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I'm used to my internet-browsing combination of choice, Firefox and uBlock Origin (uBO), breaking sites. Everyone codes their sites with Chromium in mind, and that's just fine because it covers nearly all browser usage thanks to Google's technically-not-a-monopoly monopoly. In any case, sites not working for me isn't nearly as common as it once was, but it still happens from time to time.
Keep on readin' on When overzealous uBlock Origin rules break sites⟶
One thing I don't need first thing in the morning or last thing at night is to be visually accosted by emails that include absurdly-colored elements. A couple of the newsletters I subscribe to use ridiculous shades of red-orange, and with my gaming PC and its contrasty gaming monitor and some slightly boosted digital vibrance to make colors pop a bit, scrolling through these newsletters can physically hurt.
It seems my crappy little unadvertised blog here has finally garnered enough attention from bots to start getting hit with spam. My first step toward world domination has been taken.
RSS ain't dead yet, and some of us weirdos use it to keep track of our favorite YouTube channels. Unfortunately, the default RSS feed is full of junk: littered with Shorts and livestreams (active or past), making it quite annoying to sift through to find the proper videos for which we wanted to "subscribe" in the first place.
It's wild that it's taken this long, and it still requires some fussing around by the user to enable the feature (for now), but at least it's here. And with it we can make the smoothest Google declutterer of all! Previous iterations here:
Keep on readin' on Firefox finally supports custom search engines⟶
You ever come across a traffic jam caused by people who were in a small accident and then left their rides in the road? They're endangering themselves and others and causing traffic issues by blocking a lane or three. What are they even doing?
One of the many ways to leverage uBO is to manually block annoying elements on sites you frequent. Take, for instance, the following single-product page from opticsplanet.com. Amidst all the information you want, there's a bunch of up-selling nonsense that can be removed to greatly simply the page down to only what you want: information about the product.
Keep on readin' on Declutter your favorite online shops with uBlock Origin⟶
There's a much simpler way to do it that doesn't involve a third-party corporation that probably gets half its money from selling user data¹ and the other half from providing a small amount of space and trying to upsell you more.
Keep on readin' on Stop using Dropbox to send phone photos to your laptop or desktop⟶
Emojis are clearly so important to human discourse that there's not just one simple keyboard shortcut for them but two: [win .] and [win ;]. But what about all the various international characters you might need to use every so often?
Keep on readin' on Insert "special" characters in Windows slightly less horribly⟶
Windows prevents things that need admin permissions from running with normal startup methods ⸺ like adding a shortcut to an app to the startup folder within the Start menu. To force it to happen anyway, you'll instead need to load up the Task Scheduler and create a task that runs the desired app with the highest privileges available.
Keep on readin' on Use Task Scheduler to add admin-privilege startup items⟶