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Post by James Bond on Apr 7, 2019 13:49:31 GMT
It's a file host. Apparently, one of the largest file hosts there is. Thing is, although it offers a ton of really cool features and functionality, it's also loaded with dangerous cryptomining software, annoying popups, and other irritants. For those of you familiar with the site, I'm looking for an alternative that has ALL the same features and functionality of Openload.co, but without any of the extra added bull****. Can anyone recommend any? I've tried Google, and have been looking for about a week, but haven't found one yet.
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Post by ck100 on Apr 7, 2019 15:39:55 GMT
It wouldn't hurt to get a good pop-up/ad blocker. Firefox and Chrome have some for free.
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Post by James Bond on Apr 7, 2019 17:17:10 GMT
It wouldn't hurt to get a good pop-up/ad blocker. Firefox and Chrome have some for free. Oh yeah, I know, I have both Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin installed in both Firefox and Chrome on my Windows laptop and they keep me well protected so I'm able to use and view the site there. The problem is with my iPad, which is old and out-of-date and I can't afford a new one at the moment. I have Safari on that and I can't find any good ad blockers that'll work on it because of the age of the machine and the iOS.
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Post by mslo79 on Apr 7, 2019 18:20:52 GMT
James Bond You could try to find a uBlock Origin coin-blocking lists online which might help as a quick look I found... github.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list/ (use the one for uBlock Origin (i.e. nocoin-ublock.txt )) (maybe... raw.githubusercontent.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list/master/nocoin.txt ) ; I have not tested it though but I suspect it will work (or at least get you in the ball park of what you need to do). basically add that text to your 'my filters' in uBlock Origin, click apply, and see what happens. if you don't like it, simply remove the text and click apply and things will be back to normal. Install one or the other as your just wasting CPU resources. NOTE: uBlock Origin is the better of the two as that's something I would install by default on browsers in general. That's why Apple crap sucks besides being overpriced etc (I never been a fan of tablets as they are watered down computers) as if you got something that can run Windows, even if it became outdated, you could likely have installed Linux (which is free) to it as then you would have a solid internet machine and Linux works well on older hardware to and as a added bonus since malware etc tends to target Windows, since it's the dominate OS, Linux is generally immune to.
p.s. I got Linux running on a couple of older, mostly outdated, laptops and it works overall better than Win10 on them as Win10 is a bit too CPU hungry on those as while I did get a free copy of Win10 registered on them, as one came with Win7 and the other Win8, they are simply too sluggish and since Microsoft is dropping support of Win7 in Jan 2020, Linux is a solid alternative given that will be supported for the foreseeable future (current version of Linux I am using is supported til 2023).
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Post by James Bond on Apr 7, 2019 18:53:11 GMT
James Bond You could try to find a uBlock Origin coin-blocking lists online which might help as a quick look I found... github.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list/ (use the one for uBlock Origin (i.e. nocoin-ublock.txt )) (maybe... raw.githubusercontent.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list/master/nocoin.txt ) ; I have not tested it though but I suspect it will work (or at least get you in the ball park of what you need to do). basically add that text to your 'my filters' in uBlock Origin, click apply, and see what happens. if you don't like it, simply remove the text and click apply and things will be back to normal. Install one or the other as your just wasting CPU resources. NOTE: uBlock Origin is the better of the two as that's something I would install by default on browsers in general. That's why Apple crap sucks besides being overpriced etc as if you got something that can run Linux you could at least install that to it and then you would have a solid internet machine and it works well on older hardware to. Thanks for the advice. I had applied the NoCoin list in both Adblock and uBlock just as a precaution just in case. I hadn't noticed any spikes in my CPU usage before I applied it but I thought it better to be safe than sorry. Thanks for telling me I only need one of those two ad blockers. I'd had to disable Adblock Plus on openload.co anyway as it prevented me from uploading videos. Maybe I'll just forget about this problem and move on. If Apple makes it difficult to use and view that site safely, then I'll just stick to my Windows laptop and forget about it.
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Post by mslo79 on Apr 7, 2019 19:01:39 GMT
James BondYeah, plus with just about any system... running a outdated browser etc could potentially put that device at risk since security flaws won't be patched. Yeah, with some devices your best off dumping them and moving on.
