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  1. NotHereToPlayGames
    No sh..t. I am talking BOTH my Chromium AND my SERPENT 52! But YES, I can concede that mentioning crx instead of xpi was "misleading". I CONCEDE THAT, lol. AdNauseam is available for BOTH !!! And the "special treatment" is done in BOTH. You have obviously not even tried AdNauseam and just want to make it look like I am "OT". I am not. My .crx is just my REFERENCE POINT because 90% of my work is done in Chromium, NOT IN SERPENT. (To be honest, my days are drawing near where I will likely no longer use ANY uxp-based browser, too slow and just "nostalgic" to keep around.) Also, I did join GitHub to raise the concern of the "special treatment". It is "intended" and I will no longer be using AdNauseam because of this "special treatment".
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    I've reverted to "non-forked" uBO. The AdNauseam experience was a great experience, to be honest. But I do not do DNT BS and that alone has me ditching AdNauseam. The AdNauseam approach DOES WORK. It is an entirely different approach to privacy by "confusing" the advertisers instead of trying to avoid them completely. I've been using it since July 6th (the date of my modified .crx), but only just yesterday discovered how it gives "special treatment" to DuckDuckGo and anybody else that can fool EFF.org into falling for marketing ploys.
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    Found the culprit! AdNauseam "abides" by EFF.org's DNT list and ALLOWS ADS if a web site "abides" by "Do Not Track" standards as set by EFF.org. NOT ON MY COMPUTER! I DON'T WANT ADS EVEN FROM WEB SITES THAT 'ABIDE BY EFF DNT'. Problem fixed on my local personal-use version of AdNauseaum.
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    I can confirm that it is not uBO. But rather something that a fork of uBO called AdNauseum is doing. Gives me something to dig into over the weekend, lol. Kind of a bummer, I actually prefer AdNauseum's interface to uBO's interface. Definitely a bit SHADY for "special treatment" to DuckDuckGo (not too big of an issue as I do not use DuckDuckGo anyway). I've heard rumors that uBO has embedded telemetry but I cannot claim to have dug into that, I only know I've not seen any with AdNauseum.
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    Already done all of that. I have no exceptions set for DDG!
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    Same result! I have added NO EXCEPTIONS for DDG of any kind. DDG and start.DDG both somehow turn my adblocker OFF! This is in Official Chrome (so [slightly] OT).
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    Personally, I DO NOT TRUST DUCKDUCKGO !!! While I'm sure there is a method to prevent this, I've not dug deep, but "by default", DUCKDUCKGO DISABLES UBO (at least it disables AdNauseum which is a fork of uBO)! The green icon is BAD, it is the website turning OFF my adblocker!!!
  8. NotHereToPlayGames
    "Not my problem", lol. I am not a gamer. I grew up a long time ago. I'm not 34 and under so I'll have to take your word for it. To each their own, of course. I have a gamer-neighbor in this 18-34 bracket that cannot hold a job for more than two months at a time, interferes too much with his "game time". Hades, we have to REPORT HIM TO THE CITY just to get him to CUT HIS GRASS !!! But I digress... I have to "assume" that not all "gamers" are as WORTHLESS.
  9. NotHereToPlayGames
    I already cited NTLite. But anywhooo...
