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Rollie Fingers posted:I've moved to Firefox from Edge as my default browser and I prefer Edge's font rendering over Firefox's since it's more comfortable for my eyes. I did a quick Google search and it claims that Edge is using ClearType font rendering. I believe Firefox uses DirectWrite by default. You may be able to switch Firefox back to GDI Classic rendering by using this option: gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode = 2 I haven't tested this, however.
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Knormal posted:Private tabs are even worse, if you have a private tab open if adds a notification icon to the top of the screen letting you know you have a private tab open in the background. It's baffling. Turning off Firefox notifications removed it for me. There's nothing I need Firefox to notify me about anyway.
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yt now has a timeout before the close option appears on the "adblock isn't allowed" popup: At least I don't think it did this before. This doesn't show up every time though, I did the ublock update dance so let's see if that killes it for a while.
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Oct 16, 2023 19:54
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Yeah, it started yesterday I think. It's a stupid never ending arms race. I just hope whoever at Google gets bored soon.
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Oct 16, 2023 20:03
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Yup. People are reporting it goes message => message with timer => warning that you have 3 videos left => player locks itself down. Apparently, YT also wants like 15-20$ a month for its ad free service. 
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Quackles posted:Yup. People are reporting it goes message => message with timer => warning that you have 3 videos left => player locks itself down. It comes with Google's Spotify equivalent (YouTube Music), so if you use that instead of subscribing to another music streaming service the price isn't too bad. But I can't imagine how much YT I'd have to watch to justify paying $14/month just for ad-free, background play and downloads.
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Oct 16, 2023 20:44
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Yeah, I don't know what they think I'm using YouTube for, but nothing I watch there is worth paying Google for.
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Oct 17, 2023 01:24
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Grab your channels rss feed and put it in your reader then download it with yt-dlp. Ad free viewing and no chance of ever seeing comments.
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Inceltown posted:Grab your channels rss feed and put it in your reader then download it with yt-dlp. Ad free viewing and no chance of ever seeing comments.
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I still have not seen that "no ads" screen.....yet. Maybe I'm on the better end of A/B testing? In any case, yt-dlp has not been working for me for some time. It always tells me that it's unable to "extract uploader id".
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Oct 17, 2023 15:49
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What version are you on? I'm on stable@2023.10.13. I find these days you have to update it fairly often as YouTube is changing so much to stop people using it.
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Oct 17, 2023 16:20
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Oh, 2021.04.26. I'll update now; thanks.
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Quackles posted:Yup. People are reporting it goes message => message with timer => warning that you have 3 videos left => player locks itself down.
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Oct 18, 2023 20:01
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Yep got this now.
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phosdex posted:Yep got this now. Klyith posted:Ublock settings -> Filter lists -> click the 🕘 clock next to uBlock filters – Quick fixes -> Update Now quick fixes is where they're putting the constantly changing anti-adblock stuff
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Oct 19, 2023 00:06
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Yeah just got it too, I guess the problem is if there's a counter on your account eventually you're going to hit the limit. I guess at that point I just make a new account. Or use a private window or something.
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Oct 19, 2023 00:09
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doctorfrog posted:There isn't a single piece of web content that's worth seeing an ad for
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Oct 19, 2023 00:27
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There isn't a counter on your account, at least not yet. Just update the filters and it'll go away. At most I think you need to purge cookies in firefox.
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Oct 19, 2023 11:14
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Splinter posted:It comes with Google's Spotify equivalent (YouTube Music), so if you use that instead of subscribing to another music streaming service the price isn't too bad. But I can't imagine how much YT I'd have to watch to justify paying $14/month just for ad-free, background play and downloads. On a cost-per-hours-viewed basis it's competitive with Netflix et al, but I'm not sure how I feel about that comparison.
