Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 3 days

Hocus Pocus - “Dance! Dance! Dance until you die!”

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 5 days

In Socal we’re scanned by more than 18 cameras just driving 8 miles to Costco.

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 5 days

Keepass & Syncthing has worked for years without an issue, even though my DB is opened on multiple devices at once. It is rare (once or twice a year) that I have a minor, easily solved sync problem.

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 5 days

When Logmein acquired LastPass in 2015 I moved to Keepass and haven’t looked back. If the word enshittification existed back then it would have applied perfectly.

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 11 days

The Fox acquisition was the last straw for me too. I’ve watched Roku go from a user-friendly streaming device to a front end for an advertising company. A couple of years ago it became so irritating it finally pushed me to implement an Adguard Home DNS sinkhole after years of thinking it wasn’t worth the trouble. Roku has also made it difficult to block ads, big gaps are shown in the UI when you do, and some apps can’t be updated without disabling Adguard and downloading a bunch of Roku’s ads too.

Yesterday I bought an Onn streaming box (Android TV) and it’s like going from a abacus to a computer. After a couple of hours configuring, loading a new launcher, and using ADB to debloat I’ve got an ad-free, clean interface with much of Google’s tracking disabled (at least as much as possible). Even better, some things (like the remote’s volume control) work that never worked with Roku.

It was such a breath of fresh air I just ordered a couple more ($15 for the 2k model right now) and will have completely dumped Roku by the end of the week.

It’s been a long time coming.

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 19 days

For a while now the transition away from Manifest V2 (MV2) to MV3 has been on-going and it looks like it is entering its final phase of deprecation, at least, in the case of Google Chrome. A recent discussion thread in the w3c WebExtensions Community Group GitHub repo has highlighted how the latest and upcoming versions of the most popular browser are expected to be its final releases with support for MV2 extensions.

What this essentially means is that the tricks and bypasses that were used to keep MV2 extensions like uBlock Origin and others alive will not work any more on Chrome, or at least not for very long. For example the Windows Registry mod that could extend MV2 availability will cease to function after Chromium version 151.

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 20 days

Dell bios settings often include battery charge limit settings. I have mine set to a 70% limit which provides hours of backup with the display off.

Modern laptop batteries when kept cool and undamaged are extremely safe despite what you might read in these comments, especially when you limit the charge. Parking your car in your garage is hundreds of times more hazardous.

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 26 days

Used a VPN to my home while in Mexico. Returned a week ago and all my devices (including those that have never been in Mexico) now show they’re in Mexico. Google’s IP correction form says it can take a month to fix.

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 2 months

I’ve had so many instances of free to use, lifetime licenses, and purchased software that have turned into subscription services that I refuse to install anything that requires an account unless it can’t be avoided. The fact that Plex required an account be created to view my own local content years before they started charging for use made it obvious subscription fees were coming.

Jellyfin works great. Combined with Wireguard it works great anywhere.

Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico