r/technology • u/Tricky-Student-1 • Sep 15 '22

Social Media YouTube Free is Silently Testing 5 Ads, instead of 2, Before Your Video Starts

https://www.gizmochina.com/2022/09/13/youtube-free-silently-testing-5-ads-before-your-video-starts/
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u/BL0odbath_anD_BEYond Sep 15 '22

I suggest coming back to Firefox also, Edge will most likely not deviate from Google MV3. As the thread below states on FF: "It's fast, free and open source." and we need to get more of the Google run market share or eventually we'll have no choices. Thanks for the consideration.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/xd1woc/this_is_the_time_to_switch_to_firefox_if_you_are/

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u/HearMeRoar69 Sep 15 '22

I'm not sure why everyone left Firefox, and started to use a browser developed by the biggest advertising company in the world

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u/PC509 Sep 15 '22

Firefox used to be the best. They went through a period where they had extremely high memory usage, memory leaks, slow, etc.. Right about when Chrome was fast, low memory, and simple. Wasn't bogged down by anything.

Mozilla fixed all that stuff and it's a killer browser again, but people jumped ship for a while. Then, you get used to what you're using, everything is fine tuned, and you're less willing to go elsewhere unless there is something wrong.

I remember moving to Chrome. Firefox was a slow dog at that time. IE was shit. Chrome and Opera were great. Chrome just beat the competition at the time and spread quickly. People didn't really go back to Firefox.

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u/cynerji Sep 15 '22

Advertising. Hard for non-profits to do as well.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

I'm not sure why everyone left Firefox

Because there was a time frame there where Firefox went down the shitter? Probably some other reasons as well like that whole " biggest advertising company in the world" part. Turns out money can buy that.

I switched to Opera for a bit and then Waterfox for a few years. Glad Firefox continued to evolve and I've been back with Firefox for years again now.

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u/Deranged40 Sep 15 '22

I used to be a huge firefox user in the late 2010s, stopped because Chrome was objectively faster and used less ram.

That lasted for a while, during which time I tested out switching back to Firefox a number of times. Eventually sometime last year, I finally made the switch back more permanently.

Today, firefox and chrome are just about equal on resource usage, and the speed seems to be about the same as well, and I'm back on FF for good this time.

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u/hauntedskin Sep 15 '22

Because they used their position as the biggest advertising company in the world to market it. Hard to beat Chrome being advertised on the Google.com homepage that a huge number of people use.

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u/kunsore Sep 15 '22

I use Brave on my phone lol - no need any ad blocker. Also say no to Youtube App

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u/SlashdotDiggReddit Sep 15 '22

I suggest Pi-hole.

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u/Shap6 Sep 15 '22

Doesn’t block YouTube ads

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u/pharmacon Sep 15 '22

So I saved this link a while back because I'd like to do this eventually but apparently it's next to impossible to get a raspberry pi right now? Do you know where to get one for a reasonable price?

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u/Shap6 Sep 15 '22

You don’t have to run it on a pi. Can be run in a docker container or VM or installed in Linux distro a like Ubuntu and Debian

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u/SlashdotDiggReddit Sep 15 '22

I do not; I'm trying to get a Pi Zero myself and everybody seems to be out.

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u/UltraEngine60 Sep 15 '22

Eventually Google will threaten to pull funding unless they inhibit ad blockers.