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Post by James on Apr 7, 2019 19:09:03 GMT
Have you ever tried 123movies or Putlocker?
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Post by James Bond on Apr 7, 2019 19:19:33 GMT
with some devices your best off dumping them and moving on. Much like some relationships. Thanks too for the advice about Linux. I've never tried it but I'll be buying a new computer next year and I'll look into it.
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Post by James Bond on Apr 7, 2019 19:22:59 GMT
Have you ever tried 123movies or Putlocker? That's not the kind of thing I'm looking for.
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Post by James on Apr 7, 2019 19:28:00 GMT
Have you ever tried 123movies or Putlocker? That's not the kind of thing I'm looking for. How about Vimeo? |
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Post by James Bond on Apr 7, 2019 19:38:58 GMT
That's not the kind of thing I'm looking for. How about Vimeo? Nope, not suitable either. Thanks but don't worry about it. I'm just gonna stick with Openload. If Apple can't handle it, screw it.
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Post by mslo79 on Apr 7, 2019 20:16:04 GMT
James BondWell if your buying a pre-made computer (well at least a mainstream typical desktop/laptop) it will come with Windows by default and will be Windows 10 at this point. (I tend to build my computers though since it's just overall better once you know some stuff) but one can still put Linux on it if they want to (like wipe the drive and install it from scratch). but it sort of depends on what you do with your computer whether it's a decent option or not as if you play video games, your pretty much stuck on Windows. but if you just do some fairly basic tasks, Linux could be a option for you and I like the added bonus with Linux in that while it's not outright immune to viruses etc your far less likely to get a virus on Linux than you are with Windows since damn near all of the shady people only attack Windows because damn near everyone has Windows (as far as general desktop/laptops go) as Windows has something like 87% of the market where as Linux only has about 2%. so it just makes more sense for those shady people to attack Windows (but if Linux ever became popular on a desktop/laptop, which I don't see happening for the foreseeable future, then it would be more attacked). hell, right now many say you don't even need any anti-virus software on Linux because there are so few viruses on it which is nice as it frees up system resources and this is a bonus especially if you got older hardware. I have been using 'Linux Mint v19.1 Xfce' (but the Cinnamon version is their most popular of the Linux Mint OS ; basically their general website is... www.linuxmint.com/ ; which shows you the basic interface etc which are pretty much three of them... Cinnamon/MATE/Xfce) as my primary OS since Jan 2019 and it's solid enough for what I generally do although I still have Win10 installed on another SSD I got for that occasion I need to replay a video game etc. but general day-to-day use, Linux is solid enough for me and my password manager (which I used to log into websites as it generates a long secure random password for each site as this is more secure that way as it's unwise to use the same password for multiple websites as if someone compromises your password it could potentially be used quickly to compromise your other sites etc) also has a Linux version to so the general database file it creates can interchange between Windows/Linux machines. one thing that's nice about Linux... you can give it a brief test by booting it from the USB flash drive (it's a bit less than 2GB in size) and it won't touch your Windows installation at all (basically if you have access to a Windows computer you can try out Linux right now without it interfering with your Windows install at all just to get a feel of the general interface etc. just don't click the Install icon on the desktop.). or you could even play with it a bit in a virtual machine using VirtualBox (i.e. www.virtualbox.org/ ; which is free) which is like running Linux from within Windows (or you can do it in reverse by running Windows from within Linux). basically it's like running a computer within a computer. hell, it's how I run Windows 10 from within Linux for occasional tasks I need Windows specific programs for although if I have to play a game ill have to reboot into the real Win10 as a virtual machine is not made for that stuff. but running virtual machines you will need a fair amount of system RAM to do it as I would recommend you have at least 8GB of system RAM if you want to help ensure things generally stay quick enough although even with 4GB of RAM you could probably get by with it but you will likely have to close a fair amount of programs in your real OS to keep enough RAM freed up so the virtual machine stays snappy if you only have 4GB of main system RAM. but with that said... Windows is still safest to suggest to the average person simply because it's the standard as damn near everyone uses it. but I am confident the average person would be generally safer browsing websites online using Linux than Windows as a lot of the virus and other junk that attack Windows, won't effect Linux. sure, you got those Phishing scams and those can potentially effect everyone since it's not a OS specific threat as it's a online threat in general since it's a attempt to fool the user into giving up sensitive info by making something appear legitimate when it's not. just some thoughts  p.s. there are quite a few variations of Linux, all are basically free, but Mint is one of the most popular because it's similar to Windows interface basically.
