• bcgm3@lemmy.world
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    60 minutes ago

    Bro there’s totally a way we can keep stroking Google, but like, in a way that Google doesn’t really enjoy it and neither do we.

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    I have to use Chrome for work and this whole thing is such a non issue, I switched to uBO Lite and have noticed zero difference.

    There are plenty of reasons not to use Chrome but having to use uBOL instead of uBO isn’t one of them

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      It also has “video background play” to stop youtube from pausing your videos when you lock your phone, and also has “sponsorblock”

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      Not on iOS, of course. But if you’re using iOS what are you even doing?

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        Use NextDNS to block ads and tracking on any internet-connected thing. They can’t serve you ads if you never connect to the ad servers to begin with.

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          Many VPN providers provide this functionality.

          Try Mullvad VPN, you won’t get more privacy minded OG hackers running a business than they- trust me, I know for a fact.

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            Oh don’t worry I’m well aware of Mullvad. It is by far the best when it comes to protecting your privacy IMO.

            IIRC they even got raided and the police came up with nothing.

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          99% sure you had to use Safari though for it to work, and I liked FF more. But maybe I was dumb.

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          It’s one small change for them to go from hiding you data from the authorities and sharing it.

          I’m increasingly of the opinion It’s getting out of Apple and Android is going to be important in the upcoming years.

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        it does now, but it’s not in the app store. you have to use testflight and look for ubo lite repo and install it.

        edit: autocorrect

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      2 days ago

      Google blocked a bunch of ad-blocker addons in Chrome by killing the APIs they rely on. Several of my friends have been complaining about it, while the rest told them to stop using a browser that actively fights them.

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        Yah just use Firefox or Moisturefox or whatever flavor of like Google’s only competitor browser you want. I haven’t used Chrome since I first caught wind of Google pushing their entire web-DRM thing they were trying to do to make us look at ads. I can wait an extra 1/100 of a second for the web page to load and adjust to slightly different browser plug-ins to literally save the entire free and open web lol

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    It’s completely anecdotal, but I’ve noticed that the number of firefox users who installed uBlock Origin has gone up quite a lot. About 2M since Googs released manifest v3

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    I use QuteBrowser. no ads at all, if I want to use youtube I have a script that will skip the ads and has been working without updates for well over a year now, it’s great. I used to use Floorp and while I like the dev team behind Floorp the updates for it are gradually becoming further and further apart so I ditched it and mozilla.

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    I asked a question the other day and was curious if someone here may know another suggestion. Cloudflare “are you human” checkbox. Was hoping to find a way around that when going to articles and such. Someone suggested Silk Privacy Pass, but that was only for Desktop, I couldn’t get it installed on Firefox or Cromite on Android. Has anyone heard of a way to keep a token or such that I may only have to click that human thing one time per VPN session or such?

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      It depends on how nerdy you want to get.

      Generally no, That checkmark is cloudflares multi-million dollar product that protects half of the internet from bot abuse. If there were a quick and easy work around then the bots would quickly learn and adopt it too. Sadly, it has a real penchant for triggering for regular users when you’re using hardened browsers and VPNs as well. It would be nice if network admins cared a little more about sticking it to the man and using bot protection alternatives instead of just proxying through a cloudflare tunnel and calling it a day.

      If you’re slightly tech savvy and lucky then the site allows web crawlers/indexers or has RSS feeds. This lets you use an RSS feeder or a text scraper like NewsWaffle

      What youre describing with saving a cookie to prove your identity is actually do-able, yt-dlp uses this to download age restricted content but getting that cookie extracted into a text file is a non-trivial nerdy thing the average person cant be trusted to do.

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        Thanks for the heads up about yt-dlp. Maybe if I start running into videos like that I can set up a way to execute the yt-dlp to download them in MP4 format on my jellyfin server using Tailscale or such to link the command. Then play from there.

        Seems like a lot to watch a video, but I’ll leave it on the back burner idea pile if ever needed. A lot of the text based stuff if it gives me to much issue I’ll drop the link into archive.ph

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          Your welcome! Its good to have a local DRM free backup of your favorite channels especially the ones you come back to for sleep aid or comfort when stressed. I would download them sooner than later while yt-dlp still works (googles been ramping up its war on adblockers and 3rd party frontends). BTW yt-dlp also works with bandcamp and soundcloud to extract audio :)