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Me but Vivaldi and Adnauseam.io.
Ads are a dystopian nightmare but for some reason nobody seems to care
Consider switching to something Firefox based cause Adnauseam will break when google kills of manifest v2 in a month or something
In June 2025, as of now. (Vivaldi only, other Browsers may differ, change to FireWaterLibreWolfFox regardless.)
https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-update-vivaldi-is-future-proofed-with-its-built-in-functionality/
Yeah I'm holding out for that dude who built a new browser from the ground up and made it fully open source. It's called Ladybird.
FYI it's not gonna run on Windows. But you probably already know that.
Yeah by the time Win10 is deprecated I am hoping Linux is more suited towards my needs anyway. There's little sense in going open source and staying with Windows. It's well past its prime.
Probably because unlike paying for the service, we don't feel how it takes our money from us.
A psychological trick that works so great that it made a lot of services exist in the first place like the whole of YouTube. And now we're kinda addicted to those too.
Exactly. I hate when things say FREE!* (*With Ads), because you ARE paying for it. With your PRECIOUS TIME
That's the least of it! What's worse is that you're paying with your MENTAL HEALTH, because by their nature, ads are designed to make you feel like something is wrong with your life (and that buying the product can fix it).
https://hbr.org/2020/01/advertising-makes-us-unhappy
https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/adding-to-the-problem-advertising-and-mental-health/
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/advertisings-toxic-effect-on-eating-and-body-image/
https://adfreecities.org.uk/what-we-do/advertising-mental-health/
Thank you! I was always morally opposed to ads. Glad to have another great reason to shun them
My time is basically worthless when I'm watching YouTube
Well you’re about to re-enter that dystopian nightmare because Vivaldi is a chromium browser and is moving over to manifest v3, meaning ublock origin will no longer work. Shift over to Firefox my friend
I'm not using ublock origin, Vivaldi has built-in ad blocking. If I were to switch, I'd switch to Ladybird