Article: Firefox providing .deb package for Debian and Ubuntu users.
Wade Smart
wadesmart at gmail.com
Sat Jan 27 17:58:57 UTC 2024
I installed FF and turned on Sync - it did the rest.
I have a lot of work to do today so I removed the deb and
enabled the snap - Im back to working now.
I ABP, uBlockOrigin, StartPage privacy protection and js killer installed.
On Saturday 27 January 2024 11:52:29 AM (-06:00), Ralf Mardorf via
ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Sat, 2024-01-27 at 14:15 +0000, Wade Smart wrote:
> > YT videos now are all blocked
>
> Hi,
>
> I seriously doubt that this is correct, since Firefox from upstream
> still plays YT videos when build from source for e.g. Arch Linux
> packages or when installed via the iStore.
>
> Have you installed an outdated add blocker?
>
> On iPadOS there seems to be no way to block YT video adds at all, when
> using Firefox, while on Arch Linux uBlockOrigin seems to do the job.
>
> However, on Linux I tend towards "Waterfox" with uBlockOrigin and on
> iPadOS towards "Perfect Web", to watch YT videos without adds.
>
> On Linux, when using Firefox or Waterfox, the Add-on "Hide My IP"
> sometimes is required to show some YT videos. Some YT videos are not
> available in Germany (and/or other countries), but "Hide My IP" does the
> job.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
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