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It's certainly distracting and toggle would be nice, but a uBO filter does the trick in the meanwhile.

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Just letting you know, both stylish extension and with it userstyles.org have been largely left behind by the community due to past transgressions like tracking site visits. While that's mostly in he past afaik, they've been superseded by the stylus extension and userstyles.world


Yes, I'm actually using Stylish - thank you for leaving some context for everyone reading this.


The no-addon workaround for this is to right click any tab, first select all tabs and then bookmark all tabs. Give the folder a name and open it in the bookmark manager. Now you can select them all and copy the URLs.

It's an awkward solution, but it does work and is relatively quick.


Here's the original source by the author: https://scribe.rip/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld...

While I think that we really don't need a .zip domain, this trick falls apart when not shown as an image. Hovering over either URL should tip you off. Firefox shows the actual link in the bottom left.


> Hovering over either URL should tip you off. Firefox shows the actual link in the bottom left.

Most people don't even know what a URL is, let alone how to discover this kind of deception by looking at the hover info.


at that point you can just use a regular hyperlink without showing the url on the page at all.


This so-called attack is also not as effective in most contexts as the simple <a href="https://evilsite.com">https://goodsite.com</a> trick. Raw URLs in web pages don't get auto-linkified anyway, so something is turning it into a link (e.g. through use of HTML), and at that point you can have the link text and the URL be whatever you want, completely independently of each other.


How exactly does this trick work? Thing is, a URL can't have any non-ASCII characters in it. So this would only happen if the webpage or some app takes the URL and undoes the percent-encoding to try to make it more readable.


I just tried the fake URL by pasting it into Safari's address bar, and it “helpfully” percent-encoded the special slashes and tried to go to v1271.zip.


For those who haven't played the game, it should be noted that the game is nothing like what the pitch implies.

PS:T is a well written and introspective RPG and in this capacity it is rivaled by only a handful of contenders.


Disco Elysium, which I haven't gotten around to playing yet so I have no personal opinion, is the only contender I can think of.

The only other game I can think of with that level of narrative craft is the Marathon series, which isn't an RPG, but rather an FPS.

I'm kind of surprised Marathon 4 hasn't been kickstarted yet. There is definitely a whole lot of money on the table there, as the System Shock remake proves.


(FWIW, the studio with which I'm affiliated (https://digimancygames.com) is focused on narrative-driven CRPGs in the vein of games like PS:T and Disco Elysium. We have assembled three of the Disco Elysium writers and other talent in this space. We have an internal project, but are seeking publishing partners or investors.)


Interesting, I wish you well as we sorely need more RPGs in that vein... are you writing an engine in-house?


Thanks. :) Gosh, no. (Too much additional work for the benefit, for us.) We've used Unity, but we expect to transition to Unreal in the future as Unity's direction in recent years unfortunately has been ominous.


Disco Elysium is probably the best game I've ever played but I couldn't get into Planescape Torment.


I would love a modern recreation of planescape torment. the story seems excellent but I bounced off the actual experience of the game


Even as someone who played it when it was a few years old, it’s challenging to replay today. Definitely deserves a refresh.


Having played both Disco Elysium and Planescape, this is very accurate. Depending on the choices you make you will find yourself with the same plot points accomplished in totally different ways in both games. And different choices will go off the rails too.


Bungie announced a new Marathon game a few weeks ago, in case you didn't know. It's going to be an extraction shooter (a la Escape from Tarkov) and not singleplayer FPS, though.


Tides of Torment, perhaps?


Do you mean the spiritual successor "Torment: Tides of Numenera"?

I thought it was very good, but also seemed to be trying too hard to do "torment again" and IMO felt rather forced in the process. Also, I find the Ninth World setting to be a bit too deliberately odd, whereas Planescape feels more naturally odd. I'm also looking at PST with huge nostalgia goggles (first played it in my early teens), but played TToN around age 30, so it's far from a fair comparison.


While I'm not sure about the privacy advantages, setting network.dnsCacheEntries to 0 will prevent firefox from caching dns.

There's no appreciable difference in response time on my setup, it just hits the local dnscrypt-proxy cache instead.


I was about to write up this exact post, almost verbatim. Excellent game sense can seem like you're able to predict the future. Someone who thinks they're "bad at FPS games" usually runs into a lack of game sense, but mistakenly blames it on bad reflexes.


I mean it can be both. Some people really struggle with that level of hand eye coordination. That's one of the reasons I really appreciated Overwatch. It gave a lot more options to play well that didn't require the ability to click on heads at all. This doesn't just help uncoordinated or less experiences players, but also players with disabilities of various sorts. The character Mercy for instance has a beam which heals or boosts damage but it locks onto a player so tight aim is rarely ever a concern and game sense becomes almost everything.


Which seems easy to confuse. If you don't have good game sense, you'll get into situations where you feel like you need twitch sense, so you'll want to think that's your failing.


Relevant XKCD

https://xkcd.com/1288/ https://xkcd.com/1625/ https://xkcd.com/1679/

This is one of those things you'd better do with a userscript instead of yet another addon. Way more flexible too.


Or more specificaly https://xkcd.com/1838/


You forgot this one: https://xkcd.com/1031/



I'm probably not the first to point this out, but isn't this crossing the spam line pretty hard?

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=singularityhub.com


A nearly ideal way to do this on Firefox is to combine

https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Dont-Care-About-Cookies

(which is a maintained fork of the original I don't care about cookies extension, recently bought by Avast)

with https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete

This setup will automatically accept or reject, whichever works, the cookie nonsense and get rid of them once you're done with your tab. CAD comes with a friendly interface to white/greylist cookies you want to keep.

One of the default blocklist for uBlock Origin aims to remove cookie banners too, but a lot of them cannot be simply nuked that way, hence the above method.


> This setup will automatically accept or reject, whichever works, the cookie nonsense and get rid of them once you're done with your tab.

By clicking accept you opt into all kinds of tracking, not just cookies. You can't delete tracking data stored on the server.


This comes down to what you care about. Third party tracking is largely stopped by uBlock Origin, which is my primary concern. If the server I'm currently on does anything to analyze my browsing, that's fine with me. Not because I don't care, but because there's nothing I can do either way. It could lie about it and I would be none the wiser.


tracking data server-side relies on a persistent cookie on the client. if you delete the cookie, the link is severed.



Some of us don’t care about this. It’s always worked like that and it doesn’t bother us. We just want to access the information that we are interested in.


There's also Consent-O-Matic: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic It allows to decline all the cookie banners. However, it doesn't work with many websites. In fact, it works with relatively few. Still, I like the approach to actively reject all cookies.


The best part of "I don't care about cookies" and "Cookie AutoDelete" combo is that you don't even have to think about it, because even if it accepts everything, it will be cleaned. 0 mental load required.


Except, some tracking/fingerprint related stuff is stored server side... and thus not "cleaned".


Well, that's up to your browser to prevent. It's a cat and mouse game; and I doubt something you can solve be clicking a consent button.



If you're using uBlock Origin just install the annoyances list, that gets rid of cookie banners AFAIK.

Edit: Damn, I should have read your comment until the end, sorry.


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