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Ellesse_warrior said:
Switched from my old vpn to mullvad. Using it on my phone and laptop, its really good.
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I've been using them for a long while now and have also been pleased. The option to mail in cash (in 10 different currencies) for anonymous payment is a nice option.
 
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Prinz von Preußen said:
Isn't that for PC? I was looking for an Android one
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Vinyl/Phonograph are good. They're basically the same, phonograph's color picker of all things is behind a paywall, vinyl's isn't.
VLC for the most part works fine but I had this weird issue. I pretty much just use it to listen to music in my car and it was doubling up my playlist (which was every song on my phone) every so often so it became unmanageable for me. It happened on at least two different android phones I've had also.
Odyssey is one I haven't used much but it has a ton of options and customization, an almost staggering amount.
All the above options are open source and available on f-droid.
 
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I don't know if this was mentioned earlier, but NoScript is a fucking godsend. It's no longer exclusive to Firefox, so you can also use it with Brave and other such Chromium spinoffs.

I've been using NoScript to get rid of all the additional "noise" that most modern webpages try to shoehorn: CDN stuff for shit I don't care about, pop-up prompts that I usually exit anyway, that kind of thing. There are some privacy benefits too, but you generally have to disable JavaScript on literally everything for it to have any tangible benefits. At that point, 90% of webpages just cease to function altogether.

I personally just have my shit set to "allow top-level domain" and then enable the stuff that I actually want to see like videos on a third-party streaming website. It's not necessarily the most optimal from a privacy perspective, but it's definitely a huge step up from just being spammed with bullshit JavaScript that lags everything down.
 
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welcometotherock said:
I don't know if this was mentioned earlier, but NoScript is a fucking godsend. It's no longer exclusive to Firefox, so you can also use it with Brave and other such Chromium spinoffs.

I've been using NoScript to get rid of all the additional "noise" that most modern webpages try to shoehorn: CDN stuff for shit I don't care about, pop-up prompts that I usually exit anyway, that kind of thing. There are some privacy benefits too, but you generally have to disable JavaScript on literally everything for it to have any tangible benefits. At that point, 90% of webpages just cease to function altogether.

I personally just have my shit set to "allow top-level domain" and then enable the stuff that I actually want to see like videos on a third-party streaming website. It's not necessarily the most optimal from a privacy perspective, but it's definitely a huge step up from just being spammed with bullshit JavaScript that lags everything down.
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Using NoScript and temporarily allowing scripts one by one to see a webpage populate is a good way to understand how busted things are. Sometimes you will have 3-5 scripts allowed while 13 is blocked yet the page is running fine.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Using NoScript and temporarily allowing scripts one by one to see a webpage populate is a good way to understand how busted things are. Sometimes you will have 3-5 scripts allowed while 13 is blocked yet the page is running fine.
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Most of the time, just allowing the top-level domain to run its JavaScript is enough to make things run fine. In the case of shit like Reddit or Twitter, all I have to do is enable the CDN scripts to run alongside the top-level domain. Meanwhile, there's like several dozen scripts that run in the background from analytics, to "hidden" advertising, and a bunch of other shit that I can't even begin to figure out.

"JavaScript was a mistake," - Brendan Eich
 
welcometotherock said:
I don't know if this was mentioned earlier, but NoScript is a fucking godsend. It's no longer exclusive to Firefox, so you can also use it with Brave and other such Chromium spinoffs.

I've been using NoScript to get rid of all the additional "noise" that most modern webpages try to shoehorn: CDN stuff for shit I don't care about, pop-up prompts that I usually exit anyway, that kind of thing. There are some privacy benefits too, but you generally have to disable JavaScript on literally everything for it to have any tangible benefits. At that point, 90% of webpages just cease to function altogether.

I personally just have my shit set to "allow top-level domain" and then enable the stuff that I actually want to see like videos on a third-party streaming website. It's not necessarily the most optimal from a privacy perspective, but it's definitely a huge step up from just being spammed with bullshit JavaScript that lags everything down.
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Don't use noscript, it's a mess and I think (this was a long time ago so I could easily be misremembering) it's compromised in a similar fashion to ABP. Use umatrix. It does everything noscript does, does it better, and with more flexibility and better usability. ublock origin and umatrix are the holy grail of browsing.
 
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Dick Justice said:
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Don't use noscript, it's a mess and I think (this was a long time ago so I could easily be misremembering) it's compromised in a similar fashion to ABP. Use umatrix. It does everything noscript does, does it better, and with more flexibility and better usability. ublock origin and umatrix are the holy grail of browsing.
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I've been using NoScript on Firefox for a long ass time, so I was actually completely unaware of it being compromised. How so? Does it do some shit like ABP does where it allows for "acceptable" scripts/ads?
 
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welcometotherock said:
I've been using NoScript on Firefox for a long ass time, so I was actually completely unaware of it being compromised. How so? Does it do some shit like ABP does where it allows for "acceptable" scripts/ads?
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iirc something akin to that. If you look at the reviews history from circa 2017/2018 when firefox switched to webkit addons you might be able to find more details. Even if not, umatrix is far more granular. It can do what noscript does as easily, or if you rather you can granularly control domain and subdomain permissions for cookies, css, images, media, js, xhr, frames, and "other".

E: It may have been usage analytics, I'm struggling to remember.
 
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vlc is like vim: every distro comes with it, every user has strong opinions on it, and it can do everything you need it to do and a hundred things you don't.
Have the 180 iq mpv devs figured out a way to dynamically randomize and repeat the current queue without having to restart and pass the --shuffle and --loop args like some kind of savage?
 
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Dick Justice said:
vlc is like vim: every distro comes with it, every user has strong opinions on it, and it can do everything you need it to do and a hundred things you don't.
Have the 180 iq mpv devs figured out a way to dynamically randomize and repeat the current queue without having to restart and pass the --shuffle and --loop args like some kind of savage?
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They're probably too busy arguing about faggotry nobody cares about as always. I only bother firing up a video player for episodes of shit and entire movies though so why would I be shuffling anything? (Looks to me like combining shuffle and loop still acts as dumb as it has in the past.)
 
SageInAllFields said:
mpv can't play DVDs properly at all, VLC's UI is terrible but it plays basically everything
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I've never understood why so many people dislike VLC. The anime pirates didn't like them because they were slow at introducing 10-bit decoding, but they at least make sure their features work properly in beta before adding them to the mainline release.
 
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Dick Justice said:
@Smaug's Smokey Hole
Don't use noscript, it's a mess and I think (this was a long time ago so I could easily be misremembering) it's compromised in a similar fashion to ABP. Use umatrix. It does everything noscript does, does it better, and with more flexibility and better usability. ublock origin and umatrix are the holy grail of browsing.
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Thanks for the uMatrix recommendation, my dude! It's far more functional than NoScript while still blocking all of the additional noise that comes with most webpages nowadays. Also, the UI is way cleaner and easier to use without having to fiddle with a sliding scale of trusted vs. blocked.

Right now, my current setup is AdNauseam and uMatrix which really seems to be the perfect mix.
 
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