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capital, 7 months ago to piracy in Youtube has better anti-adblock now. Other than Invidious, any way around it? Purging and re-dowloading the ublock stuff didn't work

I’m still just using Firefox and ublock origin…

capital, 7 months ago to memes in Which pill do you choose?

Used to want the red pill but I have a kid now. Resetting would almost assuredly cause me to end up with a different kid.

I’m team blue.

capital, 7 months ago (edited 1 month ago) to piracy in Youtube has better anti-adblock now. Other than Invidious, any way around it? Purging and re-dowloading the ublock stuff didn't work

Yep. 2nd part is important.

The way I solved this was to leave my regular browser setup alone, make a new Firefox profile just for YouTube, install ONLY ublock origin, and create a shortcut to that profile on my desktop.

Now I only use that profile for YouTube. I haven’t seen one ad since this thing started.

capital, 8 months ago to lemmyshitpost in NASA has some explaining to do

Ok everyone stop upvoting and downvoting. We’ve reached the perfect score.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5a9f2f69-3e08-4916-8bb6-6619c799a760.jpeg

capital, 8 months ago to privacy in Why you should never use Facebook or Google to log in to third party websites - what to do instead

After generating a unique email and password combination for said website.

capital, 10 months ago to privacyguides in Everybody is supporting Firefox, but no one wants to use it. Because it is destroying itself.

The fuck are you on about?

I use it at home and at work and for what it’s worth, I’m in the tech industry.

I don’t use it in mobile so I can’t speak to that but I doubt what you’re saying frankly.

capital, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to privacyguides in If you can create a Lemmy instance and federate, you can shovel data about every vote linked to an account

I assumed as much seeing as it’s a public site ran by many different entities.

Similarly, I think Google can read my gmails.

capital, 7 months ago to comicstrips in Get a millenium falcon!

I’m definitely wishing for Superman powers. Easiest decision of my life.

capital, 10 months ago to memes in ain't got no rizz

Cap

capital, 9 months ago to linux in New Fedora Slimbook 14" joins the Fedora Slimbook 16" - Fedora Magazine

Can anyone comment on the battery life on these or Tuxedo?

I love the form factor and battery life of my wife’s MacBook Air but want to go Linux.

capital, 9 months ago to piracy in Do you utilize a dedicated AV like Bitdefender when sailing? Or do you still trust Windows Defender to take care of the higher risk while doing this?

Windows Defender has been really good. I haven’t had a 3rd party AV installed for nearly 10 years.

capital, 10 months ago to privacyguides in Cars are a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'. Here’s how they get away with collecting and sharing your data

1. What part do I need to disconnect to stop the transmission of this data?
2. Would #1 cause my car to have any issues in it’s day to day operations?

capital, 7 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Weather app asking for permission to manage calls

Is this an Android meme I’m too iOS to understand?

capital, 9 months ago to privacyguides in If you can create a Lemmy instance and federate, you can shovel data about every vote linked to an account

I don’t understand the concern though. I always assumed my votes, comments, or even PMs here were readable by at least the admins of the instance I’m a member of. The fact that votes and comments are public doesn’t seem to matter from a security or privacy standpoint.

capital, 9 months ago to asklemmy in hey - trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox, what are your recommended extensions and/or quality of life addins, etc?

My list:

• AdNauseam
• Bitwarden
• Don’t fuck with paste
• Ecosia
• Fakespot
• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
• Greasemonkey
• Redirect AMP to HTML
• TrackMeNot
• User-Agent Switcher and Manager
• Wayback Machine

And now I have a special profile just for Youtube so I can run uBlock Origin to shut Google up about my adblocker.

Edit: Also, if you like dark themes, check out Dracula.