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Idaho Battle Barn said:
Would waterfox, librewolf, or hardened firefox be a good alternative? I haven't used any of the three before, and I don't know how to tweak vanilla firefox (like with arkenfox js) aside from installing a few extensions like uBlock Origin, as mentioned by previous posters. They're apparently supposed to be more privacy-oriented than regular firefox.

I haven't gotten anything while using brave, but I want to keep my options open, since it is a chromium-based browser.
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I can't speak for librefox, I previously used waterfox, gutted the about config and installed privacy oriented apps, no JS, umatrix (which conflicts with ublock origin)

At a glance librefox looks neat, I have to look at it's guts and how much data and algorithm it shares by default, so I don't know. I've settled with brave.

I can only suggest privacy oriented extensions and config settings, it has been a while even thought of souped up waterfox.

As long you tune your fox fork and use following extensions which I will try to explain in detail.

NoScript
Disable all scripts on any given page can be set to block all scripts on suspect pages, alternatively you can selectively disable/enable scripts by hand, blocks JavaScript and more out of the box

uMatrix
If ublock origin wasn't enough with enough practice, you'll learn to juggle every element on any given page, see sources from some ads then some. It's very tedious to compared to ublock origin, which won't work if uMatrix is active and vice a versa.

FoxyProxy
High anonymous proxy support, TOR, I2P routing and more. Free version is sufficient for every day use.

Lastly I advice you to minimise browser fingerprinting, more unique you are website owners can see your browser and identify you. As fun thought of things like Operating system: Josh's basement Browser: Running neko shota boys might sound funny, don't spoof as a joke spoof more common browsers used like Edge or Chrome. No-one would notice yet another normie doing normie things.
 
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Either this fuckfuckadblock, or AdGuard did the trick for me after a three day battle, I can now see the pop up spring and instantly get deleted.
Only thing is that auto-play gets interrupted every three videos or so
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Any risk with Google if I browse Google or even YT in Firefox (not signed in to my Google account, at least in a private window)?
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Google indexes your search results, voice commands and YouTube videos watched it you keep IP, account and search history the same. For example on now bricked phone Google started advertising cheap game sales, virology and local politics since I had account with humble bundle, fanatical and Indiegala emails in my inbox, Google also keeps your voice and biometric data saved.
Hell like modern computers with Windows, android phones never truly turn off even if you tried.

Data from decade ago from now will come to haunt you and Google doesn't comply to requests to get rid of your personal data, sex pests like Elliott Fong-Jones will be keeping your data forever.

GoDuckGo was caught selling search data to Microsoft, so that private search engine glows harder than me when it starts pushing cannabis and other drug products unprompted.

Don't log in, use VPNs and aliases, don't be a retard and give Google your dox and more.
 
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Glowie said:
Google indexes your search results, voice commands and YouTube videos watched it you keep IP, account and search history the same.
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Did you mean to "YouTube videos watched if you keep IP" there, or "it"?

Also can Google spy on what one does with non-Google sites via Firefox?
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Did you mean to "YouTube videos watched if you keep IP" there, or "it"?

Also can Google spy on what one does with non-Google sites via Firefox?
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I didn't notice that typo was supposed to be a comma and list longer, I am recovering from flu right now. Here's the list I can come up on the fly. Google stores your fingerprints, payment methods, addresses boith real and IP addresses, Geolocation, browsing and purchase habits and more if you give Google that information and Keep them same. Nuking everything Google related, using privacy oriented services like protonmail. Give fake information and use throwaway accounts.

Instructions to depoz any given Firefox fork. SafeBrowsing, disable hashes and URLs, remember how VPN that now dead fausty worked for programmed to tag Kiwifarms as "malicious"? Principle is the same, disabling these spying features prevent Firefox browsing sending URL and download data to Google.

Personally I've done this many times in the past only to realise that browser updates enable them again, making your Firefox quasi Google browser. So I switched to brave which doesn't tag your downloads or URLs, hell you can opt out on dev data sending and warning that you are in a website that still uses unencrypted http. Using computer security common sense [current year] protects you from everything Google supposedly does.

Hope that helps, degoogle your shit and use a proper Firefox fork
 
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Idaho Battle Barn said:
Would waterfox, librewolf, or hardened firefox be a good alternative?
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I use Librewolf as my default Firefox install. It has sensible but strong default about: config tweaks. It isn't as annoying as arkenfox.js. It just werks as a default browser. While it also stays up to date with the mainline firefox branch.
 
pyrogon said:
If Youtube wants to go this route then just remember what the website has become. There is almost nothing worth watching on youtube anymore and it has become so censored and milquetoast that even cable television is more controversial with the content it delivers. There are loads of alternative platforms out there and I'm even seeing good things still being produced over at NewGrounds. If you have to use youtube then just use Freetube like everyone else here has suggested. A lot of content creators upload their videos to multiple websites. You can still find them, you'll just have to do what we did in the past before we had all these one stop shop websites... Surf the web.
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Don't forget that it's a Sisyphean task to search for old, good content that is still on YouTube due to how fucked the search is.
 
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What is the legality of reuploading all of our favorite videos to something like Rumble Would it face DMCA issues because the people still on YouTube are the only reason I use it
 
Gravityqueen4life said:
now they fully blocking the video player for me. using ublock origin
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Same, it hasn't technically blocked yet but there was a 3 video limit that popped up. Although I've been able to bypass this by watching/opening videos from different tabs.
 
Switching to Thorium seems to have worked for me at the moment. I don't expect it to last, so I'm still looking for more long term solutions.
Merton J. Dingle said:
Don't forget that it's a Sisyphean task to search for old, good content that is still on YouTube due to how fucked the search is.
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At this point, I'm basically forced to stick with all the lets players I've been listening to for a decade now if I want to passively listen to some gameplay while working. I really fucking hate business executives and their tendency of breaking shit that works just to make a few more pennies in the short term.

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Glowie said:
Google stores your fingerprints, payment methods, addresses boith real and IP addresses, Geolocation, browsing and purchase habits and more if you give Google that information and Keep them same.
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Is this just with using Google sites themselves in Firefox?
 
Big thanks to this thread for helping a brainlet like me find a solution to the adblock detection bullshit.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Is this just with using Google sites themselves in Firefox?
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If you don't disable the settings in about config it's everywhere, main Firefox fork being the worst offender it has Google sync/log in baked in.

If you don't disable it it's not just the Google sites
 
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update: Right after I changed the settings, I re-logged into GMail and there was a security alert claiming there was an access from the same device, but from different OS.

clipartfan92 said:
I'm unsure what would cause that behavior, I use firefox and haven't come across that problem before.
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Found the problem: one has to alter the uBlock settings in a non-private window.

Glowie said:
If you don't disable it it's not just the Google sites
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Thanks for info. How much of non-Google does Google spy on via Firefox if the settings aren't disabled?

And how much does Google spy on if one already disabled website tracking (in the "normie preferences")?
 
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FATTESTCUNT 2.0 said:
Has anyone tried this?.....


It works by playing the ads way faster than the normal speed, then skipping them automatically as early as possible, so supposedly, the average interruption time is only around 50ms, which is nothing. As the ads are not actually being blocked, YouTube's detection methods don't get triggered.

It's available for Chrome and Firefox. If you try it, make sure you disable any other ad-blocker on YouTube.
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Damn this is great, I wasn't having any luck with any other options. Thx
 
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