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.
AdGuard’s browser extension isn't just for blocking ads. It has a hidden userscript engine that supports most Tampermonkey APIs. The killer feature? It runs before the page loads. Tampermonkey waits for DOM readiness; AdGuard injects at the network level. tampermonkey alternative
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. I switched to for daily driving
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. AdGuard’s browser extension isn't just for blocking ads
I clicked "OK" for the tenth time that month. But this time, I paused.
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.