if they outright forced us to stop day one there’d be outrage, so they instead ease us in. first a popup, then a timed popup, slowly leading to their actual goal but without the risk of an initial outrage. i know this is an extreme comparison but we’re like lambs to a slaughter

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    The solution is to use Firefox or even better librewolf with uBlock. If you already have these, purge the filters cache and then update it back again. If you still have problems with this after doing these steps, there’s probably some extension conflicting with it or an extra manual filter you added. Cheers

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      At some point YouTube kind of block your account with the message instead of the video.

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        Yeah I don’t see that as a solution, more as a stop gap for the time being just like Vanced and any other tool that stands/stood between Google and more money.

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        It’s a privacy oriented fork of Firefox. Removes telemetry, pocket button, sync to cloud, etc.

        https://librewolf.net/

        This project is a custom and independent version of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom.

        LibreWolf is designed to increase protection against tracking and fingerprinting techniques, while also including a few security improvements. This is achieved through our privacy and security oriented settings and patches. LibreWolf also aims to remove all the telemetry, data collection and annoyances, as well as disabling anti-freedom features like DRM.

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          Can those settings be disabled in firefox but are not as default?

          Sorry for ly aweful English.

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            They can. Though it’s just easier to use librewolf in my opinion. There’s a project called arkenfox which makes this easier to config settings manually for Firefox. Take a look into it.

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            From the description, it seems to all be things I usually disable manually. So yes, at a glance they are just disabled

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          The only annoying thing libre doesn’t turn off automatically is WeRTC which can be turned off in the flags with media.peerconnection.enabled set to false.

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            Pocket is an add on for storing articles to read later. Used to be a separate product, but Mozilla bought them and integrated it into Firefox.