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Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker::Windows Phone to the rescue. A lot of YouTube users want to know how to get around the new annoying YouTube pop-up telling viewers to disable their ad-blocker.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Any particular reason to not use Firefox with addons like ublock? Just curious

[+] Number1SummerJam -19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I just don’t trust Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation is just a front for their corporate side, the Mozilla Corporation which somehow reaps in millions in profits despite being a free browser. I read that most of their profits come from letting Google integrate search and other features into Firefox. I’m currently migrating to Librewolf for PC which has the same framework but lots more privacy functionality. For iOS, Brave collects a lot less information about you than Firefox- check the App Store pages for each browser and compare.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't understand your ranting about mozzila. In the wiki page you posted right there :

Any profits made by the Mozilla Corporation will be invested back into the Mozilla project. There will be no shareholders, no stock options will be issued and no dividends will be paid

Where is the profit on the page? The revenue isn't profit, it's how much money they make without the costs.

Then how do you expect a browser to survive without revenue? There are 3 major browser engines on the market today :

chromium (backed up by Google, sucking big money)
~~blink~~webkit (baked up by apple, with big money too)
Gecko (I think) for Firefox. And it also needs lots of funding.

Al of them suck up huge amount of money.

For revenue, they also have more products than Firefox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_products which also make money or not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

chromium (backed up by Google, sucking big money)

blink (baked up by apple, with big money too)

Blink = Chromium. WebKit is what Apple uses (and is what Blink was originally forked from).

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

The Mozilla Corporation is a tax entity for the Mozilla Foundation. Your bullshit detector is miscalibrated.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is it every time I see something about Brave it’s either singing it’s praises or demonizing it’s failures, there’s literally no in-between

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

By encouraging you to buy their paid services, which are now on your computer with or without your consent

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/brave-browser-secretly-installing-vpn