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Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It keeps breaking on FF too tho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nope it doesn't. Mine works without any modifications but I heard that it happens occasionally. There are some easy steps to set up FF to work again, should be easy to look up.

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

I went through the instructions with the removing other extensions and resetting things and pasting filters etc. multiple times but it kept breaking, ended up switching to FreeTube. Maybe they've got it by now but I'm going to wait until it all shakes out more, too much hassle.

Plus if you read the article, you can't tell how it works overall just because it works for you, because YouTube is treating different groups of users differently here.

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

I had it pop up a couple times in Firefox, but it went away when I enabled the Annoyances filter in ublock settings. The videos just work now, no problem