• SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Can anyone recommend a good alternative that works well under Linux and block ads and trackers well? In particular YouTube ads?

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      1 year ago

      Firefox with uBlock Origin has been working well for me, for ads at least. I haven’t looked too much into blocking trackers but I think Firefox has some ability to do that

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        1 year ago

        Yeah it has some and if it doesnt work Extensions can help out. As it uses still the v2 manifest. It is just straight up better to use firefox ( or their “children” like librefox ( a bit hardend firefox browser ). It doesnt depending on chromium, its not a big Corporate that is super greedy.

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      1 year ago

      uBlock Origin for blocking advertisements everywhere, works with YouTube too. SponsorBlock for automatically skipping parts of YouTube videos with sponsored advertising.