uBlock, Ghostery, TamperMonkey, Sponsorblock, I don’t care about cookies - and YouTube Vanced on Phone and Tablet
I think I am Set
I thought that this might not just annoy me but also people who don’t use those plugins
Just opened a webpage in Edge to see if it looks different than Firefox - good god, how do people use the Internet without an AdBlocker? 40% of the screen-Real-Estate is taken up by distracting ads…
Oh nice! Yea Youtube Vanced is the only way I can stand using Youtube on my mobile device.
I believe there was some mild developer drama and Ublock Origin is actually the branch maintained by the original author. I don’t remember all the details but I switched to Ublock Origin after reading about it. Maybe it makes no difference at this point, I don’t know.
I still have a machine like that, but not as a primary machine, just one for messing around with older hardware. That thing is so far past its use by date, it’s filled with vulnerabilities that will never get patched out. I hope you don’t do anything important on that machine.
Such a machine would not be able to render modern websites as modern browsers would not work on it, it would be a feat to get a modern Windows version on it. And if you do it will take forever to load anything. Plus the RAM required (virtual memory) will more than fill a HD from the time (if it still works)
No I don’t have any machines like that anymore. Though I do still have an old IBM laptop running Windows. 3.1 for workgroups. It still boots up as long as it is plugged in. Batteries shot craps years ago. I use to do a lot of writing and I would use that old thing and a version of Lotus I think it was. Back up all my work onto 3.5” disk. LOL Use to call up software companies to get a free “trial version” of their software on 3.5” disk, just so I could wipe the disk and use them for back ups.
I miss the good old days of bulletin board systems and modem squeals in the backround.
A few years back people were complaining about my signature, it had a trunk full of flashlights (from Home Depot) and another flashlight related picture i don;t quite remember, seems the image quality was too high and people didn’t yet have single digit megabit internet (dialup 56K must have still been a popular thing in the mid 2010s).
Ugh, how I hate Chrome and all its derivatives. Guaranteed, like once a week I can’t even get to gmail/goggle/etc. because of “too many retries”, with a lame suggestion to clear my cookies.
I feel more like tossing my cookies every time I have to use it.