How to browse websites in 2025: 13 simple steps
How to browse websites in 2025: 13 simple steps
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Sorry but it's old, dude... now you have to update it adding the steps for ID check, facial recognition and government approval.
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Also forgot the email newsletter/X percent off pop-up
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You get hit with the Google/Cloudflare captcha because your VPN, privacy extensions, and the fact that you're using Firefox in general make them think you're a bot. But actually they've already decided you're definitely a bot and refuse to let you in no matter how many image captchas you solve.
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there was this satirical "web browsing simulator 2025" or something like that where you had to do all those things.
but I don't remember the exact name and can't find it with a search engine. Maybe someone else knows what I am talking about.-
Was it Stimulation clicker?
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Life hack Re: #4
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One of the first things I enable, along with blocking location, microphone, and camera.
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Absolutely!
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"You already have your VPN installed
You're using firefox with ublock origin and noscript
You load a page, it just works or its blank
If its blank, you whitelist only the top level domain on noscript
You read the page content with no ads, no popups, no referrers, trackers or unnecessary javascript bullshit."
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BTW, you can configure uBlock Origin to block all 3rd party javascript by default, but allow 1st party scripts, so you don't even need NoScript to get most of these benefits.
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I find its much more annoying trying to whitelist specific sites or scripts with ublock than with noscript, but thats just a preference thing.
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- You close the video that started autoplaying
- You try to read the content of the site on 20% of your screen because the rest is padding and headers and useless shit
- You try to understand why your laptop fan has started and your battery is draining at 100% cpu on a text and image on website
- You manage to read something on the website before your battery drops by 30%. You try to figure out if it's AI generated or not
- You're hit by a paywall
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You’re hit by a paywall
You open up archive.ph
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Step 1: install and set up uBlock Origin properly optionally use VPN ignore all other steps
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uBlock origin is the minimal requirement for browsing nowadays
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I skip the last step
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There are a lot of community-driven websites, but they're all out SEOed by profit-driven garbage sites.
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You also have to wait 30 seconds to a minute for all the useless javascript to load and get in the way of you trying to find what you are looking for. You might also have to dodge an AI chatbot and various buttons for AI features trying to trick you into clicking them.
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How are people on lemmy but also not using ublock origin and noscript?
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I gave up on noscript years ago when more and more websites would break unless I allowed dozens of different domains for each, it became too much of a pain to manage. What's the point if you're forced to allow it for the page to load anyway? But it has been years, so maybe noscript has evolved to compensate for that?
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I am so glad that I’m using an adblocker that filters out 90% of the crap. The other 10% of the crap are killed by cookie whitelist and Javascript whitelist.
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