#I got logged out of tumblr through the desktop and can't get back in

[sexhaver]

can you tell us all the plugins / ad blockers you use

on desktop, uBlock Origin (NOT Adblock Plus! they sold out years ago! they literally take money from advertisers to make sure their ads get through their filters!) and SponsorBlock for Firefox. if you still see ads on youtube specifically check out this page. if it's green, then the problem is with your specific installation and you should check out this reddit megathread. if it's red, then tough luck, wait a few hours for uBlock's crack team of hackers to catch back up in their constant arms race with Youtube.

for Android, get ReVanced Manager from here and use that + an .apk download of the latest Youtube release (just google "youtube apk") to patch yourself together a version of the Youtube app that acts like you paid for Advanced even though you didn't, which means no ads. also, side tangent, that's where the name comes from: originally it was just "Youtube Vanced" because it was "Advanced" without the "ad"s. then the Vanced team got slapped with a C&D for being dumbasses and minting NFTs of the Vanced logo, which was literally just the Youtube logo, so ReVanced rose from the ashes to continue its legacy. oh also there are a shitload of boxes you can check off during the patching process and one of them just integrates Sponsorblock for you, so that's nice.

i should also mention here, for no reason in particular, that the Vanced Manager app lets you patch a number of other apps in the same way, removing ads and adding "premium" features without you having to pay. one of these apps may or may not be Tumblr itself.

as long as you're fucking with your Android, download xManager and use it to get ad-free Spotify without paying for it. iirc the app auto-downloads the apk for you but it's been months since i last fucked with it so i might be misremembering.

honorary mention goes to NewPipe for being a way easier to install alternative to all of the above if you don't care about logging in. it's an alternate frontend for youtube that lets you watch it ad-free right out of the box. the main drawbacks are that the UI is a little ugly (especially compared to the official/ReVanced version), you can't use Sponsorblock, and it doesn't sync with your Google account (this could be a plus for you if you're big into privacy but personally i like having my likes and watch history synced across desktop and mobile). although now that i just did some research to make sure i wasn't talking out my ass, it looks like the original dev is working on a forked version of the app named Tubular that does have Sponsorblock and is apparently trying to get google account stuff working, so that's cool. oh and it can also browse/play Soundcloud ad-free, if you still use Soundcloud in 2024

[cyanide-latte]

I've had a couple of concerned people reach out and ask now what this is about, so I'll break it down real quick.

For a few weeks now I've had a phantom ask in my askbox. Someone sent me an ask but their blog was probably sniped by tumblr, because even though I got the alert by email, trying to follow the email link to the ask brought up an error. Trying to access my askbox at all doesn't show the ask, whether I check on the app or the desktop version of the site.

So the notification persists, showing I've got an ask, but it's not there.

I've tried clearing my cache, logging out of the site on desktop then logging back in, logging out of the app then logging back in, trying again to follow the email link, trying to rapidly switch between the askbox of my main blog (which got the ask) and my sideblogs, trying to answer all asks I get ASAP, or trying to answer them slowly. (I can't block the blog to clear the ask bc I don't know what blog it was bc it got sniped, otherwise that would work.)

Nothing so far has cleared the phantom ask notification. :/ So turning off my askbox for a while may suck, but maybe it'll be the thing that clears the phantom ask by the time I turn it back on.

And if you were wondering if I reached out to the Tumblr staff about this, the answer is that I've been in this predicament before and staff was largely unhelpful and just sort of shrug emoji'd me like "just wait for it to clear on its own". So I am going through the troubleshooting I'm used to doing and this is a new idea to see if it helps.

And if you're wondering why it's a problem at all and I'm so bothered by it, uhhhh idk what to tell you bro, other than that it's the 'tism. I need that lying little notification GONE.

Temporarily turned off my askbox. Will let you all know when I turn it back on.