YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers

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People should be uninstalling Chrome instead.

Adblocking still works fine on Firefox. Just update your UBO filters.

I literally have un-installed chrome. I had to use it on an office machine today and it felt weird.

The default browser at my work is Firefox lol, only our testing team and a few others use Chrome. It's a pretty welcome change 👍

I find it a little funny when we get Chrome-specific bug reports though

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Aside from Firefox, are there any decent non-Chromium-based browsers left?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines

Thanks.

For anyone else interested, as of November 2023:

Web browsers using Gecko (Firefox's engine): GNU IceCat, Waterfox, K-Meleon, Lunascape, Portable Firefox, Conkeror, Classilla, TenFourFox.

Web browsers using the Goanna engine (which is a fork of Gecko): Pale Moon, Basilisk.

Flow is a web browser with its own proprietary browser engine.

The other active engines listed are: WebKit (Apple's engine), and Blink (Google's engine, which they forked off of WebKit, and which is used for Chrome, Chromium, and countless other browsers).

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