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Bypassing Youtube Age Restricted Videos Without Signing In

Since Youtube caters to a wide-variety of users groups all around the globe, it imposes several types of restrictions to filter out non-suitable content citing various criteria like users Geographical location and age. We have already shared tricks to bypass Youtube country specific geographic censorship and even how to watch videos deleted from Youtube (providing they are still on Youtube cache servers distributed across the globe).

Today we will show a trick on how to bypass the "Youtube Content Warning : This video may be inappropriate for some users." without signing-in or need to have a Youtube/Google account (which also avoids tracking and prevents similar type of videos being shown on Youtube front-page when signed-in).

Bypassing Youtube Age Restricted Videos

Why Nobody Should Ever Do Business With FirstCry.Com

FirstCry.com is a well-known online portal for shopping of baby products, the portal claims to be "Asia's Largest Online Shopping Store for kids & baby products" but their practices are something one would expect from a cheap, second-class eCommerce website. The internet is filled with complaints and horror-stories of doing business with them and after discovering the "cheap coupon tactic" used by them I am pretty much sure their policies and intentions are not honest, do keep reading below their trick is exciting.

FirstCry Cheating

While every other eCommerce portals in India is offering discounts, free-shipping, cash-on-delivery and free return pickup to lure maximum customers aiming to create a long-term relationship, FirstCry has taken a completely different approach where they do false advertising marketing coupon-codes offering discounts but adds or increases shipping-charges magically as soon as one applies them (discount-codes) as shown below. I am not sure what to call this malpractice, but this "coupon fraud" wastes users time where they are surprised by shipping-charges at the last moment of checkout as soon as they use the discount-code which was used to lure them into shopping. As shown in the example below the shipping charges for same cart magically increases as soon as a discount coupon-code is applied.

FirstCry Coupon Cheat
FirstCry Coupon Cheat

In the second example below, the consumer is first lured into buying more (minimum value) to get FREE shipping but is slapped shipping-charges when a coupon-code is used.

Popcorn Time Streams Latest HQ Movies From BitTorrent Just Like Netflix, But For Free

Movie piracy just got super-easy with "Popcorn Time", a cross-platform app for Windows, Mac and Linux allowing users to watch latest Hollywood movies streaming to their computers utilizing bit-torrent protocol almost instantly. The utility puts NetFlix to shame, instead of occasional new releases and B-list back catalog provided by Netflix, this ones offers an impressive movie selection catalogue including the latest ones (because they are being offered using illegally shared torrents).

Popcorn Time takes away the technicality limitation of bit-torrent for casual users and offers them a free, simple and cross-platform tool to select latest and other older movies from a carefully curated catalogue and just click on the "Movie Cover" to start watching.

Popcorn Time

Trick To Enable Data Compression Proxy For Faster Browsing And Bandwidth Saving In Google Chrome For Desktop

Similar to Opera Turbo technology, Google Chrome features an "data compression proxy" for Android and Apple iOS mobile-devices which when enabled opens a connection between the user phone and optimization servers running in Google's datacenters relaying all non-encrypted HTTP requests over this connection. The SSL secured proxy connection performs intelligent compression and minification of HTML, JavaScript and CSS resources which are not essential to render the page. These optimizations, combined with gzip compression for all resources, DNS lookups from proxy and images converted to WebP with resulting sizes upto 80% smaller provides huge bandwidth savings and resulting in faster web-browsing experience.

This feature is not available for Google Chrome Desktop users, however a free Chrome extension now allows users to get the same savings on their desktop computers. The extension sends all HTTP (but not HTTPS) traffic through Chrome Data Compression Proxy server, which utilizes SPDY protocol to speed up web browsing. Users can check bandwidth savings by visiting chrome://net-internals/#bandwidth and can disable compression-proxy by clicking the green bolt icon from the toolbar.

Data Compression Proxy By Google

Get One Month Premium VPN Service For Free From Bucklor VPN

Bucklor is a new VPN service provider which started in 2013 but the companies past goes back to 2005. Lighten Information Technology Co., Ltd engaged in VPN Business from 2005, their main marketplace is China. Having done this business for a long time, Bucklor can safely be considered a professional VPN service provider.

Bucklor has released its beta version VPN Software for Windows and wants users to participate in the testing. Those who choose to become Bucklor VPN Client Beta Tester will be able to use it totally Free for 31 days.

Bucklor VPN

Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion, the question is what about your privacy now?

Facebook "Likes" WhatsApp in a big way, so big, that they bought it for a whooping deal valuing $19 billion. The deal involves paying WhatsApp team a total of $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in stock and $3 billion in restricted stock vested over several years. It is to be noted that this deal is worth more than what Facebook raised in its own IPO, this is not all - the acquisition is not only the company's largest but also bigger than any that Google, Microsoft or Apple have ever done.

WhatsApp strictly stuck to the "No Ads" and "100% Private" no data sharing policy for long maintaining the 450 million monthly active userbase, with this acquisition the big question is "What about privacy and intrusive advertising which facebook is often associated with?". Well both facebook and WhatsApp has written about this as shared below.

facebook buys whatsapp

Is facebook scamming advertiser's with fake likes?

When it comes to doing business, we don't expect any foul-play by big corporations like Facebook - but, that does not seems to be the case here. As you can see from the official pitch of facebook ads, these ads are supposed to be highly targeted and should result in engagement. However, this is not what advertisers are experiencing - as an example the "US Department of State" spent $630,000 to acquire 2 million likes to their Facebook page only to realize that only 2% of these were engaged. Advertisers are seeing that not only the "Likes" supplied are from fake profiles, but they are way off target even when opting for strict demographic boundaries to promote the content on. Do watch the excellent video posted below on what facebook is selling and what advertisers are getting.

Facebook fraud

SugarSync Starts Ditching Free Customers, Here's How To Move Data To Other Free Services

SugarSync stopped offering Free usage-tier some time ago, and has now started purging old free accounts. SugarSync is ditching free-users including users like me who promoted SugarSync in there early days and earned free referral bonus (140+GB in my case). This is not all, these guys are so unprofessional that when contacted about the issue few months ago I was told that since I have referral bonus my account will be ok and will not be purged in February, which was not the case. Thankfully I received an automated account-purge notice by email and contacting them again I was told that the earlier support staff was mistaken and all free accounts will get purged.

Sugarsync bad review

With account cancellation getting near-by I was left with the task of moving my data to alternative free cloud-storage services, since I am on a slow internet connection downloading and re-uploading was not an option. Thankfully, there are free-to-try services allowing cloud-to-cloud data transfers which comes handy in situations like this where users are left in the lurch.

Mozilla Adds Firefox Accounts And Brand New Highly Customizable UI Named Australis

Mozilla has introduced several new features to Firefox Aurora, the pre-Beta build branch of Firefox. The company has introduced Firefox Accounts, improved Sync and a brand new sleek user-interface with ability to be highly customizable and minimalistic, once tested in Pre-beta and Beta branches these changes will make there way into the Release branch in coming months.

Firefox Aurora

Sysinternals Process Explorer v 16.0 Now Comes With VirusTotal Integration

Sysinternals Process Explorer has been one of the most indispensable utility for diagnosing misbehaving applications and fixing malware's. Process Explorer shows you all the information about any application running on windows including which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded, network, security, performance and a lot more. The utility has now get integration for another indispensable tool for researching malware's, the multi-engine anti-virus scanning utility VirusTotal. The integration also shows a rare sight of co-operation between two rivals Microsoft (Process Explorer) and Google (VirusTotal).

Sysinternals Process Explorer v 16.0
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