Tampermonkey had been my loyal companion for years. It injected life into boring web apps, scraped data that wasn't meant to be scraped, and turned Reddit into a usable website. But lately, something felt… off. The extension grew heavier. The sync features demanded Google Drive or OneDrive access. And the Chrome Web Store reviews whispered of "telemetry" and "tracking domains."
And Tampermonkey? It's still installed. Still updated. Still capable. But now it's no longer the default. It's just one option among many—exactly how userscripts were meant to be. The web is your canvas. Don't let a single extension hold the only brush. tampermonkey alternative
I clicked "OK" for the tenth time that month. But this time, I paused. Tampermonkey had been my loyal companion for years
The 4.0 rewrite broke thousands of scripts by removing GM_* APIs. The community panicked. Many left. But if you only need simple DOM manipulation and hate feature creep, Greasemonkey is still a masterpiece of focus. The extension grew heavier