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Stoneheart said:
i dont get the ad but the skip ad screen...
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Hunh, weird - I'm still getting completely ad-free YT at the moment, no screen like that - that's using Firefox Developer 78.0b2 (64-Bit) on Linux with uBlock.

I'm using NoScript and Privacy Badger as well, although those shouldn't affect YT ads AFAIK.

What OS/Browser are you using?
 
Did anyone have issues with ProtonVPN? I had the $10 subscription and the servers are just slow as dogshit and will frequently become overloaded and disconnect you. Plus if you "auto-connect to best server" it will put you on free servers sometimes. I switched over the ovpn.com and they're amazing, never disconnect and I get constant 70-130 mbps. I found them from an aggregate list of vpns that you can sort by security, keeping logs, etc. Anyone else have experiences with this site?
 
Onivim2 is something to watch out for if you're a vim user; especially if you have a love/hate relationship with VSCode.

Onivim 2 - Modal Editing from the Future

www.onivim.io www.onivim.io

I can't really endorse the software as is because it's had a very slow development (it was supposed to be close to 1.0 by now) and it's not really in a very usable state; but it's still very cheap to pick up a license and is potentially worth the risk if it actually ends up getting finished and doesn't become another sludge app after all of its VSCode integration. It uses libvim and is actually a native cross-platform application.
 
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JonesMcCannister said:
Did anyone have issues with ProtonVPN? I had the $10 subscription and the servers are just slow as dogshit and will frequently become overloaded and disconnect you. Plus if you "auto-connect to best server" it will put you on free servers sometimes. I switched over the ovpn.com and they're amazing, never disconnect and I get constant 70-130 mbps. I found them from an aggregate list of vpns that you can sort by security, keeping logs, etc. Anyone else have experiences with this site?
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always had issues, but I was mostly using free anyway. part that pisses me off are the random dead connections where you don't even get disconnected (so you can at least reconnect), the connection just dies on you. and that's on top the sometimes dogshit connection with shit speeds and packet drops galore.

however, they made a bunch of EU servers free and it stopped as far as I can tell. might have been a simple load issue.
 
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Ledj said:
Onivim2 is something to watch out for if you're a vim user; especially if you have a love/hate relationship with VSCode.

Onivim 2 - Modal Editing from the Future

www.onivim.io www.onivim.io
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lmao, imagine using vim instead of nano

Stoneheart said:
i dont get the ad but the skip ad screen...
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My YT setup is uBlock Origin (not uBlock) with *youtube.com/*&disableadblock=1 in the whitelist while using this extension, which allows you to whitelist certain channels so you can financially support them by watching a few ads. It also has a "skip ad" option for those long, unskippable ads, and "block advertiser" so you never have to see another fucking Grammarly ad again.
 
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JonesMcCannister said:
Did anyone have issues with ProtonVPN? I had the $10 subscription and the servers are just slow as dogshit and will frequently become overloaded and disconnect you. Plus if you "auto-connect to best server" it will put you on free servers sometimes. I switched over the ovpn.com and they're amazing, never disconnect and I get constant 70-130 mbps. I found them from an aggregate list of vpns that you can sort by security, keeping logs, etc. Anyone else have experiences with this site?
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Protip: Create profile with p2p enabled, if you are in a paid plan, use this, so you do not get dropped to the pleb servers. I have had some problems with some games, but otherwise it is decent.
 
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Possibly too niche, but Room EQ Wizard.

It's used to analyze room acoustics. So if you have a home theater or studio or something like that it's really good for determining where to place speakers and acoustic treatments.
 
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I get free Jetbrains licenses through work, and their IDEs are all stellar. Also, since they're Czech they didn't do any BLM pandering, which is a nice rarity for a modern day tech company.
 
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What's the best alternative to Brave that won't cause the admin at archive.is to piss his little panties? Or is there a plugin that bypasses this faggotry?

(although, I guess he's got a point? https://blog.archive.md/post/626174398020403200/please-provide-all-the-details-about-how-brave )

Also, apparently archive .is is wordfiltered to archive .md? Wonder why. .MD is the only subdomain that has the brave browser block.
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
What's the best alternative to Brave that won't cause the admin at archive.md to piss his little panties?
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Out of all the "supported browsers" listed there, only Mozilla and Tor aren't based on Google's Chromium. And you probably don't need Tor.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
What's the best alternative to Brave that won't cause the admin at archive.md to piss his little panties? Or is there a plugin that bypasses this faggotry?
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I've been happy with Firefox on my laptop for a while now. Just be sure to use a customized user.js file to disable all of the bloat and call home features they've added. (On Android, FF also allows you to use extensions if you want to go that route. Performance is less than Brave on mobile though.)

There's also ungoogled-chromium as another option.

Also, apparently archive .is is wordfiltered to archive .md? Wonder why. .MD is the only subdomain that has the brave browser block.
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I also get the block on the .vn domain. I haven't tried any others.
 
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Ahriman said:
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I made the move from old KeePass to KeePassXC, so far so good.
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Personally I prefer the good old KeePass2 due to it's extensive plugin support.
HTTP Error 404 said:
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What's the best alternative to Brave that won't cause the admin at archive.md to piss his little panties? Or is there a plugin that bypasses this faggotry?

(although, I guess he's got a point? https://blog.archive.md/post/626174398020403200/please-provide-all-the-details-about-how-brave )

Also, apparently archive .is is wordfiltered to archive .md? Wonder why. .MD is the only subdomain that has the brave browser block.
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I'd recommend Vivaldi because it's the browser I'm most happy with. Plenty of customization options, and if you really want to, you can hack the UI, since it's all CSS/JS based.

Anyway, I wanted to share this little extension that compliments SponsorBlock:

Clickbait Remover for YouTube
Chrome/Chromium
Firefox​
Basically what it does is replaces custom thumbnails with ones taken from the video itself, and optionally changes the title capitalization to remove all-caps titles. Makes YouTube this more bearable.
 
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I'm very impressed by Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04 (especially in the general resource consumption department. Had Win10 / Chrome on a pretty shitty low end 4GB RAM laptop with a tin can intel CPU, it SUCKED, after moving over to Ubuntu/Firefox, zero issues, purring like a kitten.

So before throwing out any old / slow hardware, consider Ubuntu 20.04 / bundled Firefox, very impressed.
 
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