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Twitch Ad Solutions effectively adblocks twitch. You will sometimes have to deal with a temporary low bitrate stream, but you won't have to watch ads.
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Ofecks posted:I thought about it and I don't want to go back to an internet full of ads. Looks like I'll be doing Firefox in 2023, but I think I'll still use Chrome for the embedded google stuff. Gmail, Docs/sheets, Calendar, Drive, Keep Notes, etc. Unless they start putting ads in those. I dunno if there are any gotchas, but using adguard DNS zaps a lot of ads on non-ublockable machines for me.
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baram. posted:use opera gx Isn't Opera nowadays owned by a chinese company and running their own "Opera Ads" platform and a predatory loan service in Kenya. I feel Opera is working hard to obtain the position of Worst Browser.
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Opera Loans sounds like something that would have a market in the US.
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Saukkis posted:Isn't Opera nowadays owned by a chinese company and running their own "Opera Ads" platform and a predatory loan service in Kenya. I feel Opera is working hard to obtain the position of Worst Browser. Chinese investment fund ("Golden Brick" or something), Polish developers, and they maintain a shell of a presence in Oslo since having headquarters in Norway sounds good.
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I've been using Vivaldi for awhile now. I'm just really attached to some of stock chromium features like native cookie and javascript blocking with pattern matching. It's nice when privacy and security stuff is available in degrees without needing extensions.
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Ofecks posted:I thought about it and I don't want to go back to an internet full of ads. There's no point stressing over the inevitable. The world is not going back to how things were. The old Internet was created by geeks for geeks. The new 'modern' Internet is created by sales people for idiots. You and I are not part of that equation. We're an outlier, an anomaly. People who seek logic and efficiency don't have a place in the modern Internet. You can either accept it - and rant occasionally just to feel good - or move away from it, like going somewhere warm and quiet like Curacao.
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yeah that's right, better things are definitely impossible IMO, just use firefox, it's maybe not the best performing browser but since the addonpocalypse some years ago, everything i was using has been ported to extensions 2.0, and you can make it work however you want now, and you can turn off all stupid poo poo unlike some of the chome forks just use the ESR build, things
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Im_Special posted:There's no point stressing over the inevitable. The world is not going back to how things were. The old Internet was created by geeks for geeks. The new 'modern' Internet is created by sales people for idiots. You and I are not part of that equation. We're an outlier, an anomaly. People who seek logic and efficiency don't have a place in the modern Internet. You can either accept it - and rant occasionally just to feel good - or move away from it, like going somewhere warm and quiet like Curacao. Thanks for posting what was in my mind. Anyone got some Internet 2.0? Just a little, maybe a taste?
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Nov 14, 2021 14:43
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Remember the days when we needed third party toolbars to block pop-ups? 
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I'm moving back to the gopherspace and usenet.
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Fame Douglas posted:I'm moving back to the gopherspace and usenet. There is a movement to get gopherspace back into the fold. Usenet never went anywhere but getting access means paying money above your isp fee. I wish people would care honestly.
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redeyes posted:There is a movement to get gopherspace back into the fold. Usenet never went anywhere but getting access means paying money above your isp fee. I wish people would care honestly. Isn't eternal-september.org perfectly usable free Usenet service. You only need to pay for Usenet if you want the warez feeds.
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Just make and use a piehole if you can. It's like $20 max plus setup, which involves following instructions.
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George RR Fartin posted:Just make and use a piehole if you can. It's like $20 max plus setup, which involves following instructions. I have a pihole-like thing, running directly on the router rather than a separate device. It's nice for blocking some ads when using chrome on my phone. It gets a lot of the most obnoxious ads, like the revolting chumboxes at the bottom of news articles. But it's plainly inferior to ublock. DNS adblock can only catch ads that are hosted on ad domains. Already there's plenty of stuff it can't catch, and IMO that's going to increase in the future as more and more stuff is going to shift into major CDN hosting. (And major CDNs all being ad sellers themselves.) But ads on video services like youtube etc get through just fine. (For anyone who has an asus router, you can get this yourself by installing the merlin firmware and loading Diversion onto it. Not quite as easy as a pihole since you need to use SSH, but not difficult.)
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redeyes posted:I wish people would care honestly.
