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by InCityDreams 918 days ago
'Google has stopped...', or 'Google no longer...', 'Google have removed'.

As I can no longer watch yt without getting annoyed, looks like it's time to get a new email provider (as well) .

@ yahoo seem to have few(er?) problems.

There are probably others. Can anyone recommend a good search engine?
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einpoklum 918 days ago
> As I can no longer watch yt without getting annoyed

uBlock Origin + EFF Privacy Badger should take care of it. I've never seen any ads on YouTube (except the ones the stream includes inherently).

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rchaud 917 days ago
It's unusably slow on desktop Firefox with UBO active. This was not the case for a long time. They're degrading the experience on non-Chrome browsers intentionally.
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einpoklum 917 days ago
I'm not experiencing that. Granted, I have 16 GB of RAM, and browsers are memory hogs, but my CPU is a Core i5-7600K with no overclocking, so not something super-strong.

Are you sure your experience is common rather than anecdotal?

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rchaud 916 days ago
Mine is on MacOS.
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einpoklum 916 days ago
I use Devuan GNU/Linux, with Cinnamon as the desktop environment. Maybe there's some MacOS (or *BSD) specific issue?
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