uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store
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Isn't it? YouTube isn't its own company?
He means separate companies with few or no ties with each other.
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It's really annoying to me that Firefox doesn't seem to work well on my chromebook, so I'm stuck with Chrome until I need a new computer...
May you can install Linux on your Chromebook
Have a look at -
never had a problem with firefox and youtube
The only problem I've had is that you can't view HDR content in YouTube on Firefox.
That's not a big part of YouTube (yet), so it is largely unnoticeable.
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May you can install Linux on your Chromebook
Have a look at -
I swapped to Chrome years ago because YouTube stopped working right on Firefox.
I've started the process of swapping back to Firefox after 10 years with Chrome over this.
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or even better, use librewolf.
I'm not really sure it's better tbh
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I love this movie but honestly it's getting to the point where I can't even watch it without getting upset.
I only made it through like one season of Handmaid's Tale, it was too real.
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It's been a while since I used it, but Librewolf had a habit of showing the bitwarden extension's window at the wrong size.
I was able to fix this by disabling a "resist fingerprinting" setting, but it's annoying to have to do stuff like this in the first place. I really wanted to have an exceptions list that included certain websites for fingerprinting resistance, but I never found a clear way to do it.
There are a few other examples of settings that I had to tweak in order to make the experience as good as Firefox.
This: fingerprinting resistance is either too strict or none at all
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"Too strict" how? I don't know what's "usable" for you.
Fingerprinting resistance is either too strict or none at all
Cookies are removed when the browser is closed, and iirc history isn’t saved by default. It just makes it a pain for regular users
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Not Waterfox, but others is listed here https://www.privacytools.io/private-browser
Worth to be mentioned are also
but the best IMO https://zen-browser.app/
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But my time is finally near...
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Im old enough to remember the internet before ads, and with ads became a thing and you had to make sure to keep your speakers low/off all the time less some screaming loud ad popped up somewhere to burst your eardrums at 2am.
There were so many obnoxious, visual cancer ads.
Then they became actual digital cancer by being injection points for viruses and malware, and thus adblockers became a necessity.
And they remain a necessity to this day, for the same reason as they were 20+ years ago.
and yet the ad servers want to blame the end user for adblocking.
not their absolute refusal to moderate or police any of the content they deliver.
and yet the ad servers want to blame the end user for adblocking.
not their absolute refusal to moderate or police any of the content they deliver.This is the American way. You try to shit blame elsewhere so noone puts the onus on you to improve so you can keep a larger portion of the profit. "Fuck you I got mine" should be printed on our money lol
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https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh
Doesn't cover 100% of what uBO did, but it still works just as good IMO with DNS based ad-blocking on top.
Thanks!!
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I've considered that before. I'm just not sure I'm proficient enough to be able to do that on my own. I can apparently buy laptops with Linux as the OS from a tech store where I live, so I may eventually go that route.
Hey, don't do that. I mean you can, sure, and it'll be a cheaper solution (by just a fraction) to omit the windows license.
If you haven't dipped your toes into Linux yet, but want to, do it on a machine where you aren't too worried if you screw the OS up and have to build a new one, it is not an extraordinary pain (like you had you're work there, only copies of your game saves, ecetera).
I'd screw around with the Chromebook, and when I'm good and ready, get a more powerful notebook.
I'm not sure about all flavors of Linux, but installing most is easier than windows. And if you luck out, you won't have to bring up the console, the new distros are so friggin tight. But I guess that is where the heart of it all is. I am super happy with Endeavour OS, and I mostly just copy paste commands (that I'm understanding better and better, the more I use it).
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I switched to Firefox many years ago, after their announcement I switched to Waterfox and I'm very happy with it.
I've been on Firefox since 2004, trying Waterfox right now and it seems very nice. I was surprised to see that it supports Firefox Sync, took me less than ten minutes to make it comfy. Now I'm wondering about that; perhaps I should disable Firefox Sync?
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I am from Germany and it is just sad how many people use these apps from shit companies without thinking, when suitable alternatives exist everywhere. Just use Firefox, it will work for 99,9% without any flaw. I would love to ditch WhatsApp, but could only convinge a few people to change to Signal. It is as easy as downloading a new app to prevent supporting Meta, but that's too much effort for many
it will work for 99,9% without any flaw
Unfortunately not anymore.
And it doesn't help, that Mozilla is also slowly turning towards enshittification... (since they fired all servo devs...)
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I am from Germany and it is just sad how many people use these apps from shit companies without thinking, when suitable alternatives exist everywhere. Just use Firefox, it will work for 99,9% without any flaw. I would love to ditch WhatsApp, but could only convinge a few people to change to Signal. It is as easy as downloading a new app to prevent supporting Meta, but that's too much effort for many
Actually as much as I’d love to use Firefox all the time, there are many times it won’t work properly at all. This isn’t entirely Mozilla’s fault, but it is the case.
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I removed all adblock extensions a while ago, and I am now running with the built in adblock alone. It works great for me. Also, it won't be deprecated: https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-update-vivaldi-is-future-proofed-with-its-built-in-functionality/
Ahh, didn't look into that, I'll have to check if I can remove some redundant addons.
thanks
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Hey, can you tell a little bit about your stack, what apps and services do you use? Also on phone?
I guess in a decade you could work that out pretty well.Your options for phones come down to linux phones (which I haven't heard great things about) and pixels ironically.
Apple phones make a similar number of calls to google services as android phones simply because of how much google runs.
