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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)
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Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It keeps breaking on FF too tho

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nope it doesn't. Mine works without any modifications but I heard that it happens occasionally. There are some easy steps to set up FF to work again, should be easy to look up.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I went through the instructions with the removing other extensions and resetting things and pasting filters etc. multiple times but it kept breaking, ended up switching to FreeTube. Maybe they've got it by now but I'm going to wait until it all shakes out more, too much hassle.

    Plus if you read the article, you can't tell how it works overall just because it works for you, because YouTube is treating different groups of users differently here.

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