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Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?

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[–] Mercury1337@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] far_university1990@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Also mpv, it can use yt-dlp as a backend to play videos from urls: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sadly it works for YouTube. Yesterday I noticed a friend disabled uBlock Origin on YouTube. They don't care that there's workarounds, they'd rather watch 2 min ads than read up about something they are not interested in.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did you tell your friend ads waste far more time than the 3-5 second delay you get on Firefox with ublock? I mean, I get someone would hesitate to install another extension like User-Agent Switcher because you don't really want to trust it, but even then just using ublock is still faster than watching ads.

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

You assume people are rational, they are not