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[–] 412 points 1 year ago (53 children)

Just stick with Firefox and uBlock Origin.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (26 children)

    Honest question, but what makes librewolf BETTER? In firefox you can easily toggle off the studies telemetry bullshit in the settings. Librewolf is just firefox with those things ripped out right?

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In firefox you can easily toggle off the studies telemetry bullshit in the settings.

    They're abusing the default and making privacy settings require user intervention rather than defaulting to the most private settings and allowing the option of opting in.

    It's abusing consent, so people move to browsers where privacy is the default option.

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    [–] 163 points 1 year ago* (31 children)

    The workaround: Switch from Adblock Plus to uBlock Origin.

    ABP has had random issues that break it often for years now. It's crap.

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    [–] 159 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Is this a sponsored article? Bc buying yt premium doesn't seem like a workaround to me.

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    [–] 115 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Tom’s Hardware, Ad Block Plus, paying for YouTube Premium as a “work around”?

    Guys this content was by boomers for boomers

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Indeed. Tom’s Hardware for me has for long been one of the most useless tech news sites, mostly just dumb clickbaity ad articles in disguise.

    If they would know anything about anything or done some actual research they would point to Firefox with a few relevant extensions that keep YouTube’s fuckery in check. Or the alternative mobile apps. Or stuff like Invidious. But guess they are too mainstream and thus afraid to upset Google in any way.

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    [–] 86 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I hate when they say paying the premium is a "solution". It's worse. That's why nobody is doing it.

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    [–] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, author of this article, paying for premium is not a workaround.

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    [+] 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)
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    [–] 65 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    That said though, there is one ad blocker that still works. Two words: uBlock Origin. Yes, I know that Google has blocked it from its Chrome Extension store, but there is still a way to get uBlock Origin on Chrome that our how-to extraordinaire Kaycee has detailed.

    Or..... You could just ditch Chrome altogether!

    I don't know why people are so fixated on using Chrome. It's a crippled browser made by an evil company that is actively looking to screw the user at every turn.

    I switched to Firefox when Google essentially killed uBlock Origin on their browser. At first I ran into some problems with some sites not rendering correctly. But it seems like that's become much less of an issue with later updates. And the best thing is that there are some phenomenal extensions for blocking ads - like a fully-fledged uBlock Origin to name just one. I don't even see sponsor promotions in YT videos now.

    And if you don't want to deal with Mozilla directly you can use Waterfox instead.

    All this dancing around and jumping through hoops to get uBlock Origin working on Chrome is kind of absurd. Just ditch Chrome (and all Blink-based browsers) altogether where you can (I get that corporate environments are often off the table for this).

    Collectively we should be sending a message to Google whenever we can that we are done with their browser bullshit.

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    [–] 61 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The workaround is using uBO

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    [–] 52 points 1 year ago (26 children)

    Stop using Adblock Plus and start using Firefox with uBlock Origin.

    If you’re on iOS, swallow your pride and install Brave and just turn off the crypto features. You’ll thank me later.

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    [–] 50 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The internet hasn't noticed yet

    Says article on the internet shared with others on the internet and linked to from many internet places.

    Article titles are fucking garbage. At least it didn't pul the "Here's why" bullshit.

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    [–] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "I've found a workaround"

    Workaround (according to article): "First of all, YouTube Premium"

    The actual workaround (according to article): "Two words: uBlock Origin. Yes, I know that Google has blocked it from its Chrome Extension store, but there is still a way to get uBlock Origin on Chrome"

    Seems like they are being paid by Google. Actual workaround should be to drop Chrome.

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    [–] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Damn sure was clickbaity. No ads? Buy YT Premium they say.

    Whoopee. Saved you a click.

    I stopped using ABP years ago and switched to uBlock Origin. That and some *Monkey scripts.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago

    Bah, This is just an add for a YouTube premium subscription

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    "Adblock Plus" Me: WHAT YEAR IS THIS?

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    FreeTube with an ipv6 rotator and Invidious will make sure you never have to deal with this.

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    ABP hasn't been relevant for years, because they started on "acceptable ads" back in 2011.

    Anyone with sense has long since moved on.

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    [+] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Imagine using Adblock/Adblock plus in 2025.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

    The workaround is pay for YouTube premium.

    Edit: the above is is what the article says. Not my opinion. YT can get bent. Firefox + uBlock has been my "workaround" for years.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Don't shoot the messenger, they're just citing the "workaround" from the article. The article also mentions using uBlock but only after writing two paragraphs convincing you that Premium is totally the solution to go with.

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Who uses Adblock Plus? Isn't uBlock Origin (Lite) the shit to go to?

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I mean, Firefox + uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock makes YouTube usable without giving Google more money

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ublock Origin and NextDNS FTW.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What if people just learned to use Firefox or NewPipe?

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