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doctorfrog: Mar 14, 2007; Great.

I notice that somewhere along the line, my preference for "no third party cookies" on Firefox was changed (by me to fix a site login? by an extension? by Mozilla when adding some feature that slipped me back to a default?) to permitting cross-site cookies. I went hunting for this after noticing some of my search terms suddenly show up in an ad that got by uBlock Origin. Just some routine looking-over-the-old-shoulder by my friends at Google.

Anyway, something you might wanna check once in a while if you prefer to make big tech work harder to surveil you online.

# ? Feb 19, 2023 04:01

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# ? May 29, 2024 05:20

karoshi: Nov 4, 2008; "Can somebody mspaint eyes on the steaming packages? TIA" yeah well fuck you too buddy, this is the best you're gonna get. Is this even "work-safe"? Let's find out!

I hate when I load my bookmarked threads in the background and then I have to scroll back to the first unread post via ctrl-L + enter or mouse for every single tab.

This bug-free and perfect tampermonkey script will scroll tabs to the anchor in the URL when the tab becomes visible, or after 2 seconds if the tab loads in the foreground.

code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name               Scroll to anchor
// @namespace          https://forums.somethingawful.com/
// @description        If the tab is visible scroll to anchor after 2secs, otherwise when the tab becomes visible.
// @match              https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php*
// @grant              none
// @version            0.1
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    function rescrollAnchorIntoView() {
        let anchor = window.location.hash.substr(1);
        if (anchor.length == 0) {
            return;
        }
        let el = document.getElementById(anchor);
        el.scrollIntoView();
    }

    function visibilityChanged(event) {
        let state = document.visibilityState;
        console.log(state);
        if (state === 'hidden') {
            return;
        }
        if (state === 'visible') {
            rescrollAnchorIntoView();
            document.removeEventListener("visibilitychange", visibilityChanged);
            if (timeout) {
                clearTimeout(timeout);
            }
        }
    }

    let anchor = window.location.hash.substr(1);
    if (anchor.length == 0) {
        // No anchor in URL, bye
        return;
    }
    var timeout;
    let state = document.visibilityState;
    //console.log(state);
    if (state === 'hidden') {
        if (document.addEventListener) {
            document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", visibilityChanged);
        }
    } else {
        timeout = setTimeout(rescrollAnchorIntoView, 2000);
    }

})();

# ? Feb 19, 2023 11:58

Jippa: Feb 13, 2009

I see that tweetdeck is going to be sold. Are there any viable alternatives if you just want to see stuff from people you follow?

# ? Feb 22, 2023 10:37

Geemer: Nov 4, 2010

Set your Twitter timeline to Following instead of For You and maybe pick one of the userscripts that do it automatically from greasyfork?

# ? Feb 22, 2023 12:00

wooger: Apr 16, 2005; YOU RESENT?

Jippa posted:

I see that tweetdeck is going to be sold. Are there any viable alternatives if you just want to see stuff from people you follow?

Confusing, and completely at odds with every other decision Twitter have made recently.

Userscripts and ad-blocking is all there is.

# ? Feb 22, 2023 12:28

Jippa: Feb 13, 2009

Thanks.

# ? Feb 22, 2023 12:33

armpit_enjoyer: Jan 25, 2023; my god. it's full of posts

Jippa posted:

I see that tweetdeck is going to be sold. Are there any viable alternatives if you just want to see stuff from people you follow?

Tweak New Twitter. Disappears everything poo poo about the site. It's been a mandatory extension for me for years now.

# ? Feb 22, 2023 12:45

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

karoshi posted:

I hate when I load my bookmarked threads in the background and then I have to scroll back to the first unread post via ctrl-L + enter or mouse for every single tab.

This bug-free and perfect tampermonkey script will scroll tabs to the anchor in the URL when the tab becomes visible, or after 2 seconds if the tab loads in the foreground.
code:

Nice work!

The SA Last Read extension lets you do this by pressing 'o', but anything that save button presses is a good thing.

# ? Feb 22, 2023 12:51

Jippa: Feb 13, 2009

armpit_enjoyer posted:

Tweak New Twitter. Disappears everything poo poo about the site. It's been a mandatory extension for me for years now.

Has it been taken down?

# ? Feb 22, 2023 12:51

Kassad: Nov 12, 2005; It's about time.

It seems to have been renamed?

# ? Feb 22, 2023 12:56

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

armpit_enjoyer posted:

Tweak New Twitter. Disappears everything poo poo about the site. It's been a mandatory extension for me for years now.

Jippa posted:

Has it been taken down?

I think it's been renamed to Control Panel for Twitter.

EDIT: Beaten. :argh:

# ? Feb 22, 2023 13:00

Jippa: Feb 13, 2009

Exactly what I was looking for, cheers.

