YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge

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YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge
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YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.

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It wouldn't shock me if they removed ublock origin from the chrome store

Just use Firefox. It's better as a browser, anyway.

I switched back to ff in 2018 but then switched back to chrome after it deleted my bookmarks sporadically for the 5th time. I've logged bugs about it too.

I will when they finally fix dragging tabs between windows

Edit: I'm not saying the operation isn't functional, I'm saying it lacks certain small visual feedback aspects like popping a tab out into a new window while dragging. This in and of itself isn't breaking, but Firefox had a lot of rough edges like that every time I used it, and I'm using this specific one as a benchmark to judge if I should give the browser a shot again

Huh, what is the issue? Been working fine for me for years.

Popping out a tab doesn't turn it into a draggable window, but just into cursor basic cursor held object. This gives no visual feedback on what is actually happening and makes the whole operation much less visually clear

It's a small thing, but in the times I tried Firefox, I noticed a lot of these rough edges to the point that it became frustrating to use. I'm using this specific one as a benchmark for when I'm willing to give it a shot again

Fuck's sake, what a stupid thing to get hung up over.

You're all getting quite hung up about someone voicing that they're not ready to switch to your preferred browser tbh

Like, it's not that you are negatively affected by me having UX preferences

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Could you find a smaller potato?

Is that a typo, or a saying I'm not familiar with?

It’s a small potatoes means that’s it’s extremely inexpensive and misses the big bag of perfectly good, if not above average potatoes

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Strangely nit-picky. The reason this matters to you is because you are used to it. It's so small an aspect of the browser though that you would forget about it quickly. Imo of course. I never even noticed this when I changed and I use the function many times a day.

Correct, it matters to me

So, as long as Firefox doesn't really offer something that in my opinion outways all it's UX issues, I am not inclined to switch

Looking at my score, appearantly that is offensive though

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