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YouTube Tells Open-Source Privacy Software ‘Invidious’ to Shut Down

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How long before Chrome changes their license to disallow ad blocking? Why should users think they own their whole screen, after all? "We estimate we can sell up to 80% of the visual field before inducing seizures!"

If they want to dig an early grave for chrome, sure, there's always firefox

Firefox’s main source of revenue is Google paying them to be the default search provider. They essentially exist at Google’s whim.

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If they want to dig an early grave for chrome, sure, there's always firefox

Chrome on Android does not support extensions at all. It's still the biggest mobile browser. Sure, it will make a lot of technical people mad, but a lot more won't care.

Brave and Firefox on Android blocks ads just fine.

Re: YouTube Tells Open-Source Privacy Software ‘Invidious’ to Shut Down

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How long before Chrome changes their license to disallow ad blocking? Why should users think they own their whole screen, after all? "We estimate we can sell up to 80% of the visual field before inducing seizures!"

I sort of want a client that does the exact opposite. Click on all ads in the background and provide bogus randomized client data, in essence costing companies money for no gain and rendering advertising useless.

Re: YouTube Tells Open-Source Privacy Software ‘Invidious’ to Shut Down

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How long before Chrome changes their license to disallow ad blocking? Why should users think they own their whole screen, after all? "We estimate we can sell up to 80% of the visual field before inducing seizures!"

I sort of want a client that does the exact opposite. Click on all ads in the background and provide bogus randomized client data, in essence costing companies money for no gain and rendering advertising useless.

It exists as a plug-in, google it. I fixed a bug in it once actually but forget the project name, there are two plugins like it

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sort of want a client that does the exact opposite. Click on all ads in the background and provide bogus randomized client data, in essence costing companies money for no gain and rendering advertising useless.

It exists as a plug-in, google it. I fixed a bug in it once actually but forget the project name, there are two plugins like it

AdNauseam

I didn't know there was another, hopefully someone will mention it?

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It exists as a plug-in, google it. I fixed a bug in it once actually but forget the project name, there are two plugins like it

AdNauseam I didn't know there was another, hopefully someone will mention it?

As much as I like adnauseam's mission, it seems to hide ads less reliably than ublock origin. I'd imagine some need to be visible for the click spoofing to work?

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Chrome on Android does not support extensions at all. It's still the biggest mobile browser. Sure, it will make a lot of technical people mad, but a lot more won't care.

Brave and Firefox on Android blocks ads just fine.

Sadly I suspect that may change. Manifest v3 was added to FF in 109 which is why I am on ESR and will probably stay on it as long as I can. Mozilla get funding from Google and that could potentially come with the price of blocking ad-blockers using manifest v3 at some point.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It exists as a plug-in, google it. I fixed a bug in it once actually but forget the project name, there are two plugins like it

AdNauseam I didn't know there was another, hopefully someone will mention it?

> Google has removed ad blocking and privacy extension AdNauseam from its Chrome Web Store, and has taken the unusual step of flagging the extension as malware, thereby preventing AdNauseam from being used by those who have installed the software via Chrome's developer mode.

Available for firefox and chromium-based browsers though.

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How long before Chrome changes their license to disallow ad blocking? Why should users think they own their whole screen, after all? "We estimate we can sell up to 80% of the visual field before inducing seizures!"

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Re: YouTube Tells Open-Source Privacy Software ‘Invidious’ to Shut Down

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brave and Firefox on Android blocks ads just fine.

Sadly I suspect that may change. Manifest v3 was added to FF in 109 which is why I am on ESR and will probably stay on it as long as I can. Mozilla get funding from Google and that could potentially come with the price of blocking ad-blockers using manifest v3 at some point.

AFAIK FF manifest v3 will maintain the webRequest interface.
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