These are my favorite chrome extensions
Updated 2018-04-27
Eno℠ from Capital One®
This is a great extension if you have a Capital One credit card. It lets you generate a new number for each online store. It’s perfect for subscriptions and small eCommerce sites that might not have the greatest security practices.
Chrome Earth View
This shows you a cool google earth satellite image whenever you open a new tab. There are a number of useful new tab extensions that are productivity based. This one will probably have a negative impact on your productivity because you will just want to click through to explore google earth.
Hover-zoom
Great extension for showing full size images without opening a new page. Open source
Pinboard Search
This is useful only if you use the pinboard bookmarking service. It lets you search your bookmarks from a new tab.
Ratings Preview for YouTube
This will show you the ratings ratio on a youtube video before you click. Saves you from click-bate and unhelpful youtube videos.
Smile Always
Always redirects to smile.amazon.com whenever you are on amazon.com
uBlock Origin
Most effective/efficient/simple ad blocker. Open source
Wayback Machine
Detects error codes in websites and redirects to archive.org. You can also click the extension to add it to archive.org.