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Can’t you sideload applications like a hacker?
Our computing landscape has deteriorated if installing an application/extension outside of a walled garden makes you a "hacker."
I have been hit a lot by the adblock-block and my default browser for youtube was Chrome with uBlock. There was some back and forth and it still worked around 50% of the time. I took the oportunity to try the youtube experience on a brand new clean browser, not logged in. My seed recommendations were 80% right wing and conspiracy material. I humored the algorithm a bit and after three days I was basically in a right…
I find YT is only useable via the following combination of extensions these days - Ublock (still works for me, maybe it's a Firefox thing) - News feed eradictor (hides reccomended vids) - Pocket tube (how subscription management should have been) - Sponsorblock (auto skip sponsors which are typically gambling or predatory games)
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Thanks. Good to know. Solidifies my belief that additionally using Pi-Hole can only improve things.
For now, hopefully DoH/DoT isn't forced upon us
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Which is a horrible design on Android. Firefox on my (admittedly relatively old) phone take 20s to load the first page when browser start with uBlock enabled. On desktop this is fine as it only happen once a day. But on the phone it happen a lot since apps getting killed is a normal thing.
IIRC there's a setting for that in UBo (look for pre-fetching)
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Yeah, disabling prefetch:
> This will ensure no TCP connection is opened at all for blocked requests: It's for your own protection privacy-wise.
uBlock holds itself (ideally) to a higher standard than not executing js or hiding an element, it tries to prevent the network connections from even taking place. This is for browser prefetching that happens on many pages even after the environment and extensions are fully loaded, in many different contexts, to speed up requests by having the binary payload of the response already available in cache before it is needed.
I've been using uBlock since shortly after it launched, and I'd rather lose access to all Google services than not have an ad blocker. I seriously question how people use a browser without one. Completely changes how the web feels.
This. I've pretty much stopped using YouTube since the adblocker blocker shut me out. I figure it's a good time to kick a bad habit. :D
I couldn't think of how horrible the web browsing experience would be without uBlock Origin
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S10e was the peak of mobile design.
I feel the same about my s7 edge I keep as a spare, although currently using the s21 ultra and no complaints
I know I'm in the minority, but I consider both of these behaviors to be a very bad and extremely frustrating idea.
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Site and browser owned by the largest ad company in the world don't want you to block ads. News at 11.
(If you disagree, don't just click the down arrow, argue your point.)
It’s customary on HN to downvote comments without much substance. (Fwiw I didn’t downvote it)
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I'm trying Grayjay, which works great, and I've noticed one big thing: it doesn't keep showing me an endless stream of stuff to keep me on the site. It just shows my subs and a handful of suggestions. As a consequence, my time spent on the site is way down, and the time I do spend is higher quality material. But I'm with you. There's no way I'm watching an ad on YT. If they figure out how to only stream with unblocka…
What does Grayjay do? Is it some kind of aggregator?