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Klyith posted:I have a pihole-like thing, running directly on the router rather than a separate device. It's nice for blocking some ads when using chrome on my phone. It gets a lot of the most obnoxious ads, like the revolting chumboxes at the bottom of news articles. The additional problem it has is that you can't whitelist sites from using pihole. Like there are several news sites that tell you to gently caress off if they detect ad-block. So I have to disable it completely. This also prevents me from recommending it to less technical folk, where I would just set it up and then tell them to forget about it.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Apart from the overseas scams and some smaller sites, the porn industry has an unusually good record in regards to financial propriety and protecting customer information. I guess it helps that they are adept with IT and want to avoid attracting (more) bad publicity. my understanding is that they're also really at risk from customers being lovely due to the nature of the industry ("why i would never pay for a porn site honey someone must have stolen my card, I'll get the company to reverse that charge right now!" when he's been jerking it to onlyfans for years) so they try and keep really really on the up and up with their relationship with credit card processors and the like to make rebuffing any such issues as much in their favour as possible also, thanks microsoft you stuck a "news and interests" - nevermind, it seems to have unfucked itself and is showing the weather again, the only thing i actually use your crappy taskbar widget for
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i have the taskbar set on the left of the screen and for some time now a while after logging in when i press the windows key or click the start button the menu pops up at the bottom instead of the top of the screen and i can't use the search function (start menu disappears if i type) unless i restart the explorer process. setting the taskbar at the bottom of the screen also works but i prefer more vertical space (e:setting it at the bottom and then back at the left fixes it for a while so it would probably also break if left at the bottom for too long). anyone know if theres a fix for this? zhar fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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zhar posted:i have the taskbar set on the left of the screen and for some time now a while after logging in when i press the windows key or click the start button the menu pops up at the bottom instead of the top of the screen and i can't use the search function (start menu disappears if i type) unless i restart the explorer process. setting the taskbar at the bottom of the screen also works but i prefer more vertical space (e:setting it at the bottom and then back at the left fixes it for a while so it would probably also break if left at the bottom for too long). This sounds like the type of thing that happens when the programs that run the start menu / taskbar (which are appx packages) get hosed up. Try this: right click on start and pick Event Viewer 2. In the left-hand pane right click the "Custom Views" folder and pick "Create Custom View..." 3. Change to the XML tab, and check the box that says "edit query manually". press ok. Now paste this into the box: code:And if there are, open powershell and run these two commands: code:
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I am also a left taskbar person (ultra wide monitor at work baby). It is beyond infuriating that you can’t have the taskbar populate from the bottom to keep the windows button on the bottom left. Decades of muscle memory…
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Klyith posted:event viewer thanks for the suggestion but the errors there seem unrelated (mostly AppXDeployment-Server 0x8007010B errors but not every day as i get this issue)
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George RR Fartin posted:Just make and use a piehole if you can. It's like $20 max plus setup, which involves following instructions. Or use NextDNS; the free tier has enough hits available to cover my phone, laptop and desktop every month without any hassle. You can choose what (if any) ad block lists you want to use, monitor what is being blocked via the website, and choose where your logs are stored (if at all) Paid tier available too, if you don’t like the idea of free stuff / your data being the product. I’m over a year into using it without any issues, other than having to toggle it off via their one button app for thirty seconds so I can authenticate on public wifi portals.
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Neurophonic posted:Or use NextDNS; the free tier has enough hits available to cover my phone, laptop and desktop every month without any hassle. You can choose what (if any) ad block lists you want to use, monitor what is being blocked via the website, and choose where your logs are stored (if at all) I had a pi hole going, but the first paid-tier has worked fine for my household of three always online people (mainly phones and TVs).
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The paid tier is super affordable, if you do end up needing it.
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necrotic posted:The paid tier is super affordable, if you do end up needing it. Cheaper than a new sd card for your pi every four months, and no maintenance re-doing it all over again!
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Is there a way to switch the behavior of the F keys on a laptop? Like I don't want to need to press Fn+Alt+F4 to close a window. I want to just press Alt F4 like on a regular desktop. But by default all the F keys have some behavior like modify the volume, screen brightness, mute the mic etc. I'd rather need to hold down the Fn key if I want one of those functionalities, because spoiler alert I have never wanted quick access to those functions.
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Nov 22, 2021 14:51
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Depends on the laptop, you might be able to invert the Fn functions in the BIOS
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Fn+Esc usually toggles between which key functions are the default, try that first.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Fn+Esc usually toggles between which key functions are the default, try that first.  Yea this worked, cool. I don't own a laptop / have never liked them but I'm traveling for work this week and am stuck using it lol. Thanks.
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Nov 22, 2021 15:03
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You could use SharpKeys. I’ve been using it for years, it’s always worked perfectly for me
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Usually, you can toggle which one is the default in the Bios.
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The Logitech wireless keyboards I use have similar functionality managed from their Options application. It's pretty slick, although if I forget which machine needs Fn to make the function keys do their thing it can throw me for a moment. The nice thing is having one keyboard able to be used on 3 devices. Same with the mouse I use.
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I'm trying to run sysprep before I transfer a drive to a new desktop, but it keeps on erroring out. Looking at the logs, it seems like the problem is that some UWP apps are only provisioned for some user accounts? Is there any way to fix this?
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Nov 25, 2021 10:32
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Why are you running sysprep at all, what are you trying to achieve.
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It seems to be recommended before moving an existing Windows installation to a new system? I figured out the problem though, I had signed out of the Windows Store on one of the user accounts, signing back in fixed it.
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Nov 25, 2021 13:13
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It may have been a good idea on Windows XP, it's not an issue on Windows 7 and later, if you're moving the install. It's still a good idea if you're cloning the install.
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Nov 25, 2021 13:26
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Windows 7-11 will just install the proper drivers for the new system on first boot (the Getting system ready…. screen), you don’t have to do anything manually anymore
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unless it blue screens on said boot, i had to reinstall my box when i switch from a haswell to a ryzen cpu because it just went into a bluescreen reboot loop
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You don't need to run sysprep. Yes, it's UWP apps that are causing your issue, but it's not worth troubleshooting. You really shouldn't be getting bluescteens going from one thing to another, but sometimes specialized chipset or storage drivers can cause you a problem. It's rare. You can also use DISM to manage a Windows install from a recovery disk, so you can uninstall problematic drivers after the fact if you really need to.
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