TheBeagle
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Yep. I got the warning for a few days and then finally got the three strikes. Noped the fuck out of YT all together for a few days and when I came back, nothing. Back to normal.
YouTube's War on Ad Blockers
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BrutulTM
Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
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Good luck with that but you understand that you are just a leech and it's a completely unsustainable model if there's too many leeches like you.
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Control
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Crypto malware has poisoned the well, but browser-based mining was really the solution to this. Make content I like to see, then you can use 10% of my cpu/gpu for your profit while I'm using your content. This would really have been a win-win for creators and users, with the added bonus of fucking advertisers. Creators get paid and no one ever needs to see an ad again.
Furry
WoW Office
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What part of these companies can eat my ass makes you think I give two shits if their headquarters went on fire and everyone turned into gingerbread cookies tomorrow? Pretty sure you just restated my goal.
BrutulTM
Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
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But you're still going to watch Youtube right? It's easy to be all principled when it means you can rationalize being a leech.
Furry
WoW Office
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Of course, what sort of leech would I be if I wasn’t doing my part to cost them money.
Cad
scientia potentia est
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Palum
what Suineg set it to
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The internet was a mistake, I'd settle for web 2.0+ dying so if social media and video sites all go away, worth the price.
AladainAF
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I'm sorry but I think Brave wins on this at least for now. In fact, with Brave you dont even have to install UBO, has tor built in, and its own torrent client built in, as well as no tracking features enabled by default. You don't have to install anything. It's all built in.
I tried using firefox, yet it was slow as fuck and often got stuck with being stuck with 'Performing a TLS Handshake' bullshit which apparently is a very known issue that's never been fixed. It's one of those cases with a billion fixes available for it, none of which actually work for most people.
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Lanx
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firefox still has big memory leak
i only have 4 tabs open, but i think it is counting every element in those tabs
Void
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I know this is everyone posting anecdotes, but at work I use Vivaldi with UBO, Privacy Badger, and the DuckDuckGo privacy thing. So far I have zero ads or warnings about blockers on YouTube. Furthermore, I have all of those completely turned off on this site, and when I watch a video here I also get zero ads. Same at home, with the same browser and add ons. I sincerely doubt it is all Vivaldi doing it, but something is "just working" for me on two totally different computers.
On my Nvidia Shield I use the aforementioned SmartTube and it is working great so far.
I even have a year of free Premium YT from buying my Pixel 8 Pro that I haven't redeemed yet, because I have no need. I might just because I know it pays people that are part of the partner program on YT if I watch with it on, but I hate to even sign up because it is probably one of those things where it will autorenew in a year or some bullshit.
On my Nvidia Shield I use the aforementioned SmartTube and it is working great so far.
I even have a year of free Premium YT from buying my Pixel 8 Pro that I haven't redeemed yet, because I have no need. I might just because I know it pays people that are part of the partner program on YT if I watch with it on, but I hate to even sign up because it is probably one of those things where it will autorenew in a year or some bullshit.
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firefox still has big memory leak
i only have 4 tabs open, but i think it is counting every element in those tabs
I just checked and firefox was using 16 gigs for 93 tabs (yes, I have a problem). I closed the application and it left 65 hung processes in the task manager. After clearing that crap out and restoring my session it was using a gig and a half. Firefox's memory utilization is fucking terrible.
As far as ads, I think I saw maybe one yesterday and one this morning? It's not terribly obtrusive, seems like maybe they've lowered the frequency?
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Brahma
Obi-Bro Kenobi-X
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Tried Brave...and fuck he's right. This browser is pretty damn good. Only mod I added was a color mod for dark pages.
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moonarchia
The Scientific Shitlord
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Hey now, if you don't want to be negatively judged by some rando on the internet you should watch them and be grateful.
moonarchia
The Scientific Shitlord
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