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    YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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    990 points smitop | 16 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 1.309s | source | bottom
    1. apitman ◴[21 Jun 25 03:26 UTC] No.44334232[source]▶
    > On Firefox this is easily resolvable - you can use a HTML filter to filter out the script tag from the source HTML before the page even starts being parsed. But that relies on extension APIs that Chromium doesn’t support.

    I'm shocked

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    2. madars ◴[21 Jun 25 03:35 UTC] No.44334269[source]▶
    The second Chrome drops uBlock Origin (as part of their "Manifest V3 without blocking Web Request" plan), I'm off to an alternative browser. Enough is enough.
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    3. gregoryl ◴[21 Jun 25 03:40 UTC] No.44334293[source]▶
    Do it now? I use Firefox on all devices, it's completely fine.
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    4. xingped ◴[21 Jun 25 03:43 UTC] No.44334301{3}[source]▶
    Seconded. Been on Firefox for years and greatly prefer my experience on Firefox both on desktop and mobile (Android) compared to any other browser.
    5. owebmaster ◴[21 Jun 25 03:48 UTC] No.44334325{3}[source]▶
    I use PWAs a lot and Firefox dropped support
    6. tjlingham ◴[21 Jun 25 03:52 UTC] No.44334338{3}[source]▶
    I agree, but I do need to keep a chromium browser around for the odd times that: my webcam decides to flicker uncontrollably during a meeting, a website just happens to put JS that runs terribly on Firefox in the hot path and it slows to a crawl, or a new feature is being demonstrated with Chrome only support.

    Beats ads, as far as I'm concerned, but I can't help but feel like your average user wouldn't agree.

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    7. cobertos ◴[21 Jun 25 04:23 UTC] No.44334490[source]▶
    Didn't this already happen? It just seems like it was only progressively rolled out to Chrome browsers. My work PC was hit with this about a month ago, and now I get ads there...
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    8. zargon ◴[21 Jun 25 04:26 UTC] No.44334500{4}[source]▶
    I used to keep a Chrome-based browser installed "just in case." But for about the last 5 years I've simply refused to have it on my machine. It's not needed.
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    9. asadotzler ◴[21 Jun 25 04:50 UTC] No.44334610{4}[source]▶
    I worked for Mozilla for 25 years and kept other browsers around the whole time. There's nothing wrong with having other browsers, and nothing technical that prevents it, so do that :D

    I can't think of a time I didn't have more than one browser, even in 1995 when I made Netscape my default, I kept Cello around for some things. More browsers are better than fewer, not only for the industry, but for individuals too.

    10. Evidlo ◴[21 Jun 25 05:29 UTC] No.44334771[source]▶
    On the upside, if they do, it might obviate the need for YouTube's anti adblocker measures because of the small market share of non-chromium browsers
    11. wiseowise ◴[21 Jun 25 07:08 UTC] No.44335304[source]▶
    I’ve heard this threats for 8 years.

    “If they press their shoe on me even further, then I’m leaving!”

    Firefox been free and there for you for decades, yet you still use this spyware crap from an Ad company. Disgusting.

    12. top_sigrid ◴[21 Jun 25 07:24 UTC] No.44335432[source]▶
    Youtube pushing ads in this way has convinced several non-technical friends who couldn't care less about their browser-choice to switch to Firefox with uBlock origin. Blocking ads in Chrome became such a hustle and is basically not working for Google's own services. Recommending people how don't care to not use chrome in the past was basically hopeless and now I have seen some switch basically from their own. Which I don't want to interpret too much into, but gives a little hope.
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    13. cassianoleal ◴[21 Jun 25 10:32 UTC] No.44336347{5}[source]▶
    A few years ago I uninstalled all remainders of Chrom(e|ium) from my laptop. Last week I had to get install it again because of a webflasher for a device that would only work on it. It's now gone again, and not missed.
    14. qiine ◴[21 Jun 25 13:43 UTC] No.44337549[source]▶
    GOOD
    15. meepmorp ◴[21 Jun 25 15:46 UTC] No.44338425[source]▶
    > I'm going to help them expand their power and influence over the web until they cross an arbitrary point with that power, at which point I'll cut them off and move to a strictly weaker competitor who will be in an even worse position by then!

    GOOD plan

    16. infensus ◴[22 Jun 25 00:23 UTC] No.44341754{3}[source]▶
    You can still re-enable the extension for now