for windows instal LibreWolf Browser 116.0-1

Playing YouTube videos there works better than on the YouTube site. Sometimes I go to DuckDuckGo just to search for videos. So that can often handle the mountain of bullshit on YouTube even when I’m on the main site. The Gecko (Firefox-type browsers, such as LibreWolf and SeaMonkey) have always had far more powerful APIs for Web Garbage blockers, like NoScript and ublock-origin. Right now, I just deal with it the best ways I can. They’re obviously getting wise to the fact that people hate them. They try to “monetize” songs my parents listened to (and obfuscate how to get at them) because nobody has put any serious effort into music since the mid-2000s on the major labels. The RIAA is terrified of YouTube rippers (and so is Google), but music has basically been free since (the original) Napster anyway. Sometimes it’s not even obvious who pays them to say what. If that’s not bad enough, sometimes the whole damn video is just some “Influencer” trying to sell you some dumb product. It’s like being beaten up and having your money stolen by the playground bully, and then the school staff (or the government regulators in the case of Google) sides with them. Google YouTube is putting ads all over “content” that they didn’t even produce, and sometimes “demonetizes the channel”, but still puts ads in someone else’s videos anyway and pockets their money.

Reddit sets 15 year tracking cookies on your computer so even if you never make an account, they can keep a list of things you look at, even if you change networks. They’re terrified, paranoid, that they’re missing “ad impressions” and opportunities to track the users.

YouTube, Reddit, and other sites that have an unofficial privacy respecting/Small Web front-end are starting to get wise to this and “rate limit” their API or are making changes to it and sending scary letters from their lawyers. YouTube, Reddit, and Other Nasty Sites Sabotage LibRedirect.

For windows instal LibreWolf Browser 116.0-1