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ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers

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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers

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ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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People are installing and uninstalling ad blockers in record high numbers as a result of YouTube's anti-ad blocking efforts.

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2883134 ([email protected])

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    People should be uninstalling Chrome instead.

    Adblocking still works fine on Firefox. Just update your UBO filters.

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      I literally have un-installed chrome. I had to use it on an office machine today and it felt weird.

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        proud of you

      • 𝕃𝕒𝕞𝕓@lemmy.zip
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        I’m so happy I can freely use Firefox at work. 😅

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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        The default browser at my work is Firefox lol, only our testing team and a few others use Chrome. It’s a pretty welcome change 👍

        I find it a little funny when we get Chrome-specific bug reports though

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      Aside from Firefox, are there any decent non-Chromium-based browsers left?

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        Nope

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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines

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          Thanks.

          For anyone else interested, as of November 2023:

          Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox’s engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox.

          Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.

          Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.

          The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple’s engine), and Blink (Google’s engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).

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        There are many. They’re just not as popular.

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