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    WinReducerEx is way more powerful than nLite. Being more powerful, it's not as easy to learn as nLite. If you are serious about customizing your own Windows Experience, then WinReducerEx is a MUST-HAVE. I use the FREE version! But I also do a THREE-PASS process to get Win10 to my liking. First pass is WinReducerEx, second pass is NTLite (not nLite, but NTLite, there's a difference), third and final pass is another WinReducerEx. I would likely only require ONE pass if I paid for WinReducerEx. All I really know is that my process "works" and if it ain't broke, don't fix it, lol. I use an OLDER version of WinReducerEx. So perhaps even a newer version would get everything to my liking in ONE pass. I've not experimented with 22h2 versus 23h2. Mainly because I get older versions from work and I've not bumped into anything requiring anything "newer" than LTSB 2016. The non-LTSB/LTSC versions of Win10 (ie, the ##h# versions) require much more work to tidy up, but it is not that difficult. But there is a learning curve and YOU WIN IN THE END
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    I installed Tiny10 23h2 over the weekend. Boot is sooo slowww that I exited the VM twice thinking it locked up! On the third launch, I just let it sit there "forever" and the desktop icons EVENTUALLY appeared. Did not time it, but it took FOREVER! Hard disk space is comparable to my own personal WINREDUCER-EX'd Win10s (LTSB 2016 and 22h2, I do not use 22h2 on a daily basis as I HIGHLY PREFER LTSB 2016). Task Manager reports OVER TWICE AS MANY "processes, threads, and handles" as my WinReducerEx's Win10s. I had to hunt down methods to KILL COMPLETELY the d@mn "security center", "defender", and "firewall" CRAP and even then I only got down to 57 processes as reported by Task Manager. My daily driver Win10 only has 28 processes at startup. Even with only 57 processes, the boot time from launch to when icons appear on the desktop was WAY WAAYYY WWWAAAYYY TOOO LOONNGGG!
  12. NotHereToPlayGames
    Learn how to create your OWN! Start here.
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    Agreed! I haven't converted IceCat to portable yet. May eventually. Then try in a clean VM. From what I am seeing, IceCat may be the only alternative for the privacy-aware end-user! Floorp basically did the same thing SRWare Iron did - made claims that nobody fact-checked them on! Marketing Department GENIUSES.
  14. NotHereToPlayGames
    Because I log the scores in a spreadsheet. I'd have to rerun over three hundred different browsers/versions if I started using the newer Speedometer.
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    Floorp only has 16 21 once you jump through some minor hoops. I suspect these 16 21 require some in-depth hacking like we did with 360Chrome. Problem is, though, ONCE YOU PERFORM THAT FIRST LAUNCH, the telemetry damage is already done! (I would have disabled network entirely but I was inside a VM, so I let it do it's "defaults"). about:networking for IceCat - about:networking for Floorp - about:networking for Official Pale Moon -
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    I know you're not a Speedometer fan, but... Floorp scored 114 in my VM (exact score as Ungoogled v122). IceCat only scored 63 in the same VM (Win10 wit 2G RAM).
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    ???
  18. NotHereToPlayGames
    Was surprised by this - IceCat has ZERO dns connections on first launch! ZERO! (which is exactly how many I have with my Ungoogled Chromium setup)
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    Of course I had to laugh at this one during install -
  20. NotHereToPlayGames
    I admit that I totally forgot all about it. I've been very VERY turned-off with ANYTHING forked from Mozilla. 239 DNS Connections with Floorp's very first launch! Yes, there are ways to mitigate "some" of them, but not all of them!
  21. NotHereToPlayGames
    Agreed. I actually used Official Pale Moon for several years as my default. I went from IE6 to Official Firefox to Sleipnir to GreenBrowser to Official Pale Moon to Mypal to New Moon to 360Chrome to Ungoogled Chromium. With many MANY dozens upon DOZENS scattered throughout just for experimentation.
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    What I see is a bunch of "death to Google" folks complaining that the reason for the slowness is "Chromium-exclusive" features. This is pure BS, if I may be so bold. There really is no such thing as a "Chromium-exclusive" feature. ECMAScript is not owned or operated by Google! Google did not "write" ECMA-262. They only implemented it and "competed" with Mozilla and the rest of the "world" in HOW they would IMPLEMENT IT. Google did not "write" ECMAScript2015 (ES6). They only implemented it and "competed" with Mozilla and the rest of the "world" in HOW they would IMPLEMENT IT. Heck, as far as that goes, ECMA-262 "first edition" is dated June 1997. Google Chrome didn't even exist until 2008! It's all based on COMPETITION. Hating Google is no different than hating the New York Yankees or the Boston Celtics or the Green Bay Packers - people love to hate "winners" and root for the underdog instead.
  23. NotHereToPlayGames
    I still use classic Teams via web browser. That overlay can be blocked with a custom style sheet. I've not tried to block in the "download-and-install" version of Teams.
  24. NotHereToPlayGames
    Also look in Task Manager's SERVICES tab and disable what looks out of place.
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    Open regedit and look at your Run and RunOnce entries. Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
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