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Plus, it seems to me that your latest is revealing that uBlock *does not work by itself* and REQUIRES you to use Privacy Badger in conjunction with uBlock in order to meet your needs. The same goes here! uBlock does not meet my needs by itself. Using it alongside uMatrix DOES meet my needs.

Technically true. But not for the way in which I use them uBlock is for public lists only, no "my rules". uMatrix is "my rules" only, no public lists. uMatrix is intentionally set to BLOCK *ALL* third-party connections. *ALL* of them. This works 1,000,000% for me. Not claiming it to be "for everyone". Me using uBlock + uMatrix is no different than you using uBlock + Privacy Badger. You have a "use" for Privacy Badger (I think you've also used Ghostery), I do not! "To each their own." That's why this topic hasn't gained much traction. Everybody has what works for them. People "hear" uBlock + uMatrix and make assumptions on "how" I couple them with each other, et cetera. Again, "works for me, not claiming it to be 'for everyone'".

The trackers are blocked in my config NOT by relying on uBlock lists alone but by uBlock lists in addition to uMatrix blocking *ALL* third-party *crap*. In the case of your mediaite example, no trackers are allowed on my end. BUT if I want to actually watch the video, I have to manually enable uMatrix's block of YouTube. Which is the way that I want it - block all CRAP until I manually intervene and decide MANUALLY to unblock.

After a 22/23 Year Run, I think I will be abandoning Proxomitron/Proxomitron Reborn. "It's been a good run." While I still consider it to be THE Swiss Army Knife for every web browser because it DOES EVERYTHING in ONE PROGRAM, it's just become "easier" to not rely on ONE PROGRAM doing the job of uBlock, uMatrix, Stylus, and Tampermonkey! But rather to rely on the GUIs of uBlock, uMatrix, Stylus, and Tampermonkey to all do "their thing" instead. I'll call it a trial period for now, as there are a TON of things that I relied on Proxomitron "for" that I will miss big time, but that should also be able to ported over to uBlock, uMatrix, Stylus, or Tampermonkey. I know that one thing I am going to miss MOST OF ALL is how I used Proxomitron to kill "timers". When I am logged into my credit card or checking account and "reconciling" my statements, I will miss my Proxomitron allowing me to sit "idle" on a web page for an HOUR if I feel like it taking that long but the web site NOT LOGGING ME OUT, no matter how long I sit "idle". Granted, I realize that "kids" nowadays don't even know what "reconciling" a bank statement even is, lol.

<excerpt from Reuters> Risks include "the possibility that the Chinese government could use (TikTok) to control data collection on millions of users or control the recommendation algorithm, which could be used for influence operations," Wray told U.S. lawmakers. <excerpt> Which came first, the chicken or the egg? To me, it all boils down to DATA COLLECTION. The algorithm and the influence is DEFINED by the DATA COLLECTION. Without the DATA, there is no INFLUENCING. Data Collection violates Privacy Rights. So to me, the bottom denominator is the privacy rights. But agreed - "potatoe, potato"...

An oldie but goodie -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5rYfZtAI88

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While "semantically" true, you may be surprised at just how much of an overlap there is between the two "classifications".

I should add that I have never witnessed a "speed decrease" by having 'too many' lists! Here at work, I use 9 lists. Our company firewall, for only God Knows, blocks any-and-all AdGuard lists! At home, I add 5 lists (for a total of 14!), all five at home that can not be used here at work are AdGuard lists.

Not sure "where you're going" with the question. I myself would rather have a "list" of 500,000 than a list of 100,000 even if my browsing habits only ever "triggers" 10,000 of the 100,000. "To each their own."

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1299771/tiktok-global-user-age-distribution/

To me, an "ad" and a "tracker" is one in the same. The problem with ad blockers is that the REQUEST for the ad has ALREADY BEEN MADE if your extension/list is blocking it, so that request is a "tracker". The advertiser doesn't need for you to "see" the ad for them to compile databases and statistics and marketing and demographics and whatever else.

lol, oh good grief

I would submit that the actual extension being used is less important than the combination of "lists" that are used. Especially when several "lists" overlap multiple extensions. Pick a list and there are DOZENS of extensions that "use" that list.

