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Software >
Brave, extensions >
Chrome / Chromium, Chrome extensions (list of posts) >
Microsoft Edge, extensions >

(on Wikipedia)
(Full – Lite)
(on the Edge Add-ons Store)
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

An ad blocker.

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One UI

2023-02-23

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Software > Operating Systems > Android >

(on Wikipedia)

The interface/skin/software that Samsung uses on its phones.

Searchability: OneUI

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Google > Chrome >
Software > Web browsers, SVG viewers >

(on Wikipedia)
(on Google Play)
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
https://brave.com/

Brave is a web browser that uses components from Chrome to build a more security-conscious browser which also has an alternate advertising mechanism with revenue sharing.

Like Chrome, it’s missing fundamental things.

Chromium extensions > /tag/chrome-extensions
- /tag/chrome-extensions+live
Tampermonkey
- /tag/greasemonkey-scripts
- /tag/greasemonkey-scripts+live
You gain access to an artificial intelligence with it.

4 comments

WordPress Zero Spam

2021-11-15

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Security > Software >
WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

https://wordpress.org/plugins/zero-spam/
https://github.com/Highfivery/zero-spam-for-wordpress

An anti-spam plugin.

Do not install, it breaks your website

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Google > Chrome >
Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://dissenter.com/

A web browser that uses components from Chrome to build a more security-conscious browser which also has a server-independent commenting mechanism like an old ICQ project had.

Like Chrome, it’s missing fundamental things.

Abandoned – As of 2022-02-18 – The project was to be reworked to be based on Firefox instead of Brave, but that didn’t seem to get off the ground.

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Browser cryptocurrency mining as a replacement to visual advertising

2019-01-12

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As a user, I would be willing to have a tab in my browser perform computing such as crypto currency mining. I would be willing to do this in lieu advertising.

This is essentially a donation feature. While it wouldn’t displace all forms of advertising, it would certainly be a good option for websites who want a direct conversion between visits and crypto currency.

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adzapper

2015-12-13

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https://web.archive.org/web/20190807131131/http://www.zaplet.org:80/adzapper/

A software application that can block ads from being displayed on your web browser.

I experimented with this during my replacing web browser components project as a replacement for various ad blocking, Greasemonkey and Stylish.
See also Ad-blocking with Polipo and adzapper.
This looks like it hasn’t been updated in forever, because there are references to it being tested under Windows 95/98.

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Privoxy

2015-12-13

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(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/
http://www.privoxy.org/

Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.

I experimented with cliget during my replacing web browser components project. I was interested in replacing Greasemonkey and Stylish, Adblock (now I use Adblock Latitude), Change Referer Button, etc. While I did get it working, I didn’t stick with it.