#install ublock origin

[mlembug]

the "no longer allow adblockers" is not strictly true, however, what is true is that the adblockers that will work under the new Chrome will be purposefully crippled to the point they will be significantly worse at doing their job than they are now. TL;DR: switching from Google Chrome to another Chromium-based browser will likely work for another year, in long term Firefox is still a winner because uBlock Origin already works better on Firefox than on Chromium-based browser.

Also honestly a significant number of people (I am guessing "most of them" but I do not have any data to prove it, so I will just use anecdotes) did not switch to Chrome because of its technical capabilities.

Anecdote 1: Google used their platform before to get people off Internet Explorer 6 by placing a banner on YouTube telling IE6 users to switch to other browsers. IE6 was an incredibly horrible browser and back then it was done in a way that did not favour their own browser. Today Microsoft uses Bing's search results to tell people that Edge is good enough when users attempt to search for chrome or firefox. I also remember "advertisements" for Google Chrome happening on Google Search too.

Anecdote 2: Back in the early 10s installing some applications like avast antivirus also installed Google Chrome and made it the users default browser if you did not select custom installation and unchecked these.

Yes, there was a point where Firefox visibly struggled in performance until 2017 (where a major rewrite of its internals named "Firefox Quantum" was introduced) which resulted in some users switching. That being said I do not believe for a second that Chrome's usage percentage is a result of its technical superiority.

The most popular browsers in different countries in 2012 and 2022.

by @theworldmaps_

[aro-culture-is]

Aro culture is the amount of ads i get for dating apps whenever i go anywhere near the internet

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[choking-on-roses]

Side by side comparison of what it's like opening the same recipe link in Chrome vs. Firefox

[mlembug]

I noticed this post while scrolling through the notes and I found it got no clarifying replies.

the most relevant part is the part where webRequest-based blocking is removed as part of changes introduced by Manifest v3 and instead you have declarativeNetRequest as an alternative

Firefox also introduces Manifest v3 except for the part which removes webRequest-based blocking.

Author of uBlock Origin already attempted to make new adblocker that works under the new approach named uBlock Origin Lite

It seems to be significantly crippled: filter lists only update when extension has a new version - this feels sus to me when recently YouTube attempted to make changes to the website very often so the lists needed to be updated more often than they usually did, and now the updates will be frequent as google extension store allows?; no custom filtering - forget blocking that one piece tumblr clown; limiting the potential for blocking to whatever capabilities we have right now - in mid 00s the cutting edge of internet ads was pop-up window ads, now they're completely irrelevant; and more.

You Have until June To Dump Chrome

Google has announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

Firefox is RIGHT there

[goforth-ladymidnight]

Feylin Week 2024, Day 1: Art and Music

@feylinweek

Feylin in Love: An Unofficial ACOTAR Soundtrack

Cover art by @/crimson-spine here on Tumblr.

If you want a breakdown of why I chose certain songs, you can read more below the cut. In any case, I hope you like! ❤️

I tried to keep to songs that had a more fantastical vibe than modern, in order to keep with the fairy tale nature of the first book. Therefore, there are several instrumental songs on here, but there are some notable songs with lyrics that suit Feylin very well. For example:

Without You by Ursine Vulpine, Annaca - Tamlin's thoughts the night before he sends Feyre home

If it's gonna get violent tonight Tell me you're gonna be alright You're gonna be It's an eye for an eye and I don't know if I Want you to fight, want you to fight I'm losing my mind Don't leave me behind We need a bit more time

Find You by Ruelle - Feyre goes Under the Mountain

I can hear the sound Of your barely beating heart Pieces on the ground From a world that fell apart ... I will find you Here inside the dark I will break through No matter where you are I will find you I will find you

Is Your Love Strong Enough by How to Destroy Angels - Feyre endures the Three Trials to win Tamlin back

Just one beat of your heart And stranger than fantasy I knew from the start It had to be the place for me Someone that I would die for There's no way I could ever leave

Notable instrumental songs that I like to imagine for certain scenes include:

Glittering Water by Jiří Horák, Eklipse - Entering the glen and the pool of starlight

Tam Lin (Glasgow Reel) by PeakFiddler - While it may seem obvious, this is definitely something Tamlin would play at Solstice

Edhellond by Unapologetically Melodic - The song of the will o' the wisps

Always Mine by Thomas Bergersen - Feyre defeats the Middengard Worm

Music Under the Mountain by Kelsey Woods - Composed specifically for this scene, it's canon to me, as is the idea that Tamlin is the one playing.

I still haven't found songs that fit every chapter or pro-Feylin interaction, but this is what I have so far, and I really like it. I hope you do, too! Thanks for listening. ❤️

[prince--kiriona]

just checked my sponsorblock widget and my God.

for context: sponsorblock is a firefox extension that automatically skips any sponsored segments in a youtube video. i've had this extension enabled for just over a year now. advertising is a Plague

[softgrungeprophet]

hell yeah... now between my phone and ipad, i've got both tumblr and rco ad-free... living in luxury....

