also: I did not realize until now, and also it might just he a coincidence, but it looks like as if your max swap usage with plenty of cached memory would be 10% of your RAM. I wonder if it would top out at half of that with a swappiness setting of 5. if you try it, load back all your swapped memory first.

cache is good, but you shouldn’t have that much swap usage with that overall memory utilization. 8t seems the kernel is making a decision to move a significant amount of memory to swap to have just a little bit more cache. that could make sense in some situations, especially with lots of RAM and a slow disk that is frequently accessed… but probably not on your system. I see you have already reduced swappiness to 10, so maybe all that was snapped out is really rarely used memory, but I wouldn’t want even that on an SSD so you could try setting swappiness to 0. that way it should only use the swap when there is no more cache to free, I think, but the behaviour of this sysctl was not always clear like that.

https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.html?highlight=swappiness#swappiness

I don’t know why did I end up writing that. I wanted to say docx instead of odt. I don’t get why did I get upvotes even, itdoes not make sense that way.

if that was a problem, microsoft office couldn’t support odt either. but it does.

but the meme is not about odt files

what is the ipv6 issue? do you have links?

btw does that mean with android the modem accesses the microphone and the speaker independently from the operating system? is there somewhere I could read more about this?

kde plasma does not get in your way, though

OK, sure, but what are the actual, real-life consequences of that?

uBlock Origin and any other effective content blocker had that as its most important weapon, without exaggeration. it has many other techniques for specific circumstances, but preventing to load the ad scripts, and preventing network requests that send back data to the advertising company, are universally a powerful tool.

I don’t see any ads online. So ad-blocking still works. What doesn’t work?

you don’t see them because addons can still insert unlimited cosmetic tweaks. CSS snippets that make specific elements hidden. but the ads are still loaded, consuming network and CPU resources, and the ad framework still collects usage, interaction and device data.

also, the addons now can’t regularly update the lists even for what cosmetic tweaks to apply. google has decided it does not allow addons in their addon store that fetch filterlists from the network. this means these addons need to embed the lists in themselves. list updates are released much less frequently, and can have several days delay while google decides whether the updated version contains something malicious or otherwise unacceptable to their policies. compared to that, uBlock Origin on Firefox updates the lists every day by default, with no delay, as it fetches the lists directly from their websites.

Not part of any adblocker. Some, like Ghostery, have a separate mechanism to auto-reject these. I switched from uBO to Ghostery because uBO wasn’t doing anything against those.

this is false. and instead of just claiming so, here is proof: there are built-in (but disabled by default) blocklists specialized for cookie prompts and such

That’s not an adblock feature

and as I said, uBO is not just an ad blocker, so saying xy ad blocker can replace it well is false.

and there are hundreds of other extensions that handle that, like PrivacyBadger

except that not really. Because again, the required browser APIs were removed, and even before that, privacy badger was not so effective

Also: privacy related stuff is not affected by Manifest v3, no?

everything is effected that:

• needs to block network requests, including loading of certain site scripts
• depends on an up to date list of things to block

it cannot do all the same if google stripped out the required browser APIs

I guess you meant the youtube website, but on a TV you won’t be able to block youtube ads in the browser either

librewolf does not have much developer capacity to maintain such heavy patches. you may remember some chromium forks telling they will maintain a patch when google completely removes this API from chromium, but it seems none of them will follow through. I can’t really fault them because it is likely a gargantuan task. but I’ll fault them for claiming something they (should) have known they can’t deliver. but my point is if vivaldi and others can’t keep it, how could librewolf?

if firefox drops manifest v2

I think they said they will go out of their way to keep the extension APIs in Mv3 that uBlock needs

only ads on big sites or ads by big providers are blocked. cookie prompts and other annoyances much less, because there is a great variety of them. data mining and hardware fingerprinting cannot even be thwarted anymore.

sure, if you only care about ads, but not at all about your privacy, it does not mean much to you. personally I would rather see ads (topic based) than give up my privacy, and the complete uBlock Origin is very useful for privacy too.

Anyway, I switched back to Librewolf even though it can’t play x.265 files (jellyfin).

you should check that again, Firefox gained support for it last year.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Guides/Formats/Video_codecs#hevc_h.265

check the browser compatibility column in the table. it seems maybe Firefox is the only one supporting it even for those without hardware acceleration?

does not work for youtube. for that, you need either a third party youtube app with builtbin blocking, or a patched official app that adds the blocking.

No idea why uBlock specifically is being blocked, but it’s not like you can’t have an ad-blocker anymore.

because google took away the API for network traffic filtering. all that current filtering addons can do is pass a very brief, rarely updated network filter list to the browser, and insert cosmetic tweaks to the pages you visit. they can’t look anymore at all details of any network request and decide what do to. except on Firefox, where it has not been taken away.

first it was the news sites, then the shops and venues, but I didn’t speak up because I haven’t used them anyway.

then the utiliies companies did that, but I didn’t speak up, so far as I can pay the invoices personally it’s not a big deal.

then came the government sites, but meh, I can just go in person! sure it takes away many hours but it’s not worth the hassle to complain!

and by that time nothing else was left either, because all the other sites dropped support in the meantime, while I did not have the time anymore to notice it.

ublock has a lite version on chrome browsers that still works. but normal ublock is much better. ubo lite and other blockers are hiding the ads, but their lists can’t be updated so quickly.

but also, ublock origin is not just an ad blocker. it is a wide range content blocker, also efficient at blocking trackers and limiting fingerprinting. the browser API limitations that make it not work on chrome also means that it can’t do all that anymore, and it is really just a cosmetic ad blocker