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Bertha the Toaster posted:Yeah just got it too, I guess the problem is if there's a counter on your account eventually you're going to hit the limit. I guess at that point I just make a new account. Or use a private window or something. If you just want to watch videos, you can use https://libredirect.github.io/ to automatically redirect all youtube links to an Invidious instance
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Tamba posted:If you just want to watch videos, you can use https://libredirect.github.io/ to automatically redirect all youtube links to an Invidious instance
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doctorfrog posted:This is a good addon, but unless there are a lot of robust mirrors, it will be a very temporary solution as its popularity increases. There are docker boxes for it so you can run your own private one / add to the available pool.
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Yeah, I had a copy running on my local server, but I never used it because I actually like having my subscriptions. Might try FreeTube at some point as that allow a subscription type feed.
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I gave Piped a shot the last few days and it's ok. It can give you a nice subscription feed. Shame it only keeps track of what you watched already locally. That would have been useful. You can set up your own instance if you're into that.
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Oct 20, 2023 01:23
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I don't know how, but somehow you can still access RSS feeds for individual channels (despite the company deliberately breaking subscription RSS feeds). That way you can decide what happens when someone you're interested in following uploads something; plenty of RSS readers still exist, and there's also options like throwing the RSS feed at flexget and using yt-dlp to download the files automatically.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I don't know how, but somehow you can still access RSS feeds for individual channels (despite the company deliberately breaking subscription RSS feeds). At a guess, the person that wrote that part of the system no longer works anywhere near it, and nobody else remembers that it exists.
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Computer viking posted:At a guess, the person that wrote that part of the system no longer works anywhere near it, and nobody else remembers that it exists. Alternatively, it's load-bearing for some other feature and it's easier to leave it in place than rewrite a bunch of code.
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isndl posted:Alternatively, it's load-bearing for some other feature and it's easier to leave it in place than rewrite a bunch of code. Or the synthesis - they fear that it may be but nobody knows anymore.
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Computer viking posted:At a guess, the person that wrote that part of the system no longer works anywhere near it, and nobody else remembers that it exists. Or someone who still works there still likes having it functional.
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Atopian posted:Or someone who still works there still likes having it functional.
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My guess is that google still wants YouTube to be a place for podcasts
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Atopian posted:Or someone who still works there still likes having it functional. I can believe that there are individual employees who are Good Guys but it didn't save Google Reader.
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~Coxy posted:I can believe that there are individual employees who are Good Guys but it didn't save Google Reader.
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Is it safe to delete the storage\archives folders in my profile? There's an archive folder taking up 250MB that looks like sites I haven't visited in months/years. Why is Firefox even bothering to "archive" it if it's still taking up space?
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Quixzlizx posted:Is it safe to delete the storage\archives folders in my profile? There's an archive folder taking up 250MB that looks like sites I haven't visited in months/years. Why is Firefox even bothering to "archive" it if it's still taking up space? Should be. Storage is where firefox puts websites' local storage -- like cookies in terms of websites storing user data, but much more robust. And just like cookies, more frequently abused than used for stuff you actually want. I dunno why the "archives" folder though -- I don't have one of those, just: default permanent temporary & to-be-removed. You can also do settings -> privacy & security -> cookies & site data -> clear or manage data to get rid of stuff. Alternately, Cookie Auto-Delete can do local storage as well as cookies and is one of my fav extensions, if you have the patience to set up a whitelist.
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SA keeps drafts of posts in local storage if you want to whitelist us.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:SA keeps drafts of posts in local storage if you want to whitelist us. Alternatively 
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:SA keeps drafts of posts in local storage if you want to whitelist us. Does it still keep the drafts there indefinitely?
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Klyith posted:Should be. Yeah, I knew what the storage folder was for, I just didn't understand why there was a 250MB segregated "archive" folder. Like what's the point of "archiving" this kind of data if it isn't being compressed or something? I ended up deleting it.
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Latest update did something weird where fullscreening Youtube makes the screen go gray for a good second. Anyone else getting this or did an extension break?
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