uBlock Origin already passed a law forcing YouTube to skip ads.
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The Mozilla CEO has talked about how much money they could make by blocking ad blockers.
That would definitely be enough of a push to get me looking into alternatives to Firefox! Or enough of a push to spend time digging into and setting up network-level blocking. Or both.
I recommend Freetube.
Cool, Iβll look into that for YouTube, but I do also need a browser for other sites that blocks ads.
Unfortunately, it seems every browser that isn't firefox or chrome is based on either firefox or chrome. Fortunately, since firefox is opensource it can be forked.
I use Zen browser. It's a fork of firefox with better features.
On mobile I use IronFox, and I'm certain there's a similar project for desktop.
I used WaterFox for a while in the (admittedly now distant) past, and I donβt remember what site it was that broke me, but there was something that I was actively using at the time that broke for an extended period and sent me crawling back to the mainline.
I think itβs inevitable at this point that I look for some new non-chromium desktop browser again in the future, but it sounds like IronFox at least is Android-only.
Doesn't work for twitch though :(
Ouch. Itβs extremely rare I watch anything on twitch so I didnβt mention it, but I also assumed it did 
if you're ok not being up to the second live on twitch you can go to the person's /videos page and watch the vod with no ads
Should be a ban on ads in general. We get one life, I don't care about your shitty product.
but what if i told you about some research chemical dick pills, a new crypto currency exchange, and an online casino that would make you feel like you've lived TWO lifetimes?
I'm fine with ads as long as they are read by Adam Friedland
For real, if I don't know your product exists i don't need it
100% ban on commercial advertising, we can have a few minutes per hour of media broadcast for public education
Vietnam about to become a very popular VPN location
Someone who knows how to use a VPN also knows how to use an adblocker
The real trick is to use locations where ads aren't run at all. For example, Twitch doesn't run ads in Czechia or Occupied Korea.
Why Czhechia?
I don't know. Just something I heard one time when trying to find a workaround for twitch ads that beat adblockers, and it works.
Yeah it works. I know loads of VPN services will have servers in Czechia. Must be that they have some strong GDPR laws, good internet infra or something else coz I can't find much from a few searches.
gonna be five ads in a row then
Should be immediate
no more half measures walter
Going long on vietnamese vpn's
Good idea actually
what if they just don't comply? does vietnam have the economic power of e.g. the eu?
If I was a google/Twitch executive I would avoid trees and bushes.
Vietnam beat the US before....
Vietnam will just block 'em, which is easy enough to do within your borders.
... nice flex from Vietnam there, but the rest of us jungleless countries are scared of the country those companies are from ...
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Regulate the megacorps!!
The true weakness of YanKKKee imperialists is revealed: an excess of leafy cover. /j