Startpage: "You can’t beat Google when it comes to online search. So we’re paying them to use their brilliant search results in order to remove all trackers and logs."
Searx is a meta search engine. You can gather results from gogle.
Why use a userscript when you can use a search engine that is not from a spyware company? Like Startpage, Qwant, Duckduckgo or Searx? Alleluia, direct links out of the box.
For youtube, why not give Invidious a try (ok, it has its downs)?
Sometimes, the best solution to "hostile websites" is to not use them in the first place (or use their proxified versions).
But is everyone really using ad-blockers? I thought it was obvious, like you, I mean, why wouldn't people use ad-blockers and keep living inside a garbage typhoon? Then, I saw some "studies" [1] saying the total of users relying on ad-blockers is ridiculous, like not even 1/5. It's baffling but seems like most people are still struggling against pop-ups.
media.autoplay.enabled = false on Firefox made my days so much brighter. Even on youtube, not having channels autoplaying some default video was a fresh breeze. You don't have to be on the lookout anymore each time you feel some sound or video might jump at your ears.
Talking about wired, it is SO GOOD to read "We're sorry, something went wrong." when their videos fail to deliver their crap to you!
>Hacked sites, on the other hand, might not be too thrilled about a feature that will shame them about their previous lax security.
A simple flag doesn't reflect the quality of the security. You might not have a flag with terrible security simply because no one cared until now when a website might have invested tremendous efforts in security and meet doom because hackers were numerous, obstinate and smarter. Security is a difficult matter and doesn't make you "lax" because of a breach. I hope the plugin will be descriptive because I don't see that in the readme.
I would be more or equally interested by a plugin shaming websites who store passwords in plain text, restrict characters to 20, prevent you from using nothing else than letters and digits, etc. You could use pwned db to gather intel on the actual level of security of a website and flag them if they use outdated hash algorithms or other bad password storage practice. That would be more objective and force websites to fix their crap.
I thought you were completely dissolved to the core making some kind of primordial soup, it was beautiful, until I read there are still bones at the end they can put in an urn. Could be better. The device is still worth it. Maybe the 500k model can do it?
I like the fact you go into the sewage system or be used as fertilizer (if you are a pet). At the end, you can be drunk or eaten by other people.
Only beaten by: A/space burial to the sun or frozen in the middle of total vacuum B/cryo C/science.
I hear a lot about facebook but I almost never run into it though I feel like I am literally living inside internet. It amazes me how something I can literally not see any presence can have presumably such huge importance in the cyberworld. Google, I get it, twitter, I get it, facebook... nope. Looks like big inflated wind to me (or quite crafty salespersons).
There was a lot of "great times" if we are talking about tech development. It was also a great time to board a locomotive at the beginning of the XIX century. Then, I think a great time not too abstract would be to actually go to Mars more than looking at pictures.
I think it already happened with a troll baiting racists. He waited for a lot of RT then changed the source of the embedded racist picture with something like "I am a big disgusting stupid racist". Something like that. It was a good one, though.
It reminded me that project of mine to inject some CSS into Hacker News because how useful this website is, it is truly ugly. My eyes are killed after one hour of reading.
You can test your convictions by disabling DRM content in Firefox. Uncheck "Play DRM content".
Unfortunately, convictions won't have consequences on future decisions because the standard is here and the more you wait the more it becomes embedded. W3C allowed it to come to light when various plugins wouldn't make DRM viable or at least more difficult to implement and reach general agreement. Now, even if you can opt out with Firefox, Netflix really don't care about that because you decided to disable it so you are a bad client anyway. I understand why the article is talking about pop-ups because the moment Firefox decided to implement it, we lost the fight. I use Firefox but lately, I am saddened by their lack of strong convictions and how they tend to follow google a little too much. (At least, FF sandboxed the CDM, while not perfect, the other browsers didn't do it, isn't it?)
I am always comforting myself by thinking that idiots who want to tweak my brain were throwing a lot of bucks to display ads blocked by my adblock extension. I am more concerned about how they track us to not display ads, in fact...
I don't remember the last time I saw an ad against my will, and if I actually saw one, I think my brain filtered it just by the power of my revulsion. That said, I am aware that it works at a subconscious level not always like you want but the antidote is to fully use conscious processes in suspicious mode when buying something, isn't it?
So, let them pay the internet? If not, you really need your product to have a value that exceed its digital form, like you can see with Steam who appeal to players by connecting games to social. Or you need to be really pedagogic and make the purchase an active act of support.
Blendle is on the right direction with centralization + micro-payments but it should add a social layer where users could build another public identity with their stories listings, allowing them to comment, creating thematic feeds, make them addicted with superficial achievements, like I said: extra value other than just paying for something digital. I am not saying that's what I want.
In Firefox, you can disable media.autoplay.enabled (false) for html5 video. Flash should be disabled by default I think but you can make it dependent to click-to-play.
I agree with everybody, it's such a lack a respect for the user. People using that trick (like youtube gesman pointed out) don't think of you as individual but as receiver/consumer/goods/idiot. If it uses sound, it can even be dangerous if you are using headphones.
I am raising funds for a better world too.
1$ million required.
It's for blablabla humanity blablabla challenges blabla climat blabla together.
My paypal account is [email protected].
When you will design the login button of your site in development with "Open the nExt", you will know for sure you have been influenced. When you start praying Lain before accessing any network, it's time to call a doctor.
A cool game, fun and dynamic, with a bonus stage where you have to pick up garbage falling from the sky faster and faster, and sort it for recycling.
Because, yes, it was a game that wanted to brainwash you into thinking McDonald = environmentalism. What a joke.