• @whileloop@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      If I understand correctly, there’s nothing about Firefox that makes ad blockers any harder to detect. What can Firefox and uBlock do to stop Google from blocking adblock users on the site?

      That said, I use Firefox and uBlock myself, and I’ve yet to see YouTube stop me from using the site.

      • @AProfessional@lemmy.world
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        582 years ago

        They don’t care about Firefox. Chrome is the browser market, they have weakened extensions, they implemented DRM, and here we are.

        • @Fester@lemm.ee
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          02 years ago

          Coming to you later… “Your browser violates YouTube’s Terms of Service.”

      • @Goodie@lemmy.world
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        142 years ago

        Firefox currently enjoys protection from being “relatively niche” in the browser market (aka not Chromium based trash).

        But if I had to place a bet on which browser would put effort in to protecting your privacy, including which extensions are installed, my bet would be on Firefox over Chrome.

      • Name is Optional
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        52 years ago

        It has always been my understanding that uBlock and uBlock Origin were two totally different extensions for ad blocking. Is this not correct? Back several year ago when ad blockers were new, I recall seeing two different Firefox listings for them, and people would caution users to get uBlock Origin and not the other truncated named one

      • @Fades@lemmy.world
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        52 years ago

        The difference is Firefox is not a chromium based browser and thus not subject to googles fucking bullshit, esp when we come to things like web drm

      • igorlogius
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        32 years ago

        What can Firefox and uBlock do to stop Google from blocking adblock users on the site

        Not sure if you question is serious … but just in case, Mozilla is one of the few non-profit orgs that is fighting for an open web

        ref. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

        and uBlock Origin can literally work its magic because firefox provides the necessary APIs that allows it to work. (old ref. but AFAIK still relevant: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox)

      • @klyde@lemmy.world
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        -122 years ago

        Just another Firefox fan boy. They do this shit when as blockers get brought up too as if Brave, Vivaldi, etc isn’t going to strip out the ad blocker nonsense when they build their versions. Just because these versions use Chromium as a base in no way means they have to use their code. Firefox fan boys are too busy talking about Firefox to understand this.