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SponsorBlock dev here I never got any emails... I checked spam But either way, this is just slop, KomoD's analysis is very good. Everything mentioned here is intentional, SponsorBl…

The tokens are "generated" on the client, and the server just gives the client enough information to make that locally generated token become "valid", without being able to link th…

youtube hasn't touched their anti-adblock code since june

uBlock Origin already blocks them by default at the request level, no need to hide the actual HTML element

DMA requires that the interoperability be at the same level of encryption than normal chats. In whatsapp's case, that means all interoperability must be E2E

It's not an open federation

There is a whitelisted set of apps in the OS. Samsung's messenger also is allowed on Samsung devices. They talked about opening the API many years ago and then suddenly stopped tal…

uBlock Origin filter type called has-text

On Android, I can create a PWA that runs in Firefox and it works great. Apple could easily implement the same thing

Kiwi has historically faked the version number to prevent websites from telling you to update your browser. I would assume that number is not legitimate.

The name origin was used because google took it down for using the name ublock after the GitHub repo transfer

It was not sold. It was transferred to a the contributor of a Safari port. Only the GitHub repository though, not the extension store page. That has always remained with gorhill. S…

They encourage people to wait to buy their product only until they aren't able to repair their current one.

Mozilla reviewers do very detailed reviews. Unlike Chrome, they sometimes do manual reviews, looking for potential XSS or similar problems, and will let you know the exact line cau…

One cool side-effect is that existing mastodon bots (like remind bots) work seamlessly. Just ping them as normal and they will reply.

That will will be fixed Q1 next year thanks to the EU

They probably pay Adblock Plus to have bing ads whitelisted just like google does through their "Acceptable" ads program

The plugin supports replacing only titles if you prefer.

https://github.com/mchangrh/yt-neuter/blob/main/filters/nosh... or if you still want to see them, but with the normal player: https://uscript.mchang.xyz/yt/yt-shorts-redirect.user.…

This was a purposeful choice to demonstrate the extent of the clickbait/sensationalism problem. Both channels have only changed their thumbnail and title style in the last few mont…

https://dearrow.ajay.app/donate/ :)

Here is a reply I made in the past to a similar complaint > It's not just the Linus Tech Tips or the Mr Beasts of the world doing algorithm optimized titles and thumbnails now. Eve…

Behold, a perfect training set :) https://sponsor.ajay.app/database

Sending a negative signal doesn't seem to be working :)

I was referring to video, because you need to take into account visuals too. It would be simpler when it is audio-only.