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[–] [email protected] 143 points 9 months ago (23 children)

The article also quotes

to "cheat" the system

As if people working two jobs are stealing and not working in exchange for proper value of money.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

What kind of illogical comment is that? First, you bring in Microsoft to a discussion it is not a part of; second, just because Microsoft does it wrong, it doesn't give Apple a license to do things the convoluted way too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where are they now? On Nebula? I stopped watching much YouTube since couple of years, though I had a decent feed back in the day.

Ironically, I still do use YouTube Music despite it's failings when compared to Spotify(no third party app support or shitty search results even now) but Atleast it worked for me when Amazon Prime Music refused to play in any web browser on Linux for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, this post just popped up on my feed and I am now intrigued about the validity of those plans. So, is that for mobile data plan after you pay X amount of money and valid for Y number of days?

I am from a different country and plans here usually give on a per day basis, say 2 gigs of mobile data per day for a certain amount of time until it ends.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The last can't easily be sarcasm. In app adblockers like Adguard do have a premium subscription option(I had one for a year back in the day, yes, stupid me) and I won't be surprised if in the future some adblocker comes with such an option(should Raymond Hill stop working on uBlock Origin for whatever reason and the community couldn't pick the development up that good).

[–] [email protected] 60 points 9 months ago (20 children)

Whilst I am sure the article might be low quality ultimately, I still wish to see what other options they are advocating. This is clearly just a screenshot and only the first option for blocking ads.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Shame because the new UI is objectively shit. Autoplaying videos, less dense UI and worst of all, RES works best with old UI. I didn't need to touch my mouse to navigate Reddit all these years thanks to RES. Now, thanks to Spez, he has broken something that didn't need to be fixed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I used most of the stuff you listed though I usually switched to mpv instead of VLC. On Linux, I used Strawberry for quite some time though I use foobar2000 on Windows. Deadbeef is a good lightweight alternative to that on Linux but always seems to play catch up to it's elder cousin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That website has always been like this. They occasionally publish articles and I sometimes visit them for curiosity but more often than not, many articles are sheer garbage.

Oh, it seems like they also started their own membership thing. Wow!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

hoping for improvements

There have been improvements, just on the fronts you haven't been looking for. Also, if I am correct, torrenting over Tor would be painfully slow compared to normally doing it or via a VPN. It is not worth the hassle.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

I know this site is dedicated to Samsung phones but the title could be framed better. Chrome isn't just being stopped updating for older Galaxy phones, it is being dropped for all pre Oreo Android devices, so it has a much wider reach than just Samsung.

Also, why does Opera require Android 12 as a minimum system requirement? I haven't used it on mobile but boy, they really cut off a lot of older android users.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

The site is actually asking me for login now via Google or something else. In recent times, many sites like Howtogeek or MakeUseOf have kinda paywalled unless you login. It works properly with adblocker (uBlock Origin) once I login though.

 

I have set a primary password on my browser. Due to which, whenever I open my browser, the first thing it does is ask for primary password. I wish this to happen only when I am accessing the passwords or when a site is autofilling it[ thus, necessitating the unlocking of the vault].

Is there a way to disable it at the browser start? I went through an old StackOverflow thread but no solution there. There used to be an extension called MasterPassword that solved this but the link seems to be broken now.

 

This extension is a different one from the 'Bypass Paywalls' one. Earlier, it was available in Firefox add on repos. Now it can be sideloaded. It is available for all major browsers.

Do not kill me, but I was paying for a magazine app, that only yesterday I realized was working flawlessly with this extension despite the site not being a very popular one.

Also, there is a browser based on Firefox, well it's engine Atleast, called 'Smart Cookie Web Preview' on Android that allows side loading of extensions. This allows you to use this extension on Android as well and basically bypass multiple Paywalls on the go.

 

Whilst comments I have made(irrespective of lemmy instance) is visible in the app; posts are not. Despite refreshing multiple times, it still shows zero nos of posts. The karma linked to those cumulative posts is displayed but the posts themselves are not. Is this a bug I am experiencing only at my end or is due to different lemmy instances issue?

 

There is a toggle in the settings that takes one to a launch screen and then give 3 fuel choices as options for 3 different prices.

I already paid for removal of ads in the app. I do not see any other paywalled features either. So, what are those payment options for? Are they there just to support the dev? Also, if one donates via there, would it then remove the option of launching, thus streamlining the interface to only the basics?

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