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alternative-front-ends
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Juno β A YouTube Client for Vision Pro
> Do you block YouTube on your network so you don't see content from that platform? I'd wager you don't.
I don't block YouTube, I just don't use any of their official frontends. There are plenty of alternatives in this space[1]. This might not work for everyone, but I get a much better UX with these tools. Not seeing ads is one benefit, but it's also about not being a participant in training algorithms that effectively cause psychological damage.
> I am pretty sure you pay for things that bring value or make thing easier for you in life
Of course. And I happily support content creators who don't rely on advertising or Google itself. I just refuse to be forced into a corrupt business model.
Anyway, I didn't mean to antagonize you, so apologies if my response came across that way.
[1]: https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends?tab=readme...
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Invidious β An open source alternative front-end to YouTube
There is a great list of many alternative frontends I found here: https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
They work well for internet archiving too, e.g. when Twitter or Reddit are being annoying and showing popups/login redirects/etc. you can replace the URL with an alternative frontend version and archive the content without the cruft.
- Not too illegal but how the fuck do i remove ads from YouTube on iPhone
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Torβs shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it
I use Tor for everything that doesn't require identification, and I use very few of those services. Feel free to ask me anything.
>There are sites that I have been unable to get working
This happens, most of the time because of Cloudflare. A solution is to get a new Tor circuit 3-5 times, and then the page will load. If a site simply won't work, like Meta platforms I won't use them. Using alternative front-ends[1] makes most sites that usually wouldn't work, work as well.
>The Tor browser does help here, by not easily allowing obvious mistakes like using http.
This is false, HTTPS only is enabled by default in Tor Browser. It's common knowledge for everyone including users of Google Chrome and Firefox to not use HTTP sites.
[1]: https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
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Youβre Not Imagining It: Social Media Is in Chaos
May I suggest:
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends#facebook
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Stop YouTube blocking your AdBlocker
thanks, found a bunch here https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
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lynx browser
For Gmail you can use (neo)mutt if you want to use in the CLI. For the other services check this out
- Google sent me this - local guide
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What is the least browser that consumes data
In addition, Youtube is a notoriously heavy website with a ton of javascript. There are plenty of opensource front end websites that use a lot less or no javascript. Piped is a popular frontend for Youtube.
- Any alternatives to YouTube?
web-bugs
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Google breaks search for Firefox users because of bad UA string sniffing
The thread is very long, here is the relevant comment:
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/131916#issuecom...
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Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%...
Microsoft Teams (which I don't think many people use voluntarily) in particular breaks in stupid ways - and then in others if you spoof your user agent.
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"This video is either unavailable or not supported in this browser. (Error #4000) " on twitch with new laptop
a link to the video would help with troubleshooting, seems like another case of "this site or this particular feature doesn't support firefox" otherwise report to https://webcompat.com/
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Hamrobazaar not opening in Firefox
Have any of you faced this? If the website is made to open only in chromium-based browsers, I am planning to report to Webcompat. But before that, I thought I would make sure from others. Any experience or quick fix would be appreciated.
- Web-bugs: A repo used by the Web Compatibility community to track issues
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Switching from Chrome to Firefox? Here Are Some Tips
Teams was a classic hellhole for me when I was using Linux. Nowadays it lets you in but Firefox genuinely doesn't support all of the features the Teams site uses. This means certain features are made unavailable to Firefox users. Forcing the user agent makes some of these partially work but they are also still broken so Mozilla doesn't want to enable a user agent override by default and Microsoft doesn't want to enable a feature that only half works.
This GitHub WebCompat issue serves as a good example history https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/77892
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Firefox: WhatsApp Web cannot paste text?
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/125920#issuecom...
- Copy-paste broken on WhatsApp on Firefox
- π O bug que "quebrou" o Whatsapp π
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Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider
having recently looked at a firefox performance regression for filing a bugreport, tooling that tracks performance (quite publicly) sees attention, easy upload to share tracing profiles also helps: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/testing/perfdocs/ind...
Their dedicated blog keeps you posted if firefox perf is your interest https://blog.mozilla.org/performance/
If you have a particular website you notice chromium being significantly faster with, for an easy report, there's https://webcompat.com/ - though bugzilla is better than it seems when coming from github issues
What are some alternatives?
youtube-local - browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance
firedragon-browser - A Floorp fork with custom branding π (mirrored from GitLab)
ProxiTok - Open source alternative frontend for TikTok made using PHP
temp_librewolf_prefpane - temporary repository to share librewolf built with the prefpane
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit
privacytests.org - Source code for privacytests.org. Includes browser testing code and site rendering.
alternative-frontends - ππ Privacy-respecting web frontends for popular services
icecat-win64
privacy-redirect - A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives.
stealth - :rocket: Stealth - Secure, Peer-to-Peer, Private and Automateable Web Browser/Scraper/Proxy
browser_extension - A browser extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy friendly frontends
Fenix - β οΈ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android