#Ublock origin is free

[venacoeurva]

Tumblr opting for tumblr premium as a thing with features people don't care about and things that don't really affect most users (there's already a like/post limit and there has been for years, I remember people hitting post limit in like 2012, most people just don't hit them) while people

1. don't have extra money and are likely stretched thin over subscriptions they already use more/have to use

2. are violently annoyed with premium memberships, let alone price hikes of them

3. are highly irritated for a consistent history of targeted conduct, bias in what can and can't be blazed, and deletion of accounts on here which prompts people not to spend money on Tumblr

4. A lot of people would tolerate in-app ads if they weren't gross, scams, spammy, and presented in ways that they interrupt your scrolling or, as some people reported, video/audio playback in other apps

is certainly a decision lmao

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

[the-peculiar-bi-tch]

I found a way around paywalls on major news sites. If you have uBlock Origin, all you have to do is open up the dashboard, go to Filter lists; at the bottom of the page there’s a dropdown section called Import that opens into a text box.

In the text box, you just paste this: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/-/raw/main/bpc-paywall-filter.txt and hit ‘Apply changes’ at the top of the page.

This imports a big text file blocking the paywall pop-ups on sites like NYT, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Forbes, etc. and it works immediately.

This is from the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Firefox that was recently taken off the Mozilla Add-on store via a DMCA, but you can still find the source code at https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/.

Granted this is probably a solution pretty well known among a lot of the people who are going to see this, but it’s already been very helpful for me so I’m passing along my own recommendation.

[aroaceofthesea]

sometimes i forget that i live in a world where most people see ads everywhere and im the weird one in this little island of using 10000 adblocks and i get really sad for all those people

[maskedinfinate]

Oj yeah if you buy youtube premium that money is going straight to google who give money to israel and thus resulting in more innocent palestinian lives being taken. So not only is using an adblocker like ublock origin pissing off youtube (thats a good thing dw) but its also not giving money to a company in support of israel

Youtube/google also gets 45% of the ad revanue in creators videos, but when viewing a video with an adblocker they get NONE of that money. However, the creators dont get any money either. If you want to support creators on youtube, you can give them some cash on patreon or kofi if they have those.

So whatever you do, USE AN ADBLOCKER!! USE FIREFOX!!!! DONT GIVE YOUTUBE/GOOGLE YOUR MONEY!!!!!!!! THEYRE GREEDY GENOCIDE SUPPORTERS!!

[captain-acab]

Thank you so much for telling everyone a lot Blockada. I had never heard of it until now and holy shit. Literally the only ads on Tumblr mobile it doesn't block are the ones from actual accounts (which are still annoying but less frequent) and goddamn the app is actually usable now.

Right?? I don't know how the average American survives with the ads being shoved at us 24/7

So while I have you here, switch to Firefox now and install the uBlock Origin extension to block ads fucking e v e r y w h e r e

[vexic929]

PSA: if y'all are using the tumblr or youtube mobile apps and you're tired of ads and want shinigami eyes, guess what?

the firefox browser app allows you to install ublock and shinigami eyes right on your phone now!

just delete the apps and open the websites in firefox instead, it'll prompt you to download the apps but you can tell it to not do that <3333 free yourself from ads besties! put shinigami eyes on your phone!

[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

[theblackknightofworcestershire]

God bless the uBlock origin team. The internet is so choked with ads these days, and I really didn't know how much it was bothering me and making my life worse until it all went away--a constant background buzz that got turned off.

Also my self-esteem was MUCH improved by not constantly seeing ads--it's so much easier to look at myself and my life and see what's there instead of focusing on what isn't.

I get that websites and creators have to make money somehow, and sometimes people give me a hard time for ""stealing"" but in that whole conversation there is always a missing piece. People really downplay the actual costs of constantly being shown this crap. If it was just an annoyance, that would be one thing, but the huge quantity of ads add up to have a real, tangible, and undeniably negative effect on mental health, and I simply don't agree that choosing to spare myself that is tantamount to stealing.

[druidgroves]

this is so funny to me bc tumblr used to boast about having over a million active users. but you can't even get 3% of ur userbase to pay you to take ads away. incredible.

[adelle-ein]

tumblr i don't want your stupid y2k aesthetic how do i turn this off

[lacefuneral]

jazz/soft piano playlist i made to evoke "in a warm bath during the winter"

tested it with a literal winter bath. can confirm that it made me feel cozier.

[infernalembrace]

I need to learn how to pirate shit so bad

[talysalankil]

i didn't even get the y2k thing i wonder what's causing it

[track-maniac]

Don't forget to install uBlock origin. Ad blockers have been here for a long time and uBlock is state of the art.

Google has decided to exercise its monopoly to prevent you using ad blockers, so double good news, you also get to install Firefox! On both your computer and phone :)

If you have adblockplus I don't think it's necessary to switch but it's still useful to know they've sold immunity to certain advertisers and are generally shady.

[the-lunar-warrior]

I see you are a fan of Chrome 💀

i was gonna make a joke but i cant even PRETEND to like chrome. all my homies hate chrome. use firefox. you can use an adblocker ON MOBILE. you can listen to youtube in the background. have floating yt popups over other apps. youtube premium can suck my ass ive got all old functionality for free on firefox. you can have an extension that automatically declines non-essential cookies. peace and love on the planet earth. use firefox