Maybe they are in bed with ISPs.

omg you’ll be among the saviors of the world, given the way bees are going according to the news.

Since it’s already a Pandora’s box as it is, at least open-source is the least-worst way to go. All closed-source models are evil(er).

True, there’s no way to do a clean merge like we can with multiple KeePass password databases… or can we?

By the way, I now use AdNauseam, which is a uBO fork, but I can’t find how to access the color grid in your screenshots. Would you happen to know how to get to it?

Are you willing to share what any of these “custom additions” mean?

Interesting. Is there a way to port NoScript settings into uBO?

I’m too stupid impatient to understand complex coding concepts…

Interesting, then this is better than NoScript. I’m just a bit rattled by the uBO soft-takedown by Manifest v3 or whatever it was that had happened last year and am concerned about uBO, like, dying or something. What do you think is its future? If it still seems stable enough then I guess I’ll drop NoScript for it.

And then on that note, would you be willing to share your settings of the scripts you’ve deemed comfortable, as a shortcut for other newbs like me who are just getting on board with all this? It’d be much appreciated if so! Either way, thanks for sharing.

Yeah, it’s getting addicting! I just found so much JS that is totally unneeded to watch Paramount+:

What the hell is all this crap? Man… so much tracking going on. All the DEFAULTs are blocked and the TV I’m watching still loads perfectly fine. And if you try to go to the stepcattle.com one out of pure curiosity, uBlock warns you against it, yet robots prevent any info on it from appearing in search engines… capitalist bastards…

Wow, incredible! Thanks, I had no idea.

Gmail, Google Voice, Google Calendar, and WhatsApp Web are always pinned. Everything else is contextual!

Add the add-on/extension NoScript to her browser and at least have it block fbsbx.com, which seems to be totally unnecessary to allow, as the rest of the website seems to still function perfectly fine.

There are attendees who are both younger and older than me (mid-30s). To be fair, the group already gets <10 people per event on average, so I don’t think I could risk the slice right now. If we grew to over double that, then maybe I could revisit the topic.

why are people still using facebook?

I run a free board game group on there called West Allis Board Games. Believe me, I would like to leave Meta and I offer everyone https://gamenight.host/@wa_bgn as a nonprofit alternative, but no one is on the latter and everyone is on the former. If you have any ideas on what I can do, I’m all ears eyes.

I asked the attendees about how they’d feel if we moved to a different platform and they immediately said they don’t want to handle dozens of accounts scattered across different platforms. I also advertise the group on related subreddits and, most recently, the locally relevant /c/ equivalents here.

Ironically… I myself found this through Reddit, no joke! But yeah, I hope to sway more people here.

Wow, infinite aliases?! This is way better than Fx Relay, thanks!

I rather have them using AI to create it than having to go searching for real content.

A rebuttal to this that I’ve read is that the easy access may encourage people to dig into it and eventually want “the real thing”… but regardless, with it being FOSS, there’s no easy way to stop it anyway… It’s just a Pandora’s box that we can never close.

Touché, but having the brains to do it is another matter!

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).

… 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.