Comment on YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers

Its_Always_420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I personally prefer LibreWolf (Firefox based)

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  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think we should stop sending people to alternative “Firefox based” browser that will likely break compatibility even more than it is broken on Firefox. It will only frustrate the user and send him back to random chromium based alternative like brave. Firefox default privacy settings are more than enough for the regular user.

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    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I didn’t say it’s good for most people, I just prefer it and think other privacy oriented people should as well

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      • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I am sure that most, if not all people who care about privacy already use Firefox. We need to help regular users to hope into Firefox. These people tend to know almost nothing about computers and a site that doesn’t work is Firefox not working.

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  • SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve seen LibreWolf mentioned a few times. What’s the difference between the two?

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    • AlphaAutist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      LibreWolf is just hardened Firefox

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My rule: if it’s not in my distro’s apt repository, it’s too niche to use. If you want folks to use Librewolf, package it.

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    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s a Flatpak

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        ಠ_ಠ

        It’s not about whether it’s possible to install via a single command; it’s about signaling whether its popular enough for the distro to justify maintaining a proper first-party package for it.

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  • clearleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s also Palemoon (Firefox cringe)

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    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but LibreWolf is hardened and far more private and secure

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• Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why the recommendation for Firefox in this matter since ublock is promising support for multiple browsers?

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  • Its_Always_420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because Google broke how websites load in Chrome specifically to destroy adblock. They can punch holes in any adblocker that uses the Chromium web rendering engine. However Firefox does not use any Chromium code and still works the way it always has. uBlock (use uBlock Origin instead) will likely still work somewhat on Chorme, but would be helpless to block some ads.

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    • jmp242@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This may be true for chrome, but as far as I can tell anyone building chromium can also change that open source code to not break ad blockers?

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      • subtext@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        While in theory that is true, Chromium is still mostly controlled by Google. Some people may decide that they are going to maintain forks of Chromium that strip out certain features of Chromium, but the pace of development is relentless, releasing new builds several times per day. It would take some seriously deep pockets to be able to staff developers who can keep up with the contributions from Google and Microsoft and others and ensure their fork remains up to date and not broken.

        So yes, someone could change that open source code, but it’s really not feasible in the long run, and so Google (and to a lesser extent Microsoft), can control the browser experience for the majority of desktop users, including things like Manifest V3 or that “Digital DRM” that we were hearing about a while back.

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  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Installing adblocker on Chrome is kind of like putting on a rain jacket once you’re already wet.

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• Forester@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It doesn’t solve the problem they still throw a warning every three videos. Brand new Firefox install with only u block. Both at latest version you block updated daily

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  • Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Purge cache and update, it’s that simple.

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    • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What part of I update daily did you miss? You think I’m here updating daily and not clearing my cache?

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      • sudoroot@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yikes response

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      • Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Dude, I’ve been using Ublock for years and this last month I had to update 4 times tops, it works just fine.

        On my tv I just downloaded smart tube and I’m also ad-free.

        On my phone ublock didn’t even need updating.

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