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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Hello 👋🏻 fellow AdGuard user here. This extension never gets much mention – people seem to prefer AdBlock and uBlock Origin for whatever reason – but I’m very happy with AdGuard and have used it for years now.

    I don’t have any issues reading articles online. I wonder if we’re subscribed to different filter lists.

    I believe there’s a filter called “anti-adblocker” or something – I would suggest you enable that if you don’t already have it enabled. My understanding is that it’ll block scripts that check if you have an adblocker – resulting in fewer of those “please disable your adblocker” banners.







  • I do think Firefox gets a degraded experience on some websites.

    For example, Google Meet supports virtual video backgrounds and 3D face filters for Chromium based browsers.

    And Google Search serves up an older results page design with fewer features to Firefox users. Someone has literally had to create a Firefox addon to make it pretend to be Chrome so it gets the modern results page.

    I realise these are both Google-owned websites - but I don’t think it’s accurate to say that the average user isn’t going to come up across these differences.





  • Out of interest, what’s your preferred choice nowadays? I’ve always preferred to stick with Debian-derived distros so I don’t need to learn a different package manager (silly, I know).

    I guess I like the comfort/predictably of Ubuntu - I know what to expect, and how to fix it if things go wrong. But maybe I shouldn’t be limiting myself.