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  1. NotHereToPlayGames
    To be honest, I've never understood the fascination with "desktops". Just a bunch of "clutter" in my opinion. Plus, if we are talking about how "your windows 10 looks", per thread title, then there is SSSOOOOOO much more to "looks" then just the "desktop". ie, Win10 likes to do some of the context menus in "dark mode" even when you tell it to use "light mode" -- NOT ON MY WATCH THEY DON'T, hate hate hate "dark mode", even if just a context menu! My left-click Start Menu - My right-click Start Menu - My right-click Taskbar's Context Menu -
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    I don't allow the Metro Apps to install in the first place. But once they are installed, you can uninstall them via PowerShell scripts.
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    Everything updates fine from here at home. And yep, at least a few of the lists do come from Cloudflare servers, I did not check all of my lists. I think I need to STOP updating filter lists from AT WORK. The below is revealed in the logs when I perform an update here at home (I use the same exact lists at work) - I'm surprised I haven't been FIRED for these "words" showing up from a company computer on a company network!
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    Can you show me via a screencap that the AdGuard lists come from a Cloudflare server? The lists will not update here at work but they still update fine at home. I could always manaully migrate a list from home to here at work.
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    Lucky you. Still down for me but should only be temporary. I'll give it a couple days.
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    It appears that all AdGuard lists are being taken offline.
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    This is in my Chromium profile, everything is always always always done in that profile FIRST. And then migrated over to my barely-used-near-END-OF-LIFE Serpent 52. "Long Live" all of these UXP browsers. All the power to those that use it. I'm not the only member of MSFN that sees them very near "end of life". Just for nostalgic purposes and not for "real use". Just kind of a fact, whether we "like" it or not. I am embarrassed to admit that ONE of the reasons I was using AdNauseam in the first place now is a feature of regular uBO. I only update lists MANUALLY and hate hate hate anything that auto-updates. To each their own. The icon changes color for when a list is successfully updated. That used to be only in AdNauseam but is now in uBO also. Did not track down to which version introduced this feature.
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    You have to do the par-for-the-course normal ol' mods for Serpent 52 because "as-is" the FIREFOX VERSION does have a "minimum" that wants something higher than FIFTY TWO. I think the minimum was somewhere in the mid SEVENTIES. But again, PAR FOR THE COURSE. We all know how to modify extensions for Serpent 52, nothing new and need not be regurgitated (sp?).
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    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!!!
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    "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.
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    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!
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    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.
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    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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