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I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I haven't noticed any slowdowns with Firefox and Ublock Origin.

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

    And if it does slow down, I'm downloading the whole video before watching it.

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

    My next plan will probably be switching to my Linux computer, then just downloading the video. That sucks for me though b/c I enjoy a live show I subscribe to.

    Ads, on a live show I pay to watch, WTF? I keep the chat open in Chrome but leave the video muted and laugh at how far behind the video becomes after ads start popping up.

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

    Next January, I'm gonna figure out gaming on Ubuntu so I can get ahead of support ending for Windows 10.

    I'll probably run that copy of Windows in a VM JUST so I can use Excel. I use Excel at home for lots of stuff, particularly my personal budget, which has this really big macro I wrote from scratch that I really don't want to give up. I've had the same copy of Office 2010 for >10 years now. It's where Office peaked.

    I'm choosing Ubuntu because of familiarity. I've been using it on old laptops since 12.10.

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

    I got a popup "Adblockers are not allowed on YouTube" on Firefox running both Ublock Origin and Adblock, not signed in two days ago. I don't know what to do with that information.

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

    In the UBlock plugin settings, click update cache. On mobile so CBA to give better instructions, but it will fix it

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I had a moment of mild panic two days ago when purging and updating the cache didn't work. It turns out I got caught by it in the short interval after Youtube deployed the new attack but before the blocklist maintainers deployed a countermeasure, and it worked when I tried again an hour or so later. (Using Freetube instead of a browser worked in the meantime, BTW.)

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

    I thought you weren't supposed to use uBO with Adblock?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    This may be true but I have not seen it before. Do you have a source?

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

    I don't have a source either, but I can confirm having heard the same advice.

    In general, even if uBO has been updated to avoid Youtube's adblocker-detection, if you're running multiple adblockers it's possible the popup is triggering because it detects the other one.

    More to the point, (a) you shouldn't need another adblock alongside uBlock Origin anyway, and (b) pretty much every ad-blocker other than uBO has sold out and been compromised, including Adblock, so using it is a bad idea to begin with.

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