[ SECRET POST #2151 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2151 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Scrubs/How I Met Your Mother]


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[Aladdin]


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[Russian politics]


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[World of Warcraft]


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[Hetalia]


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[Community]


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08.
[50 Shades of Grey/Betty]


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09.
[Wreck-It Ralph]


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[American Horror Story]


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11.
[Tom Hiddleston]


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[Young Avengers]


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[Saint Seiya Omega]


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[The Mysterious Cities of Gold]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 022 secrets from Secret Submission Post #307.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't know anyone uses ff.net anymore

[(Anonymous)]

They certainly do!

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of people still do. I don't read fic there (I really can't stand the layout), but I cross-post everything that isn't against TOS from AO3. Generally I get two to three times the amount of hits I get on AO3 as well.

[elaminator]

I didn't realize it either, until a year or so ago when a story I was following would be updated there first.

[lunabee34]

Unfortunately, a lot of people still post there, which I hate because I've gotten viruses from that site twice. I don't go there anymore, which makes me sad, because some of my favorite older fics are only posted there as far as I can tell. :(

[(Anonymous)]

If you use Firefox, NoScript is a life saver against that stuff. (You won't be able to log in or anything, but at least you can read and comment anonymously-- it just won't let you know that you anonymous comment went through.)

[deadtree]

noscript? I haven't heard of that one. I don't use FF but I'm always interested in things that make surfing safer

[(Anonymous)]

I posted a tl;dr in reply to lunabee34, if you are ever interested in using Firefox for fanfiction.net reading!

[lunabee34]

Oh, cool! I've never heard of that.

I am not a technophone by any means but I am a techno-idiot LOL. I don't fear the tech, I just don't understand it. Or intuitively grasp it. *hangs head* Tony and Bruce would never make a sandwich with me.

All this to say, a way to get back on FF.Net without risking my laptop's virtue is a Thanksgiving miracle indeed.

[(Anonymous)]

or you can use something like flagfic.com to save entires stories to your computer so you don't have to read them on ff.net

[(Anonymous)]

lmao, I just save the pages directly (ctrl + s in windows)

I've had one too many author ragequit, I now do it almost compulsively D:

[(Anonymous)]

yeah but if you're gonna ctrl+s you need to be on ff.net first and lunabee doesn't wanna do that because of the viruses

besides I have noscrip on and have all scripts disabled on ff.net so if I ctrl+s from ff.net all the stories are center aligned and that's a pain to read

[lunabee34]

Sweet! Thanks for the tip.

crash course

[(Anonymous)]

You can get it here:

http://noscript.net/getit

Everything is "blacklisted" or not allowed by default, so once you install it, you have to let your mouse hover over or click on the "S" icon that is somewhere near the URL/address bar, and start clicking "allow so and so website" on the list that pops up. (Well, you don't have to for most sites, actually, but some websites will not show right if you don't allow some things.)

Many will have weird names; most of them tend to be ads, but the ones you usually want are the ones with the same name of the website you are visiting.

For example, in this website, you would want to allow "dreamwidth.org".

This isn't absolutely required, though! Many websites will load just fine without allowing the "main" website, but if you want to, say, comment or see ads, I'm -relatively- sure that you need to allow the "main" website first.

There is a lot of trial and error here, but there are links to websites that store information for the most popular websites to let you know which ones are safe. You can access this information by clicking on each website on the list with the middle button of a mouse, or by pressing "shift" and clicking on it.

You mostly want to see what "WOT Scorecard" wants to say (the first link, info compiled through various sources, a little hit and miss but mostly hit), and "Safe Browsing Diagnostic" (fourth link, a service provided by Google).

(Tangent: If you're feeling computer-adventurous, you can download this too:

https://www.mywot.com/en/download

which will let you know if you're visiting a particularly naughty site full of spyware and viruses and such. It's not 100% reliable, because it uses the feedback of the people who register to rate the websites and a handful of safety-related websites, but it's one more layer of safety for your interneting!

end tangent)

General websites I keep "blacklisted"/not allowed (because I've heard bad things about it):

Ads:

doubleclick.net
quantserve.com
rubiconproject.com

For ff.net:

netdna-cdn.com (you need this one to log in, but it has a bad reputation; ff.net started using it some months ago, actually, as part of their website revamp :( )

Comments:

disqus.com (I hear they spy on you, and I don't really use them to comment, but this is up to you)

Sites I do allow (mostly because I feel bad about blocking ads and they don't seem to be that bad?)

projectwonderful.com
cpmstar.com
googlesyndication.com
googleanalytics.com

Sites I allow because they make some things work better but I'm still not sure on how "please don't spy on me" they are:

googleapis.com
google.com
youtube.com

(Incidentally, this "add-on" can serve as an ad-blocker, so there is that too!)

TL;DR: Just go by trial and error; see which scripts you absolutely need, allow those and reload the page until you are satisfied; check on the reputation of each site with middle-click or shift and click, and pretty much have fun!

As a bonus side-effect, without loading so many scripts (many are for comments and various things which you might not even use ever), you'll have pages loading faster.

Re: crash course

[(Anonymous)]

All of the google sites you allow (including youtube) are trackers. They report everything back to google and to the host whose site you're on. If you're signed into a google account, your name and all of your personal info that google has is included with it. The same is true if you use Chrome. You have to agree to google's EULA that gives them access to all of your information if you use their browser.

Re: crash course

[(Anonymous)]

sa - google collects the information and then sells it to their advertisers. They can legally sell your name and email address to their advertisers, too. In some cases, they can sell your phone number (if you gave it to google for account recovery) and your home address if you gave them that. Basically, any information you allow google to have, to include information you didn't know you were giving them because of google apis, they can and do sell.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

But that's only if I have a Google/Youtube account, right? I don't have one, so I should be in the clear, right? Right? D:>

I had my suspicions about Chrome, thanks for confirming them. Good thing I don't have it either. D:

Re: crash course

[lunabee34]

You totally win the above and beyond award! Thanks so much for the info. You rock!

[herongale]

This is how I access ff.net in a way that saves me from ad viruses: My ff.net bookmark actually takes me to their adblocker page here. Every time I want to go browsing ff.net I hit up the adblocker first, block ads for the one day grace period, and then go do whatever I'm there to do!

Works like a charm and is super easy to boot. :3

[lunabee34]

Oh, cool! Thank you for the tips.

[al28894]

I used to, when I was younger. Now, not so much.

[(Anonymous)]

It's good for your ego!

Tons of comments. (Mostly shallow praise, occasionally some bashing.)

Tons of "follows"/"favorites"/"story alerts", etc.

It's mostly that it receives a lot of traffic, so if you write for a big fandom and/or popular characters/pairings/scenarios, you will get hits (and fairly shallow feedback, but feedback nonetheless), no matter how mediocre your story is.

[illiadandoddity]

It's also way easier to get some traffic, ANY traffic, on fics for tiny or long-dead fandoms.

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily true for small fandoms. I've gotten some excellent reviews on there.

[(Anonymous)]

One of my fandoms has a grand total of 67 fics on AO3 while there are a couple thousand on FF.net. Granted, most of them on FF.net are self-inserts that make me want to beat my head against my keyboard, but I've definitely got more to pick from there.

I still post to FF.net as well, since I find the AO3 system intimidating.

Point is, yes, people still do use FF.net.