If a website is not working in Librewolf, it is definitely not going to work in Tor, right? Unless it's an onion address, which is usually very obvious at first glance.
Thing is my primary librewolf profile has all kinds of privacy and security settings and extensions. Noscript, jshelter, and so on. It's just a matter of deciding how much it's worth messing with them for any site that doesn't like it.
There are lots of sites that don't work unless you turn on javascript and let them fingerprint your browser or whatever, but there are also quite a few that work better without it — enough of them to make me leave it as the default.
Even early broadband could be hit or miss. I ordered disks directly from Ubuntu because I wasn't confident in my Internets ability to download an entire disk iso in the early '00s.
I downloaded a 100mb video podcast in like '03 on a broadband connection and it took me at least a day
It actually makes sense. You wouldn't expose the most secret military base to the internet directly. The SGC systems must have been airgapped, especially in the early years.
How do you research then? You put in a request, a secure, internet connected terminal is used to grab that data, copied to hard storage, scanned for malicious code, then transferred to the SGC computers.
Pre-Web2.0 this wasn't an issue as sites simply returned static data. There were even projects that offered to crawl an entire website and save every page, every linked path, for offline browsing.
you ever been chased by jaffa and manage to dial the gate in the nick of time but they still manage to kill you because Anubis took too long deciding whether or not you're a bot
20 Comments
kbal@fedia.io · 30 pts · 25d
Procedure for looking at a typical trendy-tech ad-infested web page, 2026:
The web never would have become popular if it had started out being like this.
radix@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 25d
Quicker version:
Go to the url in librewolf
If it doesn't work, give up and pick a better web page.
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 11 pts · 25d
If a website is not working in Librewolf, it is definitely not going to work in Tor, right? Unless it's an onion address, which is usually very obvious at first glance.
kbal@fedia.io · 5 pts · 25d
Thing is my primary librewolf profile has all kinds of privacy and security settings and extensions. Noscript, jshelter, and so on. It's just a matter of deciding how much it's worth messing with them for any site that doesn't like it.
There are lots of sites that don't work unless you turn on javascript and let them fingerprint your browser or whatever, but there are also quite a few that work better without it — enough of them to make me leave it as the default.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 25d
you would be surprised. for instance cloudflare is easier there
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 25d
The way that website creators just make nonfunctional websites is plain obscene.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 25d
One of the earliest episodes of SG-1 has Daniel using Netscape Navigator 3.0 to access the internet. Fun times.
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 10 pts · 25d
Talking about ordering a disc of information off the Internet instead of straight downloading that information. '90s as hell.
And sort of related to web browsers, Carter did research on Hathor, but if you look closely, the URL for the web page is actually a local HTML file.
file///c:/http/www/ancient/eternal/hathor.htmlElBarto@piefed.social · 4 pts · 25d
90s Internet was mostly dialup. 640MB of information took six or more hours to download.
evidences@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
Even early broadband could be hit or miss. I ordered disks directly from Ubuntu because I wasn't confident in my Internets ability to download an entire disk iso in the early '00s.
I downloaded a 100mb video podcast in like '03 on a broadband connection and it took me at least a day
llii@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 25d
Same, I ordered a Ubuntu CD and others (Redhat or Debian(?)) on CDs, because we only had 64 kbit/s ISDN.
fonix232@fedia.io · 3 pts · 25d
It actually makes sense. You wouldn't expose the most secret military base to the internet directly. The SGC systems must have been airgapped, especially in the early years.
How do you research then? You put in a request, a secure, internet connected terminal is used to grab that data, copied to hard storage, scanned for malicious code, then transferred to the SGC computers.
Pre-Web2.0 this wasn't an issue as sites simply returned static data. There were even projects that offered to crawl an entire website and save every page, every linked path, for offline browsing.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 25d
dint they use the computers to research on seth, set-tesh too.
knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 25d
We need to go back to gopher and Usenet.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 25d
plain text Usenet.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 3 pts · 25d
That webpage ain't worth it anyway. Fuck em.
decended_being@midwest.social · 3 pts · 25d
I loved this episode. Sam typing ultra fast and waiting for "the buffer" to catch up certainly stuck with me.
_NetNomad@fedia.io · 2 pts · 25d
you ever been chased by jaffa and manage to dial the gate in the nick of time but they still manage to kill you because Anubis took too long deciding whether or not you're a bot
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 25d
Oh... the 90's... how nostalgic... wait... this is 2026?!....
atro_city@fedia.io · 1 pts · 25d
Couldn't have opened a single one with Chrome :)