I think is time to #switch back to @firefox
https://www.reddit.com/r/brave/comments/17z4m03/its_over_boys/
#brave #youtube #chrome #ads #adblock #blockadblock #chromium
Lol, as if terms of service for something freely available on the internet that doesn't require an account to use mean anything at all. Stop huffing your own farts, Google.
Google cares a lot more about me watching ads than I care about watching YouTube.
With that being said, I've only encountered the "Ad blockers violate YouTube's terms of service" screen once, and when I refreshed it was gone
I've been with Firefox since the start and it's going well. I tried the others to see what's up but they never satisfied me. I'm a Firefox user all the way.
Mandatory: FUCK REDDiT!!!
Same for the most part, but I will say I tried using Firefox on the Macbook Pro I used when I was working on my masters, and it was an absolute memory hog. I noticed during my tenure on r/firefox that most of the posts complaining about sluggishness or consuming massive amounts of memory came from Mac OS users, so I feel like I wasn't alone.
I never used an apple computer for my personal use so can't say much about performance issues because in the limited time I had to use them I was using safari because I couldn't be bothered to do anything extra. In my humble opinion I do believe there can be issues because Mozilla doesn't have the best record for optimizations for platforms. But it seems they are doing a better job lately because when I use Firefox on Linux or windows I barely notice anything.
Oh, absolutely! Firefox on Linux and Windows has never been a problem for me. The only problem I had on Linux is the flatpak version gets stuttery when I want to stream from sites of questionable repute, which I could probably fix if I weren't too lazy to troubleshoot it.
I know that it's an herculean task with millions of workhours to build a browser from scratch with all engines JS (SpiderMonkey), CSS (Quantum) and HTML (Gecko) and we can be lucky to have Firefox. I use the very performant version on Android every day and especially appreciate that Dark Reader and uBlock Origin work.
May I have a minute to talk to you about our saviour Vivaldi?
If no other browser could satisfy you, you either haven't tried Vivaldi, you haven't tried it long enough or you tried an old version.
For me no other browser comes close regarding the IMO most important feature of browsers (beside supporting the essential web-standards): tab management. Stacking, tiling, hibernating, pinning and more recently the fantastic workspace-feature.
That's only on the tab-front. How about: built in tracker- & ad-blocker, built in dark website-mode, translator, email-client, rss reader, note-app, reading-list, user definable search-engines, page screenshots, appify websites into sidebar and another killer feature: press F2 for a combined command-window and search-everywhere popup.
The next best thing after the year of the Linux Desktop would be if Vivaldi and Firefox joined forces and Vivaldi would switch to Firefox's engines.
Edge does nearly all those things now too. Edge and Vivaldi are both closed source and yet another Chromium under the hood.
I'll pass ty.
Just so you know, Piped.video is also an option. And you can import your subscription feed from YouTube.
I prefer Freetube and Newpipe as those don't depend on some server (aside from youtube servers duh)
The cool thing about Piped is that it serves as a proxy, so you don't connect to YouTube directly
~~Newpipe uses piped as a backend~~ this is false, it was LibreTube I was thinking of
yeah for sure you should have ditched chrome (or chrome based browsers) years ago imho, but you do realize that this can happen on firefox too, right?
easy fix: just update the ublock quick list in the settings of the addon.
I've already gone to the next step.
Youtube clients that block ads.
Gotta stay a step ahead.
Doesn't uBlock still work great with Youtube? Even then there is Peertube, Piped and the many apps that use Piped in different platforms anyway.
Use LibreWolf, it's essentially Firefox on steroids. It removes all the bloat like Pocket or Sponsored sites, it adds significant privacy benefits and comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled.
I have seen so many inbuilt ad blockers of browsers fail, especially at YouTube, even before the recent changes, that I was surprised to see them still being used and promoted by eg. Louis Rossmann.
IMO basically nothing can beat addons, at least if seen for all browsers or just firefox.
Browser devs can't focus on ad blocking functionality. And their team developing ad blockers will certainly be smaller than the team of devs for adblock addons; the browser just needs somewhat functional stuff while the addon depends on delivering a very good to perfect to be used and to receive donations.
On chromium, with Manifest V3 at our doors, built in ad blockers will win over addons by far, just because they have more power.
This creates an interesting situation, at least in my mind fed by my bubble:
Tech nerds will use firefox, probably with adblock addon
Tech illiterates will use whatever comes preinstalled - Edge, without any adblock
Users that know the concept of browsers will probably use Chrome, or other browsers they heard before - possibly a Chromium browser with built in blocker
Now, what happens if the built in blockers fail - again and again and again? Will the somewhat knowledgeable user care and switch to another browser, maybe the one pushed the most for adblocking: FF with uBlock?
Tech nerds will use firefox, probably with adblock addon
Adblock isn't a real issue because every browser has it. The real issue is all the other cool extensions available from Chromium-based browsers.
I use 27 addons on my desktop, in firefox. There are no extensions I would need but don't exist for firefox. The only extension I had to replace with a Tampermonkey script was Vencord, because the devs removed the firefox version of it.
And on my phone I use 12 addons. On chrome, or any other browser not based on FF, I could use exactly none.
27 addons? Might as well disable Resist Fingerprinting, then.
I know what you're saying, because having that many addons makes them unique, but doesn't resist fingerprinting still help somewhat?
It does a few things here and there that can still be useful, true.
In my understanding, a website should only be able to detect addons if they directly change the website in any way, eg. the css or html. So let's just go through the list and check:
Yeah…that’s why I switched from FF to Chrome a few years ago. I was tired of whatever extension it was that i needed or wanted at the time being only on Chrome. Of course, i’m back on FF now and it seems to be much better for what i need, so that’s good.
If you're ever aching for a chrome extension try out waterfox, it's based on Firefox but also allows the use of some chrome extensions, the list of useable extensions used to be bigger, but it's growing again thanks to the original dev getting the browser independent again and re-opening it's development
I have been using Firefox since 2016-17! I had Chrome but the interface became ugly? Then I got Firefox, I liked the interface and the pockets extension, let's me same links online if I want.
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