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Thnak you, this had been bugging me for a while. Looks like I'll need to permanently install a UA-switcher extension. Yesterday I saw a HN comment saying you c
by the_pwner224 7y ago
Thnak you, this had been bugging me for a while. Looks like I'll need to permanently install a UA-switcher extension.
Yesterday I saw a HN comment saying you can add the (?|&)disable_polymer=1 parameter to the end of YouTube URLs to make the site much faster - iirc Polymer is extremely slow on Firefox only. This extension was also linked: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-polymer-youtube/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-polym...
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any workaround for ReCaptcha on FF. I generally end up opening the website in the GNOME or KDE (Falkon) browser which use something like WebKit/Blink - there it works on the first try every time.
- chipperyman573 7y agoSome advice about ReCaptcha, the audio test is way easier and usually only makes you do it once or twice (as opposed to the 5-10 times you usually have to do when you have disabled tracking). Sometimes it will say you aren't eligible or something, just refresh the page and it will let you try again.
- Larrikin 7y agoThe audio test can also be defeated by ML extensions that do it for you automatically
- philwelch 7y agoHey wait a minute!
- searchableguy 7y agoI wonder what will be the point of these captchas if most people started avoiding them by installing extensions. If the end goal is to put significant resource constraint on the scrapper or bots, you can do it quite easily by running something to short the usage up for a few seconds if you think someone is suspicious.
- bluGill 7y agoI just use the contact site to send them a note to cut it out. There are better ways to prevent spam. Like my password that I just entered in the latest case. I'll go elsewhere in the next, they have competitors that won't be that different in price and easier to use.