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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 4 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.733s | source
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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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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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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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1. tjlingham ◴[21 Jun 25 03:52 UTC] No.44334338[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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2. zargon ◴[21 Jun 25 04:26 UTC] No.44334500[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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3. asadotzler ◴[21 Jun 25 04:50 UTC] No.44334610[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.

4. cassianoleal ◴[21 Jun 25 10:32 UTC] No.44336347[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.