• Here’s an extension which turns YouTube into an Invidious-like site, removing all addicting elements.
• If you’re using Linux, I wrote the youtube-tui a few years back, very similar to the extension where you get nothing but the search bar and subscriptions.

theres no need to buy a new one, u can always upgrade

someone rebooted the project as youtube revanced, someone was even kind enough to build all the apks and post them on github (idk if they are safe, but i use them anyways)

• https://github.com/revanced
• https://github.com/revanced-apks/build-apps/releases

im on linux so i use bind a command to a shortcut, like firefox https://lemmy.ml

u can probably do similar things on windows

i did it, turns out all i need to do was to paste in the full script and it will do the timings automatically, sweet.

yeah but its not the same, sure you could mod your router or use a pihole to get adblocking, but it is not the same convenience as extensions, and by far ublock origin is the best adblocker no arguments raised.

moreover companies can’t really do much when they are completely reliant on chromium, and they can’t do much except pulling PR stunts and try to sound like they are doing something while all they’re doing is to merge commits from upstream chromium once in a while

one example is the “we will continue to support v2” stunt by brave, which is not possible as they have 0 experience maintaining a browser, also vivaldi is absolutely proprietary

just realised something, if my understanding is correct, MV3 also banned remotely hosted content, with a publish delay up to 2 weeks google (specifically youtube) can easily break uBO lite if they want to, i dont know if that is how uBO lite works, or if the rules will only be enforced after June, but if it is true uBO lite is not gonna live long either

I was under the impression the uBO lite wasn’t nearly as good and it missed a lot of ads, it seems like things have changed a bit since I’ve last followed on the MV3 situation.

Also about Safari extension support, I didn’t research anything on this topic, I just thought it’s extension support must be incompetent because the uBlock Origin installation for Safari seemed like a hassle, turns out im not that far off.

also, infographics are great for these explainers video, because i could jam pack so much more information that is otherwise impossible, and in 1:53 I’ve referenced “all chromium browsers” with all their logo on screen, which is insanely efficient because with this visual style of story telling I could brought up two points at the same time:

• chromium browsers are affected
• these browsers on screen are chromium browsers

well, it’s a video making decision. most people these days have virtually negative attention span, and they would click off the video given the slightest chance, and listing Chromium browsers would be too much time for too little argument made.

I’ve accepted that I’m not mental outlaw and people wouldn’t be tuning in for a podcast, so the best I could do is the minesweep the video and remove any opportunities, because if I don’t do that, most people won’t get past the first 10 seconds, “getting straight to the point” is one of the things I’ve learnt while doing youtube

well a bit more on that, since i record my audio an audacity, there are 3 types of noise suppression i could do

• the first one of course is no noise suppression at all
• then there is the standard noise suppression
• and then there is the new RNNoise suppression

RNNoise is the best at removing noise, but it also cuts off all the deeper parts of my voice (i think, because I have no way of knowing how I really sound like), so here its a tradeoff between getting the entirety of my voice, or absolute silence, here i chose my voice

thanks for the advice, i will do that maybe in the future

Here’s the video script: https://gmtex.siri.sh/fs/1/Shared/scripts/chrome-final.html

Here’s an extra 2000 word article for your enjoyment: https://gmtex.siri.sh/fs/1/School/Y12/Cssoc/chromium.html