• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    Consent-o-matic instead of cookies and adnausem instead of ublock origin.

    Consent-o-matic will actively opt out of popups.

    Adnausem is built on top of ublock origin and will silently “click” on the ads behind the scenes to mess up your advertising profile and cost the advertisers money.

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      uBlock Origin can just hide cookie pop ups if you enable said filter, and AdNauseam still loads the ad so you still have slower page loading speed and increased network traffic.

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      Adnausem is built on top of ublock origin and will silently “click” on the ads behind the scenes to mess up your advertising profile and cost the advertisers money.

      Tried it a couple of months ago. Didn’t nearly work as well as uBlock Origin, seemed buggy as hell.

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    the return dislike plugin is just stupid. it’s a community database now, so rather than being based on the actual number of dislikes on youtube it’s based on the dislikes of the people who have the plugin.

    it used to be that it actually got the real numbers but youtube removed that endpoint so now it’s just a misanthropic echo chamber.

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      It’s better than nothing. Also I’d probably weigh the opinion of people who have the extension higher than of those who don’t.

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        Is it? personally, when i think of “people who want to see the dislike bar” my mind equates that to “people who want to dislike”, and that’s not a group of people i want to interact with.

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          To me it wrings more of "people who want to know before they waste 20 minutes whether this video is clickbait, just actually false, rightwing conspiracy theories, or has some massive editing flaw that makes the video pointless.

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            For that, I prefer DeArrow. Gets you community sourced, informative titles for videos (and removes clickbait thumbnails as well)

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              Tbh the removal of clickbait thumbnails made YouTube less enjoyable for me. I don’t really watch those over the top clickbait youtubers anyway, so I’ve found that this isn’t too big of a deal.

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      It’s honestly relatively representative afaik

      Even though it, SponsorBlock etc. could just be neglected by using piped or just federated alternatives.

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        how can we even know that though? there’s no stats anymore.

        also, if peertube et al got bigger, surely sponsorblock would be useful there as well? if creators would use those services because people were on them, sponsors would contact those creators because they got the views.

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          It subjectively feels right, and instances where creators leaked the numbers the RTYTD stats matched pretty closely.

          Until peertube grows to that size, it’s still a long time. Then it would be useful.

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      What an awful mischaracterisation. While the dislike feature may appeal to misanthropes, it also appeals to the much larger pool of people that are intelligent enough/respectful of their own time to understand the value of the feature in helping to avoid poor quality and misleading content.

      It really bears out in the results. For those who recall what old ratios looked like, for sufficiently popular videos, they still hold true with this plugin.

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        i just think dearrow seems like the better choice for that purpose.

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          How so? Like/dislike ratios are a very quick and effective means of identifying problematic content. Clickbait titles and thumbnails are another issue - they aren’t a reasonable indicator of the quality of the content. It’s an emerging trend in an oversaturated environment in which even creators of high quality content feel the need to partake.

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      I love my pie hole and I love the functionality of being able to access a VPN and use on my home network stuff on the go it’s pretty good

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    You could add that extension that replaces clickbait titles by community-made descriptive ones. (lemmy do your thing and find the name please)

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    Pretty soon, Firefox will need to be replaced with Waterfox and LibreWolf, unfortunately.

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    Advanced kit: add NoScript and block first party scripts by default. Works surprisingly well for visiting sites you don’t care about, just want to read the article etc. Just switch it off if you’re trying to buy something and get through the checkout.

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      AFAIK every function of NoScript exists in uBlock Origin. So just get uBO and cut the redundancy. The less vectors the better

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    Is the one in the bottom left actually called “No Need YT Ads”? Cause I can’t find that one

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      Does this actually work? I just tried it on a story on The Atlantic website and I just got a print page that looks exactly like the locked paywall page (i.e. not the whole article).

      I use the web archives extension for firefox to easily get the archive.is version of pages. Unfortunately, doesn’t work when I’m using a vpn, but otherwise works like a charm.