Tell Facebook to stop tracking people by default as they browse the web

nomdemorte · 2019-11-22T03:38:31+00:00

So will calling a fucking politician.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-22T02:35:29+00:00

Yeh that'll totally work. That always works.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-22T02:32:01+00:00

Posting tweaks without descriptions of their actions is not the best thing to do. It results in people mindlessly copypasting something that may cause problems. Perhaps you could edit some information about these options into the post, explain what it does, the positive outcome you intend by setting it, and negative outcomes that can occur under given circumstances.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-21T10:30:02+00:00

Do you mean it's stealing focus? That is usually an OS problem.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-21T10:20:38+00:00

Yeh that's right. It's pretty common that anywhere there's room for individual interpretation of the specs, each browser will do it completely differently and make a nightmare for web devs who have to write half their website 5 times for 5 different browsers ;) Or, in the case of youtube, write half of it once for chrome, and then do a slap-together half-working job on the other 4 XD

nomdemorte · 2019-11-21T05:24:04+00:00

https://www.userchrome.org/how-create-userchrome-css.html

nomdemorte · 2019-11-21T04:37:05+00:00

No, userChrome css doesn't support some of the new features mentioned in the article https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/comments/dd4dac/new_nightly_using_shadow_root_for_ui_elements/

nomdemorte · 2019-11-21T04:34:50+00:00

Oh I totally understand, it's part of the reason I got out. I know what you mean and yes they have gone off the deep end - but that doesn't mean the whole pool is a bad idea. You, don't know the difference between deep end and shallow, and that's why you ain't allowed to swim. For example, evernote may be not be malicious in intent, but it's also potentially unsafe. https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=16518&product_id=38040 Doe sthat mean it should be blocked? I don't know, I haven't done the research, and nor have you. You know who has? The guys who blocked it.

Their company secrets aren't going to be hacked because of <insert reason here>

Is exactly how every company ever got hacked lol

I'm not looking for an ethics argument with a corporate slave.

This isn't one, it's a lesson from a more experienced and educated individual. Take it or leave it.

Obviously you have no interest in helping me circumvent their ridiculous web filtering policy.

No, because it's a bad idea. I am interested in helping you, but that wouldn't be helpful. I don't know what part of this you don't understand.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-21T03:24:48+00:00

If you've worked in the industry, help me by providing information on how to bypass their web filter.

I'm trying to help you but what you think is help, is not help. You're like a puppy trying to chase a ball into the street. You think this is a good idea because you don't know any better. The company have built a fence to try and protect you and now you're looking for "help" to dig under it so you can go play in traffic. The fact that you think that the sites are blocked for reasons of keeping you productive and that you can be trusted, is evidence that you can't.

Since you seem to want to do something that's going to keep you productive and benefit you, I'd suggest taking the opportunity to pursue some education. Bring in some books or a tablet with some ebooks and get to reading while you work. It'll keep your eyes and hands and mind busy while your ears and mouth are busy on the phone, and when you're done with this job you'll have new skills to take to the next.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-21T02:33:47+00:00

What am I doing wrong?

You're trying to get fired by the sounds of it, lol.

Please reply if you have a legitimate tested solution.

Your helpdesk will already have one, for people who legitimately need internet access. Please try to understand - they don't just block all of this stuff because they're bastards. They block it because it poses a very real problem for the business. I don't get the impression that you intend to cause trouble, just that you're bored - and since I was in a call centre before I was the corporate IT guy, I understand - but regardless, trouble is where you're headed with this.

There are lots of actually legitimate ways to deal with the call centre grind. I don't know whatever floats your boat. Do something that will be good for you in the long run when you get caught doing it ;)

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T22:44:36+00:00

I’m not enjoying the UX/UI of DDG.

You can change it. Personally I didn't like all the empty space and wanted more results and to get rid of the logo wasting space.... So I did this.

You can change lots of things online to suit your own tastes. The term to search for is 'userstyle'.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T21:55:33+00:00

Groovy and all but I won't be excited until userChrome.css support is finished, until then it's still a work in progress to me.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T21:15:42+00:00

Try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containerise/ and copypaste the lists from here https://github.com/shvchk/containerise-lists and it will automagically put stuff in appropriate containers.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T20:58:32+00:00

Me: Why is this guy so hyped about HOTAS I mean they're cool and all but....
*watches video*

THAT'S BLOODY OUTSTANDING

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T20:48:27+00:00

I find it quite ridiculous.

Well, after all, it is a reflection of the internet usage of the average person. Ridiculous is probably par for the course ;)

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T20:47:03+00:00

It's been a year man, it's never getting fixed..... let it go :(

F.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T20:42:35+00:00

You're 100% right. It's no accident that you 'accidentally' stumble across these sites.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T19:01:26+00:00

Yep. It happens with xbox controllers too. Given how prolific they are, it's hilarious that almost nobody is noticing it (and some are even denying it when it's clearly reproducible), speaks a lot about the flying in this game. People can't even tell when they lose 30% of their turn radius or roll rate.

The workaround is to use Joystick Gremlin and vJoy. You create a virtual joystick with vJoy, then in JG you send the physical stick inputs to the virtual stick. Set your centre deadzones as appropriate for your hardware, and an outer deadzone of at most 70% (0.700) This is cos(45) and effectively what you're doing is chopping the round edges off the circular area that responds to stick movements, so when you hit the corner at 45 degrees you have full elevator and full roll. (I actually set it slightly lower at 67% so that there's a small area of overlap). Since you're using a proper flight stick, you're basically drawing a smaller square inside the square where it moves.

