XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   Hank Rogers  wrote:   
      
   > VanguardLH wrote on 7/18/2025 6:47 PM:   
   >> "Carlos E.R."  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I don't use Chrome because it doesn't allow to run add blockers   
   >>> recently. They removed the extensions add blockers use.   
   >>   
   >> With Edge, a Chromium variant, I use: Adguard Adblocker, Privacy Badger,   
   >> uBlock Origin Lite (MV3 version), and Ping Blocker.  They are very   
   >> effective, and together give me almost everything that uBlock Origin   
   >> (MV2 version) did.  They overlap on coverage, but catch a bit more than   
   >> the others.  All of them are available at the Google Chrome Store, and   
   >> all of them are MV3 (Manifest version 3).  However, after several   
   >> months, I decided to remove uBO Lite and Privacy Badger, and just go   
   >> forward with Adguard AdBlocker and Ping Blocker.   
   >>   
   >> Adguard Adblocker   
   >> https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adguard-adblocker/bg   
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   >>   
   >> Ping Blocker   
   >> https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ping-blocker/jkpocif   
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   >>   
   >> Privacy Badger   
   >> https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/privacy-badger/pkehg   
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   >>   
   >> uBlock Origin Lite   
   >> https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/d   
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   >>   
   >>> Sometimes, with very recent videos, download in advance means I have   
   >>> to wait significant time for the download to finish, it doesn't   
   >>> download at full speed anymore.   
   >>   
   >> I use yt-dlp to grab videos to keep a local copy.  The only places, so   
   >> far, where it doesn't work are sites that use Javascripted video players   
   >> with a secret key to decode the protected videos.  Their script knows   
   >> how to decode the video stream.  It captures the video stream as fast as   
   >> the server will deliver it, not at the slow pace of watching a video.   
   >>   
   >> https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp   
   >>   
   >> This a a command-line tool.  There are GUI frontends for it, but I found   
   >> yt-dlp.exe was all I needed since it is very simple to enter:   
   >>   
   >> yt ""   
   >>   
   >> at the command line.  Just copy the URL from the web browser's address   
   >> bar, and paste into the command line.  I use a batch file to specify   
   >> where to find the yt-dlp.exe, the output folder, and add double quotes   
   >> around the URL since ampersands (&) are legitimate characters in URLs to   
   >> separate arguments, but they screw up the command-line parser which   
   >> thinks they are to separate multiple commands in one command line.   
   >>   
   >> yt-dlp isn't using any web browser.  Doesn't matter how slow is your web   
   >> browser at handling video streams.  If there is a long pause to yt-dlp,   
   >> it is because the server isn't delivering the video stream right away   
   >> perhaps as their means of throttling access.  NO TOOL can obtain a video   
   >> stream faster than the server will deliver it.  Not a web browser, not   
   >> yt-dlp, not any other video stream capture software.   
   >>   
   >> yt-dlp will not get around geofencing.  For that, you could try using a   
   >> decent VPN that has multiple exit nodes to see if one of them is with   
   >> the geolocation allowed by a site.  I don't bother with a workaround to   
   >> geofencing.  If a site doesn't want to deliver to me, I can find the   
   >> same or similar content elsewhere.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I took the easy way out.  Got rid of google chrome and started using   
   > Firefox (with ublock origin).   
   >   
   > Seems to work OK and no google hoops to jump through, nor kiss their ass.   
      
   I used Firefox as my primary web browser for decades, but more and more   
   I had to use my secondary web browser to compensate for sites that   
   Firefox could not render properly, or was extremely slow to run scripts.   
   A couple years ago, I'd hit about 2 sites per month that didn't work in   
   Firefox.  Then it became more and more sites incompatible with Firefox.   
   Eventually my ISP, bank, pharmacy, and other commonly visited web sites   
   that would not work with Firefox.  Often the web site or Firefox   
   appeared hung, but was due to extreme long times to run scripts.  Those   
   sites rendered and scripted just fine in Chromium variants -- and a   
   Chromium variant does NOT mean you are kissing Google's ass.   
      
   I used uBlock Origin (MV2) in Firefox for a long time.  The only reason   
   why I stalled on dropping Firefox to move to Chromium variants was   
   solely due to wanting uBlock Origin (MV2) to have all the features of   
   the full-blown version of that extension.  If not for uBO (MV2), I   
   would've dropped Firefox a year sooner.  Eventually I grew weary of   
   switching to a secondary (Chromium) web browser to compensate for   
   Firefox's failings, and made the switch.  With uBlock Origin Lite, Ping   
   Adblocker, Adguard Adblocker, and Privacy Badger, all of which are MV3   
   versions, I had all the features of old uBO (MV2) in Firefox, but none   
   of the increasingly fails of Firefox.  After monitoring the effect of   
   disabling some of the extensions regarding what was not blocked, I   
   decided all 4 extensions were overkill, and kept to just 2.   
      
   It was a hard decision to drop Firefox, because it is so highly user   
   customizable, but it could not keep up with today's state of web sites.   
   That was my decision for myself.  Others have different criteria.   
      
   If you want to keep using Firefox, yes, uBlock Origin (MV2) is still   
   usable there.  Mozilla claims they will indefinitely support MV2 and   
   MV3.  Alas, indefinitely is not the same as infinitely.  Should Mozilla   
   lose Google's revenue, they will have to cut back, and that includes   
   manpower to continue supporting legacy code.   
      
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