[beaft]

i know all i seem to do lately is complain about this website while continuing to spend all my time here, but i really really really wish you could permanently block ads from appearing. there's an ad for weight loss that's popping up every few posts and i'd love to never have to see it again, thanks!

[technomancyshenanigans]

YouTube: "Hey pls stop using an ad-blocker we are a small startup company with no money :( "

also YouTube: -serves the most horrendously transphobic ads on the planet-

aww, I'm sorry the 40 billion dollar company misses out on a few cents from me, the trans person subjected to Nightmare Ads when, on the rare occasion, i cant block your horseshit.

actually fucking explode

[fantasticalleigh]

October scary movie review roundup:

I decided to really put forth an effort to celebrate this being Halloween month by watching as many horror films as I can. requirements aren't too strict but i'm only counting movies that are new to me, not old favorites. youtube has a ton of movies for free so i've been sifting through those and found some decent ones. if anyone has any good recommendations please lmk!

(i'm not like a huge slasher/gore fan but i don't mind it if it isn't in excess in a film, which crosses out a ton lol. i'm unfortunately squeamish about that stuff but i've always prefered thrillers/psychological horror and stuff of that ilk anyway. )

list of films watched so far:

-The Terror (Netflix)

(actually started this last month, nearly done with it so i won't rate it yet. acting is great, but the CGI of the monster is kind of bad imo)

-Grave Encounters (Free on YT)

i love a good found footage film. this one was a pleasant surprise but too predictable. acting was good, ending was unsatisfying. 5/10

-The Haunting (Free on YT)

didn't know this was an adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House until it started, hated the changes they made. but it did solve a long childhood mystery of mine: once as a kid my fam and i went furniture shopping and this movie was playing on a huge tv. i paid attention to it only for a minute and saw the scene where Nell sees her reflection's pregnancy belly growing (for context Nell herself wasn't pregnant) and screams in terror and runs away and then i walked away. never knew it was from this movie but always wondered. mystery solved!) CGI wasn't terrible most of the time but when it was bad, it was bad. i hate what they did to the characters, hate the changes from the source material (wtf was that bedroom SA scene??? ...was the ceiling going to impregnate her???) all the iconic moments from the book that were added to the movie felt like flimsy afterthoughts. marcia gay harden, i can believe as Nell. Catherine Zeta Jones, I can believe as Theodora. Liam Neeson as the doctor, sure. Why the fuck is Owen Wilson in this. (3/10. watched on youtube.)

-Hell House LLC (Youtube)

another pleasant found footage surprise. i really enjoyed this one and will most likely watch again. good/decent acting and the suspense did get to me, particularly in the scenes with the basement/rising tension in the cast/clown statue. The found footage thing is most genuine here, where in the following sequels it feels hamfisted and not as genuine bc everyone and their mom is doing a fucking documentary or news bit on the hotel. also a bit predictable but they nailed the suspense and the buildup to the climax was pretty well done. CGI not good but briefly used at the end, didn't bother me like it did in the sequels. 8.5/10

-Hell House LLC-The Abbadon Hotel /Hell House LLC-Lake of Fire (Also free on YT)

notably worse than the original. acting was especially bad in The Abbadon Hotel. Both films suffer from "we-don't-trust-our-viewers" syndrome where they insert so many freaking flashbacks to the original that it feels insulting they don't expect the audience to remember what happened before. flashbacks could make up a good third of both movies. hated most of the cast for The Abbadon Hotel but Lake of Fire was much better. The actor for Tully was awful in all three movies. CGI was terrible but sparsely used, at least. Both movies relied on the creepy clown gimmick way too much which felt like a huge waste considering the setting is a demonic/haunted hotel full of other potential props/settings that could've been used more for a good scare. the ending to the trilogy as a whole was fine. Abbadon gets a 2.5/10 and Lake of Fire gets 5.5. I would def watch Lake of Fire again but Abbadon was a slog.

-In the Tall Grass (Netflix)

this has been on my netflix queue for YEARS and i literally only just watched it last night. based off a Stephen King work and I love SK so I had high hopes and wasn't let down. I haven't read the novella but this was a good movie on its own. normally i don't like time-loops as a plot device but it worked really well here and the acting was good. patrick wilson is a sleeper fave of mine, he was great in this and i've never seen him in such a charismatic to super super creepy role before so he nailed it although when that scene hit i was literally cringing away from my laptop. the child actor in this is also really good, i felt for him at the end. would definitely watch this again and i'm interested in the book now. really good suspense/acting/soundtrack. i like that they never fully explained the phenomenon behind the giant black rock/ time fuckery in the tall grass or the mysterious alien grass people. IMO horror works best sometimes when it is left to the audience's imagination or when there's gaps left empty in the lore. 8/10.

