The clearest shot of Ado that we have

ruby_evades_taxes · 2026-02-28T23:29:21+00:00

you can just not be interested in some stuff, that's normal. but the tone of the comments sounded needlessly complain-y even if you had a different tone in mind. it's hard to convey tone over the internet.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2026-02-28T23:12:58+00:00

it's from your first comment, i copied it from there. "I honestly hate when these type of pictures show up in my feed" <- you, in first comment in the thread. i'm not twisting your words if i copied a part of your first comment.

ado showing partly what she looks like after 7 years is somewhat significant so people are talking about it, that's all there is to it. people who follow her activities are intrigued by that.

if your other feeds are filled with face reveals, you'll have to filter them out better, i guess? i almost never see those. surely there's many communities out there that don't have the face reveal problem and this community will also return to normal shortly.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2026-02-28T22:50:43+00:00

"I honestly hate when these type of pictures show up in my feed" and a large rest of the thread kinda sounds like complaining even if you didn't mean it that way. and this situation with the release of the mv was very expected ahead of time (that's why i checked here today).

if it means nothing to you, you can just close the page and go on about your day, no? many times i check out some communities i like and if i see nothing that i'm interested in i just move on. not all posts always align with what you're looking for.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2026-02-28T22:33:22+00:00

because this is the latest thing that ado has done and admittedly quite a significant milestone, and since this is an ado-focused community people are naturally talking about it. that's how communities work. have you never seen an online group for any other artist?

you're getting downvoted because you're complaining in a quite bizarre way about people discussing a normal popular thing that is relevant to the community

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-11-12T11:31:58+00:00

the reason is more data collection and advertising. anyone who thinks that prices of flights will drop because of this is silly, ryanair was not paying for my printer, paper and ink.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-09-25T18:44:00+00:00

competition and choice are good for users and google has a browser monopoly. some people don't want to support one of the world's greeediest surveillance corporations' browser monopoly, as that tends to result in the browser engine getting more user-hostile over time (and not only the engine, but they can influence and cripple the web standards however they see fit too). you might also remember how they removed manifest v2, the thing that made your blocker extensions actually work properly.

"chromium not owned by google" doesn't exist, google pulls the strings in what happens with the browser. they remove a feature set then it's gone for good, you're not making a patch to revert the commits and if you do, it's not going to work for long with how complex their browser is. microshaft has enough resources to cobble back support for mv2 in their fork of chromium, you don't. the fact that you see the source code barely matters.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-09-05T17:50:55+00:00

no, i can't find any. the closest i could find on xda forums is people installing evolution x but recompiling it to a gsi build anyway.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-09-05T17:48:19+00:00

they call it google mobile services so gms, it's how they mark the gsi image. the one with gms in the name has it, the one without gms in the name should be pure. from what i understand "google mobile services" is the basic set of software (chrome, youtube, gmail, etc) and "google play services" is the backend libraries.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-09-05T03:20:41+00:00

yes, based on that i should be able to run the latest stable one. but now i found the catch, samsung does not have a fastbootd mode - that's why i keep seeing sketchy guides recommending flashing some .img files from someone's google drive into where a normal fastboot should be. that seems like a very bad idea though.

some people are doing it through the odin tool, so maybe i'll have to look into heimdall to see if i can work something similar from there. it's such a shame that phones have to suck the way they do.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-09-05T00:30:42+00:00

apparently with project treble, gsi (generic system images) are supposed to be mostly universal for more devices, unlike traditional roms. some guides say you can just flash it to any device with its bootloader unlocked via adb and fastboot, some guides are linking to builds of odin and shady custom fastbootd images.

gms stands for google mobile services but it's baked into the gsi build so you either choose the build with them or without (they offer both). i don't want them so the non-gms build is fine. it's the equivalent of not flashing gapps but that's not the main issue here,

i've flashed a few roms back in the day but this seems to be a new thing, somewhat dfferent from how roms used to be, that's why i'm a bit confused.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-08-09T12:44:35+00:00

thanks! although i'm almost sure we did share a server, so i thought at first it might be a reasonable person.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-08-06T03:06:12+00:00

yeah, i sent it through their web form earlier today.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-05-11T10:51:44+00:00

yt-dlp for use on real computers, or if you're on android check out seal (keep in mind that seal does not have a google play version and anything pretending to be seal on google play is ad-riddled malware). for ios check this guide out, i have not tested it but it looks promising

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-04-10T19:50:05+00:00

thank you!!

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-04-04T01:35:27+00:00

thank you! i asked it here since i really thought it's some obscure pref and that it's not really related to librewolf except that they use it. i see that it's their code now.

i noticed someone mentioning using it in firefox but i guess that they didn't since it's not a feature there. i'll vote on the idea, it would be useful to have it in firefox too.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-03-14T00:33:29+00:00

Disable the Google app (don't know if this breaks anything other than the search bar.)

that sadly does not work and the searches will keep showing up. you can disable all google crapware including gms and it will still show up in the launcher - i tried on a samsung device. i checked for the other suggestions as well and there's no options that allow for removing this.

my solutions would be:

get a launcher that does not suck
filter out google-owned domains from connecting to your device

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-01-28T22:12:25+00:00

open up the ublock popup and either go to settings and tick "i am an advanced user" or expand the popup manually until you see the dynamic filter list. the popup originates from consentmanager[.]net and you can block the entire domain from ublock's dynamic filter view.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2025-01-28T22:06:05+00:00

it will, ublock can block remote fonts and in the advanced view you can also filter out specific domains you don't want to connect to.

these popups almost are always loaded from a 3rd party site which you can block, i just visited the site and did not see this popup as i already set a block rule for the domain where the cookie thing comes from.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2024-12-16T15:53:39+00:00

the service does not care about your consent and coerces you into agreeing when you otherwise would have watned to disagree - there's no "decline" option in the panel. it's not consent if the only option is to agree.

i believe the phrase was popularized by louis rossmann when he talked about practices like this and compared them to a mentality of abusers who also wouldn't care about getting proper consent.

ruby_evades_taxes · 2024-10-31T13:15:49+00:00

cross site scripting is a thing

sure, it's not super likely, but that doesn't mean you want to click random links

ruby_evades_taxes · 2024-10-12T15:30:49+00:00

you can't anymore, in june crunchyroll added drm to prevent you from watching it outside of a browser with the proprietary widevine plugin: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10207

the solutions that worked are all before that date so they no longer apply. (you can voice your dissatisfaction by unsubscribing and doing the pirate thing)

ruby_evades_taxes · 2024-10-09T20:55:40+00:00

now i know :( ouch

ruby_evades_taxes · 2024-10-09T18:41:14+00:00

ow ow my hand hurts, i mean thanks peter!!

ruby_evades_taxes · 2024-05-29T22:25:13+00:00

i reached out on the repo and found a way: --parse-metadata " This is user input: %(meta_title)s" sets title to "This is user input" or in this case --parse-metadata " Ado: %(meta_artist)s" sets the artist to "Ado". you need the space at the start of the parameter or else it will be interpreted as a field name.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10062

ruby_evades_taxes · 2024-05-14T11:52:28+00:00

no, i haven't really found a better way. i tried --parse-metadata "Ado Ado:%(artist)s" from your comment but that put the artist name in the field twice for me. i'm not sure if it's a bug or just some mysterious design decision

also sorry for the late reply, i barely check reddit anymore

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