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These 10 essential browser tweaks fix the web’s biggest annoyances
www.fastcompany.com ^ | 07-16-20 | By JR Raphael

Posted on 07/17/2020 6:43:51 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 07/17/2020 6:43:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Swordmaker; ShadowAce

Ping!.......................


2 posted on 07/17/2020 6:44:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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Tech Ping


3 posted on 07/17/2020 6:46:45 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Red Badger

Ping...thanks for posting!


4 posted on 07/17/2020 6:49:02 AM PDT by FtrPilot
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To: Red Badger

Bookmark.


5 posted on 07/17/2020 6:50:55 AM PDT by Orosius
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Bookmark!


6 posted on 07/17/2020 6:52:18 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: Red Badger

bfl


7 posted on 07/17/2020 7:04:08 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Red Badger

I have limited BW (expensive, too!). Chrome took away (or hid deeply) the ability to stop videos from automatically playing when you go to a site. Annoying as all get out!


8 posted on 07/17/2020 7:07:49 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: Red Badger

Thanks. Very helpful.


9 posted on 07/17/2020 7:08:07 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: Red Badger

Thanks for posting. That Readable website does not do what the article says. Or I’m going to the wrong one. Is anybody familiar with this? American Thinker made me disable my ad blocker and now I get a massive headache every time I go there.


10 posted on 07/17/2020 7:08:58 AM PDT by AloneInMass (You'd think there would be more similarity between "chain letter" and "chain mail".)
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To: Red Badger

Very useful tips! Thanks.


11 posted on 07/17/2020 7:12:08 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Red Badger

Thanks! Bookmarked this one!


12 posted on 07/17/2020 7:13:09 AM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left wort h controlling.)
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To: Red Badger

mark


13 posted on 07/17/2020 7:17:12 AM PDT by sasquatch
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To: Red Badger

check later


14 posted on 07/17/2020 7:28:38 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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YouTube annoyances:

1. If you disable autoplay and close the browser, the next time you go back, it’s enabled again. I thought that was what cookies were supposed to do for you.

2. That popup that constantly begs you to sign up for a “free” trial of their YouTube TV pay service, and the one that asks you “how is YouTube today?”

3. “An error occurred. Please try again later”. I’m guessing your ad blocker is preventing the display of an ad, but you still have to wait for the 15 or 30 seconds for it to get to the video you want to see.

4. If you’re browsing through a long list of videos and you click on one, and then want to go back to the list, you can do that and get back to the place in the list where you were before. But if you had watched the video in full screen mode, you always end up back at the top of the list, so you have to go through the entire scrolling process again.


15 posted on 07/17/2020 7:36:03 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (China kills close to 600,000 and the sheeple sleep. Cops kill one person, and cities burn.)
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I have deleted Google many times from my computer, but it always comes back. It’s like a zombie..................


16 posted on 07/17/2020 7:37:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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To: Red Badger
For Firefox:

FACEBOOK CONTAINER

While I nuked my FB account some time ago, FB nevertheless continues to try & track online activity via its "partner sites." This extension helps prevent that.

17 posted on 07/17/2020 7:56:32 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Red Badger

Excellent article brah


18 posted on 07/17/2020 8:03:11 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Red Badger

They missed one: Install a profanity filter on your browser. It makes the internet much more pleasant.

Below are links to a good one. You can customize the filtered words. And you can customize replacement words. For example, it can display “Pelosi” as “Pignosey.”

Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-profanity-filter/piajkpdbaniagacofgklljacgjhefjeh?hl=en

Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/advanced_profanity_filter/


19 posted on 07/17/2020 8:30:22 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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Tech bookmark.


20 posted on 07/17/2020 8:32:02 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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