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Is uBlock Origin Lite an alternative to keep using Chrome with manifest V2 deprecated?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/31

Having been a avid uBlock Origin user since when it came out in 2014 even before both Adblock and Adblock Plus headed over to the dark side.

I need to check out if [Wayback/Archive] uBlock Origin Lite is good enough now that Google is phasing out Manifest V2 (on which uBlock Origin and other ad blockers depend to provide full functionality).

When it isn’t, I might switch to Firefox or Brave as it should still support Manifest V2 as per

Firefox for instance has some drawbacks with input handling when editing WordPress posts which Chromium based web-browsers (including Brave) don’t have.

Via:

Related:

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AI won’t concur the world for at least a while: searching for a pipe in Google Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/28

No matter if it has switched to AI or not, Googl Search will show the “not a pipe” image first.

[Wayback/Archive] William Gerrard on X: “Google is so broken that the first image it gave me for a pipe is something that is not a pipe 🙄 “

[Wayback/Archive] GOIFP6casAAhOd_.jpg (1170×1085)

--jeroen

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Some notes on synching Google Drive data that other accounts shared with you

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/17

In the past (pre-2020) syncing shared Google Drive content was easy: Google Backup & Sync was still there and the web-UI of Google Drive was straightforward.

Syncing is important for me as it allows off-line working. Not all places have 24/7 internet access and not all cloud services are up 24/7.

So in 2020, with the mandatory (and often failing!) migration of Google Backup and Sync to Google Drive File Syncing and the new web-UI, things became a lot harder: Workaround to add a Shared With Me folder to your Google Drive (Google made this a lot harder in 2020).

Further into 2022 I discovered that way had become impossible for:

  • new shares
  • old shares that you had not set up syncing for

Old shares that you had set up syncing for kept working, and I hope they will for a long time, but I doubt they will.

Note this is not about free vs paid Google Drive data: the new situation fails for both cases.

For new shares or old shares you have not set up syncing for there basically seem to be two solutions, neither of them which is nice:

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Anonymously adding a site to the Google Search Engine seems only possible through non-Dutch end-points

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/10

I was trying to figure out a way to add a non-indexed URL to the Google Search Engine.

It turns out I could not find English end-points to do that, just non-English ones like:

Based on the above end-points, you might guest that these below work too:

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Some notes on Fierit

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/30

Since I had only one read-only account and the Fierit ECD system won’t sent me update notifications on that account, I have collected some links before actually doing deeper investigation to see how to build a push notification system around it.

Link dump:

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Parameter you should add to most of your Google queries: “before:2023” (thanks Grant Gulovsen on Mastodon)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/29

[Wayback/Archive] Grant Gulovsen: “Someone recently posted a hot tip about adding “before:2023” to Google web searches and I forget who it was but wow what a huge difference it makes. So thank you to whoever that was. It gets rid of so much AI-generated SEO crap.” – Mastodon

The actual source seemed to be either of these:

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Skip line while debugging in Chrome developer tools – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/27

[Wayback/Archive] Skip line while debugging in Chrome developer tools – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Matas Vaitkevicius for both asking and answering):

Last comment from dev says:
We’re going to hold off on this feature for now. It’s complexity is high and it’s not common enough a workflow. One could also just comment out the lines and hit ctrl-s to get the same effect, pretty much. Status: WontFix –
The workaround is to comment out the line you want to skip and press Ctrl+S.

The problem is that the workaround fails when you have used the Chrome Dev Tools to format the source code: then you cannot edit the formatted code.

The workaround for that is cumbersome, but doable as in this bug report:

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firebug – Google Developer Tools “Network” Tab clears after redirect – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/29

With the ever changing Google Developer UI it is sometimes hard to track where things moved or what functionality is available.

I needed the “Network” tab to preserve the connections even after a redirect and this is indeed possible as per [Wayback/Archive] firebug – Google Developer Tools “Network” Tab clears after redirect – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Rodrigo Graça for asking and [Wayback/Archive] Snuffleupagus for answering):

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Walls and Ladders when pasting e-mail on account sign-up forms: Paste It – Chrome Web Store

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/06

In a game of Walls and Ladders (similar to Arms Race), the Ladders usually win, see the references at the end of the post.

The actual “game” in this case is more and more sites trying to build walls prevent pasting credential related information like user IDs (often e-mail addresses) or passwords often citing “more safety” or “less security risks”, and users get taller ladders wanting to do just that because of their own security concerns:

[Wayback/Archive] Stef 🎈 on Twitter: “Dear mobile/web-apps, please never never disable copy and paste “due to security reasons”. -everybody with a password manager.”

The walls will always loose so it is better to invest the money for the walls into other security measures.

Given that most of the risks are web-sites getting that information exfiltrated, I wish they put more energy into bolting down that side of the security risk side than the hampering legitimate users entering that information in the first place.

Since so many of these sites have leaked my information in the past, any email address I use for activating an account is like 50 characters long. Something I am not going to type once (because of typing mistakes) and definitely not twice (to confirm I did not make typing mistakes).

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Weer een site waar je geen email addressen mag plakken: Kruidvat. Makkelijk te omzeilen.

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/08

De blokkade van @KruidvatService tegen plakken van email adressen op kruidvat.nl/login/checkout is makkelijk te omzeilen:

  1. JavaScript uitzetten
  2. email plakken
  3. JavaScript aanzetten
  4. “account aanmaken” klikken
  5. rode velden spatie erbij en meteen spatie weg
  6. stap 4.

Bron: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “De blokkade van @KruidvatService tegen plakken van email adressen op kruidvat.nl is makkelijk te omzeilen: 1. JavaScript uitzetten 2. email plakken 3. JavaScript aanzetten 4. “account aanmaken” klikken 5. rode velden spatie erbij en meteen spatie weg 6. stap 4.”

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