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  1. NotHereToPlayGames
    I am now a github member as well. Though I have "notification" turned off completely and only "follow" various github projects.
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    I guess I have to admit total ignorance when it comes to "games". What is a "game"? Any 20yr computer should be able to play solitaire, sudoku, wordle, minesweeper, tetris, pac-man, frogger, donkey kong, dig dug, centipede, space invaders - you old folks remember 'em all! But come on! The death of the PC as far as just a core OS probably died the day "they" decided that "game consoles" and "desktop pcs" should both be able to splatter blood in hi-def realism when the gun-toting gangsta shoots down the pimp or ho on the sidewalk. Yeah, that shows my age too, I don't technically know if some of these shoot-'em-up blood-splatter-everywhere "games" are shooting at pimps and hos or not. I'm not even sure if it's hos or hoes. I understood the days of Pac-Man and Frogger. I stopped "understanding" in the days of Mario Brothers and Sonic. Hi-def realism of a bullet shattering bone or an axe beheading a monster, nope, zero understanding whatsoever. "To each their own", of course. I remember when Nintendo came out, when Playstation came out, when Sega came out, when XBox came out. And while not my scene, I applauded their popularity! For one, I remember the days when COMPUTER PERFORMANCE had to COMPETE with these GAMING CONSOLES. So computer performance BENEFITED big time! I don't know what happened that COMPUTERS and GAMING CONSOLES no longer tend to COMPETE but rather the "gamer" resorts to a COMPUTER to play his/her games instead of a GAMING CONSOLE.
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    Though perhaps that is me showing my age, lol. Because this "misspelling" isn't "new", it's been around for over TWENTY YEARS.
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    Good point. I gue$$ I ju$t get a little "hyper$en$itive" when there are a "hundred" folk$ here at M$FN that will alway$ use $'s instead of S's for Microsoft. It'$ a PET PEEVE of mine. Either boycott Microsoft and take a $tand or u$e Microsoft's product$, but trying to do both "loo$e$ all $treet ¢red". My two ¢ ¢ ...
  5. NotHereToPlayGames
    To each their own. That's why Microsoft has a $3.2 trillion market cap and Apple has a $3.4 trillion market cap. Because people LOVE to bla$t B$ by calling Microsoft Micro$oft, yet they keep buying and buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading and upgrading. Please do not let me see you use a derogatory $ in Microsoft's name if you are one of the folks that upgrade all because of "EOL". You'd have no $treet ¢red at that point.
  6. NotHereToPlayGames
    Did you try "none"? I didn't try either, to be honest. But I'm not witnessing the CPU being pegged, only offering possible solution being *animations* because there are SEVERAL animation codes on ebay.de. 118 or so of them! Or roughly half that if you assume that all are defined separately for "moz" versus "webkit". And here, *PROOF* that at least two of their .css resources have been MODIFIED within the last two days. I didn't see any "level 4" pseudo-class "nots", but I stopped looking at 50 of 426 of them.
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    EOL is just a marketing tactic to SCARE you into thinking you need NEW. EOS (end of story)
  8. NotHereToPlayGames
    Here at work, I'm not concerned in the slightest. If I had problems at home, that would be different story. The AdGuard URL Tracking Protection filters work perfectly fine at home.
  9. NotHereToPlayGames
    I believe you! But "we" haven't shown what has changed! I have more tools at my disposal from home. Do you know how to view the Last-Modified Header of incoming .css or .js? It's pretty easy to PROVE that something has changed. Just saying that it worked weeks ago but does not work today isn't really proof of anything. "Weeks ago" is a LONG time. NM28 is updated WEEKLY. Mypal and Thorium were also both likely updated since the timestamp of the bookmarked link. uBO lists were likely updated. Antivirus was likely updated. You name it... There are a TON of variables to rule out before (blindly) claiming eBay.de "did something on their end".
