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what youtube is doing is a slow easing of removing adblockers rather than an immediate one (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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if they outright forced us to stop day one there'd be outrage, so they instead ease us in. first a popup, then a timed popup, slowly leading to their actual goal but without the risk of an initial outrage. i know this is an extreme comparison but we're like lambs to a slaughter

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Why librewolf is better?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (6 children)

It's a privacy oriented fork of Firefox. Removes telemetry, pocket button, sync to cloud, etc.

https://librewolf.net/

This project is a custom and independent version of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom.

LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. This is achieved through our privacy and security oriented settings and patches. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can those settings be disabled in firefox but are not as default?

Sorry for ly aweful English.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

They can. Though it's just easier to use librewolf in my opinion. There's a project called arkenfox which makes this easier to config settings manually for Firefox. Take a look into it.

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