Don’t use brave.
I don’t, but why?
It’s Peter thiel’s browser.
This offends a lot of Mozilla stans, but Firefox isn’t much better.
They have similar links to shady people, often the same shady people… That includes two friends of Jeffrey Epstein.
And Mozilla still engages in discrimination today.
From the linked document, describing an unneeded round of layoffs:
People from groups underrepresented in technology, like female leaders and persons of color, were disproportionately impacted by the [Mozilla’s] layoff.
Oh BARF
Isn’t that for dogs?
Not in here, mister! This is a mercedes!
Uhm excuse me, it’s miss, thank you.
barfing noises
Apologies, I was referencing a silly movie
Oh shit I totally missed the reference, and I just recently watched that movie, oops!
Mozilla Firefox isn’t much better. They have similar links to shady people, often the same shady people… That includes two friends of Jeffrey Epstein.
And Mozilla still engages in discrimination today.
From the linked document, describing an unneeded round of layoffs:
People from groups underrepresented in technology, like female leaders and persons of color, were disproportionately impacted by the [Mozilla’s] layoff.
Lol underrepresented in technology get the f outta here
People here went from “Brave is problematic” to “haha unnecessary layoffs” in no time flat. What’s with the performative cruelty all of a sudden?
Just because you close your eyes and imagine how you want the world to be doesn’t make it the Truth son now go brush your teeth.
Counterpoint, some websites behave better on chromium so using brave as last resort is not as bad.
There is no chromium on iOS, all the browsers are actually the Safari in a trench coat.
Use literally any other chrome based browser.
I haven’t found one that blocks YouTube ads as well as brave does on iPhone.
Yes, I do have uBlock
Vivaldi seems to block adds well to iOS too.
Really the best I’ve found is 1blocker for Safari, but I got that when the lifetime version was a only few dollars. No clue how limiting the free version is. (Imagine subscribing to an ad-blocker! - but than again, how many people donate to ublock?).
Vivaldi’s ad blocker is really subpar compared to Brave or uBO. I tried using it for a while, and you have to tamper with filter lists (including disabling pre-approved advertisers) and it still fails in areas Brave doesn’t.
Ublock Origin Lite is available for safari and blocks YouTube ads perfectly fine.
Mozilla Firefox isn’t much better. They have similar links to shady people, often the same shady people… That includes two friends of Jeffrey Epstein.
And Mozilla still engages in discrimination today.
From the linked document, describing an unneeded round of layoffs:
People from groups underrepresented in technology, like female leaders and persons of color, were disproportionately impacted by the [Mozilla’s] layoff.
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So which browser would you recommend? It looks like Firefox is the only one not based on Chromium
Firefox has some very good forks including Waterfox (pretty normal) and LibreWolf (pretty privacy-hardened out of the box and may require a little Settings menu tweaking to make normal).
It’s unfortunate, but at the end of the day you kind of have to bite the bullet and accept that you will be using something downstream of something bad, e.g. Google (Chrome forks) or their money (Firefox is funded not by donations but by them).
Chrome forks aren’t just tainted by Google’s money; they’re tainted by Google’s power. Prefer a Firefox-derived browser if you care about web standards.
I have Opera just specifically for the purpose of watching YouTube since it can still run UBlock. I use chrome for everything else.
Out of curiosity, why not Firefox?
Two questions: Why Chrome when they are spying on you? Use LibreWolf.
Whats the matter that you don’t want to see ads on youtube, but getting bombed with ads on the rest of the web is okay?
Revanced
It’s still wild to me anyone uses or recommends Brave after their crypto scam and all their other shady dealings
Unfortunately there are still close to 0 other options on iOS for background play, at least it has the benefit of not being chromium on iOS
Sideload https://github.com/dayanch96/YTLite
Sponsorblock, Adblock, background play, skip, etc all integrated
Sideloading on ios is easy now unless your device was ever provisioned for a dev certificate. If that’s the case and it’s still active then just sign it with your own cert. if it’s no longer active you either need a fresh apple id or you need to use one of the kind of sketchy signing services. Otherwise you just use like sideloadly, altstore, side store, etc
Also there is no chromium on ios. All browsers use webkit and are basically just reskinned safari. Some heavily modify this (eg orion can run some Firefox and chrome extensions) though
Why do y’all go with the absolute worst options to avoid YT ads?
Use NewPipe on Android. Use FreeTube on PC. Failing all those, use an invidious instance from any web browser that isn’t fucking Brave - I recommend inv.nadeko.net.
What’s wrong with Brave?
They keep doing shady shit. I was a Brave defender until I read all of that. At the end of the day, there is no shortage is Chromium browsers, so I might as well use one that doesn’t have this sketchy history. Like Ungoogled Chromium.
Brave is a web browser created by an add company with ties to Peter Thiel.
But if that’s not reason enough to avoid it, here are the three primary ones that come to mind:
- The only reason Brave exists is because Brendan Eich is a homophobic piece of shit who was ousted from Mozilla due to his active support for ending gay marriage in California.
- The privacy grift is a grift.
- The crypto scam.
I just use FreeTube. No ads, no logins, no tracking, no BS.
I second FreeTube. Works great.
That sounds like a sign up ad pop up for one of those porn websites
Ew. You mean install
yt-dlpwith your distribution’s package manager or compile it from source?pipsucks.Why?
Python
What’s wrong with Python?
Python is slow, even compared to some other interpreted languages (not all languages in this comparison are interpreted). Python has poor type safety (without explicit hinting). Current Python versions have poor backward compatibility (CW: article image is AI-generated, unfortunately) with previous Python versions. And I do mean poor. Python’s syntax is disgusting, in my opinion.
UBO recommends firefox.
The whole point of YouTube Premium is that you also support content creators with additional money, and you also get YouTube mobile app without ads. Yes, I know you can use some random methods to not get ads on mobile, but come on, who has time to deal with this shit? And it will break sooner or later.
FYI all those “dislike count” plugins seem to be wildly inaccurate. No idea why but the counts rarely match what YouTube studio will say is the dislike count on the uploader’s side.
Because they track the thumbs down themselves. It’s not able to pull from yt. So a different ext will have different numbers depending on how many install it.
Oh wow so its even more useless than I thought Lol. Thx for the info!
Premium is for chumps who enjoy getting bullied by big daddy Google lol
If you put a dash after the T in the youtube url (ex: yout-ube) then it takes you to a version of the site with no ads. This only works on the browser version as far as I know.
Revanced works well on Android.
Or just don’t use YouTube at all
One shitty thing they’ve done that you can’t get around these methods is the new “1080p Enhanced Bitrate”. I’m not going to pay for premium just to prove that, but 99.9% sure that on many videos added before this was introduced they’ve degraded the base 1080p and the original is probably behind the new setting.
I hope I’m not right, but something tells me that the way it’s going, at one point they’ll only have 720p for non-premium.
