• penquin@lemm.ee
      39·
      3 months ago

      It’s insane how big a fight we have to put to JUST surf the damn Internet.

      • ivn@jlai.luEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I don’t see its usefulness, uBlock Origin’s “Cookie Notices” list does the same thing.

        For consent forms consent-o-matic is better, IDCAC / ISDCAC was not created for this.

      • fin@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        3 months ago

        Why would someone use that instead of uBlock origin cookie filter?

        Not using the addon, but I simply didn’t know uBlock can do that.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Oh yeah, I gotta get rid of Avast, it keeps flagging things that straight up aren’t viruses, what’s a good alternative?

      • jim3692@discuss.online
        11·
        3 months ago

        iirc Windows Defender does a decent job. However, if you are a JavaScript developer, try to add node_modules to the exceptions, unless you don’t care much about the performance hit.

        I personally have stopped running antivirus on Windows a couple years ago. Since I run most, if not all, untrusted software in VMs, I didn’t see the point of wasting performance. On the host, I only run Firefox and Steam/Epic games.

        I then moved to Linux and I have 2 GPUs; one for the host and one for VMs with games. But that’s probably a different story.

        • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          ry to add node_modules to the exceptions, unless you don’t care much about the performance hit.

          Does windows defender go crazy constantly scanning the files or something? I have a TON of machines running automated tasks using node and any drop in CPU usage would be much appreciated.

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
    31·
    3 months ago

    IDCAC should not be on this list since it was compromised, ABP-style. consent-o-matic is probably better but the most direct replacement is “I Still Don’t Care About Cookies”.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
    23·
    3 months ago

    ublock origin has a cookie notice and nag filter that removes those.

    go into the settings and turn on the annoyance filters, they are awesome.

  • RandomStickman@fedia.io
    17·
    3 months ago

    Be careful with using Privacy Badger and uBO together as it might get in each other’s way. I had YouTube detect me having ad block until I paused Privacy Badger for YT.

  • AllToRuleThemOne@lemmy.world
    151·
    3 months ago

    Another recommendation for YT:

    SponsorBlock

    It is Community-Based. Ppl (like you) mark timecodes from sponsor ads and if toggled on those will be skipped. You can whitelist channels as well if you want to.

    150% better YT-experience!

  • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    Go into uBO settings and then filters and enable all the non-language filters. You won’t need privacy badger or that cookie addon anymore.

      • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br
        3·
        3 months ago

        There’s the features/app part already mentioned, but I also feel like there’s few “discoverability”. I’m glad Lemmy doesn’t has a addicting algoritm, but it’s also kind of hard to find new/diverse content that I like, and there’s also some issues in the community, but there’s unfortunately nothing to do about it.

      • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        3 months ago

        it’s a reddit competitor that lacks features of reddit, including: multireddits, hiding individual posts, card view that doesn’t autoplay video, and more but I’m lazy.

          • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
            64·
            3 months ago

            not using an app. I refused to install reddit s app, I won’t install lemmys.

              • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                3 months ago

                I’m sure there’s a hacky workaround for every complaint I might have, I’ve done a lot of those over the years and I don’t see that stopping any time soon. I’m just tired of having to fix things before I can use/enjoy them. Effort is a limited resource. It’s current year, shit should just work.

                • piracysails@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  I think you either lack information or are just misinformed.

                  Those are projects that cooperate with each other, not “hacky” solutions.

                  They offer services free of charge while respecting at every possible level your rights to privacy, I believe your “limited resource” will understand.

  • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    NewPipe and FreeTube if you want YT subscriptions without ads

    Addy.io or simplelogin for email account signups

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    3 months ago

    Invidious is it effectively dead

    Who knows if they can actually gnd a workaround this time. They themselves where unsure about it.

    • DragonConsort@pawb.social
      5·
      3 months ago

      When the alternative is dealing with the absolute horseshit quantity of ads that YouTube desperately wants to shovel down my throat, I’ll take Invidious any day of the week.

      It may not be in perfect condition but it’s still good enough to use!

    • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      The public instances are useless at the moment.

      The project isn’t dead.

      If you only care about a clean UI and no adds, just selt-host it. I’m doing it for a week now with no problems at all.

      Google seems to have blocked all datacenter or cloud IPs from accessing YouTube.

  • DeeDan06@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    3 months ago

    I have yet to see unpaywall workk ever. All that site does is link you to free versions if legally available. So it does nothing. Bypass Paywalls clean sometimes works, but if you want non mainstream sites going to archive.today is the most reliable option.