if they outright forced us to stop day one there’d be outrage, so they instead ease us in. first a popup, then a timed popup, slowly leading to their actual goal but without the risk of an initial outrage. i know this is an extreme comparison but we’re like lambs to a slaughter

  • chillsmeit
    13•1 year ago

    The solution is to use Firefox or even better librewolf with uBlock. If you already have these, purge the filters cache and then update it back again. If you still have problems with this after doing these steps, there’s probably some extension conflicting with it or an extra manual filter you added. Cheers

    • @bouh
      5•1 year ago

      At some point YouTube kind of block your account with the message instead of the video.

      • chillsmeit
        2•1 year ago

        Honestly haven’t had that issue at all yet. If that happens, this userscript can be a solution (with something like grease monkey) https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/477725-youtube-iframe-adblocker. Using NoScript to turn off JS should also work. As a last resort you can use a script that redirects YouTube videos to invidious or some other alternative.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        Yeah I don’t see that as a solution, more as a stop gap for the time being just like Vanced and any other tool that stands/stood between Google and more money.

      • @AtmaJnana
        4•1 year ago

        It’s a privacy oriented fork of Firefox. Removes telemetry, pocket button, sync to cloud, etc.

        https://librewolf.net/

        This project is a custom and independent version of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom.

        LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. This is achieved through our privacy and security oriented settings and patches. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.

          • chillsmeit
            2•1 year ago

            They can. Though it’s just easier to use librewolf in my opinion. There’s a project called arkenfox which makes this easier to config settings manually for Firefox. Take a look into it.

          • @AtmaJnana
            1•1 year ago

            From the description, it seems to all be things I usually disable manually. So yes, at a glance they are just disabled

        • chillsmeit
          2•1 year ago

          The only annoying thing libre doesn’t turn off automatically is WeRTC which can be turned off in the flags with media.peerconnection.enabled set to false.

          • @AtmaJnana
            3•1 year ago

            Pocket is an add on for storing articles to read later. Used to be a separate product, but Mozilla bought them and integrated it into Firefox.