uBlock Origin

“Watching youtube with Firefox + ublock origins still gives you an experience free of the peppering of insufferable ad breaks”

“whatever ublock origin on firefox does to remove overlays and ads seems to be also removing the paywall on that”

“well firefox+ublock is still an option for those wise enough not to let unknown javascript with new daily zero-days run on their PC”

“Those are also both excellent for security since the main threat is malicious scripts served up by ad networks.”

“The UBO on Safari has the same issue as chrome except that it has been that way for several years longer”

“Google garnered a lot of opposition to its evil rule by destroying ublock origin (on chrome).”

“Helium still uses it to fetch and run uBlock Origin out of the box for mitigation against trackers, malware and ads.”

“It's just that uBlock Origin is so insanely useful, important and trusted, it should get full access to the entire browser regardless.”

“Twitch did that a while back and uBlock Origin was ineffective against their video ads within a few months.”

“One could add it locally however if they have uBlock Origin in their browser then one way to add a dark mode”

“The ram usage in this case is an order of magnitude lower if you install ublock in edge, as other comments have noted.”

“Fortunately, if you have uBlock Origin, you can enable Easylist cookie notices under annoyances and avoid most of them.”

“Luckily tools such as uBlock Origin let you block all those nasty scripts, including the cookie banner themselves.”

“But Youtube pushed me too far when it started playing two consecutive commercials at regular intervals that cannot be skipped”

“this change removed capabilities that content blockers like uBlock Origin relied on for effective ad and tracker blocking”

“the useful thing about ublock isn't just that it stops ads from loading, but that it lets you remove unwanted divs”

“regularly use it to block modals and things that my filter lists (every single one activated) don't cover already.”

“combine a trustworthy VPN, a fingerprint-resistant browser, and uBlock Origin, you get a damn good internet privacy”

“You can accomplish "no ads" and arguably substantially less tracking without Premium, though, with (e.g.) firefox and ublock origin.”

“I use e. g. ublock origin so thankfully most of those spam-ads that are of zero interest to me, I never get to see.”

“create a locked down profile with ublock origin installed with webrtc disabled in advanced mode and block everything be default”

“Supporting ublock isn't just a nice-to-have add-on feature for an extension API, it's literally the only thing most users care about.”

“I like that uBO can manipulate the dom, so that I can remove annoying divs or animations that I don't want.”

“According to uBlock Origin it blocked 9.5 million requests to ads/third party trackers since I installed it.”

“I can't even stand to visit YT without the combo of Blocktube/Unhook/uBlock Origin/SponsorBlock/Return YouTube Dislike.”

“There really is no excuse in my mind for not running an ad blocker. It's as vital to personal computing security as firewalls and anti malware.”

“At $JOB IT actually bundles uBlock in all the browsers available to us, as per CIA guidelines it's a very important security tool.”

“UBlock and other options remove the banner or consent screens fine, but this breaks functionality sometimes.”

“uBlock is often only removing the actual dialog, so you end up with a page you can't scroll up or down”

“I think in the last 12 months of using that unlock list I've only counted less than five times where sites have broken with that list enabled”

“it's uBlock Origin causing the problem. Disabling the plug-in for the site means Firefox no longer displays an error.”

“uBlock Origin doesn't block the modern equivalent of pop-up ads unless you manually block elements”

“You wouldn't need an antivirus with a properly locked browser with UBlock Origin and OFC no damn HTML email.”

“blocking/unblocking domains, scripts, etc. on a case-by-case basis is a more reliable way to defend your right to privacy”

“Blocking isn't the issue, it's the websites that straight up break that are the hard part.”

“most of the key differentiators of Brave could be accomplished similarly in Firebox with a litany of extensions -- such as UBlock Origin”

“Startpage, DDG, Brave, Ublock, NextDNS, Proton, Mulvad, and all those similar companies and OSS exist literally because people were infuriated at the Big Tech bait-and-switch tactics”

“You can use ublock origin browser extension per-site CSS rules to restore an arbitrary number of rows and columns to the youtube frontpage.”

“This occasionally causes breakage though; because many cookie notices open up modal dialogs and disable scrolling.”

“YouTube causes an unresponsive tab that doesn't play the video, and a blast of errors on the console.”