• That Weird Vegan@aussie.zone
    12·
    5 hours ago

    It’s completely anecdotal, but I’ve noticed that the number of firefox users who installed uBlock Origin has gone up quite a lot. About 2M since Googs released manifest v3

    • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      39·
      9 hours ago

      Google blocked a bunch of ad-blocker addons in Chrome by killing the APIs they rely on. Several of my friends have been complaining about it, while the rest told them to stop using a browser that actively fights them.

      • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
        191·
        9 hours ago

        Yah just use Firefox or Moisturefox or whatever flavor of like Google’s only competitor browser you want. I haven’t used Chrome since I first caught wind of Google pushing their entire web-DRM thing they were trying to do to make us look at ads. I can wait an extra 1/100 of a second for the web page to load and adjust to slightly different browser plug-ins to literally save the entire free and open web lol

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 hours ago

    I asked a question the other day and was curious if someone here may know another suggestion. Cloudflare “are you human” checkbox. Was hoping to find a way around that when going to articles and such. Someone suggested Silk Privacy Pass, but that was only for Desktop, I couldn’t get it installed on Firefox or Cromite on Android. Has anyone heard of a way to keep a token or such that I may only have to click that human thing one time per VPN session or such?

    • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      It depends on how nerdy you want to get.

      Generally no, That checkmark is cloudflares multi-million dollar product that protects half of the internet from bot abuse. If there were a quick and easy work around then the bots would quickly learn and adopt it too. Sadly, it has a real penchant for triggering for regular users when you’re using hardened browsers and VPNs as well. It would be nice if network admins cared a little more about sticking it to the man and using bot protection alternatives instead of just proxying through a cloudflare tunnel and calling it a day.

      If you’re slightly tech savvy and lucky then the site allows web crawlers/indexers or has RSS feeds. This lets you use an RSS feeder or a text scraper like NewsWaffle

      What youre describing with saving a cookie to prove your identity is actually do-able, yt-dlp uses this to download age restricted content but getting that cookie extracted into a text file is a non-trivial nerdy thing the average person cant be trusted to do.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Thanks for the heads up about yt-dlp. Maybe if I start running into videos like that I can set up a way to execute the yt-dlp to download them in MP4 format on my jellyfin server using Tailscale or such to link the command. Then play from there.

        Seems like a lot to watch a video, but I’ll leave it on the back burner idea pile if ever needed. A lot of the text based stuff if it gives me to much issue I’ll drop the link into archive.ph