# ? Feb 22, 2023 13:50

Mofabio: May 15, 2003; (y - mx)*(1/(inf))*(PV/RT)*(2.718)*(V/I)

Firefox can't seem to download files to my NFS share, but can save them anywhere else. I'm on a debian linux system. Vivaldi can save to em fine, I can write to them fine, permissions are 775, it's just Firefox, on just one computer. Any ideas?

# ? Feb 22, 2023 18:23

Saukkis: May 16, 2003; Unless I'm on the inside curve pointing straight at oncoming traffic the high beams stay on and I laugh at your puny protest flashes.
I am Most Important Man. Most Important Man in the World.

Mofabio posted:

Firefox can't seem to download files to my NFS share, but can save them anywhere else. I'm on a debian linux system. Vivaldi can save to em fine, I can write to them fine, permissions are 775, it's just Firefox, on just one computer. Any ideas?

I suspect you have a Snap-packaged Firefox that is running in sandbox and has limited access outside it.

# ? Feb 22, 2023 19:36

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

On FreeBSD, I can save files to ZFS using NFSv4 over TCP with NFSv4 ACLs, so I doubt it's got anything to do with Firefox.

# ? Feb 22, 2023 20:20

Siliziumleben: Dec 4, 2003; The scientists' findings were astounding! They discovered that the powers of the Metroid might be harnessed for the good of civilization!

On the topic of Twitter, is there an extension/script that makes muting and blocking someone from the Twitter web UI a single-click action, skipping any menu-ing and confirmation dialogs?

I'm used to blocking people at the speed of light from Better TweetDeck, but who knows how long that'll remain available 😔

# ? Feb 22, 2023 20:55

Computer viking: May 30, 2011; Now with less breakage.

Saukkis posted:

I suspect you have a Snap-packaged Firefox that is running in sandbox and has limited access outside it.

It looks like "apt install firefox" on debian will get you a plain non-container version, but they do also explain how to install it as a snap and flatpack in the wiki.

As far as I know, flatpack should still allow you to save to any folder, since the save dialog is a "portal" hosted by the outside system that can grant a flatpack access to read or write a file in any directory the user chooses (if the user has permission, ofc). Maybe that interacts in a weird way with NFS mounts, but I can't offhand imagine how/why?

# ? Feb 24, 2023 10:56

armpit_enjoyer: Jan 25, 2023; my god. it's full of posts

Siliziumleben posted:

On the topic of Twitter, is there an extension/script that makes muting and blocking someone from the Twitter web UI a single-click action, skipping any menu-ing and confirmation dialogs?

I'm used to blocking people at the speed of light from Better TweetDeck, but who knows how long that'll remain available 😔

Yup, once again, Control Panel for Twitter.

# ? Feb 24, 2023 13:44

Siliziumleben: Dec 4, 2003; The scientists' findings were astounding! They discovered that the powers of the Metroid might be harnessed for the good of civilization!

armpit_enjoyer posted:

Yup, once again, Control Panel for Twitter.

CPfT does skip the confirmation dialog, but you still need to click on the "more" menu first, so it's not quite one-click. Still, going from three clicks to two clicks is an improvement, so thanks for the rec!

# ? Feb 25, 2023 11:57

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

Mofabio posted:

Firefox can't seem to download files to my NFS share, but can save them anywhere else. I'm on a debian linux system. Vivaldi can save to em fine, I can write to them fine, permissions are 775, it's just Firefox, on just one computer. Any ideas?

What error does it give?

# ? Feb 26, 2023 05:42

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

When did Firefox for Android get pull to refresh?

# ? Feb 27, 2023 20:07

TVGM: Mar 17, 2005; "It is not moral, it is not acceptable, and it is not sustainable that the top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent"; Yam Slacker

WattsvilleBlues posted:

When did Firefox for Android get pull to refresh?

I've been waiting for that but it's not working for me on 110.0.1

# ? Feb 27, 2023 20:27

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

It wasn't enabled for me out of the box, but it's in the settings

# ? Feb 27, 2023 20:51

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

TVGM posted:

I've been waiting for that but it's not working for me on 110.0.1

I'm on 111.0b6. I wonder if there was a patent on it or something?

# ? Feb 27, 2023 21:31

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Is there any way to have Android Firefox install extensions beyond the pitiful few you're normally allowed?

Watching youtube on my tablet is an exercise in frustration.

You can only install literally seventeen extensions on the Android version. And most of them aren't even useful.

# ? Feb 28, 2023 15:17

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Is there any way to have Android Firefox install extensions beyond the pitiful few you're normally allowed?

Watching youtube on my tablet is an exercise in frustration.

You can only install literally seventeen extensions on the Android version. And most of them aren't even useful.

I did this thing in the Firefox derivative Mull, but just nabbed someone else's collection that was in some other article that happened to have everything I wanted. But I still haven't seen anyone post in this thread whether it definitely works on vanilla non-nightly Firefox now.

# ? Feb 28, 2023 16:09

Kassad: Nov 12, 2005; It's about time.

It works in the beta version, not sure about the regular version.

