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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The main difference between symlinks and hard links are the ability to span filesystems, and the fact that a symlink can become broken if you delete the file it points to. In use, the visible behavior is pretty much identical, and you likely want to use symlinks in normal practice.
Curiously, NTFS5 under Windows supports symlinks and hardlinks, but the functionality isn't exposed by default. I use William Schinagl's freeware Link Shell Extension to provide GUI entries for creating them. |
OMG! There is so much information in that link! Do people actually learn and master all that stuff?
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Figuring out what to block does require experimentation. In general, stuff I block will be ad servers, but those are generally identifiable by their names. And NoScript remembers settings, so it's a "get it right and forget it" operation for sites.
(NoScript keeps its config in the master prefs.js file Firefox uses to store preferences. Mine is about 600KB in size. I have thousands of bookmarks, so about 550KB of that is NoScript whitelist...  )
uBlock Origin is not a NoScript replacement. uBlock blocks sites. NoScript blocks scripting used on sites. You may want to visit a site but not allow various things it links to to execute scripts.
Haven't tried it, but not surprised. I believe what it tries to block are various potential exploits. It is not a content filter, and will not block a porn site just because it's a porn site. It's on you to be aware of what sites are and choose whether to go there.
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Thing is it wasn't a porn site. It was a medical site offering information about how to recover from low back pain. Then you could see it was a re-direct and it sent me to the porn site.
I think No-Script is cool. A brilliant idea. But a PITA, as well.