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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   3124 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for October 27, 2023

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Use uBlock Origin. Youtube change the implementation slightly quite often though, but all you have to do then is to go into the dashboard for uBlock Origin (icon with 3 gears), purge all caches and click Update Now. I've been told that YT will probably never change the platform to such an extent that this solution won't work.

I love uBlock Origin. Learning how that extension work made my web-browsing so many times easier!

The only sites on my whitelist are my bank, Substack and the Motte.

The best part is that it's not just ads. You can block any user-hostile elements you want. For example, I got rid of the fluff and junk on fandom.com so their wikis were actually readable.

I actually re-activated it for my bank page because they started adding weird elements I found annoying on the dashboard and I could kill them with uBlock.

Thanks! I'll try it out. I've seen people in Reddit mention it, but there are a lot of people mentioning malware programs, trying to take advantage of people's panic, so I didn't know if uBlock origin was to be trusted or not

It's legit for sure. Btw, close any active tabs that are showing YT before doing the purge thing. Might have to restart the browser afterward too.

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