The main advantage of Google Chrome, compared to other web browsers, is the abundance of extensions available in the Chrome Web Store. These small applications, most of them free and designed to be installed directly in Google Chrome, allow you to add practical functions to improve ease of use.
In fact, these tools can do almost anything. Some contribute to the protection of your personal data, while others can help you create a website or even automate the organization of your mailbox. Whatever your need, there is a good chance that an extension can satisfy it.
That being said, due to their sheer number, it can be difficult to identify those that can significantly improve your daily browsing experience. To save you time, Tech&Co offers you a non-exhaustive selection of free Google Chrome extensions capable of fulfilling this mission.
privacy badger
Ad trackers inevitably track you as you browse the Internet. This even if you have prohibited this tracking in your browser settings. Result: Your web wanderings continue to be watched to study your areas of interest and present you with targeted ads.
In this context, Privacy Badger is a free extension whose function is precisely to block third-party trackers (advertising agencies, statistics services, etc.) that follow an Internet user’s navigation from one site to another. It allows you to browse the web incognito without removing the ad.
privacy badger is available for free on the Chrome Web Store
dark reader
Dark Reader is a simple solution to combat eyestrain. In fact, this Chrome extension allows you to apply a dark mode to all the web pages you visit to rest your eyes.
To do this, the extension applies a black filter to the visited sites, you can adjust various parameters such as brightness, contrast or even gray and sepia levels to obtain the result that best meets your expectations.
To gain more readability, Dark Reader is also capable of automatically modifying the font used on the sites you visit by replacing it with a font of your choice.
dark reader is available for free on the Chrome Web Store
Overlays are one of the most common inconveniences when browsing the Internet. They are windows that overlap the content you are viewing (web page, videos, video games, etc.) and obstruct your field of vision.
Fortunately, there is a solution to get rid of them: F*ck Overlays. Behind this cheeky name, to say the least, lurks an extension that adds a context menu to your browser. The latter allows you to remove window overlays or any other element that prevents you from seeing the desired content with a single click.
For example, F*ck Overlays is especially useful for Internet users visiting sites that encourage disabling ad blockers by displaying a pop-up window. F*ck Overlay can remove the latter while keeping the ad-blocker active.
F*uck Overlays is available for free on the Chrome Web Store
the big brace
Google Chrome is known to consume large amounts of RAM. Reduce your browser’s memory footprint and optimize its performance with The Great Suspender. This free extension suspends unused tabs in an effort to free up resources for your computer. An ideal solution if you are used to open many tabs at the same time.
Additionally, The Great Suspender offers a fully customizable experience. Thus it is possible to configure the suspension time of the tabs or choose never to suspend those that emit audio or those whose forms have not been validated. Convenient.
The Great Suspender is available for free at the Chrome Web Store
HTTPS somewhere
Regardless of your browser’s privacy settings, some of your personal information, including your location, the terminal you are using, or the ads you click on, is communicated to the sites you visit.
It is to combat this state of affairs that HTTPS Somewhere comes into play. This Chrome plugin allows you to automatically convert any website under the “http” protocol to “https”, a secure extension of “http”. The “s” in “Secured” simply means that the data exchanged between your browser and the website is encrypted and cannot be spied on.
HTTPS-Sin some place is available for free on the Chrome Web Store
Read out loud
If you prefer to listen to long articles instead of reading them, Read Aloud is for you. It’s simple: this Chrome extension is capable of reading text from websites aloud. And that in more than 40 languages.
In addition, Read Aloud offers the possibility to convert documents in Google Docs, Amazon Kindle and EPUB formats to audio format. The same goes for PDF documents and books on Google Play. undeniably a should have for researchers and students.
Read Aloud is available for free at the Chrome Web Store
Source: BFM TV
