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Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
  • This is Fennec, a fork of Firefox for mobile, though mobile Firefox has this same menu. c: Extensions are very much supported on mobile and it's great.

    Though I should add: I'm not an iOS user, so the story is likely to be different there, Apple being Apple and whatnot.

    A screenshot from an Android phone, showing Fennec, a Firefox fork, listing extensions, including uBlock Origin.

  • In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercury
  • You're also wrong. He's a singer known as Freddie. And I don't know what kind of necromancy was used to get him on a chess board.

  • Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
  • Good to know! Thanks for the warning. c: My default course of action will likely be just disabling the old alias and making a new one.

  • Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
  • Lol! I need to start doing something like this when one of those email addresses eventually ends up in a breach. :D

  • turn freeloaders into profit
  • Reminds me of the grim (or beautiful, depending on how you look at it) practice of photographing the deceased, especially children, during the Victorian era. Dressed up and posed, sometimes with living family in the same photo. Part of the reason being the exact fact that they wouldn't move during the shot.

  • Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
  • Laughs in long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony fox

  • As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play extra ads when I pause a video
  • Thanks for confirming! I haven't used the actual YT app in such a long time, so I haven't been able to confirm whether my DNS solution works.

  • Fake job interviews target developers with new Python backdoor
  • I've gotten offered a job on the first interview and I worked there for a while. Then again, that was not in my field of IT and was a part-time job with a well-known company, alongside studies. So while it can be a red flag, it's not always. Depends on the situation. Just stay vigilant.

  • Japanese police create fake support scam payment cards to warn victims
  • I mean, there are cases of victims being directly told by store employees that they can't sell the cards because it's a scam, and them getting right back on the phone with the scammer and going to another store instead.

  • As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play extra ads when I pause a video
  • NewPipe app is a good one, or Tubular if you want sponsor block too (though you can't comment or like videos etc. on either). But if you want to use the actual YT app, the solutions in the other comments are good. I assume that setting up a Pihole or some other ad-blocking DNS could also work. I assumed wrong. See reply.

  • Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years
  • Being in the middle of the large and relatively stable Eurasian plate does help, though. The Mediterranean region, being closer to the edge region, does experience quite a bit more, though, and some strong ones have historically been felt all the way up here, too.

  • Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse?
  • I'm setting up some things for myself before I start proper streaming but little test streams I've done have been very successful!

    And I've subbed to the community, so really appreciating the advertising. Cx

  • Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse?
  • Owncast is rather interesting to me. Self-hosted streaming platform that can use the ActivityPub to publish streaming notifications, if desired.

  • Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years
  • Finland is not close enough to the edges of tectonic plates, so if we get earthquakes here at all, they're barely noticeable.

  • Kristi Noem defends killing her own puppy
  • The puppy was being trained for hunting. Meaning she killed her for doing exactly what she was being trained to do. Of course she wouldn't know there are some animals she shouldn't chase.

    Oh, and this is not a one-off thing from Noem either. She also mentions shooting and killing a male goat for "chasing her kids".

    In any case, I worry when someone's solution to completely fixable issues with other living beings is to just kill them.

  • When I die, turn me into soup
  • Carnivores have just as much right to live as their prey, as unfortunate as the cost of life is.

    We, as humans, are in a rather unique position, being omnivores with many of us in the developed world having easy access to food. And those of us can make a choice to not cause the death of other sentient beings in order to have food.

  • When I die, turn me into soup
  • You can show a lot of differences, but the end result is always the same: Sentient beings dead way before their natural expiration.

  • Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient
  • Do note that this whole thing is based on the hypothetical of plants being capable of experiencing pain. In reality, they do not possess a nervous system to enable that.

    Of course I'd choose to kill an animal if the alternative was getting injured or killed (or starving in some extreme survival situation), but in day-to-day life, I do not see the need to do that.

  • Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient
  • We, as omnivores, have a choice. The carnivores do not. I'd rather not cause more suffering than I have to (since I have that choice) even if there was the potential that it could possibly decrease overall suffering.

    I will not go into other problems with fish specifically since it's not on-topic.

  • Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient
  • I'd say eating plants would still be the lesser of two evils in that case. Animals we kill for food also eat plants, so from a pure quantity of suffering, it's better to not have the middleman there.