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    archive.is or archive.ph is what I use for getting past paywalls. If it’s a hard membership paywall there won’t be much you can do about it. If it’s just a splash screen, they work by removing the annoying stuff that prevents you from going further since they have to package the content for SEO. The archive sites basically grab that content as if they were going to index it for a search engine, but then they present it in human readable format instead.

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    What’s the one in the bottom left?

    I have adblocked yt and pirated yt music on my phone, but those 1 minute ads between 1:50 songs on my tv are getting to me…bad.

    I’m damn near ready to yeet the tv off the balcony.

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      Invideous. A Software that provides an alternative YouTube look/frontend. There are also people who host invideous instances as publicaly accessible websites. Sadly all the public instances have been blocked by youtube for about a month now. I hope there will be a fix soon.

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      A Yeet Cannon is a fine solution to any TV. Personally I recommend a 12ga slug or buckshot for any and all TVs. There is nothing worth the effort to watch and even less worth paying for.

      Books, books are where it’s at these days. What is old has become new again!

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        Strong agree. I would pay more for a non-smart tv. They’re probably all smart these days, aren’t they? Ugh.

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          I don’t care, really. I’m going to just use the inputs on the TV with whatever peripheral I plug into it anyway.

          If it has to be updated to be used in the first place then I’ll update it, disconnect it from the internet, block it at the router level and then use it as a monitor, which it is.

          We shouldn’t have to do this, but, the world sucks, so… shrug

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    Another recommendation for YT:

    SponsorBlock

    It is Community-Based. Ppl (like you) mark timecodes from sponsor ads and if toggled on those will be skipped. You can whitelist channels as well if you want to.

    150% better YT-experience!

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      If I’m going to see an ad, I do prefer sponsor ads over the injected YT ads. At least I can hope the content creators are getting paid directly for the ad.

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    note that I don’t care about cookies and Privacy badger is unnecessary when you have uBO. Also get Bypass Paywalls Clean though.

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    Shift + RClick to force the browser’s native context menu instead of triggering a JavaScript event.

    Ctrl + Shift + E (and then perhaps Ctrl + F5) to see URLs of resources.

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    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.

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      Also FWIW you should care about cookies. That said, I use that filter in UBO but I’m wondering if using it is the same as hitting “reject all” or “accept all”? Does it even matter if you’re using Firefox and thus isolating cookies regardless?

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        My understanding is that most people use an extension to dismiss the cookie dialog if they’re also deleting third party cookies, either with an extension/or a browser feature

        Though there is also consent-o-matic which is supposed to automatically decline all the cookies you can. Folks in this thread mentioned it, so now I’m giving that a try :)

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        Why would someone use that instead of uBlock origin cookie filter?

        Not using the addon, but I simply didn’t know uBlock can do that.

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      Oh yeah, I gotta get rid of Avast, it keeps flagging things that straight up aren’t viruses, what’s a good alternative?

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        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.

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          ry to add node_modules to the exceptions, unless you don’t care much about the performance hit.

          Does windows defender go crazy constantly scanning the files or something? I have a TON of machines running automated tasks using node and any drop in CPU usage would be much appreciated.

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      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

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    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.