Yever Read Something And Have Understanding That Has Eluded You Interminably Suddenly Stop, Curl Up,

Y’ever read something and have understanding that has eluded you interminably suddenly stop, curl up, and snuggle neatly into a fold in your brain because a new way way opened to it?

Let’s say you wanted to glue fabric to wood, but what do you use? What about glass to paper? This to That lets you choose two things you want to glue and lists what types of glue is best. (Because people have a need to glue things to other things!)

Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it's just... Social media. That's it. Social media and news sites. And I'm tired of social media and I'm tired of the news.

Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?

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what extensions do you use?

that depends on which browser profile i'm using d:

in general, i have:

uBlock Origin (trusted adblocker; it can block scripts too; supports custom rules)

Privacy Possum (blocks tracking headers and falsifies tracking data, possibly redundant now between UBO and firefox's own methods)

OVPN (mainly for specific webRTC leak protection and to block accessing certain site w/out my VPN on)

Tridactyl (keyboard navigation ! vim-style keybinds; i can't sing its praises enough)

some profile-specific extensions:

XKit Rewritten (makes tumblr usable lmao)

Facebook Container (apparently no longer needed in some versions of firefox ??)

Bypass Paywalls Clean (no more paywalls for news sites etc.; removed from mozilla store, i've linked the gitlab)

Unpaywall (as above but focused on academic articles; uses legal sources)

Just Delete Me (uses justdeleteme.xyz database; provides a link for deleting your account on the current website and indicates difficulty)

imo extensions are always a tradeoff between privacy (specifically, fingerprint resistance) and convenience. i plan to rework my firefox profiles (again lmao) w/ this in mind, since i don't need Just Delete Me 99% of the time, for example.

for things like cookie management i'd recommend using firefox's own inbuilt settings (again for fingerprinting reasons). i'd love a way to automatically refuse cookie agreements but i'm not installing an extra extension just for that. same w/ the "bypass twitter login" extensions - i can just do that manually via deleting those elements in UBO, or probably set a custom rule to automate it.

Let this be your sign to watch older movies right now please