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    25. YouTube without a working ad blocker

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      I liked ( past tense ) watching YouTube with the latest Firefox on my Mint Linux box. No more. The ad blocker I use ( latest version ) has stopped working for removing YouTube commercials. The...

      I liked ( past tense ) watching YouTube with the latest Firefox on my Mint Linux box.

      No more.

      The ad blocker I use ( latest version ) has stopped working for removing YouTube commercials.

      The commercials are obnoxious.

      I think I will quit until the ad blocker I use updates again with a fix.

      Sorry YouTube, you are far from being worth $14.00 USD a month.

      Edit:

      Mint Linux 21.2

      Cinnamon 5.8

      Firefox 128.0.3

      Ublock Origin 1.59.0

      • I completely removed UBlock Origin
      • I completely emptied my Firefox cache and other data
      • I signed out of Google completely
      • I reinstalled UBlock Origin
      • I signed back into Google
      • I tried using YouTube with my VPN turned on.

      No joy.

      I can watch YouTube ad free via a private window in Firefox.

      I can watch YouTube ad free if I log out of my Google/YouTube account

      My add blocker works in other browsers when I am not logged into my Google/YouTube account.

      49 votes

    45. Is fandom.com actually getting worse?

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      I have been a frequent visitor of the various websites that are now under the Fandom.com umbrella, going back to when it was called Wikia. And if there's one thing that's been a consistent...

      I have been a frequent visitor of the various websites that are now under the Fandom.com umbrella, going back to when it was called Wikia. And if there's one thing that's been a consistent irritation with the platform, it's just how intrusive and annoying the advertising is. (For a sense of how long this has been a problem, see here.)

      But worse than the intrusiveness of the sites' ads, their biggest problem is their performance. They can bring Firefox to a crawl.

      For a while, it seemed like Fandom had been making some improvements. I could visit, say, Memory Alpha without the CPU on my computer spiking like crazy. But I just tried to look something up on the Forgotten Realms Wiki and, good god, it was terrible.

      (And before anyone says anything, no, I have no intention of using an ad blocker to deal with it.)

      Am I imagining it or is the platform actually getting worse again?

      57 votes