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Navy Chief

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I switched to https://brave.com. It has a really good ad-blocker, is not bloated, and fast. When you download from Flightsim.to, and the counter has to run before the download actually starts, you will instantly notice a difference! Badabing!! Just try it and you will see.

When you visit YouTube, using Brave browser, NOT the YouTube app, you will no longer have to.suffer through the damn ads before watching a video.

Try Brave, I MOST highly recommend it!!

NC
 
Navy Chief said:
I switched to https://brave.com. It has a really good ad-blocker, is not bloated, and fast. When you download from Flightsim.to, and the counter has to run before the download actually starts, you will instantly notice a difference! Badabing!! Just try it and you will see.

When you visit YouTube, using Brave browser, NOT the YouTube app, you will no longer have to.suffer through the damn ads before watching a video.

Try Brave, I MOST highly recommend it!!

NC
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I use Edge and AdGaurd. I get no Youtube ads.
 
I guess I'm a mega-1337 gamer and I use OperaGX with a scriptblocker and an adblocker (whose name I forget at the moment) and its been great for me
 
For me, the biggest benefit is when I download from Flightsim.to. I download a LOT from that site. I cannot remember a day since that site came online, that I haven't downloaded at least a couple files. The wait time is reduced by probably 90%! NC
 
Chrome with an adblocker is good enough for me. I have an Android phone and the Google Assistant is a huge help. As for privacy, I don't care who knows what I'm doing, since none of it is illegal. And if Sundar Pichai wants to follow me to the club, I'll even introduce him to my favorite dancers. But he's buying the beer...
 
The best bet for downloading from FlightSim.to, I've found, is actually Windsailor.

It's cut my time in downloading/managing MSFS downloads by more than half. It downloads and extracts the files, and removes the previous version (as long as the creator doesn't change the folder name.) And if you use an Addons Manager, it can even remember that the Rotax goes in your \Planes folder, Majerle STOLport goes in your USA\WA folder, etc. when you download updates.

It's an enormous time saver if you don't just dump everything in the same Downloads or Community folder.

https://flightsim.to/file/18195/windsailor
 
Spook48 said:
I'm starting to dislike flightsim.to
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Unless all you want is payware, you're pretty much stuck. He has the market cornered. Between, AvSim, FlightSim (the original .com site) and Simviation, authors used to have choices as to where they uploaded and could still be assured that their files would get attention. When MSFS first came out, there were a couple of other players in the freeware game, but those just don't have the traction of the .to page.
 
Ad blockers and privacy tools are going to be dead in 2023 for Chrome. Google is dumping the Manifest v2 API that they use. If you are using a Chrome based browser you need to check if your fork will keep Manifest v2 support.

Brave is keeping Manifest v2 support so Ad blockers and privacy tools will keep working on Brave past Jan 2023. How long they will be able to keep Manifest v2 is unknown so it may be time to disable auto updates of your browser and look into Firefox.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/08/ad_blockers_chrome_manifest_v3/
https://www.ghacks.net/2022/09/29/brave-browser-manifest-v2-extensions-after-v3-update/
 
I use Firefox and an ad blocker plugin; I think it is uBlock. The countdowns whiz by in a second, and there are no blocker nags. Nice to know there are alternatives, but mine ain't broke, I ain't fixing it.

August
 
I use Edge with Adblock. Fastest experience I've ever had with a browser, even makes Chrome which it's based on feel slow. That said I have my adblock disabled for flightsim.to to support them. Never see YouTube ads though.
 
Well, I decided to give Brave a shot. So far, I like what I see. You can really tell that it's a tweaked Chrome when you start looking at things like downloads history and such, but the zippy countdown on the .to page is worth the time spent installing by itself!
 
At this point any just about any browser besides Firefox is likely a Chromium based browser.
 
Allen said:
At this point any just about any browser besides Firefox is likely a Chromium based browser.
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Yep, and paradoxically most of them are copyrighted.

That's what I love in Firefox: it's free, open source code, and makes me feel somewhat less "spied on".
Firefox together with AdBlock works like a charm.
 
I have AdBlock on my Chrome, but every now and then something will slip through. The latest ad to get through on the .to site was highly offensive - at least to me. It featured an admitted criminal female rapper selling her merchandise with her mammaries nearly hanging out where there are quite probably kids browsing. I had considered whitelisting the site before that, but not now.
 
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