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!


I said it before. Work laptop has 64 GB ram and an nvme, and an i7. Slower than windows xp on 512 mb ram, hardly joking. I used my powermac g4 with 512 mb ram the other day, it was about the speed of my work laptop. 800 MHz CPU.
My 15 year old PC with Linux, lighting fast.
Windows is cancer. Everything has truly gone down the shitter except open source and Linux.