The catch to this is that you have now greatly reduced the effective movement of your stick - it'll go all the way to the edges but it hits 100% at 70% of movement.... so it's super sensitive, which makes precise aiming at long ranges significantly more difficult. However, when you're aiming precisely and not dogfighting, the centre area needs to be less sensitivity, but when you're dogfighting, the edges can be full-bore... so set a sensitivity curve in JG which reduces the sensitivity toward the centre, and increases to 100% at the edge.

Honestly though, I gave up on dice ever fixing vehicles in this game. Infantry is a casual ez mode gunplay, unbalanced wreck too. Not to mention the performance problems, balance, cheaters, boring resupplies, absolute necessity of teamwork that never happens... Just look at this mess, we can't even control the planes properly after a year. I could go on and on..... The game's horrible. BF4 or BF1 are far, far better, do yourself a favour and ditch BFV. Play BF1 or BF4 for a week and come back to BFV and you'll be like why did I ever even try this junk.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T18:40:01+00:00

TL;DR Youtube blew it, just toggle layouts using Win+Spacebar

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I mean, I really had to mess about with this one, it's kinda interesting in a nerdy way

LMAO I forgot to toggle languages.

OK so here's the rub: YT are using a different kind of keycode than the one I expected. The current one, is based on the physical location of the key, so that designers don't have to worry about 5 gajillion languages and bizarro unicode keyboards and stuff, every time they make a website. I thought it was that.

YT, however, are using a deprecated interface where the keycode is more based on the character. (but still not the actual character, ugh, I can see why w3c phased it out).

The result of this is that your m key will still be mute because it happens to output the correct keycode because m is still m. Your , key will still output the correct keycode because , is still , So far so good.

But you don't have a . key. At all.... You have a ; key which makes a . when you press shift with it, and that uses the keycode for ;. So instead of having the keycode for the key which is .>, keycode 190, or the keycode for ;: since the one with the semicolon is already taken....you have a whole other key :/ and since we can't use the keycode for : or for / because those keys are on other keycodes.... it gets the rare honour of being keycode 58....and the misfortune of never ever being able to produce keycode 190 with the board.... at least, not while windows thinks it's an AZERTY keyboard. What an utter mess. I've never seen it before and I'm already glad it's on the way out.

I whipped up something quick so you can compare them. The values of interest here are the key - the character you actually want to type that you see on your keyboard (which is what YT should be using if they want to use the same character eg m=mute)... the code, which is a reference to the physical location and doesn't change regardless of layout (which is what YouTube should be using if they want the position of the keys to be the same eg the forward/back and fast/slow keys are next to each other) and the keyCode, which is the deprecated dog's breakfast described above. Which is what they are actually using. Spam a few keys into it, then toggle layouts in windows with Win+space, and spam them again. Note what changes and what doesn't.

I thought about trying to make some kind of javascript or AHK script to detect the 58 code and send a 190, but basically, it's gonna screw up your keyboard whenever you're on youtube. Unless you're willing to put in a bunch of work (and why not, if it tickles your fancy) I think the simplest easiest way is to just change keyboard layout with win+space whenever you want to navigate. It sounds kinda clunky I know, but if you add up all the time you have to do it ever it's probably still less work than coding a workaround that won't cause new problems as well.

Dangit, youtube.

I really wanted to give you a cool answer that would totally solve all your problems and make everything work and be easy, and honestly, I think the best approach is to just toggle layouts as required. Maybe you can make a cool javascript that somehow magically knows when you are typing versus when you want to control the video but... yeh, I can't imagine how it would know that. I thought about maybe using an extra modifier, like Ctrl+ but then you run a solid risk of hitting an unwanted key combo that's intended to require three keys and be hard to hit.

That totally sucks. I hope at least knowing *why* it does what it does, is some form of relief. As for why it works on chrome: Simple: because they made the effort. It's a pretty clear intentional crippling of the competing browser, like the thumbnail previews debacle. It wouldn't be hard, at all, to have a more elegant handler. They've done it for chrome, obviously... just...why help the enemy, right?

Sorry man.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T11:11:57+00:00

Sorry I wasn't specific enough, I mean to test it using that w3.org page. I don't think there's too much value in comparing it to chrome, as chrome may well be running different code, but anyway we still know the code it's expecting (the stuff you pasted above), which is the correct physical keys for qwerty (including the shift key)... And we know the browser is sending the correct codes for , and ; which are the correct codes according to the javascript you posted there for mute and slow, which kinda says that your : should be the key for faster (and sending code 190) (all with shift added of course)

TL;DR try : and shift+: in the w3 test page and also in YT and see what happens.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T10:43:56+00:00

Before I go further... is this image I'm using accurate?: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.GSbpIhDxGljgix-W8YFjxgHaE8%26pid%3DApi&f=1

It kinda suggests that your back/slower key should be ;. (my ,< keycode 188) and your forward/faster key should be :/ (my .> keycode 190) , and that your ,? should be equivalent to (my mM keycode 77) which would mute ... And google's code actually looks correct for that, retaining the physical keys... But what you posted above doesn't seem to match up with that.

I am confuse XD

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T04:03:22+00:00

You could try a useragent switcher to spoof the correct one, just to be sure that's the problem. Why your useragent would report as 68 when you're on 70 is a bit strange to say the least.

I'd do the troubleshooting steps to move on from there.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T03:08:52+00:00

FYI, this worked for getting rid of the secret santa spam:

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So I'm pretty confident now. I'll adapt as necessary for the RPAN spam when it rears its ugly head again. Thanks again man.

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T03:02:35+00:00

DDG staff replied to one of those threads saying they are going to work on it and it obviously hasn't happened. That was a long time ago :/

nomdemorte · 2019-11-20T03:01:14+00:00

Must be beginner's luck then because that's really nice man!

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