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      If I understand correctly, there’s nothing about Firefox that makes ad blockers any harder to detect. What can Firefox and uBlock do to stop Google from blocking adblock users on the site?

      That said, I use Firefox and uBlock myself, and I’ve yet to see YouTube stop me from using the site.

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        They don’t care about Firefox. Chrome is the browser market, they have weakened extensions, they implemented DRM, and here we are.

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          Coming to you later… “Your browser violates YouTube’s Terms of Service.”

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              They can just phrase it a little differently and argue semantics in front of a bunch of 70 year olds who don’t know what a browser is in a hearing or two. Maybe a couple campaign contributions through completely legal channels and that’s that. Anti trust enforcement has been falling in the US for decades.

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                I am cautiously optimistic of that new gal heading the FTC, she’s preparing suits I to Amazon and Google, so we’ll see how that goes

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            You could use an extension that changes your user agent but I’m not sure how well that’d work

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            They’re TRYING, but for now, it would be a user agent extension matter.

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        Firefox currently enjoys protection from being “relatively niche” in the browser market (aka not Chromium based trash).

        But if I had to place a bet on which browser would put effort in to protecting your privacy, including which extensions are installed, my bet would be on Firefox over Chrome.

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        i think it’s mainly the list maintainers staying on-the-ball with changes to sites. they can move quicker than a giant corporation can develop, test, and roll-out potentially site-breaking changes that could adversely affect ‘billions’ of users.

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        It has always been my understanding that uBlock and uBlock Origin were two totally different extensions for ad blocking. Is this not correct? Back several year ago when ad blockers were new, I recall seeing two different Firefox listings for them, and people would caution users to get uBlock Origin and not the other truncated named one

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              Yes, it is metamorphical lol. Gorhill is the creator of both uBlock and uBlock Origin. However, he gave the uBlock github repo to another dev, who sold it to adblock plus. Do not download uBlock.

              However, he did fork uBlock and continued to develop his own version, now named uBlock Origin. Do download uBlock Origin.

              PSA: ublock.org is not related to uBlock Origin.

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        The difference is Firefox is not a chromium based browser and thus not subject to googles fucking bullshit, esp when we come to things like web drm

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        Just another Firefox fan boy. They do this shit when as blockers get brought up too as if Brave, Vivaldi, etc isn’t going to strip out the ad blocker nonsense when they build their versions. Just because these versions use Chromium as a base in no way means they have to use their code. Firefox fan boys are too busy talking about Firefox to understand this.

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      Except WEI is going to make it so the website can detect and block you if you don’t allow the ads, regardless of your browser and extensions

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        Purge and update your filter cache, check to make sure you have Anti-adblock filters enabled. If that doesn’t work do some troubleshooting with the extensions, one user found that other extensions were interfering and after disabling the problematic extension it worked.