Hello friends! I have no idea why I’d never explored the AO3 section of GreasyFork, but there are many scripts that will make browsing AO3 much more pleasant.

First, if you have not installed Tampermonkey, please do so now. This assumes you have a vague idea of how to manage userscripts, but if you don’t, there are tutorials on the Tampermonkey site and YouTube.

The first one you’re going to want to install is AO3 Savior. It acts exactly like other blacklist utilities like Tumblr Savior or XKit’s Blacklist. There are two parts you need to install: the script itself and the configuration script. The config script is the only part you need to touch, and where you add tags you want hidden.

Other scripts I personally find useful:

Saved filters list, which remembers what tags you’ve excluded from a particular search

Strip empty paragraphs, which reformats works where people haven’t cleaned up their HTML

Add first/last chapter links

Go to comments, which jumps you immediately to comments when you click the Comments button

Drabble judgement is an incredibly specific script, but invaluable for those of us who are correct and know that a drabble is 100 words, no more and no less. It hides every work tagged “drabble” that is not 100 words.

OK this doesn’t work, but it would be cool if it did!

I don’t use these but you might find some utility in them: