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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2883134 ([email protected])

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (20 children)

The day i remove my adblocker is the day... ah who am i kidding, i will never uninstall my adblocker.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (18 children)

t doesn’t say more people overall use ad blockers. It says people that were already using them are now switching between different extensions. Let’s wait and see if this increases Firefox’s market share. This could be the real good outcome of all this.

That's literally the first thing after I install any new system.

get firefox on a stick so I don't have to open deprecated explorer or have to download Edge
install firefox, get ad blocker extension
then remove/turn off all the recommended shit that are now embedded to your start menu and task bar and lock screen. (I wish there is a github FOSS script that does this for new windows builds. )

I will abandon windows when the games can all be played on Linux properly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m about a week off coming back to Windows from Linux.

Some things that chased me off:

Alan Wake 2 used too new of GPU features
Once after playing a game, my cursor was just gone—not invisible, just not there. Only keyboard.
A few times after quitting games, something was broken about the desktop experience and I had to reboot the machine to get things working again
Discord crashed any time the machine went to sleep (or woke up? Hard to tell which)
Several games only worked if I manually put in Proton launch options
No support for DLSS framegen
Cyberpunk had to be given a fake driver version to support ray reconstruction
No support for GamePass games still, which is how I’d been playing Starfield and Lies if P, and planning on Cities: Skylines 2.
No native support for middle-click scrolling without pasting (I don’t count editing low-level X config files)
[edit] Also Lords if the Fallen thought I was using a modified game and wouldn’t let me online—solo play only, thanks to EAC

I keep feeling like Linux is just a year or two away from being good enough for common folks to switch over, and I guess if all you need if Firefox, it’s probably there. But the experience is just so subtly, but consistently, bad year after year.

For reference, I was on Pop!_OS (whatever their latest stable was, I think based on Ubuntu 22?). I had read that Pop!_OS was one of the better distorts for games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've done that very long time ago even custom build linux kernels and compile drivers, but the experience is not really good cause it's basically a waiting game. You wait for updates and fixes and drivers etc cause no one owes you anything and even for gaming updates you might not be priority. (I used to pay money to a side fork of wine that has a paid member voting which game's compatibility to work on first. I don't have to pay/wait for anything just to have a game working on Windows. )

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