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    If we are spewing out "speculations" without any SOURCE CODE to back up the speculations, then I myself would suspect some sort of "level 3" versus "level 4" pseudo-class long before suspecting any type of geolocation-based source code differences. ie, something like this: (ugh, will return to post image, need to delete profile pics to make room for paste)
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    I kind of doubt it, to be honest. I would need to see web page SOURCE CODE differences between what you get versus what I get before advancing "conspiracy theories".
  12. NotHereToPlayGames
    Agreed. Same observation here. BUT here at work, I can no longer use AdGuard (URL|) Tracking Protection uBO filter lists. I've been meaning to import manually from home but haven't gotten around to it yet. So unsure if those two AdGuard lists would have removed _trksid or not.
  13. NotHereToPlayGames
    I see it a TAD differently. Yes, Windows used to only be the core backbone that everything else just played on top of. But "what I see" is that the computer userbase (only 0.01% of which ever land on a web site like MSFN!) is so "simplistic" and *know-nothing* when it comes to computers that they just run their OS (be it Mac, Windows, or Linux!) with "defaults". I'm fairly certain (but it's been a VERY long time) that even Win98's Windows Update (something enabled by "default") would bring in new "features" that had NOTHING to do with said "core backbone". XP would also bring in new "features" by way of Windows Update that had NOTHING to do with "core backbone". And yes, by LEAPS AND BOUNDS, Win10 (if installed with "defaults") is FAR WORSE. And Win11 extended that "far worse" to "farrer worser" (those are probably not "words", lol). Just how many non-core "stuff" would Win98 have if we-the-consumer got our way and Microsoft still "supported" Win98 by way of WINDOWS UPDATES ??? METRO APPS is what killed Windows as far as "core backbone". If you have them enabled, then you only have yourself to blame for your Windows installing non-core "stuff".
  14. NotHereToPlayGames
    Without searching extensively, I could find "shopping history" string identifiers and your URL does not contain them so your shopping history is not being revealed. So odds are, you were not logged in at the time of copy-paste. With something like PROXOMITRON, I could have LITERALLY used YOUR publicly-posted "shopping history" string and shopped ebay "appending" to YOUR HISTORY. Not "easy", but CAN be done.
  15. NotHereToPlayGames
    I would edit the post and remove the long URL if I were you. I do not have an ebay account and do not visit often enough to know it "inside and out". But I do know that many popular websites basically send a member ID string stored inside a "cookie" and include that member ID string in the URL. Again, I do not "know" ebay, but if you were logged in at the time of copy-paste, then you should at the bare minimum LEARN each and every "tracking parameter" contained in that URL to know if you yourself is comfortable KEEPING that URL "public".
  16. NotHereToPlayGames
    Unable to replicate. ebayimg.map doesn't show up in any of my logs even when visiting https://www.ebay.de/itm/186679189985 incognito.
  17. NotHereToPlayGames
    I for one pretty much assumed that you do. But it still was a gigantic surprise that you posted the link without manually removing the vvveeerrryyy lllooonnnggg aaannnddd uuunnnnnneeeccceeeessssssaaarrryyy pppooorrrtttiiiooonnnsss ooofff ttthhheee UUURRRLLL.
