this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
38 points (97.5% liked)
Technology
37747 readers
712 users here now
A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The ad blockers in question were AdGuard and Ghostery, acc. to the article.
uBlock Origin is still working fine for me. And NewPipe in the cell phone.
Ghostery isn't even an ad blocker, it's just to prevent tracking.
Ghostery does work as an ad blocker too, and advertises (eh) itself as such.
Plus, for corporate nowadays, tracking and advertisement are two steps of the same process.
Oh OK my bad, that was news to me. I stopped using it a couple of years ago when Firefox got the functionality built in, and it wasn't advertised as an ad blocker back then.
Where do you get NewPipe and is it good
It's on F-Droid. I personally haven't used it in a long time because you couldn't sign in to your account. Not sure if that's changed. I'm currently using revanced which is great.
As the other poster said, it's on F-Droid. It's mostly a Youtube frontend, although it accesses SoundCloud and PeerTube too. And more importantly, it doesn't download advertisements from YT, so you don't even need an ad blocker when using it.