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Pretty soon, Firefox will need to be replaced with Waterfox and LibreWolf, unfortunately.
Why?
People at the top of Mozilla Org making crappy decisions.
I use Waterfox on my gaming computer and I love it.
I use both, and that way when I have a game I need googling while I have it open, I can have a browser that won’t open my 300 tabs, just have a second browser. I do this on my phone too, and yours
I would 1000% add temporary containers to that list. Wish I could get it on Android too!
No love for Ghostery?
Isn’t Ghostery made by an ads company?
No, use uBlock Origin.
Why is Badger bad?
It’s not bad, just mostly redundant these days, as the heuristic features are no longer enabled, and the defaults ublock lists will cover a lot of the same.
Also the heuristics can be exploited to create a unique identifier for your browser, so it’s not a flawless solution.
Fyi you can still enable heuristic blocking from settings.
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A European shout out to Ghostery who auto refuses everything on our GDPR popups.
Just installed Consent-o-matic and Unpaywalled. Thanks!
Need to add a pihole to that stack
Truly! I have a streaming app for local TV and I recommended it to a friend and he said “no way man! Way too many ads in it!” That’s when I realized how awesome Pi-Hole is 🤣
I love my pie hole and I love the functionality of being able to access a VPN and use on my home network stuff on the go it’s pretty good
Consent-o-matic instead of cookies and adnausem instead of ublock origin.
Consent-o-matic will actively opt out of popups.
Adnausem is built on top of ublock origin and will silently “click” on the ads behind the scenes to mess up your advertising profile and cost the advertisers money.
Oooo. Now that’s something to try.
uBlock Origin can just hide cookie pop ups if you enable said filter, and AdNauseam still loads the ad so you still have slower page loading speed and increased network traffic.
Adnausem is built on top of ublock origin and will silently “click” on the ads behind the scenes to mess up your advertising profile and cost the advertisers money.
Tried it a couple of months ago. Didn’t nearly work as well as uBlock Origin, seemed buggy as hell.
What do you need dislikes on YT for? You can’t tell a shitty video by it’s shitty title and shitty thumbnail?
Gotta try Ctrl P
Does this actually work? I just tried it on a story on The Atlantic website and I just got a print page that looks exactly like the locked paywall page (i.e. not the whole article).
I use the web archives extension for firefox to easily get the archive.is version of pages. Unfortunately, doesn’t work when I’m using a vpn, but otherwise works like a charm.
EDIT: I found this comment on the previous thread:
https://lemmy.world/comment/13080227
“The idea is you quickly press print before the paywall loads, so you can read the full article”
That may work in some cases, but not all. Because not all paywall pages behave in a way where this is functional. The Atlantic is an example, it produces a partial page if you’re not past the paywall, so ctrl-p doesn’t work. The web archives extension still works though (I use it to easily access archive.is) and the extension is available on mobile firefox as well.
I have also used 12 foot ladder in the past, and it works well. In fact, testing it now, it seems to even work when I’m using Proton VPN. archive.is does not work for me through the vpn, so I may switch back to 12ft.io. 12ft.io just has you append the paywalled url to their url, so it should be easy enough to make a bookmarklet.
I haven’t tried it yet :)
Not working for me on multiple sites. I don’t get this tip.
You could add that extension that replaces clickbait titles by community-made descriptive ones. (lemmy do your thing and find the name please)
It’s DeArrow
Thanks! I don’t use it but I want it so much on freetube and newpipe 🥲
DeArrow is on freetube though?
It is ??!
There’s a switch in settings to enable sponsorblock, and if I remember correctly that includes DeArrow. Was really happy to discover that back when I did, both of these turn YouTube into such a different, better place.
Check out Tubular, a fork of Newpipe, which includes Sponsorblock and ReturnYoutubeDislike
Personally I find it a lifesaver for watching YouTube videos on mobile these days
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Youtube made changes that make Invidious pretty much unfunctional, videos won’t load in my browser for me :(
Noitced their instanxce list shrunk ;-; also that Japan server does still work. Used it last night.
Advanced kit: add NoScript and block first party scripts by default. Works surprisingly well for visiting sites you don’t care about, just want to read the article etc. Just switch it off if you’re trying to buy something and get through the checkout.
AFAIK every function of NoScript exists in uBlock Origin. So just get uBO and cut the redundancy. The less vectors the better
I just installed consentomatic right now and I didn’t know it existed thank you
What’s wrong with privacy badger?
Privacy Badger has historically allowed tracking until it successfully identifies a domain as a likely tracker. Like the air bags going off after you’ve already wrapped your car around a telephone pole. But it’s now been changed and is now closer to a list-based tracker blocker (enumerate badness):
They’ve since corrected one of the core issues with PB by doing so, but it still it is very weak. To see why, please glance through The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.
uBlock Origin in advanced mode, with default-deny rules (only allow assets by exception) is going to be much stronger at blocking crap.
Personally, I use uMatrix with pretty much all asset classes blocked by default. I never see popups. I never see banners begging “please allow our cookies, pleeeeaaase!”.
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Not OP, but what puts me off is that it calls itself badger, but really it’s just a software that has nothing in common with those glorious animals. Did you know that badgers’ keen sense of smell is about 800 times sharper than our own?
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!subscribe to badger facts
Did you know that badgers keep their homes in tip-top shape by creating a latrine pit as a bathroom? They won’t defecate in their homes, instead making a pit out of dried grass and leaves just outside their burrow.
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“Exterior plumbing for the win”
-Someone who takes demon shits
I think UBO makes it redundant.
The layered security model has redundancy built in as a feature.
Well, it can be replaced with uBlock Origin and some people dont recomend it anymore
