• hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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    Yeah, all Google accomplished with this bullshit was finally getting me to switch from Chrome to Firefox as my main browser on desktop.

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      Pretty much, also encouraged me to download uBlock, and now I see how many items it blocks from pages like YouTube. Spoiler: It’s a lot.

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        1 year ago

        Right?

        I have two tabs open…one is a site that is overtly and actively promoting products to me, with literal links to retailers where I can buy the stuff they’re promoting…the other is YouTube.

        The promotional site’s uBlock counter is at 4.

        YouTube’s is at…139.

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          Leave that YouTube tab open open for a day and see how many thousands of items uBlock has blocked.

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            I see absolutely insane numbers on Google docs, 10000+ blocked. My total per year is now over 5 million. A lot more intense than a few years ago, where it took multiple years to reach 3 million.

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              Holy shit, I have multiple tabs open and have only been using Firefox as my default browser for about 1.5 3-months (August 9th). Each YouTube tab has over 10k blocks and lifetime blocks since installation is over 4.1 million!

              Edit: found the document I made in Obsidian to plan my move from Brave to Firefox and the created data is August 9th.

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              Wow I haven’t even looked for all time blocks! I’ll have to look…

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            Yup, I left youtube up on my laptop all day today and this is ublocks total. It’s fucking crazy that some people don’t bother with adblockers