# ? Feb 28, 2023 16:26

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Flipperwaldt posted:

I did this thing in the Firefox derivative Mull, but just nabbed someone else's collection that was in some other article that happened to have everything I wanted. But I still haven't seen anyone post in this thread whether it definitely works on vanilla non-nightly Firefox now.

That looks pretty simple. I have a Firefox account, so I should be able to make my own collection.

Thanks.

As someone in the comments of the link posted, I have no idea why Mozilla decided to restrict them so severely in the first place. This sort of thing is literally why people choose Firefox over the competitors.

edit: yep, all done, no worries. Thanks again.

Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Feb 28, 2023

# ? Feb 28, 2023 16:34

CatHorse: Jan 5, 2008

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Watching youtube on my tablet is an exercise in frustration.

You can only install literally seventeen extensions on the Android version. And most of them aren't even useful.

uBlock origin works on android version and that is all you need to block youtube ads.
But Android also has vanced and newpipe that in addition of blocking ads also have sponsorblock

# ? Feb 28, 2023 17:56

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

LibreTube is another one that's pretty decent. Regular NewPipe doesn't have SponsorBlock, that's the NewPipe x SponsorBlock fork. Also Vanced is called ReVanced now, I think. The latter is the only one that will let you do stuff you need to be logged in for, if you care for that. All of it requires sideloading the app or going on alternative app stores like F-Droid, which isn't too big a deal. Otoh, I can see YouTube in browser working to satisfaction on a tablet with the right addons, unlike on a phone.

# ? Feb 28, 2023 18:40

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

Thanks to Quackles for mentioning Vinegar, I've at least not had to deal with ads on YouTube on my iPhone.

# ? Feb 28, 2023 20:32

Serephina: Nov 8, 2005; 恐竜戦隊
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Is there a way to disable that HTML (?) feature that tracks if the page/tab is in focus and being viewed? I remember finding out it's name a while back when I was puzzled at why certain youtube pages refused to play in the background, but I've since forgotten the name and can't seem to find it again.

I've already murdered a lot of functionality on my browser, so losing this won't change much except make my life easier as I've never noticed the feature except when used maliciously against the user.

# ? Feb 28, 2023 22:04

Mofabio: May 15, 2003; (y - mx)*(1/(inf))*(PV/RT)*(2.718)*(V/I)

Knormal posted:

What error does it give?

"The file could not be saved because you do not have the proper permissions. Choose another save directory."

It's not a snap package, it's the default KDE Neon install.

# ? Mar 1, 2023 08:02

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

I may have complained here that my tampermonkey scripts don't work on sites that use a service worker (such as twitter). Well, I got them working by adding a

code:

// @sandbox     DOM

directive on the top comment block.

# ? Mar 1, 2023 17:57

Qtotonibudinibudet: Nov 7, 2011; Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Serephina posted:

Is there a way to disable that HTML (?) feature that tracks if the page/tab is in focus and being viewed? I remember finding out it's name a while back when I was puzzled at why certain youtube pages refused to play in the background, but I've since forgotten the name and can't seem to find it again.

I've already murdered a lot of functionality on my browser, so losing this won't change much except make my life easier as I've never noticed the feature except when used maliciously against the user.

it's a JS event. Chrome has a simulate tab focus feature in dev tools but it looks like Firefox requires a user script or extension to do it

# ? Mar 1, 2023 18:57

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

MikusR posted:

uBlock origin works on android version and that is all you need to block youtube ads.
But Android also has vanced and newpipe that in addition of blocking ads also have sponsorblock

Ublock Origin doesn't block YouTube ads for me, is there something I need to configure?

# ? Mar 1, 2023 20:13

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; GBS Pledge Week

WattsvilleBlues posted:

Ublock Origin doesn't block YouTube ads for me, is there something I need to configure?

check the boxes for AdGuard & EasyList from the filter lists tab

# ? Mar 1, 2023 20:53

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

Klyith posted:

check the boxes for AdGuard & EasyList from the filter lists tab

Thanks, and that works for mobile and desktop?

# ? Mar 1, 2023 21:00

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

It just works out of the box for me everywhere I've ever installed it, without any modification of the default settings and lists.

If you're not on some lovely fork version just called uBlock or something and the add-on isn't deactivated for the YouTube website and you haven't been loving around unsubscribing from lists, I'd start looking what happens with a fresh Firefox profile or install and all that.

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# ? May 29, 2024 05:20

Quaint Quail Quilt: Jun 19, 2006; Ask me about that time I told people mixing bleach and vinegar is okay

Flipperwaldt posted:

I did this thing in the Firefox derivative Mull, but just nabbed someone else's collection that was in some other article that happened to have everything I wanted. But I still haven't seen anyone post in this thread whether it definitely works on vanilla non-nightly Firefox now.

I'm on Android Firefox nightly for developers and was able to add my collection!
However there is a plus next to each one and trying to install gets me "failed to install" on all of them.

# ? Mar 1, 2023 21:17

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