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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Also be sure to get the restore YouTube dislike button extension

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (17 children)

As well as uBlock Origin, Sponsorblock and BlockTube.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I believe YouTube is going to start detecting ad blockers, and there will be an arms race

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

heard its on chromium based browsers. just hope it does not come to Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen it happen on Brave browser yet. We'll see how long that holds up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is that YouTube will become incompatible with firefox?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not hard to disguise the browser you're using. I use Mullvad (Firefox fork) and it will show up as Chrome on the host side.

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