Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/09
Since a few years, YouTube puts annoyingly overlays on top of like the last 5 to 10 seconds of videos often covering valuable content.
Lately – while preparing for concerts – I have watched a lot of score music videos where the end really is very important to me (see the example below), for instance when rehearsing [Wayback/Archive] La Alhambra – Llano – YouTube until the final end.
The solution came from [Wayback/Archive] How do you disable these thumbnails that pop up near the end of videos!? : r/youtube
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/17
It looks like I missed that Google has added a new URL parameter to its search engine quite a while ago.
In the past, you could turn on image search using the tbm=isch URL parameter (“to be matched” and “image search”).
That still works, but there is a new parameter on the block that is officially undocumented, and can be used to switch into various search modes including image search but also AI-less search.
This drastically lowers the carbon footprint and also gets you far less speculative information.
Edit 20251023: I forgot to save the below part before the scheduled post got published. So here we go
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01
Edit 20250802:
Migrating from Chrome to Edge was way easier than anticipated: it imported my account, bookmarks and my extensions automagically. With one exception (uBlock Origin), most of them were enabled too, apart from a few that Edge needed extra permission confirmation for and the ones that Chrome had disabled. All of these could be enabled/installed after installing uBlock Origin manually.
Then I had go to through the tedious process of re-signing in various accounts (like mail, blogging, social media, etc).
These things did not import automatically and needed manual adjustment:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/14
Chrome warned me of a list of extensions that it thought were unsupported pointing me towards [Wayback/Archive] Install and manage extensions – Chrome Web Store Help: Unsupported extensions.
It included ones important to me like [Wayback/Archive] Pushbullet – Chrome Web Store and [Wayback/Archive] ClearURLs – Chrome Web Store.
My full local list was at the bottom of chrome://extensions/ where you have to both “keep it” to get them re-installed in the “This extension was turned off because it is no longer supported” state, and after keeping them switch them on plus conforming the switch on to be able to use them.
A quick search revealed this likely has to do with Manifest V2 support: [Wayback/Archive] Why is my Chrome saying the Pushbullet Extension is no longer supported? : PushBullet (that post was 9 months ago, so it looks Chrome is spreading the nagging period over a long time).
This means I need to find a Chromium based browser that plans to support Manifest V2 for a long time. For now Brave indicates that it wants to: [Wayback/Archive] What Manifest V3 means for Brave Shields and the use of extensions in the Brave browser | Brave
Some however think Brave won’t: [Wayback/Archive] If it’s chromium based, they will need to remove manifest v2 at some point… | Hacker News
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