-Barbarian (Hulu)

i've been really interested in this for years but never got around to watching it bc i don't like sitting in movie theaters and i'm slow to gettting to new media. but i knew zach cregger from his days in the WKUK and loved that and had heard good things about this. (also apparently he's developing a new Resident Evil movie or something now?? I'm excited.) these days i don't/rarely watch full movie trailers because they give so much away so i tend to want to go in fresh. i've avoided full spoilers for this movie up till now aside from some vague mentions of stuff so i knew there was a certain theme in the movie. overall it was solid, really tense first half with that red herring and really good acting from the female lead, i don't recall her name. when act two came on i was genuinely shocked and thought the website had glitched out or something, wasn't expecting that.

Last Podcast on the Left just did a series on Josef Fritzl (huge trigger warning if you decide to look him up) and that case must have heavily inspired the movie because there were a lot of parallels I couldn't help but notice. Overall fairly disturbing but I do wish the ending was a little different. I like the significance of what happens but idk, felt like it needed a little something more. Even one line of dialogue could have bolstered that, because I know Tess was thinking it but I needed to hear her say it to REDACTED.

(and what happened to REDACTED'S body? he's never shown again. did the REDACTED eat it? was he buried? did i miss something?)

-The Fourth Kind (free on YT)

awful. awful. awful. maybe one truly scary moment. the ending was bullshit. acting was whatever. too much screeching audio and my ears can't handle that. this movie is always being hyped online as so intense and scary yet i couldn't stop rolling my eyes. huge disappointment. 2/10 and that's me being generous.

--The Omen (1976) (Hulu)

admittedly i watched this when i was a kid but i barely remember it so it counts. sound mixing was fucking awful, for starters. dialogue is a whisper yet the soundtrack (heavy on ominous chanting in latin and screaming and spooky music) is SO damn loud i kept having to raise and lower the volume. a good flick for its time, i guess, but I couldn't get into it. If there's a more modern version I might check it out. Gregory Peck is always a treat but man, I got so mad when he's safe in Rome and he calls his wife, who's in mortal peril with a half body cast and alone in a hospital, to meet with his contact and fly to him in Rome. You couldn't go get her yourself?? You just condemned her, idiot, and you knew she was gonna die. For fuck's sake. Then he has the nerve to get all droopy and sad when he gets the call like five minutes later that she's fucking dead. Not scary. Suspense is killed by goofy spooky music. Gregory Peck's silver-fox hotness is offset by his character's stupid reticence to believe the facts before him until it’s too late. 3/10.

-The Inkeepers (Peacock)

i didn't hate it but i also didn't love it. i love anything about a haunted house or a haunted hotel, and this one being a haunted hotel sounded intriguing but ultimately it felt like it fumbled itself over and over. kind of boring, tbh? really unsatisfying ended even if it was a bit gutsy to kill the main character. sorry for spoilers here but i don't think anyone's gonna race to watch this one lol. i'd never heard of this movie until it got recommended to me. didn't realize lena dunham was an exec producer on this until the credits rolled. 3/10

[ford-ye-fiji]

every day tumblr comes out with a vile new update and every day the tumblrinas go to great efforts to undo whatever they’ve ruined. And every day I cry because I don’t have Firefox and can’t install ublock origin

[pluggedintosaverockandroll]

call me an influencer the way i influenced my friends to install ublock origin

[thesoundofmadness]

[willowcrowned]

What if you aren’t using extensions for tumblr

(I’m aware of the concept but don’t have the tech skills and don’t really care. I’m not here that much I guess)

then suffer I guess

[teabree-shark]

in b4 95% of all websites in june 2024 announce that "for security" they will only work with browsers that use manifest v3

E: "Oooh I'm just gonna use Vivaldi." "I'm just gonna use Brave 😏"

You damn poor pitiful fools! Vivaldi is chromium! Brave is chromium! Edge is chromium! Opera is chromium!

Blink, avast, falkon, Samsung, epic, yandex, and whatever basic "internet" browser your phone came with, all chromium!

Anything on iOS ever, now, is safari (including firefox, brave, vivaldi). If they're chromium, they're limited. If they're safari/webkit, they're limited by apple (y'all already had your extension apocalypse two years ago and now have to, like, install and use three local VPN servers in a trenchcoat that call themselves an ad blocker but still break the *shit* out of a ton of professional work).

If you used Firefox 3+ years ago and it was slow or whatever, there's been a complete rebuild and it rules and is mature and stable. Firefox Android allows extensions, including ublock origin! Marketing and business and research wings of big businesses *do* care about 2% of users, if it can even come back to that.

I wish there were other options, but there aren't, really.

This, legitimately, will shape the rest of your digital lifetimes, however long that is.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Reminder that you can block most ads on Android. yes, including youtube ads.

Steps: Download Firefox -> Install uBlock Origin extension.

That's literally it. Enjoy ad free web browsing while we still (barely) have it!