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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Can anyone recommend a good alternative that works well under Linux and block ads and trackers well? In particular YouTube ads?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Firefox with uBlock Origin has been working well for me, for ads at least. I haven't looked too much into blocking trackers but I think Firefox has some ability to do that

[–] Rooki 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah it has some and if it doesnt work Extensions can help out. As it uses still the v2 manifest. It is just straight up better to use firefox ( or their "children" like librefox ( a bit hardend firefox browser ). It doesnt depending on chromium, its not a big Corporate that is super greedy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox with uBlock Origin ✔

What about a search engine though?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I used to use it but switched to brave after reading that DDG lied about tracking.
Any others? (and not the one that requires a subscription, thanks)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Startpage supposedly uses Google's search engine without tracking your ip.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not heard of them, will check it out, thanks!

E: a quick look tells me it doesn't work with VPN, so that's a no from me...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's strange, I use Mullvad VPN and Startpage is my main search engine and It's only given me trouble once. They made me fill a captcha and wait a while in order to be able to use it again, but it was just an our at most.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read quite a few reviews that said they were having this problem, and I don't really have the kind of patience it takes to wait that long. 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fair enough lol. Just for the record, I've had this problem once in 6 months.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think that topic got really heated back then. DDG is far more transparent than any other companies and also did a statement regarding this. Besides that it’s still the most private search engine next to Searxng. And SearXNG is less convenient.

That’s also the reason why it is still used within the Tor browser for example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the golden combo in my opinion. uBlock Origin is an excellent adblocker and it works best with Firefox. The built-in privacy features of Firefox are also decent, even when left at the default settings.

[–] brb 8 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin for blocking advertisements everywhere, works with YouTube too. SponsorBlock for automatically skipping parts of YouTube videos with sponsored advertising.

[–] bruzzard 4 points 1 year ago

Libre Wolf with uBlock preinstalled could be what you need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use Vivaldi + AdNauseam (though they have a built-in adblocker which I have disabled.)