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Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by pdpi »

galangalalgol wrote: post #175
nfriedly wrote: post #168

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Firefox is great on Mac too. You have a point about iPhones, though. It's almost pointless, but not quite: it does get a few features, like cross-platform sync. "Real" Firefox is one of the things that keeps me on Android.

Can you still get real Firefox on mac? I thought they forced chromium on there now too? The only time I got MacBook I put linux on it within a few months.

I assume that, by Chromium, you mean WebKit. At any rate, how or why would they have blocked Firefox on a machine where you can compile your own code?

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by SllX »

galangalalgol wrote: post #175
nfriedly wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox is great on Mac too. You have a point about iPhones, though. It's almost pointless, but not quite: it does get a few features, like cross-platform sync. "Real" Firefox is one of the things that keeps me on Android.

Can you still get real Firefox on mac? I thought they forced chromium on there now too? The only time I got MacBook I put linux on it within a few months.

So a couple of things.

1) Apple would never force "Chromium" on any of their platforms. You might be mistaking it for WebKit, but browsers are not required to use Apple's shipping version of WebKit on a Mac either.

2) Firefox on every single platform not on the iPhone & iPad uses and has always used Gecko. I'm not aware of any other exceptions besides those two platforms, but the Mac definitely isn't one of them.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by j45 »

ThunderSizzle wrote: post #204
kenmacd wrote: post #86

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SponsorBlock ( https://sponsor.ajay.app/ ) It works amazingly well provided a video's been out for at least a half hour or so. It also has the option to skip the "like and subscribe" parts too. I also tried the https://dearrow.ajay.app/ extension to replace clickbait titles, but decided I'd rather know when a channel/video is too clickbait-y so I can block/unsubscribe.

I wish many of these suggestion worked for casting. Browser extensions don't fix a chromecast skipping ads, for example. It'd have to be written into the casting client, I'd presume.

Yeah, this can be a consideration, and also a non-issue with Youtube Premium

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by guywithahat »

agile-gift0262 wrote: post #117
high_priest wrote: post #72

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Its not happening

I switched to Firefox and it's been wonderful. I wonder why I didn't switch earlier. It's only been a couple of months, but I can't imagine going back to a browser without multi-account containers.

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Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by madeofpalk »

guywithahat wrote: post #215
agile-gift0262 wrote: post #117

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I switched to Firefox and it's been wonderful. I wonder why I didn't switch earlier. It's only been a couple of months, but I can't imagine going back to a browser without multi-account containers.

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Mozilla is more questionable than Google? By using Brave you're still staying within the Google ecosystem, sending them the signal that their Chromium internet is the better one.

I swear - people have such a hard on for hating Mozilla because it fails to live up to an impossibly high standard, while giving all the other corporations doing actual harm a free pass.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by evo_9 »

agile-gift0262 wrote: post #117
high_priest wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not happening

I switched to Firefox and it's been wonderful. I wonder why I didn't switch earlier. It's only been a couple of months, but I can't imagine going back to a browser without multi-account containers.

Ditto - I’m on Zen browser a FF fork, it’s a clone of Arc and quite love it. No way I’m going back to chrome or any chromium browsers.

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by myko »

guywithahat wrote: post #215
agile-gift0262 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to Firefox and it's been wonderful. I wonder why I didn't switch earlier. It's only been a couple of months, but I can't imagine going back to a browser without multi-account containers.

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Brave seems much more questionable concerning ethics, given Eich's history

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by nicoburns »

galangalalgol wrote: post #175
nfriedly wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox is great on Mac too. You have a point about iPhones, though. It's almost pointless, but not quite: it does get a few features, like cross-platform sync. "Real" Firefox is one of the things that keeps me on Android.

Can you still get real Firefox on mac? I thought they forced chromium on there now too? The only time I got MacBook I put linux on it within a few months.

macOS isn't locked down like iOS. There are things like SIP which prevent some hacking/customising of the system, but:

1. These can all be disabled by advanced users (largely without consequence)

2. They dont prevent things like installing apps or even gaining root access in the first place.

The very fact that you can install Linux is evidence of the different approach taken with macs (you can't easily install Linux of ios devices)

Re: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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Post by al_borland »

high_priest wrote: post #72
al_borland wrote: post #66

Even if bigs exists to work around what Google is doing, that isn’t the right way forward. If people don’t agree with Google move, the only correct course of action is to ditch Chrome (and all Chromium browsers). Hit them where it hurts and take away their monopoly over the future direction of the web.

Its not happening

It happened before, multiple times.
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