#privacy Badger

[starstruckpurpledragon]

so I cleared my browser cache and was logged out of my gmail

no problem right? log back in except

I kept getting a 400 error. after much experimenting I determined that it was Privacy Badger fucking things up. Even though I'd disabled it for the the accounts.google url, it was *STILL* blocking certain calls in the network trace

What the actual fuck?

Anyway, gonna figure out how to submit that as a bug report because wow that is a big problem right there

Anyway, leaving the extension disabled for now but I'm super annoyed that was the problem >_<

bright side, at least I'm back into my email

[soundwavefucker69]

downloading privacy badger has changed my life because holy HELL the amount of trackers i see blocked on a daily basis is TERRIFYING. i'm on tumblr right now and it has blocked SEVENTEEN TRACKERS. why do you even NEED that many

[craftyjellyfishcat]

(I'm not sorry)

[aberration13]

I have a fix that has worked for a while now (and theoretically should not be possible for youtube to circumvent) with privacy badger on firefox (it might work with chrome too but I don't know, probably worth trying if you use chrome <or better yet get firefox already>) 1: Go to the extensions page. (you can get there through menus or by searching about:addons in the search bar) 2: click the three dots in the privacy badger card and then click "options" in the drop down menu

3: In General Settings > Advanced settings > activate these 3 settings:

► Learn to block new trackers from your browsing

► Show domains that don't appear to be tracking you

► Learn in Private/Incognito windows

4: Go to the "Tracking Domains" tab & search "Youtube" in the "search domains" search box and switch off (mark as red):

youtube.com❌

img.youtube.com❌

www.youtube.com❌

(leave the ones that have the title -nocookie as yellow)

5: Then clear your browser cache. You may also have to restart your browser but this should do it.

btw guys, ublock and youtube have been in an arms race for the past few weeks so circulating filter lists is pretty useless since youtube gets wise to each one in a matter of days. what you should actually do is remove all your custom filters related to youtube and then force update your filter list whenever you see the anti-adblock pop up again

[inkskinned]

how odd, to watch the creative writing exercises of angry men in the comments of instagram. you noticed it first in the comments of conventionally attractive women - but then it started appearing everywhere else, too.

a young man talks about what lunch he's packing his wife. there is a little story under it, with 300 likes, fabricated from nothing. "this is pointless. if you treat her like this, she will take the lunch to her office and fuck her boss and divorce him and take all his money."

you scroll. a young woman talks about what lunch she's packing for her husband. it is always uglier when the subject of the video is a woman, you've noticed. "you sit on camera and you smile and you are cheating with the neighbor and then you're going to lie about being sexually assaulted by your husband and -"

you stop reading. it has 567 likes.

where did this even become a thing? people making up stories in their head, disgusting long-winded assumptions about intention and sexual disgrace. the evil twin of fanfiction.

like - it's just a lie. it's a lie that they are telling, baldfaced and assumptive. the undercurrent is of course misogyny, but the trouble is that they're so fucking certain. that's what makes the hairs on the back of your neck rise. there is this pervasive, inventive desire for them to be right. that they must be right. all women are cheating, lying, gold-digging bitches. no exceptions.

in the reverse, when women say i'd rather meet a bear in the woods than a strange man - men funnel in from the sides. they defend each other with a vibrance and capacity for empathy you wish applied to like, the other half of the population. a man could be saying i absolutely did kill her and these creatures in the comments would rise up with king shit. she made it happen. they love each other to the point of this sick strange self-gaslighting, a fervent and unhinged cognitive distortion. all men are good, wonderful people. all women are terrible, conniving, seditious, annoying.

and when did it become okay to just, like... say that kind of a thing? at one point, you find yourself typing out a witty and snappy retort. why are you spending so much time fantasizing about other people babe. but as you stare at the screen, some part of you pictures this man in public, saying these things to your face. his soapbox, high and mighty. his mirrored sunglasses and his empty life: tired and lonely.

what a sad and horrible loop he's locked in. he is terrible to women, so women don't talk to him, which he uses as an excuse to act more terribly. he blames this "failure" on women, rather than on his behavior. it cannot be that he is the problem (that the solution is to just put his ego down and accept women as equals) - he begins to invent a sculpture to replace the flesh frame of each person he sees.

it isn't just a woman posing on the beach. it is now a slut with a desperate need for each person to crave her body. it isn't just a woman yelping with surprise during something upsetting. it is a hysterical, unhelpful cretin who will probably make things worse instead of better. it isn't a person.

someone's very sweet wedding vows get moderate attention on instagram. in the comments, a man says good fucking luck you'll waste your life providing while behind your back she's absolutely fucking the best man. this will be so cringe in 2 months when she walks out on you.

you think - is that what you need to be true? is that what you need to happen, for the world to make sense to you?

[captainshyguy]

so like. is there a reason firefox just will not load tumblr videos and some gifs, the area where thyere supposed to be completely collapsed, or....

[nabesthetics]

The whole art-thieving bot website situation is shitty, but it's still kinda funny to me that the one thing that it stole from me was a random-ass fake screenshot that's in no way poster material.

Unless you want Alastor to be going QAQ at you from your wall.

the true "Lucio being an idiot POV" experience ig. for 40$

[sniffanimal]

I used to call my parents technophobic luddites because they wouldn't let me have my phone in my bedroom at night but they were just saving me from iPad kid disease 🫡

[yourfavoritewerewolf]

new computer gets here and the first thing i do is open tumblr..... .

[mostlygibberish]

It took me like 3 hours to set up pi hole on the pi zero 2 w I bought the other day.

Not that the setup process is complicated: I just couldn't download anything because of what I finally worked out was a time syncing issue caused by the OS's GUI not actually saving the DNS I was typing into it.

Everything is always a goddamn struggle with linux, huh?

[socialdoki]

Also look at Privacy Badger! It's an addon that will block ads but also trackers and other sneaky things that aren't ads. It's created and endorsed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation who have been fighting for online privacy for a long time. It's also open source.

i hate seeing people now making fun of those who care about privacy online. i've seen people saying things like "well they already have your data. what are companies going to do with it" and it's like, that's not the point. it's that companies /shouldn't/ be able to have my data and sell it. am i aware they probably already have my data? yes, absolutely. but i'm still going to try and keep them from monetizing it any further, why are we defending companies selling data they shouldn't have to begin with though?

[greighish]

it just may be

[saturnisfallingdown]

THE PC IS UP AND RUNNING!! currently working on downloading the iso file to install linux mint on it but I am sending this post from my desktop!!! how sick is that!!

[dragonbadgerbooks]

September Fun Day Book Photo Challenge: September 10, 2023 Grandparents' Day

[goatmoy]

That's just standard ad privacy...

THIS!

This is enhanced ad privacy!

Pairs great with ublock!

Also available on mobile

PSA

[mahi-does-some-art]

Oh my god firefox is amazing why the fuck did i not use it sooner