I returned to Firefox (after years of using Chrome out of laziness) on my work laptop because of Google’s manifestly (ha) stupid decision to block functionality that means uBlock Origin no longer could be installed, which means I had no way of manually adding extra filters to block the garbage AI Overview in el goog search results.
Honestly think I should just switch to Firefox on my personal computer too. I use Iceraven on my phone which is a fork of Firefox, anyway…
This is why I returned, though I was using Edge and they haven’t set a date yet for ending Manifest V2 support. Figured I’d get ahead of it. The uBO team also say it works best on Firefox too.
They can take the ability to block custom elements over my dead body! Especially as unwanted AI garbage continues to infect more and more user interfaces
I use Brave on my phone, because of its inbuilt ad blocker - I can watch YT videos without all the ads before, during, and after the vid lol idk about it’s other functionalities however.
I can use uBlock Origin in Iceraven on my phone, which probably has a similar-ish outcome (though it’s slower at keeping up the YT ads arms race, every so often ads will slip in)
However, I instead watch YT on a Revanced patched version of the Youtube app, which blocks ads, uses Sponsorblock (skip all the sponsored segments and if you want to skip intros/intermissions/outros etc), and very importantly, lets you have background playback - I couldn’t be happier with it! Especially when I want to have some 3 hour brown noise + rain video playing in the background while I doomscroll
I returned to Firefox (after years of using Chrome out of laziness) on my work laptop because of Google’s manifestly (ha) stupid decision to block functionality that means uBlock Origin no longer could be installed, which means I had no way of manually adding extra filters to block the garbage AI Overview in el goog search results.
Honestly think I should just switch to Firefox on my personal computer too. I use Iceraven on my phone which is a fork of Firefox, anyway…
This is why I returned, though I was using Edge and they haven’t set a date yet for ending Manifest V2 support. Figured I’d get ahead of it. The uBO team also say it works best on Firefox too.
They can take the ability to block custom elements over my dead body! Especially as unwanted AI garbage continues to infect more and more user interfaces
I use Brave on my phone, because of its inbuilt ad blocker - I can watch YT videos without all the ads before, during, and after the vid lol idk about it’s other functionalities however.
I can use uBlock Origin in Iceraven on my phone, which probably has a similar-ish outcome (though it’s slower at keeping up the YT ads arms race, every so often ads will slip in)
However, I instead watch YT on a Revanced patched version of the Youtube app, which blocks ads, uses Sponsorblock (skip all the sponsored segments and if you want to skip intros/intermissions/outros etc), and very importantly, lets you have background playback - I couldn’t be happier with it! Especially when I want to have some 3 hour brown noise + rain video playing in the background while I doomscroll