Before adding “@@*$redirect-rule” to uBlock Origin filters:
After adding “@@*$redirect-rule” to uBlock Origin filters:
Using Firefox with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and some others.
Well, the ones based on Chromium aren’t, anyway. I’ve heard some major criticisms of Safari in the last few years, for what that’s worth.
The NHS’ virtual appointment service in the UK doesn’t support Firefox either, only Chrome, Safari and Edge. The dark days of “please view this website in Internet Explorer 6” are creeping closer to the present again. I hate the modern internet.
Works pretty well. Reader Mode is great at unfucking user-hostile site designs like this.
Yeah, Windows’ bullshit is what drove me to Linux in the first place. I only have it on my gaming system, and only because Discord’s stupid screensharing doesn’t transmit audio on Linux, NVIDIA’s drivers for Linux suck balls (going AMD next time now that their cards are good again) and there are a couple of games my friends play that have issues on Linux. I’ve never run into a game on my everyday laptop that Linux couldn’t run, and the Steam Deck will take basically whatever you throw at it.
Windows is a barely-functional rat’s nest of code spaghetti that falls apart at complete random. Sometimes your audio drivers will just stop working for no apparent reason. Sometimes your computer will just refuse to connect to the internet until you do a clean install. Windows Update apparently runs Prime95 in its spare time and so does the Antimalware Service Executable. I hate using it so much. I wish Windows would just curl up and die.
But you could do it, which would give it a use in remote areas with poor electrical service given the ubiquity of both USB power and the BL-4C battery.