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I'm having okay results from #Stract https://stract.com/

but honestly, I just keep using DDG, and use #UBlockOrigin to automatically delete the AI pest from the page.

Also, I don’t visit youtube.com much because I use #PeerTube every day, and I also keep #FreeTube installed on my #Debian system!

Am I using an ad-blocker? Absolutely! Is YouTube intentionally slowing me down? Without a doubt!

#YouTube #AdBlock #ZenBrowser #uBlockOrigin

1. #AdBlock and #Tracking Blocking on Android is easy.

Use a Browser like #Ironfox with #UBlockOrigin in advanced mode, and block known tracking Javascript that way.

Solved, no #Metapixel, #GoogleAnalytics, #YandexMetrica, #CloudflareInsights and whatever else exists out there. It is blocked from loading or executing, so it can't listen on your localhost either.

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Ja, der Grund ist, dass ein Konzern mit einen Zig-Milliarden-Gewinn seinen Hals nicht voll genug bekommt.

Als ob diese hyperbeschissenen KI-Audiotracks nicht nervig genug seien. 🙄

Steckt den guten Creators das Geld möglichst direkt zu, damit die sich schneller von YouTube lösen können.

Go #FreeTube, #ytdlp, #NewPipe, #LibreTube und vor allem #PeerTube!

#YouTube #Google #Alphabet #Adblocker #uBlockOrigin #Enshitification

Meldung auf YouTube: "Kommt es zu Unterbrechungen? Grund herausfinden"

@alphapuggle @eff No, you only need UBO.

#Ads #Tracking #Privacy #UBlockOrigin

Glad to report that I finally switched from #Edge to #Firefox.

I left #Chrome (dev channel) exclusively for web development, and Edge for the business profile.

The good? It's visually neat on #GNOME with the proper theme and some extensions. #uBlockOrigin works as its best.
The bad? No web as apps, sometimes YouTube takes a while to load, lower corners not rounded, some Blink-exclusive sites (fuck you).

#WebBrowser #Browser #Internet #Chromium #Google #Mozilla #Microsoft #Linux

They've done it before with #GoogleSearch, when it had no more room to “grow” organically, and they'll do it again with #YouTube. That's just how these companies work. But we don't have to put up with it!

I'm not against ads per se. But no channel will ever be good enough to make me tolerate the amount of intrusive, offensive, scammy, dirty and manipulative ads Google serves on YouTube.

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#adblock #ublockorigin

I heavily use `yt-dlp` + `mpv`. If you want the script, you can get it here: https://gist.github.com/uncomfyhalomacro/1674247c211f3ebcf5c102021be547aa

It uses nushell. I think you also need to install nu_plugin_query as well.

This is just in case you are affected by YouTube's ongoing mission to destroy adblockers. I also found this blog post interesting https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/

#YouTube #adblock #uBlockOrigin

Vandaag #GroenLinks #PvdA congres zo'n beetje gevolgd en dacht goed bezig, ik meld me maar eens aan als lid.

Werkt hun aanmeldingsformulier gvd niet met #uBlockOrigin of #AdBlockPlus

Tja, dan ben je me weer kwijt en blijf ik voorlopig uitsluitend lid van de @Piratenpartij

https://groenlinks.nl/word-lid
"Werkt het formulier niet? probeer het alsjeblieft opnieuw op een andere computer of mobiel apparaat. Adblockers zoals Adblock Plus en Ublock kunnen de functionaliteit van het formulier hinderen.

@Tigerkaninchen Alternativ kann man im Dashboard von #ublockOrigin unter "Meine Filter" einen neuen Eintrag mit
google.com##.hdzaWe
anlegen.

YouTube ahora opta por retrasar la reproducción de sus vídeos y empujar a suscribirse al premium a usuarios que bloqueen sus anuncios.
La solución: seguir bloqueando anuncios sin usar una cuenta de Google al navegar por YouTube. Usar Invidious o NewPipe también es más cómodo. Usar Peertube y/u Odysee ya es sintonizar con el universo.

https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/youtube-is-reportedly-delaying-video-playback-for-ad-blocker-users-to-push-premium-tiers/

#noticias #google #youtube #uBlockOrigin #adblock

@Mixtape #uBlockOrigin is also an option

@JBrickelt963 hmmm, sur mon Linux et Man, ffox + uBlock + deezer marche très bien. Mais c'est vrais que quand j’entends parler de que A ou b ne marche plus sur ffox, il marche encore sur le mien, lequel est plutôt à jour. Une chose que possiblement est très particulier à moi c'est que j'ai #uBlockOrigin en mode "firewall"; c'est à dire, par défaut je bloque toutes les sites tiers et je débloque un par un jusqu'au le site marche.

