better version of: https://lemmy.world/post/21210097
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Not sure that its a must have and possibly uBO could handle it if I could be bothered to check but I like LocalCDN too.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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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.
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.
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.
It's honestly relatively representative afaik
Even though it, SponsorBlock etc. could just be neglected by using piped or just federated alternatives.
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.
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.
Need to add a pihole to that stack
Just installed Consent-o-matic and Unpaywalled. Thanks!
Librewolf
Pretty soon, Firefox will need to be replaced with Waterfox and LibreWolf, unfortunately.
Why?
People at the top of Mozilla Org making crappy decisions.
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.
No love for Ghostery?
No, use uBlock Origin.
Isn't Ghostery made by an ads company?
What's wrong with privacy badger?
Privacy Badger has historically allowed tracking until it successfully identifies a domain as a likely tracker. Like the air bags going off after you've already wrapped your car around a telephone pole. But it's now been changed and is now closer to a list-based tracker blocker (enumerate badness):
They've since corrected one of the core issues with PB by doing so, but it still it is very weak. To see why, please glance through The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.
uBlock Origin in advanced mode, with default-deny rules (only allow assets by exception) is going to be much stronger at blocking crap.
Personally, I use uMatrix with pretty much all asset classes blocked by default. I never see popups. I never see banners begging "please allow our cookies, pleeeeaaase!".
Well, it can be replaced with uBlock Origin and some people dont recomend it anymore
I think UBO makes it redundant.
The layered security model has redundancy built in as a feature.
Not OP, but what puts me off is that it calls itself badger, but really it's just a software that has nothing in common with those glorious animals. Did you know that badgers' keen sense of smell is about 800 times sharper than our own?
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