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better version of: https://lemmy.world/post/21210097
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except W instead of P. I don't really need that shit.
A European shout out to Ghostery who auto refuses everything on our GDPR popups.
I read, "With Butter"
Gotta finish my coffee
Why is Badger bad?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Oooo. Now that's something to try.
the return dislike plugin is just stupid. it's a community database now, so rather than being based on the actual number of dislikes on youtube it's based on the dislikes of the people who have the plugin.
it used to be that it actually got the real numbers but youtube removed that endpoint so now it's just a misanthropic echo chamber.
It's better than nothing. Also I'd probably weigh the opinion of people who have the extension higher than of those who don't.
Is it? personally, when i think of "people who want to see the dislike bar" my mind equates that to "people who want to dislike", and that's not a group of people i want to interact with.
To me it wrings more of "people who want to know before they waste 20 minutes whether this video is clickbait, just actually false, rightwing conspiracy theories, or has some massive editing flaw that makes the video pointless.
For that, I prefer DeArrow. Gets you community sourced, informative titles for videos (and removes clickbait thumbnails as well)
This is why I use it, also the more people who use it the more accurate it is
It's honestly relatively representative afaik
Even though it, SponsorBlock etc. could just be neglected by using piped or just federated alternatives.
how can we even know that though? there's no stats anymore.
also, if peertube et al got bigger, surely sponsorblock would be useful there as well? if creators would use those services because people were on them, sponsors would contact those creators because they got the views.
It subjectively feels right, and instances where creators leaked the numbers the RTYTD stats matched pretty closely.
Until peertube grows to that size, it's still a long time. Then it would be useful.
What's wrong with privacy badger?
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?
!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.
I think UBO makes it redundant.
The layered security model has redundancy built in as a feature.
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!".
Well, it can be replaced with uBlock Origin and some people dont recomend it anymore
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Need to add a pihole to that stack
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
Is the one in the bottom left actually called "No Need YT Ads"? Cause I can't find that one
I just installed consentomatic right now and I didn't know it existed thank you
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.
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.
I haven't tried it yet :)
Librewolf
Librewolf instead of firefox
Just installed Consent-o-matic and Unpaywalled. Thanks!
Not sure that its a must have and possibly uBO could handle it if I could be bothered to check but I like LocalCDN too.
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