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Atheist YouTube channels, now gone

2013-08-22
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Back in the day, I had been subscribed to so many YouTube channels that they didn’t have the functionality to show me all of the new videos.

I’m also seriously annoyed with having videos and channels “go missing” because of takedowns, bannings and closures. YouTube doesn’t even give you the author or name of a video when it’s removed.

The solution was to locally cache at least the basics of the information. If I had my way, all of the videos would be downloaded too, but that’s too extreme even for me. I also think my ISP would have a fit.

Getting this information can be done via RSS.. at least while YouTube still supports such a thing. My last experiences with RSS and YouTube are found in rss2email, and a rant on usability-apathy.

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So I stopped using Google..

2013-06-14
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Internet > Google >

Google’s informal motto is/was don’t be evil. They claimed to be pretty good guys.

However, Google has (as I figured) very obviously become Evil. Tracking.. hell, building activity webs. Why do you think they have all kinds of web developer services like captcha. They get to see who uses them.

So since they’re evil, I’ll stop using Google Search.

Instead, I’ll use DuckDuckGo. They claim to be pretty good guys.

Hey wait.

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Ad-blocking with Polipo and adzapper

2013-06-14
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Polipo + adzapper

While Replacing Firefox, I wanted to look into a solution for abstracting out advertisement blocking.

I failed.

  • Polipo makes downloading from file-hosting sites hang up regularly, starting at 15MB. May be a mis-configuration.

  • I have Firefox set up to let me type single words into the location bar to trigger its search feature. Polipo breaks this, trying to go to http://keyword Multiple keywords work, so this is rather strange.

See also Ad-blocking with Polipo

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