YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers::YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers. In a statement to The Verge, YouTube’s Christopher Lawton says the company has launched a “global effort” to urge people to allow ads on the platform.
Uninstall Chrome (includes Edge, Brave, Vivaldi & many more) and replace with Firefox plus uBlock Origin
Problem solved
I personally prefer LibreWolf (Firefox based)
I think we should stop sending people to alternative “Firefox based” browser that will likely break compatibility even more than it is broken on Firefox. It will only frustrate the user and send him back to random chromium based alternative like brave. Firefox default privacy settings are more than enough for the regular user.
I didn’t say it’s good for most people, I just prefer it and think other privacy oriented people should as well
I understand. I am sure that most, if not all people who care about privacy already use Firefox. We need to help regular users to hope into Firefox. These people tend to know almost nothing about computers and a site that doesn’t work is Firefox not working.
Yeah but Firefox uses non private defaults like Google as the default search engine
We need to rid chrome of its monopoly first. Google is a privacy nightmare but it’s only because of chrome hegemony over the browser ecosystem that they are able to forcibly DRM the web and castrate adblockers.
I’ve seen LibreWolf mentioned a few times. What’s the difference between the two?
LibreWolf is just hardened Firefox
My rule: if it’s not in my distro’s
aptrepository, it’s too niche to use. If you want folks to use Librewolf, package it.There’s a Flatpak
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It’s not about whether it’s possible to install via a single command; it’s about signaling that its popular enough for the distro to justify maintaining a proper first-party package for it.
That’s an arbitrary way to decide if a package is worth installing
What’s arbitrary about popularity? We use it to decide all sorts of things, including voting in a democracy.
Yeah but determining popularity based on wither or not it’s in a distro repo doesn’t make sense
There’s also Palemoon (Firefox cringe)
Yeah but LibreWolf is hardened and far more private and secure
Why the recommendation for Firefox in this matter since ublock is promising support for multiple browsers?
Because Google broke how websites load in Chrome specifically to destroy adblock. They can punch holes in any adblocker that uses the Chromium web rendering engine. However Firefox does not use any Chromium code and still works the way it always has. uBlock (use uBlock Origin instead) will likely still work somewhat on Chorme, but would be helpless to block some ads.
Installing adblocker on Chrome is kind of like putting on a rain jacket once you’re already wet.
Hmmm, weird.
Anyway, cross-posting one of my favorite random comments from some other cool person I saw in a thread the other day :
Android :
iOS :
- Yattee with this guide
Web :
Desktop :
TV :
Android TV - SmartTubeNext
Apple TV - Yattee with this guide
This guy needs a medal
And Playlet if you use a Roku or Roku TV 😉
Nice to see that other people find the list I put together useful
Cable, its cable now.
All this accomplishes is doubling down my resolve to never give youtube a penny
And I’m serious about keeping Revanced updated ☺️
YouTube wants users to allow ads or sign up for Premium.
Youtube wantses, Youtube don’t getses. Just like Gmail wantsed and I moved to another email provider. They want the money to stop shoving the ads, but still keep the tracking going. Well, I’m the product or the customer, I can’t be both.
I switched my VPN to Moldova and I haven’t seen a add, some of these small countries it’s not worth it to have ads.
Ideally we would have an ad blocker that interacts with the ads themselves in background.
You mean something like AdNauseam?
Youtube doesn’t even serve ads to me if my useragent is a crawler.
Oh, interesting.
Care to share the string?
Pretty soon we’re going to need an adblock blocker blocker
Christ we know already. Bitch bitch ads bitch bitch privacy bitch bitch firefox ublock origin bitch bitch. There are other things happening in the world of technology.
