Check out Dearrow. It's a new extension from sponsorblock's developer which removes clickbaity thumbnails and replaces them with crowdsourced ones
I tried using another extension that replaced the thumbnail with a frame from the video, which just led to it being more confusing to parse. Community sourcing this might be a better solution.
Edit: This is much better and I've already started adding titles and thumbnails.
Crowdsourced thumbnails?
Lol
Id rather it was just a snippet of the channels banner or something.
Its basically a keylogger that checks EVERYTHING you type
Why do you think its company is valued so high?
They know everything you type. Even if you dont send it.
(Im not aware of an alternative. But if there is one its probably working the same way?)
i hate to say this, but manually checking your writing is unfortunately the best option. unless it is running locally and open source, it is by definition a key-logger, no matter who operates it. if u need to use it, i would suggest only using it for important and non-sensitive content, and disabling it the rest of the time
it really depends on your threat model and convenience/privacy tradeoff. i personally wouldnt use it, but i doubt its that bad, although i would suggest to use the webpage only, not the browser extension. at the end of the days theres obviously bigger things to worry about, but every part counts
The number of extensions required to make youtube not shit is outstanding. They've tried to make the user experience as unbearable as possible .
Then get YouTube premium. $30/month split across 6 people, and you give more monetization to the channels you watch.
Lol 30$ may be nothing to you but that 1/5 of the regular paycheck in here. I'd rather not starve.
I don't even pay 5$ for my internet connection. Okey, let's assume i find 6 people i know that are willing to pay 5$ (a whole day worth of work from a paycheck that's barely enough for bare minimum necessities ). The steps needed to pay youtube are as follows :
-since our currency is virtually worthless and the gouvernement doesn't have a regular legal place to buy foreign currency. I have to buy currency from the black market at 1.5 their worth with a high chance of being scammed. (buying foreign currency from the black market is in a grey area judicially but it's technically also illegal )
I'd rather install youtube Revanced .
Stop sucking big corpo dicks. You're a worthless number to them. If it was legal they'd infect you with the worst malware imaginable to sell your data.
Lol I'm not sucking anyone's dick, I'm just tired of people complaining about YouTube and Google "stealing their data" when they are using things like YouTube that cost insanely large amounts of money to maintain. Users who are using ad blockers and not signing up for premium thereby stripping them of monetization that they need to maintain the services and pay content creators essentially expecting them to keep YouTube running as a form of charity. The fact that I'm here having to tell people to knock it off is a very bad sign considering how anti corporation I am. If their user share is growing as fast as it is while their revenue per user is dropping them tell me how you would solve that problem outside of targeting features favored by users that aren't using ad blockers. Do you think that reducing the number of ads in the hope that those currently using ad blockers will immediately disable them and thereby make up that disparity? Because I doubt that seriously. Do you think that they should stop collecting data with the expectation that advertisers are going to spend the same amount for less effective advertising? Because I don't. So please tell me how you would handle this.
But unfortunately even YT premium doesn't solve some of the reasons (Shorts, "featured" content, etc.) why YT is so frustrating to use.
why YT is so frustrating to use.
Because they can, we still use it. It will get even worse.
As you already have so many Youtube extensions, you should check out sponsorblock. It lets you automatically skip ads within the video itself. And if not done yet, you can do it yourself for the community.
Enhancer for youtube. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtube/ Or ImprovedTube https://github.com/code-charity/youtube
Extensions nom nom memory, so I use as few as possible and just use uBlock, Dark Reader, and Bitwarden
I've got 32gb, it's not an active issue, just feels wasteful, especially when EVERYTHING is RAM-heavy anymore, with the rise of electron apps. I personally haven't really needed any more though, this isn't to bash those who decide that they want more extensions for one reason or another
On desktop, I have uBlock Origin, Disconnect, Privacy Badger, Clear-URLs, Decentraleyes, Bitwarden, Multi Account Containers and Facebook container, old.reddit (which I no longer use since I left the site), RES (same with old.reddit). I don’t really use a lot of app-specific extensions and I’m more focused on the general privacy and security ones.
I think Disconnect and Decentraleyes do the same thing right? While its slightly worse there is a ublock orgin filter list you can use instead of clearUrls (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt)
Ruffle :D
An open source Flash player emulator. I definitely recommend it because I also contribute to it. But it's great, if you stumble across any old websites using Flash games or animations, you can just continue to play and watch them with it :D
That's cool. Will this ever be needed and/or usable on Android - idk much about Flash except that it's no longer supported but still somewhat popular because of it's past and capabilities.
It is usable on Android. Websites can embed Ruffle in their backend, then everyone can just visit the website and play the flash game / watch the flash animation without installing anything at all. If you play many browser games, chances are good you've already used Ruffle. And that goes for mobile browsers as well; I can even play flash games on Safari on my iPhone if the websites embed it.
I'm not sure about if / how you can install the extension (which you can use to access all flash content, even if the websites themselves didn't embed it) on mobile browsers, but I think that there is a Ruffle app for Android, and a demo page used to execute any swf (flash) files.
However, most flash games are made for computer and some may even require mouse hover events or something which just doesn't exist on any mobile phones. So while Ruffle works there, the flash games of course also need to be playable with a touch screen.
I use, Ublock Orgin(King), NoScript, Firefox containers, ViolentMonkey, Skip Redirect(I dont really like this but the ArkenFox guy recommends it), return youtube dislikes and Sponsor block.
Bit warden is a must for me
I've had adblockers and Facebook gate installed for ages as well.
I think I'll grab the youtube ones you have here I'm tired of ads
From left to right excluding the ones you already knew: SimpleLogin, CanvasBlocker, DuckDuckGo, Malwarebytes, SponserBlock, Buster: Captcha Solver, Auto Tab Discard
I usually use UBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Dark Reader, Firefox Containers, Privacy Redirect, Bitwarden and Decentraleyes but idk if I would recommend using that many. Addons have a lot of access to your private data by desing (they modify websites and requests) so it's very important to keep an eye on the installed ones and organizations or indivituals behind them! My personal wakeup moment was the sale of Nano Adblocker where the buyer pushed an update with questionable code, that had a good reputation and definitely wasn't some noname one so bad stuff can happen quicker than you might expect!
None on personal computer. On school computer I have Foxy Proxy. There's school proxy server and I kind of provide 2 of my own. For that I use Android Proxy server app from Google Play. Unfortunately I didn't find anything similar on F-Droid.
First one is HTTP proxy which allows me to go through VPN and use DNS server of my choice and second is TCP relay to Orbot because why not. So I can just connect to school WiFi and start those proxy servers. I also tried SOCKS5, but that seems to ignore my DNS settings, so I don't use that. Also I don't need it anyway.
It allows me to quickly switch between proxy servers. Pretty convenient.
