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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android@lemdro.id)

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[–] 48 points 2 years ago (23 children)

Just this morning all the posts (here on Lemmy) were about how everyone was uninstalling their adblockers.

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  • [–] 133 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    People should be uninstalling Chrome instead.

    Adblocking still works fine on Firefox. Just update your UBO filters.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I literally have un-installed chrome. I had to use it on an office machine today and it felt weird.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The default browser at my work is Firefox lol, only our testing team and a few others use Chrome. It's a pretty welcome change 👍

    I find it a little funny when we get Chrome-specific bug reports though

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Aside from Firefox, are there any decent non-Chromium-based browsers left?

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

    Thanks.

    For anyone else interested, as of November 2023:

    Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox's engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox.

    Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.

    Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.

    The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple's engine), and Blink (Google's engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Why the fuck would anyone uninstall their ad blocker just because one site demands it? Whitelists exist for a reason.

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

    I'll stop using Internet before I even consider whitelisting YouTube.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Right? I've used ad blockers as soon as they popped on the Internet scene. I hate advertisements, commercials and any kind of marketing. I don't watch TV, and when I do or it's on nearby, I get up and walk away during the commercials. When sponsored stuff interrupts a video I'm watching, I skip forward until the video returns. If I have to use a browser with no ad block, I straight up abandon most sites. It's untenable!

    In general, I treat life and products/services I want like a business doing a Request For Purchase (RFP). If I want something, I'll look up companies that provide that product or service and rely heavily on the recommendations of friends, family, and community when making a purchase decision. Those who aggressively solicit me will almost never get my money or be considered.

    Fuck capitalism.

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

    That article was full of such blatantly misleading crap. Headline talks about record number of adblocker uninstalls, but the actual data says it was an uptick in both installs and uninstalls. In other words it was people cycling through different adblockers trying to find one that still worked.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    And that didn't mention ublock origion, the blocker that still works...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    IDK why anyone uses anything else. It has street cred, it improves response times, it is ideologically just about blocking ads

    I use tracker blockers and containers too, but every machine that has been in my hands for more than 10 minutes has it installed

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