2057
YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
485 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android@lemdro.id)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 133 points 2 years ago (9 children)

People should be uninstalling Chrome instead.

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

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
    •
  • [–] 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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 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

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 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).

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent