> When browsing on the "normal web", it is increasingly required to disable at least part of your antifeatures-blockers to access content.
Author lost me here.
I use Firefox and Kiwi browser with uBlock Origin with all the annoyance lists enabled, bypass-paywalls-clean, unpaywall, sponsorblock, alternate player for twitch, violentmonkey and a few scripts. I also have yt-dlp, streamlink, and mpv.
I regularly read HN, Slashdot, and TechMeme, and it's extremely rare to get a link that I can't access.
Oftentimes I can access content without a browser, thanks to mpv's excellent web support.
I get that it's annoying, but it's really not that hard to solve it once and rarely think about it again. This has been my setup for at least 3 years now.
Occasionally something will annoy me and get through my filters, and I have to spend a few minutes fixing it.
The only thing I'm walled off from right now that's slightly annoying is browsing specific accounts in "X" with tweets ordered by timeline and viewing tweet replies. This is really low value so I haven't bothered looking for a solution, but if anyone knows one, feel free to link it here.
It's mostly stuff like the local sushi shop like [0], works poorly, renders the "pay" button outside the screen on FireFox. Office 365 tools, sometime just kill FireFox performance, or there is no audio, while everything looks ok. Lots of issues trying to sign into this learning platform as well [1]. Can't think of more, but as said it happens surprisingly often.
Edit: Also, on icloud in the browser I consistently need to click explicitly where I want to type (in notes) or my text won't register.
It's the same type of sites that happily take my 32 random char password then I later find it was truncated to 12 chars or so. Just amateur stuff.
Author lost me here.
I use Firefox and Kiwi browser with uBlock Origin with all the annoyance lists enabled, bypass-paywalls-clean, unpaywall, sponsorblock, alternate player for twitch, violentmonkey and a few scripts. I also have yt-dlp, streamlink, and mpv.
I regularly read HN, Slashdot, and TechMeme, and it's extremely rare to get a link that I can't access.
Oftentimes I can access content without a browser, thanks to mpv's excellent web support.
I get that it's annoying, but it's really not that hard to solve it once and rarely think about it again. This has been my setup for at least 3 years now.
Occasionally something will annoy me and get through my filters, and I have to spend a few minutes fixing it.
The only thing I'm walled off from right now that's slightly annoying is browsing specific accounts in "X" with tweets ordered by timeline and viewing tweet replies. This is really low value so I haven't bothered looking for a solution, but if anyone knows one, feel free to link it here.