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uBlock Origin already passed a law forcing YouTube to skip ads.
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The Mozilla CEO has talked about how much money they could make by blocking ad blockers.
That would definitely be enough of a push to get me looking into alternatives to Firefox! Or enough of a push to spend time digging into and setting up network-level blocking. Or both.
I recommend Freetube.
Cool, I’ll look into that for YouTube, but I do also need a browser for other sites that blocks ads.
Unfortunately, it seems every browser that isn't firefox or chrome is based on either firefox or chrome. Fortunately, since firefox is opensource it can be forked.
I use Zen browser. It's a fork of firefox with better features.
On mobile I use IronFox, and I'm certain there's a similar project for desktop.
I used WaterFox for a while in the (admittedly now distant) past, and I don’t remember what site it was that broke me, but there was something that I was actively using at the time that broke for an extended period and sent me crawling back to the mainline.
I think it’s inevitable at this point that I look for some new non-chromium desktop browser again in the future, but it sounds like IronFox at least is Android-only.
Doesn't work for twitch though :(
Ouch. It’s extremely rare I watch anything on twitch so I didn’t mention it, but I also assumed it did
I've had varying degrees of luck with this plugin: https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions
if you're ok not being up to the second live on twitch you can go to the person's /videos page and watch the vod with no ads