By work computer, I mean one that you have very limited control over - can’t install anything, or add extensions, etc.

For example, there used to be a trick where you could run a Bing search of a YouTube URL and the results would include an embed of the video but with Bing’s own video player, and something about that made the ads not work. Which was great - ad free YouTube on a computer I can’t install ad blockers on!

That doesn’t seem to work anymore, but makes me wonder if there are things like that - just little roundabout tricks to make the experience less trash, on a rig where my options are limited to what’s already there.

Asking about any tricks, not just YouTube or ad related ones (but those too if you know any!).

Thanks all!

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    I just found stuff that isn’t blocked that I found entertaining, like reading random Wikipedia articles or playing on MS paint or poking around with the command prompt.

    Also speaking of CMD, sometimes it will be blocked but Powershell won’t be, and you can run any traditional DOS commands as well as powershell cmdlets.