Addon

Is this available as pastable text, ideally with the explanation parts as comment blocks? Happy to see you recommend uBlock Origin and LocalCDN. I would humbly suggest ClearURLs might belong. Another excellent "set it and forget it" extension that skips common tracking redirects. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/clearurls/ https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon

In that spirit I have a userscript, ironically called Youtube HD[0], that with one edit sets the resolution to 'medium' ie 360p. On a laptop it's plenty for talking head content (the softening is nice actually), and I only find myself switching to 480p if there's small text on screen. It's a small thing, but as you say internet video is relatively heavy. To reduce my AI footprint I use the udm=14 trick[1] to kill AI in Google search. It generally gives better results too. For general web browsing the best single tip is running uBlock Origin. If you can master medium[2] or hard mode (which will require un-breaking/whitelisting sites) it saves more bandwidth and has better privacy.[3] To go all-out on bandwidth conservation, LocalCDN[4] and CleanURLs[5] are good. "Set it and forget it," improves privacy and load times, and saves a bit of

This is the "God-like powers" extension. The "set it and forget it" extension is called ClearURLs. There's also Request Control, which is probably what you're looking for. More powerful than Redirector actually, but it comes with some common rules built in (not as comprehensive as ClearURLs though). https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon https://github.com/slymax/request-control