YouTube wants users to allow ads or sign up for Premium.
YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers::YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers. In a statement to The Verge, YouTube’s Christopher Lawton says the company has launched a “global effort” to urge people to allow ads on the platform.
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.
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.
It’s not about whether it’s possible to install via a single command; it’s about signaling that its popular enough for the distro to justify maintaining a proper first-party package for it.
Youtube wantses, Youtube don’t getses. Just like Gmail wantsed and I moved to another email provider. They want the money to stop shoving the ads, but still keep the tracking going. Well, I’m the product or the customer, I can’t be both.
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I switched my VPN to Moldova and I haven’t seen a add, some of these small countries it’s not worth it to have ads.
Cable, its cable now.
Pretty soon we’re going to need an adblock blocker blocker
And I’m serious about keeping Revanced updated ☺️
Uninstall Chrome (includes Edge, Brave, Vivaldi & many more) and replace with Firefox plus uBlock Origin
Problem solved
Why the recommendation for Firefox in this matter since ublock is promising support for multiple browsers?
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.
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?
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.
I personally prefer LibreWolf (Firefox based)
There’s also Palemoon (Firefox cringe)
Yeah but LibreWolf is hardened and far more private and secure
My rule: if it’s not in my distro’s
aptrepository, it’s too niche to use. If you want folks to use Librewolf, package it.There’s a Flatpak
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It’s not about whether it’s possible to install via a single command; it’s about signaling that its popular enough for the distro to justify maintaining a proper first-party package for it.
That’s an arbitrary way to decide if a package is worth installing
What’s arbitrary about popularity? We use it to decide all sorts of things, including voting in a democracy.
Yeah but determining popularity based on wither or not it’s in a distro repo doesn’t make sense
Youtube wantses, Youtube don’t getses. Just like Gmail wantsed and I moved to another email provider. They want the money to stop shoving the ads, but still keep the tracking going. Well, I’m the product or the customer, I can’t be both.
Youtube doesn’t even serve ads to me if my useragent is a crawler.
Oh, interesting.
Care to share the string?
Hmmm, weird.
Anyway, cross-posting one of my favorite random comments from some other cool person I saw in a thread the other day :
Android :
iOS :
Web :
Desktop :
TV :
Android TV - SmartTubeNext
Apple TV - Yattee with this guide
This guy needs a medal
And Playlet if you use a Roku or Roku TV 😉