Trending on Redit ??? [Solved]

[bobbee]

I have chromium dissenter and brave installed but mostly I have been using chromium, lately as it has been better for blocking youtube adds with a plugin.

For some reason the same plugin doesn't work as well with brave or dissenter.

I don't remember what was trending on redit.

I have to look at the newsboat settings, If I can figure out where they are.

[andyprough]

Dissenter calls itself "The Comment Section of the Internet". That one might be your problem, as commenting on random websites is a very reddit kind of thing.

Any of these Chrome-based browsers (chromium, Dissenter, Brave) has the ability to give you little pop-up notifications like that. And Newsboat probably does as well. Check your notification settings on all those pieces of software and you'll probably find your problem. For Brave, click on the menu and then Brave Rewards and make sure you have the "Ads" toggle switched off.

[Adrian]

I assumed the OP was using brave browser from looking at his repos...

Then again I have lots of browsers installed but have been sticking to Vivaldi of late

Brave has an option to show you ads and pay you in their crypto coin, it's a personal choice. https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/arti ... Brave-Ads-

[bobbee]

All three are chrome based.
Dissenter was put out by the maker of gab.ai to get around google comment censorship.

I looked at the newsboat settings. I thought that there might be two, but I only see the one to edit things like colors and such, which I did edit. It is a text only thing run from a terminal. None of my settings have have anything to do with feeds, well other than the urls that I set in a urls folder.

I find it doubtful that a text based news reader would change such a setting. I could uninstall it though.

[bobbee]

As far as browser pop up notifications, I've only seen them pop up in the browser and never when the browser was closed.

[bobbee]

My newsboat config.
I've edited it to change colors and to use vim-like keybindings, and to open video with mpv and audio with audacious. An the default browser as Chromium.

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auto-reload yes

confirm-exit yes

external-url-viewer "urlview"

bind-key j down
bind-key k up
bind-key j next articlelist
bind-key k prev articlelist
bind-key J next-feed articlelist
bind-key K prev-feed articlelist
bind-key G end
bind-key g home
bind-key d pagedown
bind-key u pageup
bind-key l open
bind-key h quit
bind-key a toggle-article-read
bind-key n next-unread
bind-key N prev-unread
bind-key D pb-download
bind-key U show-urls
bind-key x pb-delete
bind-key LEFT quit
bind-key RIGHT open

color listnormal cyan default
# color listfocus black yellow standout bold
color listnormal_unread color183 default
#color listnormal_unread color45 default
color listfocus_unread yellow default bold
# color listfocus_read black default default
color info red black bold
color article cyan default

highlight feedlist "---.*---" color87 default bold
# highlight feedlist "---.*---" [COLOR_OF_YOUR_CHOOSING] default bold
highlight feedlist ".*0/0.." default default invis

browser chromium
# browser linkhandler
macro , open-in-browser
# macro v set browser " xfce4-terminal --hide-menubar --hide-borders --drop-down -x mpv "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
macro m set browser " xfce4-terminal -x mpv "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
macro a set browser " xfce4-terminal -x audacious "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
#macro r set browser " i3 exec mpv "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
# macro y set browser " spawndl "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
macro w set browser " lynx "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
# macro w set browser " w3m "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
# macro p set browser " dmenuhandler "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
# c copies the link to the clipboard
# The link bellow is probably the skiddiest that Luke has ever written
macro c set browser " copy (){ echo $1 | xclip ; } ; copy "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium

[andyprough]

As far as browser pop up notifications, I've only seen them pop up in the browser and never when the browser was closed.

Chrome-based browsers seem to have the ability to do exactly that. I can show you a screenshot later of a Brave popup if I turn on Brave Reward Ads with the browser closed. I would check your notification settings on each one of them, especially Dissenter.

[junoluna]

I have chromium dissenter and brave installed but mostly I have been using chromium, lately as it has been better for blocking youtube adds with a plugin.

have not seen a youtube advert in years with any browser

i think ublock origin kills them dead

[agnivo007]

As far as browser pop up notifications, I've only seen them pop up in the browser and never when the browser was closed.

Chrome-based browsers seem to have the ability to do exactly that. I can show you a screenshot later of a Brave popup if I turn on Brave Reward Ads with the browser closed. I would check your notification settings on each one of them, especially Dissenter.

Is this setting in brave responsible (turned off in my case)?

[bobbee]

Chromium defaults to having the less intrusive settings.
Dissenter has settings much like brave but does not auto update. And an update has not been made for a long time. And it wasn't a problem before.
Brave defaults to allot of settings that I don't like including that crypto stuff and password saving.
I disable pretty much everything, but it is always updating so maybe I need to go through the settings again.
If any, I would suspect brave.

I just went through the brave settings, nothing new or changed jumps out at me.