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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet(www.404media.co)

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Google’s anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

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gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I’ll add that ReVanced and FireFox + UBlock are working fine for me still, still need to install STN tho

I even recently dropped my Premium sub (when they ditched Pixel Pass) so I was kinda expecting retaliation for bailing on em but nothing so far

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dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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Is revanced annoying to build? I’ve been putting it off for that reason since AFAIK there is no manager for it

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Fullest@sh.itjust.works
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https://github dot com/ReVanced/revanced-manager

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dracul104@lemmy.sdf.org
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It’s easy enough. You’ll need to grab an apk for YouTube so ReVanced Manager can modify and install it. That’s about it.

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vinyl@lemmy.world
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There’s a better one than revanced, it’s called grayjay

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thejevans@lemmy.ml
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I don’t understand why people are calling grayjay a “better revanced” they have pretty different feature sets and solve different problems.

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