I read that its a good idea to use a vpn to a very small, rather poor country. When the podcast has dynamic ads, it may not have one for your country and you can get it ad free. Havent tested it though.

95% of the sites I tried jDownloader works. Nice thing is, you can just copy and paste the URL if the site, no need to crawl for the video stream url.

Highly recommended

Yeah but what if the fingerprint is more tricky? Like a blank line with the font called afzer the fingerprint? Metadata inside of an image?

To be reasonable safe one would have to buy the book from multiple accounts and compare some hashes.

Good to know. Never noticed it with my last phone (one plus). Its often not that clear which option is a Samsung addon and which is not.

Samsung has this feature build in and its called ‘Extra dim’ or similar. Its a quick setting one can get when customizing the tiles.

I used to use third party apps too, but it was annoying that you couldnt grant permissions or install new apps without deactivating the dimming app since it was a security risk to have an app which draws over other apps.

Never heard of geopdf but i found this:

https://help.locusgis.com/support/solutions/articles/47001094929-how-to-import-geotiff-or-geopdf

So you can convert your files with qgis (free) on a computer and than have a broader selection of apps like locusgis. You could also try locus (non gis) or osmand which is foss.

Well to be honest, even if each and every website wouldnt use dar patterns and there is a clear choice to refuse with one click, it would still be obnoxious to decline everytime you visit a site.

Sweet!

This looks really promising. Not available on mobile though, but I will test on my desktop.

Thanks for the answer. If I remember correctly, this plugin works by accepting all cookies in the background. Is this correct?

If so, do you also have some kind of cookie cleanup policy/plugin? Or do you really dont care about cookies?

I am using ublock and dark reader. Both are available for a long time now. Also using tampermonkey which came available some months ago.

Third party apps like nova cannot go that deep into the system like good lock. You couldnt realy use nova and have great navigation animations for example.

I love my samsung devices as a poweruser because you can customize much more and they offer really useful tools which are missing when one uses vanilla android.

Also I would really miss the option to use smart tags which still arent available for pixel devices.

I like what other people describe as ‘bloat’ on a Samsung. But I am a powetuser who actually uses a lof these functions. Sure i dont need two calenders. But i can just not activate the samsung one and hide it in the launcher. Also i would say that samsung has a better ecosystem. I am also using a samsung tablet which is superb and some samsung smart tags. If you get a pixel you dont really have an option to use any working smart tag.

Yeah that was my first too. I remember that I found the S2 ridiculously large when it came out. Also I was super jelous for the build quality of the iPhone 4 which was released at the same time. Glad that these times are over.

I meant selled it on craigslist or something.

When the phone (or whatever) is still usable I always prefer to sell it. You usually get more money and the usable product gets used some more instead of getting destroyed.

OCHs were way more common in Germany than in other countries. Biggest boards like boerse and gulli used only OCHs. My guess is its because of those laws that torrenting was risky. But the truth is that for one pirate who used vpns, torrents and OCHs, there probably are a hundred people using streaming sites.

If you are interested in the German piracy history, there is a book anout the gulli board: http://gulliwars.com/

Right but that meme says ‘always has been’.

Why for electric bikes and not just any bike? And arent the airtags peeeping when moved and the owners iphone isnt around? Which makes them useless for that purpose anyways.

Also a third idea: Write the devs of the app to offer two versions, one with original package name and one without it, that way users can choose. Thats not an uncommon thing to do, I think Youtube Vanced did that.