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Post by James Bond on Jun 24, 2019 16:36:10 GMT
James BondWell if your buying a pre-made computer (well at least a mainstream typical desktop/laptop) it will come with Windows by default and will be Windows 10 at this point. (I tend to build my computers though since it's just overall better once you know some stuff) but one can still put Linux on it if they want to (like wipe the drive and install it from scratch). but it sort of depends on what you do with your computer whether it's a decent option or not as if you play video games, your pretty much stuck on Windows. but if you just do some fairly basic tasks, Linux could be a option for you and I like the added bonus with Linux in that while it's not outright immune to viruses etc your far less likely to get a virus on Linux than you are with Windows since damn near all of the shady people only attack Windows because damn near everyone has Windows (as far as general desktop/laptops go) as Windows has something like 87% of the market where as Linux only has about 2%. so it just makes more sense for those shady people to attack Windows (but if Linux ever became popular on a desktop/laptop, which I don't see happening for the foreseeable future, then it would be more attacked). hell, right now many say you don't even need any anti-virus software on Linux because there are so few viruses on it which is nice as it frees up system resources and this is a bonus especially if you got older hardware. I have been using 'Linux Mint v19.1 Xfce' (but the Cinnamon version is their most popular of the Linux Mint OS ; basically their general website is... www.linuxmint.com/ ; which shows you the basic interface etc which are pretty much three of them... Cinnamon/MATE/Xfce) as my primary OS since Jan 2019 and it's solid enough for what I generally do although I still have Win10 installed on another SSD I got for that occasion I need to replay a video game etc. but general day-to-day use, Linux is solid enough for me and my password manager (which I used to log into websites as it generates a long secure random password for each site as this is more secure that way as it's unwise to use the same password for multiple websites as if someone compromises your password it could potentially be used quickly to compromise your other sites etc) also has a Linux version to so the general database file it creates can interchange between Windows/Linux machines. one thing that's nice about Linux... you can give it a brief test by booting it from the USB flash drive (it's a bit less than 2GB in size) and it won't touch your Windows installation at all (basically if you have access to a Windows computer you can try out Linux right now without it interfering with your Windows install at all just to get a feel of the general interface etc. just don't click the Install icon on the desktop.). or you could even play with it a bit in a virtual machine using VirtualBox (i.e. www.virtualbox.org/ ; which is free) which is like running Linux from within Windows (or you can do it in reverse by running Windows from within Linux). basically it's like running a computer within a computer. hell, it's how I run Windows 10 from within Linux for occasional tasks I need Windows specific programs for although if I have to play a game ill have to reboot into the real Win10 as a virtual machine is not made for that stuff. but running virtual machines you will need a fair amount of system RAM to do it as I would recommend you have at least 8GB of system RAM if you want to help ensure things generally stay quick enough although even with 4GB of RAM you could probably get by with it but you will likely have to close a fair amount of programs in your real OS to keep enough RAM freed up so the virtual machine stays snappy if you only have 4GB of main system RAM. but with that said... Windows is still safest to suggest to the average person simply because it's the standard as damn near everyone uses it. but I am confident the average person would be generally safer browsing websites online using Linux than Windows as a lot of the virus and other junk that attack Windows, won't effect Linux. sure, you got those Phishing scams and those can potentially effect everyone since it's not a OS specific threat as it's a online threat in general since it's a attempt to fool the user into giving up sensitive info by making something appear legitimate when it's not. just some thoughts p.s. there are quite a few variations of Linux, all are basically free, but Mint is one of the most popular because it's similar to Windows interface basically. Damn, sorry. Only just saw this now. Thanks for the great info.
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