Recommendation: report the pop-up as a bug with the provided link. Just act confused and claim to not be using an ad blocker. Muddy the waters and make life hell for their devs.
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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The devs aren't the ones making these decisions. That's like chewing out a customer support rep because their CEO did something you didn't like. Aim your anger more carefully.
How, though? Just like chewing out a customer support rep, the goal is to make it so either the employees constantly bring it up to their managers or they quit and the company can't find workers because it's so miserable.
Are the SWEs responsible for the decision? No. But if they find it too miserable to continue, they will quit and the people responsible will eventually have to respond.
That's really the only way to direct your anger at a CEO... Through the pocketbook. It's unfortunate that it's through the front line, but that's part of the job.
You're okay with putting somebody out of a job because of something somebody else did?
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Mullvad Browser + ublock Origin + Mullvad VPN, not logged into google.
Freetube, and newpipe are both working fine as well.
Ghostery, Privacy Badger, etc, are all redundant if you have ublock origin anyway. uBO blocks all the stuff they block, and having multiple blockers makes it more likely they'll interfere with each other.
Hey bro, what about "I still don't care about cookies", "Duckduckgo privacy Essentials" and Mozilla's "Enhanced tracking protection" ?? Does uBO fulfill all of their roles too?
There are additional lists you can activate to block annoyances like cookie banners. If you want to it's possible to add the whole "I still don't care about cookies" as a custom list so you combine the functionality without the added redundancy.
All the trackers that firefox blocks should be included in ublock origin as well. I'm not quite sure about their cookie isolation, but if you already block the tracking cookies you don't really need that.
As for DDGEP, it's also mostly a list of different trackers that get blocked which is redundant. The enforced https can also be achieved through browser settings. As for the link shortening to remove tracking, ublock has additional lists for that too. No idea about the supposed Google AMP protection and what it really does, but it also looks like a link shortener.
All in all, pretty much all functionality is covered by ublock origin, but it does require you to go into settings and enable some additional lists.
As for the link shortening to remove tracking
Bro wtf get out of my mind, How in God's name did you answer a question I forgot to ask!
If I may ask, do you know of a megathread of the popular filters/lists to ublock origin ? they don't provide one on their subreddit
Youtube has just began fighting real hard against adblocking so ublock has to update their solution constantly.
iirc the ublock origin team said that youtube updates its antiblock solutions at least twice a day. It's a constant battle.
Freetube ftw
I want to use it but does it support subscriptions/ accounts? I have a lot of subs and I don’t wanna resub manually to all of them :(
EDIT: You absolutely can:
- Go to https://takeout.google.com/ (login if needed)
- Select only YouTube > All YouTube data > Deselect all > Select only Subs
- Download the takeout file and extract the .csv
- In Freetube, go to Settings > Data Settings > Import subs and click on the .csv
- Enjoy!