Had read about them recently when looking up about bookmarklets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userscript

Which userscript manager do you use? What are your opinions/advice on security of using them?

Also, are there other similar things like bookmarklets and userscripts that regular people can start off fast?

Are there any lemmy communities or resouces(wikis, forums, youtube channels etc) that are on the topic of simple/beginner-friendly automation and customisation?

Thanks in advance

  • SinTan1729@programming.devEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I use a few of them. There’s one to bring back YouTube dislikes, one to translate Lemmy links to my home instance, and another (self written) one to automatically change the YouTube share button to copy which copies the link in s single click.

    There are a few more, but these are the most useful ones to me, I guess. I use ViolentMonkey as my script manager.

  • simonced@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    22 days ago

    Not sure if it fits your question, but here is a little tool I use all the time at work.
    We have a radio playing, and sometimes I want to know what song is it.
    I made a shortcut in Emacs to go to the radio website, find the “currently playing” title, and print it on the screen as well as saving the date/time I did the request into a “history” file for later reference.

  • DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    23 days ago

    I use AHK a lot at work, and my favourite is a macro that prints the date and my initials. I’m an admin and I use that thing dozens or hundreds of times a day when editing code, configs and notes.

    Eg: # Changed in line with CVEnnnn - 20240713DD

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    23 days ago

    I use FireMonkey on firefox. Seems to work better than Stylus/Violentmonkey for me but there’s some compatibility issues with certain scripts.