How am I shilling, you dope? I said what I did for MY personal experience. I never once said other people have to use it. In fact I would never recommend Linux to non tech savvy family members, unless they only do light shit like web browsing.
Just moved from WIndows to Linux Mint a few weeks ago and never going back
You dont need tampermonkey for Ublock Origin and Video Background Play Fix. It’s under add-ons when you go to settings.
I use Revanced, but keep Firefox Youtube and invidious as backups.
Here’s another trick. Go to youtube and then go to your Firefox menu and check “desktop site”. And then you can install it as a PWA on your Homescreen. Don’t worry, when you open it up for the first time from your Homescreen, it will be back in Mobile web format.
This essentially makes it an isolated app from your browser. Not cluttering up your history and tabs.
Don’t forget the “Video Background Play Fix” add on. That paired with the adblocking makes it where you can watch ad free YouTube while in another app or even with the screen off.
Invidious
One thing I forgot to mention: when you turn your screen off or switch to another app, the video playback will stop. The easy way around this is to use Firefox Mobile. Go to settings > add ons and enable the “Video Background Play Fix” add-on. Now your video will keep playing in the background when the screen is off.
Same thing for Android. I have YouTube Revanced on my Android but been using iNVidious a lot more instead. It’s much less noisy without the YouTube suggestions algorithm and you can see only the videos that YOU want to see.
Just go here and pick an instance and go to the webpage. Then add it to your home screen as a Web app. And you’re done. You can make a login to sync your subscription and playlists across all of your devices too.
Also, you could take it a step further and host your own instance if you know how to spin up docker containers. That’s what I did. But you don’t need to. You could always just use one of the many public instances.
Are you on iOS? Invidious works with the screen off in iOS 17
Self host SearxNG or find a cheap provider for it and never look back
My exact first thought. And why not a billion BIG Red SIGNS saying shit like: “Collapsed Bridge ahead”, “Warning: immediate death ahead”, “What the fuck are doing?! Turn around”, etc.
That’s exactly what it was. If I wanted to wash money, the easiest way to do it would be to create some bullshit digital pic and then buy it myself from an alt dummy account.
I’m going to have to do some research on this. Down the rabbit hole I go…
I’m one of them
Yea. My whole Facebook feed is full of ads and posts from people I don’t even have on my friend list. I got fed up and barely go on there anymore.
All my years of using an iPhone as my secondary device… I never knew there was extension support! Let me go go down the rabbit hole.
I use Google, Yandex, Reddit, Lemmy, and Chat GPT
The XR and 11 (non Pro) had LCD. The 12 and 12 Pro have the same exact OLED screen, so that’s when they stopped using LCD on the lower models with Face ID.