I literally had this thought yesterday. I'm so glad I know how to use technology. I have no idea how folks raw dog the internet today.
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Yeah dns blocker will give out you in a different world. Apps don't have intrusive ads anymore
On the other hand, we should be thankful for the masses. If most people used adblockers that shit would get choke slammed off the Internet so hard our heads would spin. It's only because like 10% people use it that it stays under the radar.
I've been using ad block for years and was so confused when I went to watch the Rick and Morty marathon on Adult Swim. I had no idea it showed ads during the "intermission". I immediately muted it, tried to figure out why ad block wasn't working and questioned how anyone could put up with it.
Coming from a guy who watched infomercials as a kid, I could recite them from memory, living ad free for almost 20 years makes ads nauseating to me.
Now that Vivaldi finally has to let go of Manifest v2 (fuck you, Google!) gave their builtin ad blocker a chance. It seems to work fine for most things, except YouTube shorts. I occasionally scroll through those and basically every second video is an ad that would have been blocked by uBlock Origin. How can people tolerate that?
I guess if that happens to other websites, I really need to figure out which Firefox fork best matches the things I liked about Vivaldi (websites in sidebar, workspaces/tab groups, good performance, no AI bullshit)
AFAIK Firefox forks aren't too different from Firefox feature-wise. It's hard to make substantive changes to Firefox, so most forks like Librewolf or Waterfox slightly change default settings and extensions, but not sidebars and other cosmetics.
So unfortunately, there is probably no Firefox browser that would have Vivaldi's features.
Maybe you could try uBlock Origin Lite? It's Manifest v3 compliant, and I don't remember having any issues with YouTube shorts using it. I use it on "optimal" filtering mode
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my work laptop didn't come with an adblocker for some reason unfathomable to me. the first time I realized there were ads on, like, everything was certainly humbling.