Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!

I have no idea how to read this or what any of it means.
- Google blocked a bunch of ad-blocker addons in Chrome by killing the APIs they rely on. Several of my friends have been complaining about it, while the rest told them to stop using a browser that actively fights them.
  
  Yah just use Firefox or Moisturefox or whatever flavor of like Google's only competitor browser you want. I haven't used Chrome since I first caught wind of Google pushing their entire web-DRM thing they were trying to do to make us look at ads. I can wait an extra 1/100 of a second for the web page to load and adjust to slightly different browser plug-ins to literally save the entire free and open web lol
  
  But why is there a picture of the back of some dude's neck?
- Yeah can someone explain the picture?
- How are you even on Lemmy?
  
  Well, probably through a connection to the world wide web. Just a hunch...

Firefox mobile has add ons like unlock origin. You can block ads on your phone.
- It also has "video background play fix" to stop youtube from pausing your videos when you lock your phone, and also has "sponsorblock"
- Not on iOS, of course. But if you're using iOS what are you even doing?
  
  AdGuard blocks ads on iOS.
  
  Use NextDNS to block ads and tracking on any internet-connected thing. They can't serve you ads if you never connect to the ad servers to begin with.
  
  I use a pixel with android but I'm often envious of apple users privacy from the US government.
  
  Orion browser supports real Firefox extensions on iOS
  
  it does now, but it’s not in the app store. you have to use testflight and look for ubo lite repo and install it.
  edit: autocorrect
  
  Wipr is great

It's completely anecdotal, but I've noticed that the number of firefox users who installed uBlock Origin has gone up quite a lot. About 2M since Googs released manifest v3
- Welcome to all those 2M new users 👐🫂, which is what I hope they are!

I an required to use Chrome for work.
Firefox plays my background music
- ~~Change hosts file~~

I use QuteBrowser. no ads at all, if I want to use youtube I have a script that will skip the ads and has been working without updates for well over a year now, it's great. I used to use Floorp and while I like the dev team behind Floorp the updates for it are gradually becoming further and further apart so I ditched it and mozilla.
- What's this script? Inquiring minds want to know
  
  Yeah, I'd like to know.

I asked a question the other day and was curious if someone here may know another suggestion. Cloudflare "are you human" checkbox. Was hoping to find a way around that when going to articles and such. Someone suggested Silk Privacy Pass, but that was only for Desktop, I couldn't get it installed on Firefox or Cromite on Android. Has anyone heard of a way to keep a token or such that I may only have to click that human thing one time per VPN session or such?
- It depends on how nerdy you want to get.
  Generally no, That checkmark is cloudflares multi-million dollar product that protects half of the internet from bot abuse. If there were a quick and easy work around then the bots would quickly learn and adopt it too. Sadly, it has a real penchant for triggering for regular users when you're using hardened browsers and VPNs as well. It would be nice if network admins cared a little more about sticking it to the man and using bot protection alternatives instead of just proxying through a cloudflare tunnel and calling it a day.
  If you're slightly tech savvy and lucky then the site allows web crawlers/indexers or has RSS feeds. This lets you use an RSS feeder or a text scraper like NewsWaffle
  What youre describing with saving a cookie to prove your identity is actually do-able, yt-dlp uses this to download age restricted content but getting that cookie extracted into a text file is a non-trivial nerdy thing the average person cant be trusted to do.
  
  Thanks for the heads up about yt-dlp. Maybe if I start running into videos like that I can set up a way to execute the yt-dlp to download them in MP4 format on my jellyfin server using Tailscale or such to link the command. Then play from there.
  Seems like a lot to watch a video, but I'll leave it on the back burner idea pile if ever needed. A lot of the text based stuff if it gives me to much issue I'll drop the link into archive.ph

Bro there's totally a way we can keep stroking Google, but like, in a way that Google doesn't really enjoy it and neither do we.

I have to use Chrome for work and this whole thing is such a non issue, I switched to uBO Lite and have noticed zero difference.
There are plenty of reasons not to use Chrome but having to use uBOL instead of uBO isn't one of them
- Lite doesn’t work on YouTube, for example.