I switched to for daily driving. It feels like Tampermonkey from 2018—before the feature bloat, before the telemetry fears. But I keep ScriptCat in a portable Firefox install for those late-night automation experiments.
ScriptCat (also called "Violentmonkey's chaotic cousin") is the most interesting alternative. It's developed by a lone Chinese coder and does things Tampermonkey never dreamed of: tampermonkey alternative
This report evaluates the top alternatives across browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) and operating systems. I switched to for daily driving
Open Source | Platforms: Firefox Only
Violentmonkey is the ethical hacker’s Tampermonkey. It does 95% of what Tampermonkey does, but with zero proprietary bloat. The permissions model is stricter, the update checks are transparent, and the code is lean enough to run on a Raspberry Pi. It does 95% of what Tampermonkey does, but
I clicked "OK" for the tenth time that month. But this time, I paused.
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