Other. Router config + DNS hosts file + Proxomitron Reborn + uBlock Origin + uMatrix + Stylus + Tampermonkey A couple of my YouTube extensions also "block ads", but the ads never make it past my other defenses for them to even perform a block (and the extension's ad-block functionality is too often broken by YouTube "updates"). They all work hand-in-hand to block ads.

Yep, that's what I use also (I referred to it as "Classic Shell" previously, but it is indeed called "Open-Shell"). But that is now "off-topic". The original post was not in the StartIsBack section whereas it is now.

I agree. But look at the userbase! The userbase here in the USA is already migrating to Red Note - which is also based in China. The USERBASE of TikTok (I have a 24yr old daughter on TikTok) couldn't even tell you who our Vice President is! Let alone "care" about political underpinnings of their "beloved" source of what they call "influencers". The USERBASE is "smart enough" to see their "feeds" as influencers, their terminology, but not smart enough to connect the dotted line between "influence" and "brain-washed censored mind-control propaganda".

I am not TikTok fan. Or Instagram or Facebook or X or *anything* classified as "social". But this "ban" is USELESS. Why? Because everybody that uses it DOES NOT CARE about "privacy rights" and don't beleive that they (the users) are being manipulated like puppets, indoctrinated, mind control, whatever label you want to give it. Most have just moved on to Red Note which I predict will become FAR more "popular" than TikTok ever was. Tell a kid not to touch the cookies because they just came out of the oven and they are hot, they WILL touch it and get burned. People on TikTok DO NOT CARE about "privacy rights". Same goes for Instagram. Same goes for Facebook. Same goes for X. You name it. We have peope here at MSFN that tend to be even on the paranoid spectrum of privacy, yet they have Insagram or Facebook or X accounts. Adults sell their souls every day and claim one thing while do another. Do we really think "teens" on TikTok are any different? They learn from us, afterall. And if "privacy" was really an issue, Facebook would have died out two decades ago.

Yes and no. You cannot restore on YOUR view of a chat that you deleted. You can UNHIDE a chat that you hid on your end. Deleting on your end does not delete from the recipient IF THEY HAVE ALREADY READ IT. Plus, your employer KEEPS ALL OF THEM, regardless of who did the sending and who did the receiving. Bottom line, coupled with your other post regarding Teams, if you went "postal", you're screwed!

Your employer/IT should completely disable your ability to log into Teams. All of the discussions within Teams are technically the property of your employer and the employee cannot request they be deleted.

I technically have not tried Win11. We don't even use it here at work and work is always the first to make sure they have the latest-and-greatest "in the name of security". My most recent experience with Linux was just a month or two ago - Linux Mint 18.1 32-bit xfce on an Acer Aspire One. Not a good benchmark though. That Acer Aspire One is a *POS* with XP, a *POS* with Win2k, and a *POS* with Linux Mint xfce. I'm very close to configuring a Linux-based CALCULATOR APP and remove the entire keyboard sans numpad and just turn the *POS* into a CALCULATOR and not an "operating system".

<excerpt> So all those high and mighty words about security, which is, by the way, often overrated, means nothing at all for the common grunt. </excerpt>

I went ahead and read from here at work. Rolling on the floor in laughter. Why? Because this only affects LINUX. I will bookmark the link for the next time that somebody (mainly an issue on other forums) tells me to ditch Windows and move to Linux. Not to be misread. I enjoy Linux as a HOBBY PROJECT. I installed Mint on my Acer Aspire One POS but the Acer Aspire One is still a POS even on Mint. Win2k faired even worse than XP. [But yeah, "off-topic".]

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Fair enough. I assumed you to be the RING LEADER !!! (You, Dixel, and AstroSkipper are clearly the BENEFACTORS, but that in and of itself reveals no RING LEADER.) And I know I'm not the only one making that assumption. But again, fair enough. Thanks. I'll have to read from home (currently at work). But remember, I already tested this in v122 and the first "issue" was already debunked for v122. I'll revisit from home and see if this "issue" is any different. A bug report isn't always a bug. Sometimes it's just "dumb" people not knowing what they are talking about, lol.