@boo_ @AAKL @9to5Mac Hi Klara. I reckon you've made fine points & well expressed. I shall readily & entirely concede that my choice of comparison was crude & legitimately liable for criticism. Let me try though to explain what was/is in my mind, wrt all the Mozilla shenanigans & imbroglio.

First, i readily join the bands of voices criticising Mozilla over many years for apparently letting Firefox fall far behind the competition. One does not even need to consider the chromium-based competition, to be able to criticise their apparent loss of interest in FF until comparatively recent months. Even staying within the Gecko-sphere, the fact that single-Dev projects like #Floorp & #Zen have been able to create quite excellent forks in short time that far exceed the limited innovation Mozilla have done in FF for many years, should shame them. Moreover, other single-Dev projects like the fabulous #FirefoxSecondSidebar, & then also ofc the AOs #TreeStyleTab & #Sidebery, illustrate by comparison how negligent the FF Devs have been [or maybe, been allowed to be], in not natively incorporating such great innovations that elevate the UX so considerably.

Secondly, the brouhaha recently re the ToS / ToC or whatever we call it. Mozilla possibly could not have been more ham-fisted & incompetent wrt how badly they mismanaged the situation, & they deserved a lot [but far from all, IMO] of the worldwide criticism they incurred. As to the germane details themselves, fwiw i tend atm to fall on the side of the argument that they were very clumsy, but not being evil by design... & in matters like these i always ask myself the counterfactual "well ok, do i now distrust them enough to actually abandon them & thence choose to cut off my nose to spite my face by entering the actual proven evil empire of chromium-based browsers?". My answer remains NO!!!

Thirdly, the #AI problem. Lemme state upfront that i despise the entire global fetish that's erupted for #LLMs / #GenerativeAI. I loathe & despise the vast intellectual property theft perpetrated in training these things, despair at the shocking environmental implications of them, & alternatively scream & cackle at the gross human stupidity manifested by peeps all over the rock blindly accepting the hallucinated garbage produced by these monstrosities. Do i want AI in my Foxes? Nope. Would i prefer Mozilla was not apparently bent on this path? Yep. However, again i ask myself that counterfactual, which i am able to mediate with the knowledge that atm anyway, knowledgeable users are still able to actively choose not to use it, & deactivate it, in their Foxes. Is that the best way Mozilla could have done it? No, ofc not. Is it overall a scenario that i can still use to my advantage? Yes. Is it a least-worst alternative to the chromium horrors? Yep.

A Third-&-a-Half point arises. I said above "knowledgeable users are still able to actively choose not to use it". What then though for non-knowledgeable users, for the non-geeks, the "regular peeps"? Here i admit my attitude is harsh & possibly mean, & i shall accept all criticism of it. IMO the "regular peeps" do not care one jot about any of this. They often struggle to grasp that a Search Engine is not a Browser. Many do not know or care that they have a substantial browser choice, beyond whatever came on their device. They think of "Browser" & "Chrome" as being synonymous & indivisible. They have no idea that they do not in fact have to tolerate their present miserable web UX of sites drowning in ads, trackers & malware. They have no idea of the existence, much less purpose, of #uBlockOrigin. I posit that these peeps are the target market, aka shooting fish in a barrel, of the present AI fetish, who know not &/or care not about any & all the ills of AI, who are unmotivated to lift a finger to improve their online UX, & who simply desire to accept whatever slop is served to them. IMO none of the recent Mozilla noise is relevant to them, as they're either not using FF anyway, or if they are, do not care about anything behind the curtain.

So, my OP was primitive & arguably invalidly comparing apples with oranges, but i wrote it with all the above in my mind. Fwiw.

My subjective impression is that ads-presenting services (like Spotify) are trying to bypass dns-based ad blocking by requesting directly IPv6 addresses. Is it an artifact of my setup ? Has anyone studied this ?

#ads #onlineadvertising #tracking #dnsfilter #dnsfiltering #ublockorigin #spotify

Gibt es eigentlich #ublockorigin für #firefox auf #IOS?
Ich habe gerade einen kurzen Text auf rp-online lesen wollen und kam mir vor wie bei Tetris um die ganzen Werbungen weg zu klicken. Was für ein Horror.