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funnymonkey: “To disable Mozilla’s data grab, enter:…” – Free Radical

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/14

[Wayback/Archive] funnymonkey: “To disable Mozilla’s data grab…” – Free Radical

To disable Mozilla’s data grab,

  1. enter:

    about:preferences#privacy

    in the address bar.

  2. Then, scroll down to “Website Advertising Preferences” and
  3. DESELECT the option for “Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement

--jeroen

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Important to defeat Twitter wrongly auto-guessing of URLs (and assuming anything with @ or # is a mention or hashtag) is Nelson’s Weblog: tech / zero-width-space

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/11

Quoting in full from [Wayback/Archive] Nelson’s Weblog: tech / zero-width-space to demonstrate a zero-width-space problem with WordPress too.

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Classic editor, Development, Gutenberg editor, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, Web Browsers, Web Development, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

Should be easy to put in a Bookmarklet: Archive.is blog — What is the long version of the url please. …

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/10

[Wayback] Archive.is blog — What is the long version of the url please. …

Click on “share” button to see different forms of linking to a page.

For example https://archive.vn/Aoans/share

So there are two tricks:

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Reminder to self: write a Bookmarklet that shortens YouTube URLs to the youtu.be ones

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/02

When sharing YouTube videos via the mobile apps, they are shortened using the youtu.be domain.

So this is a reminder to write a Bookmarklet based URL-shortener myself for this and extend it so it also understands the various YouTube URL parameters (like start time).

The transformation is documented:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Google Search Location Changers for Chrome and Firefox (via Henk van Ess)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/03

Very useful Web Browser extensions (which you can also use in Edge, see [Wayback/Archive] Add, turn off, or remove extensions in Microsoft Edge – Microsoft Support).

Via [Wayback/Archive] 𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚔 𝚟𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚜𝚜 on X: “Sick of seeing the web just locally when using Google? Use Google Search location changer to end this problem. Chrome: … Firefox: …”

--jeroen

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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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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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etched: permanent, but slow way for storing/retrieving archived web-content

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/08

[Wayback/Archive.is] about etched:

etched is an internet archive tool that permanently timestamps and stores web pages directly into the Bitcoin BSV blockchain.

This is a major improvement from traditional web archivers as all etched pages are permanently stored and independently provable by anyone who has access to the bitcoin blockchain. This means even if etched shuts down anyone can search and view all previously saved data using bitcoin browsers like Bottle.

Via [Wayback] Archive.is blog — See if you suddenly died and that hardware failure…:

For redundancy, try something like etched.page, they store pages on Bitcoin blockchain.

Example: [Wayback] etched archive of nos.nl, 2021-09-10

Related:

--jeroen

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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.”

Gerelateerd:

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