We’ve compiled a list of the top 13 Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey user scripts that will make your browsing experience more enjoyable and efficient.ġ. There are thousands of user scripts available for Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey, and it can be difficult to choose the best ones for your needs. These scripts are small pieces of code that run on specific web pages and modify their behavior. They allow users to customize and enhance the functionality of websites they visit by installing user scripts. I'll be looking into them this weekend.Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey are popular user script managers for web browsers. It's a shame because Tampermonkey has ~3 times the installbase of the alternative Greasemonkey and 10 times the installbase of Violentmonkey. When you install it you agree to let it access all your browsing history and activity (honestly necessary to achieve its purpose).
And considering extensions get auto-updated by default, who knows what's coming next. Who knows what that extension is doing behind the scenes.
The cynic in me says the github page is only there so people who google "tampermonkey source" or "tampermonkey license" are tricked into thinking it's a FOSS/privacy-friendly choice, unless they take a closer look. The most recent commit is just for a github issue template. In reality all development done in the past 10 years has been closed-source. Only that's the source from 10 years ago. The project has a Github with source licensed under GPL. I'd been using it for years to run a script that bypasses Youtube age verification without having an account. I always thought Tampermonkey was open-source, considering its popularity among hobbyists. People in a chat I'm in were discussing this issue and I was shocked.
TLDR: Tampermonkey (a browser extension that allows you to run custom scripts on any site conveniently, without writing and publishing your own extension) has been closed-source for 10 years
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