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Thanks for your suggestions. I will try them at my own path. As you know, I left behind XP for linux mint a year and a half ago, when my old PC died after 15 years of excellent service. But many of the inconveniences in bloated sites (such as YT) remain surprisingly the same. That is why I ask here (I had you in mind when I asked, btw), because of the variety of experiences and the deep (difficult to find elsewhere) know-how. I shall revisit (virtualized) XP soon, as there are a number of purchased programs I have that only run in windows, because there are a few free (mostly FOSS) apps that are far superior in MS than in linux world, and because I simply like the speed and convenience of a fully tweaked XP (especially once, I think, I make the poor thing free of having to deal with today's internet bloat). Be well.

Currently I follow https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube/?solution=30e785c7e8831bb230e785c7e8831bb2&js But there are remaining issues. I just wanted to gather current knowledge on (for example): Stop auto-pause Prevent scrolling suggested videos (right panel on video) from getting caught in the first screen

" I want to make it very clear I did not support the Pale Moon team's actions at that time and I had absolutely nothing to do with that. " For those who were there, we remember, and thank you for your continuous presence and collaboration in this forum. It's highly appreciated. For those who weren't there (ola), you can read about it in github and elsewhere. Do not bring here stuff that doesn't belong here (obrigado).

"ps. The problem solved itself" https://youtu.be/VRfoIyx8KfU?t=311

Even the most tweaked XP (including no IE -while keeping its engine) produces those files. I used to move said settings into a RAM folder.

Yeah, it was a good read. Currently available in webarchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20250401024102/https://www.geocities.ws/siliconvalley/2072/whyxpbad.htm I remember those days. I was a very late adopter of XP (2003 or so), because 98 had at the time most of what I needed except (towards the end) stability. I gave up on 98 when I got to this forum. XP vanilla was indeed bad, but nlited and properly tweaked it was/is like the old 98, only more stable with and capable of running more "modern" apps (software at the time).

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-windows-xp

"The ff browser, close to vanilla, leaks now so much information that it gets you have ublock on, and won't allow verification until you turn it off." It is not "beyond tweaking" surveillance, though. To watch Yt add free, you need to turn off ublock to first load, wait one or two minutes, accept all s***, and start ublock. On that window, you are now as you were before all the bs. Sad thing, mozilla. I guess a new open browser may be on the horizon. But a big chunk of the net will be unreachable unless you submit, arrrrr.

" I wont do this but wonder how users overcome this in the newer firefoxes" I really don't think you can achieve the degree of stealth you could in 52-70 (the range I got to know thanks to basilisk and mypal). The ff browser, close to vanilla, leaks now so much information that it gets you have ublock on, and won't allow verification until you turn it off. I have a more or less tweaked profile with icecat, but it can't go though juniper or cloudfare complaining the browser is too old. You can surf most of the web free with icecat. But gate-kept portals and media oligopoplies won't let you go by and ban you altogether, for having a non-conformant fingerprint. It probably is more awful than it sounds, though...

This is not a problem (only) with legacy browsers. It is also related to the use of tweaks that reduce the ID'ing of one's browsing behavior, even in the newest versions of FF and derivatives. I haven't used legacy browsers (other than icecat, if you can call that legacy) for over six months. And yet, I get annoying cloudfare BS all the time. I blame those who use cloudfare, or similar s*** to "secure" their sites. Do your homework. Make safe your castle on your own. Do not rent knights for hire to do so.

https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz is a deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests. Swiss army knife for the serious backup and disaster recovery manager. Ransomware neutralizer. Win/Linux/Unix. At my request, he created an XP version, back in December. By then my I couldn't test it (my XP setup went poof), and I wonl't be able to test it for a few more months. The package can be downloaded from https://github.com/user-attachments/files/18066173/60_10r_32.zip. Results in Franco's tests can be seen at . Actually, there is now an official release: https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz/releases/tag/61.3 and As per Franco's responses, there is a GUI version (aka: PAKKA) from about 10 years,. no feedback at all, not completed, but I have not been able to test (and have not looked for it either).

Given the nature of the MyPal project -to build a browser that runs in XP while permitting access to "modern" websites- I think constant change/adaptation of whatever can be taken from different versions of FF, and a moving JS target, are unavoidable. It is unlikely I will be running internet applications on XP anymore, but I appreciated and still appreciate the efforts of feodor to maintain development. I did use some of your buttons, Astroskipper, so I also appreciate your work, but it seems to me inevitable that you will have to adapt them with each new version, as MyPal tries to catch up with a moving target that doesn't care about breaking things. Such is the game, and its beauty.

I find this thread interesting from a theoretical point of view. As I was saying: I know for a fact that such SML can be managed with Linux. Assuming it were possible to run a GTX 1050 in XP (irrespective of whether it would allow H/A or not), it would then be possible to dual boot (or Xen-parallely run) XP and Linux, so that with one single setup, with only one card, one could enjoy both the XP tweaked shell, interface and software dear to us, and the rush of training a deep learning SLM, even if with a tiny llama of 2b parameters. Personally it does not affect me: I have an RTX 3060 (now almost in my hands, yay!). Professionally and XPly I care a lot about it. There are XP systems I built running in some of the darkest places of the world, and a well trained, even if very small, SLM could potentially run in such systems. From that perspective, even a slightly more expensive 1070 would make me very happy. Cheers!

Nah, this was back in the mid 2010s. All FF browsers post ff 51 or so dropped H/A. 1050 was nor around.

Besides your momma's rulings, got any evidence for that? I used H/A in MPC and firefox under 52, back then. You don't have to believe me, nor do I want to convince you. Cheers!