Hacker News: qilo

New comment by qilo in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

qilo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:55:41 +0000

Surprisingly full uBO still works on Chrome 146 if launched with the argument

    --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported

New comment by qilo in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

qilo — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:24:31 +0000

I found this confusing as well. She probably meant to "Forget" the device when the Bluetooth pairing with the headphones is lost.

New comment by qilo in "Unifi Travel Router"

qilo — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:13:18 +0000

Hehe. Bought TP LINK TL-WR1043ND (one of the first models of affordable home routers with integrated gigabit switch) in 2012 for $40 (maybe $50, but not more), flashed OpenWrt and still using to this day.

New comment by qilo in "We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)"

qilo — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:13:04 +0000

For mostly static content like screencasts by dropping duplicate frames and producing variable framerate h.264 yuv444 videos with lossless encoding I was getting <100 kbps files for 1024x768 resolution more than a decade ago.

New comment by qilo in "Tell HN: Beware of the fake uBlock Origin in Chrome Web Store"

qilo — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:25:04 +0000

Someone has hijacked the name "uBlock Origin" (for an extension) in the Chrome Web Store. When you search for "uBlock Origin", you’re shown a fake extension (1,000 users) with a "Featured" badge instead of the real one (17,000,000 users) at https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpal...

Tell HN: Beware of the fake uBlock Origin in Chrome Web Store

qilo — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:25:04 +0000

Article URL: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/hmnojgngbpmfaeepgokfdcdgfachcilj

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089614

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by qilo in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

qilo — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:08:46 +0000

> There are already zero videos if you visit with no youtube history [...]

since August 2023 [0]

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/139222780?hl=en&ms...

New comment by qilo in "A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification"

qilo — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 01:28:46 +0000

Even with fair usage policy violations (like long term roaming) the prices are still quite reasonable: 1.30 EUR/GiB (+VAT); from next year 1.10 EUR/GiB (+VAT).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulat...

New comment by qilo in "As Android developer verification gets ready to go, a new reason to be worried"

qilo — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 08:39:26 +0000

Aurora Store[0] is an alternative FOSS frontend to Google Play, in which you can install/update apps without any account.

[0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/

New comment by qilo in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

qilo — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:17:08 +0000

Trending page[0] is gone for non logged-in users as of couple months now. (No idea if it's still up for logged-in users) As a result my YouTube consumption went down (not complaining).

https://www.youtube.com/feed/trending

New comment by qilo in "uBlock Origin still works in Chrome 139"

qilo — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:49:10 +0000

With 138, I reconfigured Chrome to force Manifest v2 to continue working.

How did you forced?

New comment by qilo in "uBlock Origin still works in Chrome 139"

qilo — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:27:34 +0000

It's not working for me anymore, after upgrade to 139.

chrome://policy/ shows policy status error:

  Policy name                        Policy value    Source      Applies to    Level        Status

  ExtensionManifestV2Availability    2               Platform    Machine       Mandatory    Error
                            Value    2
                            Error    Unknown policy.

Update: Add these options to the chrome executable to make it work again:

  --enable-features=AllowLegacyMV2Extensions,UnexpireFlagsM136,UnexpireFlagsM137 --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported

Actually, these are enough:

  --enable-features=AllowLegacyMV2Extensions --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported

New comment by qilo in "Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”"

qilo — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:54:27 +0000

By clicking, he expected to see the full price with VAT included, as required by EU regulations, without doing the math himself.

New comment by qilo in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

qilo — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:54:50 +0000

Mozilla sells user data to third parties. Their statement:

The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is broad and evolving. As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213612

New comment by qilo in "A Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs"

qilo — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:45:04 +0000

Firefox Focus is available on App Store. You don't have to use it (I don't), but set it as a content blocker in Safari settings.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/safari-integration-fire...

The only other extension I’ve started using recently, when the quantity/frequency of YouTube ads on Safari became unbearable, is 1Blocker. It includes a specific filter for blocking YouTube ads, and you can use one active filter for free without subscription.

https://support.1blocker.com/en/articles/9313640-how-to-bloc...

New comment by qilo in "Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube"

qilo — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 06:44:31 +0000

I purposefully avoid demonstrating any of the tools (with a suffix that rhymes with "car") that are popularly used to circumvent purchasing movie, TV, and other media content, or any tools that automatically slurp up YouTube content.

Can't figure out what tool Jeff is writing about.

New comment by qilo in "We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch"

qilo — Thu, 22 May 2025 22:38:18 +0000

. (dot) got truncated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch,_Inc%2E

New comment by qilo in "Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges"

qilo — Fri, 09 May 2025 04:24:40 +0000

Fingerprints are only stored on the chip. Collection/retainment for other purposes is against the law.

New comment by qilo in "A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green.""

qilo — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:59:11 +0000

If liar is lying so the not false statement can also be: "Not all not my not hats are not not green".

New comment by qilo in "I spent a year building an Android course for the elderly"

qilo — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:13:04 +0000

Is there any course about Android "administration"? I mean there are plenty of content on Linux/Windows administration (not programming): partitions, file systems, bootloaders, boot sequence, kernels, init(ialization), processes, shells, users, configuration, application installation and execution, logging, security, etc. How all of the components fit together, what interacts with what, and so on.

When I first got my phone was looking for an Android course which would explain all the above concepts (and more, like what is launcher, how notifications work, what other APIs there are, location, camera, microphone, etc.). But didn't find anything, only found courses/books about application development in Java/Kotlin. I have no interest in Android programming, just want to know how it works.