  18. NotHereToPlayGames
    You need to disable -webkit-animation Unsure your best route to do so (I disable via Proxomitron). You could use a custom style sheet to override. Below should work. * { animation-delay: initial !important; animation-direction: initial !important; animation-duration: initial !important; animation-fill-mode: initial !important; animation-iteration-count: initial !important; animation-name: initial !important; animation-play-state: initial !important; animation-timing-function: initial !important; animation: initial !important; -moz-animation-delay: initial !important; -moz-animation-delay: initial !important; -moz-animation-direction: initial !important; -moz-animation-fill-mode: initial !important; -moz-animation-iteration-count: initial !important; -moz-animation-name: initial !important; -moz-animation-play-state: initial !important; -moz-animation-timing-function: initial !important; -moz-animation: initial !important; -webkit-animation-delay: initial !important; -webkit-animation-delay: initial !important; -webkit-animation-direction: initial !important; -webkit-animation-fill-mode: initial !important; -webkit-animation-iteration-count: initial !important; -webkit-animation-name: initial !important; -webkit-animation-play-state: initial !important; -webkit-animation-timing-function: initial !important; -webkit-animation: initial !important; transition-delay: initial !important; transition-duration: initial !important; transition-property: initial !important; transition-timing-function: initial !important; transition: initial !important; -moz-transition-delay: initial !important; -moz-transition-duration: initial !important; -moz-transition-property: initial !important; -moz-transition-timing-function: initial !important; -moz-transition: initial !important; -webkit-transition-delay: initial !important; -webkit-transition-duration: initial !important; -webkit-transition-property: initial !important; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial !important; -webkit-transition: initial !important; }
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    You're not looking hard enough. Page 1 of this "Part 5" discussion is all basically on-topic. Tons of OT on Page 2, on Page 3, on Page 4, and that's where I stopped. TONS of OT here, Mr. OT Police. And yeah, same goes for "Part 1", "Part 2", "Part 3", and "Part 4". GOOD THING TOO, it's actually ROYTAM'S THREADS that brought me here to MSFN. No clue what my search-engine search was at the time, but the ROYTAM THREAD was in the TOP THREE for the results. Been here ever since. But YES, to your point, maybe some days I should just READ instead of TYPE.
  21. NotHereToPlayGames
    That basically kind of makes my point. MSFN will not teach you how to debloat XP, Vista, 7, 10, 11... People that truly want to learn that don't land here at MSFN. Sorry, they just don't. (At least I certainly don't see it!) Most of us forget that XP was also a very HEAVY operating system with a lot of "bloat". We just had 20 years to get it to our liking and only want to spend 20 minutes to get our next OS "to our liking".
  22. NotHereToPlayGames
    <edit: add OT tag> My conclusion here is that "computer enthusiasts" do NOT end up at MSFN. Sorry, they just don't. A "car enthusiast" is someone that owns and upkeeps a "classic" car - you would NEVER hear that "enthusiast" complain, biatch, moan, and whine that their "classic" cannot "do" the same things that a "modern" car can "do". Again, just "my" conclusion, but what we have here are NOT "computer enthusiasts". Sorry, been there, done that. I was on XP up until just this year. I quite literally removed my last strangle-hold (my Acer Aspire One POS) from daily-use just yesterday (replaced with an i5 which still does not qualify as "modern"). It's time for us to face facts and ADMIT that "we" are NOT "computer enthusiasts" !!! !!! !!! Calling ourselves such is a Red Herring !!! !!! !!! Cheap? Frugal? Nostalgic? Dance to the rhythm of our own drum? These all define "us" better than PRETENDING to be "computer enthusiasts". My brother is a "phone enthusiast". Where I do not own a phone! No land line, no mobile, no "burner", NO PHONE AT ALL. He will "upgrade" three or four times a year! Sure, not "every" year, but still. That (to me) is the STUPIDEST thing I've ever witnessed! Like trading in a car and taking *depreciation* up the, um, well, the area where our body exits waste. We are not "computer enthusiasts". CHEAP is a better word. But none of us will like the negative connotations that it seems to carry. Sure, there are countries that are impoverished and those countries receive donated XP Era computers from other countries that are not impoverished. But again, let's face facts, the countries receiving these donated computers DO NOT define themselves as "computer enthusiasts". They thank us for the donation and grin ear to ear for their gift. A "car enthusiast" has five or six of them when the average person has only one or two. A "phone enthusiast" has five or six of them when the average person has only one or two. A "XP era computer enthusiast" has five or six of them when the average person has one or even ZERO of them. But the OT Police will be here shortly. So off I go, lol...
  23. NotHereToPlayGames
    Not everyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings
  24. NotHereToPlayGames
    This won't mean anything to you unless you also use PROXOMITRON, but uBO doesn't "see" googlesyndication because PROXOMITRON removes it before the browser ever has a split-second chance to even see it.
  25. NotHereToPlayGames
    No I do not. "To each their own." I know how to test for list interference. My lists are fine, but thanks for the concern. You make the MISTAKE of assuming uBO is my only defense.
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