uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store

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uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

I swapped to Chrome years ago because YouTube stopped working right on Firefox.

I’ve started the process of swapping back to Firefox after 10 years with Chrome over this.

never had a problem with firefox and youtube

It probably didn’t have anything to do with Firefox itself. It’s likely related to something I messed up in FF or it was something to do with the ancient laptop I had at the time being a junk heap, but I tried Chrome and noticed that the trouble didn’t exist there. So I started using Chrome.

I kept using it because of all the google integration, which was really handy when I was using the google business suite to run my own small business. I shut that down two years ago now, so there’s nothing really keeping me on Chrome any more.

I swapped back to FF a few days ago and YouTube works fine now. So I’m back on the FF train and giving Google the finger the whole way over banning the adblockers that I liked.

t probably didn’t have anything to do with Firefox itself

It probably did. Google has been caught red-handed with messing with Youtube to break Firefox.

reddit.com/…/youtube_has_started_to_artificially_…

Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

Posted in r/youtube by u/vk6_ • 9,334 points and 917 comments

reddit
Jesus Christ, what a bunch of rat-fuckers.
Yeah if you fiddle around with about:config without knowing exactly what yer doing, shit breaks. Fortunately you can type “about:profiles” in the url box, make a test profile, and mess around as much as you want before nuking your default browser.