If you don’t have this kit you will be bombarded to Temu’s ads
ublock origin has a cookie notice and nag filter that removes those.
go into the settings and turn on the annoyance filters, they are awesome.
Sigh
Ah, the beginner loadout.
Shout out to pi-hole
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DONT use the “I Don’t Care About Cookies” plugin. It was sold to Avast. The same company that stole users information and sold it ON A PRIVACY PRODUCT illegally for years causing them to get sued for 16 million. (slap on the wrist tbh)
https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/whats-new/acquisition/
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080135/avast-security-privacy-software-ftc-fine-data-harvesting
Oh yeah, I gotta get rid of Avast, it keeps flagging things that straight up aren’t viruses, what’s a good alternative?
iirc Windows Defender does a decent job. However, if you are a JavaScript developer, try to add node_modules to the exceptions, unless you don’t care much about the performance hit.
I personally have stopped running antivirus on Windows a couple years ago. Since I run most, if not all, untrusted software in VMs, I didn’t see the point of wasting performance. On the host, I only run Firefox and Steam/Epic games.
I then moved to Linux and I have 2 GPUs; one for the host and one for VMs with games. But that’s probably a different story.
Why would someone use that instead of uBlock origin cookie filter?
Its really best to keep browser extensions as few as possible for fingerprinting resistance
To OP/readers you’re OK with extensions this would be a better pick imo (read installation instructions)
No, use consent-o-matic, which is even configurable and thus better in every way.
You fools. You absolute buffoons. Clearly you should be using the open source, free (beer) web browser I cooked up in my basement
no thanks i’m not a fan of webkit
If you want a usable mail for all your accounts that is also spam resistant, may I recommend https://port87.com
Or just buy a domain for like $12 and use it for catch-all email. My custom domain routes everything to a single inbox, and I can tailor the email address specifically to who/what I’m making an account for. And if I ever see spam hit that address, I can just set a rule to automatically spam anything that comes in at that address.
For example, maybe I sign up for a Target account using Target@[mydomain]. Then a few weeks later, I see spam addressed to Target@[mydomain]. I now know Target has sold my info, and I can automatically route everything addressed to Target@[mydomain] directly to spam. Now I have no more spam hitting my inbox, because it all automatically gets sent straight to spam.
What happens if you need to place an order using your Target account. Wouldn’t your receipt and shipping confirmation also go to that spam folder?
CTRL+P
Dear god. My inner 90’s kid wants this as a browser.
I have yet to see unpaywall workk ever. All that site does is link you to free versions if legally available. So it does nothing. Bypass Paywalls clean sometimes works, but if you want non mainstream sites going to archive.today is the most reliable option.
I noticed archive websites sometimes skip the paywall
If I can’t recover an account because I used temp mail
I just make another
Can’t you re-use those emails? I use random email aliases almost everywhere, and I store them in bitwarden.
You can re-use those but so does anyone, so you should consider those accounts as public.
Go into uBO settings and then filters and enable all the non-language filters. You won’t need privacy badger or that cookie addon anymore.
UBO can block YT ads, no need to use a seperate ad blocker for YT
Sponsorblock to auto skip sponsor segments, or even non music parts of music on YouTube. Or interaction reminders, or end credits, etc can make it a little bit how you want it
Anyone know if there is a proper solution to block ads on twitch? ublock doesn’t work for me.
VPN set to a country that doesn’t get served ads.
Anything on Pixeltris’ TwitchAdSolutions should work. I use the ublock filter and that works great.
try something from the scripts section on here:
https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions?tab=readme-ov-fileA note: Some days it will not work and ads will go through. Don’t panic. You only need to wait until the next day at most for this to get patched though. They’ve very good at keeping up!
I use one that works 90% of the time. I can’t remember the exact name so I’ll check when I get home but it’s something like “Purple Adblocker”.
there’s some good shit in these comments that I need to come back to later.
Lemmy could be better…
Care to provide more information?
it’s a reddit competitor that lacks features of reddit, including: multireddits, hiding individual posts, card view that doesn’t autoplay video, and more but I’m lazy.
I expect some of those can be found by using a different mobile app
not using an app. I refused to install reddit s app, I won’t install lemmys.
Lemmy apps are third party
Don’t care. I’m not installing another app. It’s a website, it should work in a browser.
Jerboa is technically First party. Doesn’t brand itself as the Lemmy app though.
I’m sure there’s a hacky workaround for every complaint I might have, I’ve done a lot of those over the years and I don’t see that stopping any time soon. I’m just tired of having to fix things before I can use/enjoy them. Effort is a limited resource. It’s current year, shit should just work.
There’s the features/app part already mentioned, but I also feel like there’s few “discoverability”. I’m glad Lemmy doesn’t has a addicting algoritm, but it’s also kind of hard to find new/diverse content that I like, and there’s also some issues in the community, but there’s unfortunately nothing to do about it.
[email protected] is a start, but not as advanced as Reddit yet.
I don’t like the federation part of it
I wish every instance was separate
Would it work if you only browsed local posts, and logged in to each instance separately?
What’s with the control+P thing? I have the same paywall bypasser thing right next to it and it just works automatically without needing a special command.
without an extension you can grab the whole page as a PDF before it loads the paywall. you can also use Ctrl+A and Ctrl+V or the reading view function :]
Though some sites are getting smart enough to realize they can’t just entirely offload access control to the client and don’t give the full article text until you’ve jumped through whatever hoops they demand.
It’s a trade-off, because they often also want their entire article to be crawled by Google.