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ffpip
6y ago
Apple bought the .apple domain.
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ffpip
6y ago
I tried the same thing 6 months ago.
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ffpip
6y ago
> More control over your privacy and data Yet every Google app gets all permissions (even non-essential ones) on by default? Because users never turn them off, and you give a misleading prompt urging them to turn it back on.
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ffpip
6y ago
No it won't. Clicking on random ads doesn't increase privacy. It just changes what the advertiser thinks of your interests. To load an ad, you have to allow trackers. If you allow a tracker, you might as well allow the ad instead
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ffpip
6y ago
Without root, you have to depend on things like Local VPN (blockada, adaway) or custom DNS (nextdns.io) With root, use Adaway
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ffpip
6y ago
If anybody is considering using this for privacy reasons don't. If you want to piss off as dev or act like a bot, only then use it.
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ffpip
6y ago
Thanks. I already knew that. I'm familiar with the dev's extensions. Clear Browsing Data and Captcha Buster and very useful.
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ffpip
6y ago
Reload the page. I get that a lot. like every alternate tweet. From India
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ffpip
6y ago
web.archive.org automatically converts the https%3A%2F things to https:// for me. I noticed it many times. If you are still facing problems, go to https://web.archive.org . In the bottom right 'Save page now
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ffpip
6y ago
It makes me go away from their app. I removed all the banners with uBlock Origin. I had to temporarily get them back to take the screenshot.
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ffpip
6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20200908115120/https://www.samue...
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ffpip
6y ago
If anyone from Scirbd is reading this, please fix your mobile website. You advertise yourself more than the content. https://i.ibb.co/2n8HdBx/Screenshot-20200822-030755.jpg There must be a competition between Imgur,Red
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ffpip
6y ago
Yeah. That requires access to all sites. I wasn't comfortable adding another addon with that permission. The permission is just for a simple reason and should be off by default. It is so you can right click a link on any page and selec
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ffpip
6y ago
You can create a bookmark in Firefox to save a link quickly. Bookmark Location- https://web.archive.org/save/%s Keyword - save So searching 'save https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24406193 '
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ffpip
6y ago
The wayback machine has helps me on a daily basis. So many old links are dead. The other day, I noticed that even old links from the front page of Google and Youtube are dead now. Internet Archive still has them. These were links on the fro
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ffpip
6y ago
It will only be a matter of time before sites like Washington Post detect a Brave user and ask for instant transfer of BAT for access. Although Brave uses Chrome's UA, I think we can ask Brave for it's actual UA - https:/&#x
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ffpip
6y ago
What kind of a paywall does WSJ have? I always get a wall. Is it X articles free per month, or do they allow only crawlers on their sites?
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ffpip
6y ago
That's basically what happens with mobile data plans in India. Fixed speeds, pay X amount per 1 or 1.2 GB
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ffpip
6y ago
Youtube is 37% of all mobile traffic. [1] [1]- https://www.statista.com/chart/17321/global-downstream-mobil...
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ffpip
6y ago
How is Amazon allowed to advertise Kindle so much beside every book on the website? Isn't it anti competitive? Whenever you click on a book, it defaults to the Kindle version. When you change it to the paperback edition, you are faced
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ffpip
6y ago
There is no Google-free future for anyone. They are more powerful than all governments.
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ffpip
6y ago
It doesn't support the anti-fingerprinting measures of TOR. I don't thing you can block fingerprinting in Chromium. We can only fake it. There is no flag to outright block the fingerprinting. And things like first party isolation
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ffpip
6y ago
Yet another thing Google wants to fix by serving everything through their servers instead of asking devs to fix their owns sites. Same problem with AMP. Instead of asking news sites to fix their slow pages, it forced them through AMP by pro
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ffpip
6y ago
Buy a pixel and flash graphene OS. Tons of guides on YT
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ffpip
6y ago
Computerphile is a good channel on Youtube. The hosts explain things very well for beginners. https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile/featured
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ffpip
6y ago
Yes. And it works in uBlock Origin, which is what i've been saying to enable it in from the start. I didn't mention other adblockers
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ffpip
6y ago
They never turned it off.
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ffpip
6y ago
Subs are already selling merch. Look at r/teenagers mods selling cheap printed shirts.
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ffpip
6y ago
The thing is I tried out Edge because Microsoft said it is private, etc. Chrome is less noisy than Edge. When I opened the new Edge, requests were sent out to taboola.com , doubleclick.com, and other ad networks. And who wants ads on the ho
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ffpip
6y ago
Okay. I just downloaded it to check. I meant 'best'. Not 'hot'. Sorting by 'best' gives you content from smaller subs. I have asked the dev to implement it. I have not gotten any reply.
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