. 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.

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  50. ## Websites

  51. > https://urlquery.net/

  52. 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

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  54. > https://tinywow.com/

  55. A BUNCH of free tools like file type converters, all the way to a background blurrer.

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  57. > https://hat.sh/

  58. A simple secure client-side file encryption.

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  60. > https://simplelogin.io/

  61. Open source email alias creator to make throw away aliases or ones for websites to prevent being compromised in data leaks.

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  63. > https://monitor.firefox.com

  64. Will Monitor your email address to see if it's been leaked in data breaches.

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  66. > https://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=

  67. Unicode Text Converter to convert your plain text into unicode 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬.

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  69. > https://monkeytype.com/

  70. Minimalistic typing test that's the best out there.

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  72. ## Discord bots

  73. > https://sapph.xyz/ - Management bot

  74. 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.

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  76. > https://discohook.org/ - Webhooks

  77. Also comes with a bot that can be used to edit, make reaction roles and restore webhooks.