XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-10
From: Hank@nospam.invalid
VanguardLH wrote on 7/18/2025 8:45 PM:
> 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/b
nkhhnnamicmpeenaelnjfhikgbkllg
>>>
>>> Ping Blocker
>>> https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ping-blocker/jkpoci
anmihboebfhigkjcdihgfcdnb
>>>
>>> Privacy Badger
>>> https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/privacy-badger/pkeh
ijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp
>>>
>>> uBlock Origin Lite
>>> https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/
dkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh
>>>
>>>> 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.
>
I've not noticed those problems with firefox, but it may be due to my
not having a super fast computer, so maybe I just didn't notice all the
faults.
Anyway, it's good that google is working so well for you, so stick with
it as long as it meets your needs.
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