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Today James goes over 5 tech tips that will help improve your browsing and online research experience. NOTE: As always, your mileage will vary with these tactics and they can/will change in the future. Do you have a tech tip? Leave it in the comments below.

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SHOW NOTES:

Paywalls

Example paywalled article: Sun Shines on Fed ‘Doomsday Book’

Archive.today

Wayback machine

12ft

What happened to 12ft.io, the media paywall-climbing app? Not working.

1ft

Books

Anna’s Archive

(It’s just a search engine!)

Remove trackers from urls

Everything from the question mark on is useless tracking stuff. Remove it. Example: THIS COMMENT and THIS COMMENT

How to download a file

Q: When I click on a “download the mp4” it just brings up a new window and starts playing. How do I download?

A: Right click and save as. (You just want to download the latest audio/video to your phone or tablet? Use the RSS feed? BONUS: What’s RSS?)

And speaking of salting your data:

AdNauseam

For this week’s Pay-It-Forward, please pay forward your gratitude for this info by making a financial contribution to whatever individual or group created whatever ad-blocking or script-blocking or privacy-protecting add-ons or extenstions you may use to improve your online browsing experience.