joshchandra

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[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Consider the decentralized family of https://trom.tf/ apps, such as https://search.trom.tf/ as a replacement (that's the only one I use of their stuff so far... but may poke around more later).

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

... until they keep having to dismiss people and go, "... huh." This is a marathon we're playing. You certainly don't have to use it, but I think the philosophy makes sense, especially given how AdNauseam doesn't click on acceptable ads that don't track you.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Dang, I had no idea of Portmaster! I wish I talked to you years ago and will check these out, thanks, and I fully agree with your stance as well.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Ha, this is as hilarious as it is creative. Interesting find; got any more?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 11 hours ago

To be technical, you mean "scammers," who are far, far worse.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But then 5 of them would need to be connected in a line, right?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 22 hours ago

Hmm, I thought I saw a similar picker existing in AdNauseam, but I may be wrong. I could definitely get on board with your approach; while Inspector can delete stuff, it doesn't remember them across page reloads or sessions, so this would be handy indeed!

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh, what can it do that AdNauseam and NoScript can't?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Join me in leaving uBlock Origin for AdNauseam! I made a post about it that ended up gaining significant traction: https://midwest.social/post/25573927

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (6 children)

omg, I'm using NoScript now and my eyes have been opened; I can't ever go back!! Thanks for the analogy; that was a much-needed, jolting wake-up call.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was reacting to its GitHub:

This project is NOT currently being maintained. Code is made available for developers to fork. This is the FireFox version of the project, for Chrome see https://github.com/vtoubiana/TrackMeNot-Chrome.

So I'm wondering which active fork is best to go off of for Firefox. I could've been clearer; my bad.

 

Edit: Thanks, everyone!

I know an incredibly smart senior here near Milwaukee County, WI who's disabled by MS and has been restricted to using a scooter for years. He'd love to walk again, but I but I don't know how he can get involved in studies like this: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00863-0

All I could find was the ISSCR (Int'l Society for Stem Cell Research), but I don't think reaching them directly would be fruitful, would it?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oops, right. For Firefox, though, it's tethered to Mozilla accounts for sync, right?

I'm also hoping to find a way to reach and use a whitelist more easily, although I suppose it's mostly one-time activation.

But I think I'm gonna go the NoScript route that someone else mentioned here, since that lets you selectively enable some JS while disabling others on the same website.

 

It garbles advertisers' data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can't work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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Some UI questions (midwest.social)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by joshchandra@midwest.social to c/summit@lemmy.world
 
  1. How do you edit your comment that you make to someone's inbox reply? I couldn't figure out how and ultimately had to visit my own profile to edit my comment from there.
  2. How do you search for a certain post title in just one community, such as /c/summit?
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