#YouTube is making the watching experience worse on #Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
I didn't believe it the first time I heard abt it, since it sounded more like a conspiracy theory than a actual thing, but it's true. Google does add 5s timeout specifically to Firefox and Edge users when they try to watch a video on YT. If you want to know more about it, Mental Outlaw make a very good video abt it (Link: https://youtu.be/v4gXhmzQztE ). I think Google did this, to get people moving to Chrome since the majority will think this is a browser issue, nobody would expect YouTube to purposely doing this. In the attached Screenshot you can see that YouTube checks the user agent of browsers to see if it's Edge, Firefox or not. You can bypass this by changing your User agent to chrome.
Edit: Due a lot of people saying a lot of different things abt it, I want to say that I'm not 100% sure abt how exactly this works, there is a inbuild delay by Google, but who is actually affected, there are a lot of different opinions abt it. I wasn't able to verify this myself in LibreWolf, but this could be the case due my intensive hardening I did and this is just a result of what I found in the code and what Mental Outlaw and others shared across social media, if you got different or additional infos abt this feel free to comment and I suggest everyone ti also check the comment section.
@voxel@privacy This video explains that it's not just #Firefox users being affected by the delay, but #Safari, #Edge, #Brave and even #Chrome itself. It also has nothing to do solely with the #browser you use, but rather a combination of that and your #ad blocker. #Google's testing this with different groups of people, that's why changing your agent string seems to help.
Good news! Brave for Android now let's u use your favorite uBlock Origin Blocklists!
Under Settings > Brave Shields & privacy
Can you now add custom filterlists and edit Brave's default selection of the already avaible filterlists. Some of you now that this was possible before too (via brave://adblock) but at this time it had no UI and wasn't a official feature, now you can easily add, remove and customize fiterlists via the the settings.
Blocking variations.brave.com which is used for A/B testing could potentially break Brave's functionalities. For me did Brave's "forgetful browsing" feature broke which seems to be disabled by default if you block this domain.
I heard a lot of bad stuff about Brave and their CEO lately and am now unsure if the search engine is any good? Do they censor stuff? Is any data collected? Can it be considered private?...
Their CEO is anti-vax and homophobic. Brave Browser (not search) has had some controversy around including crypto, replacing ads with their own, and having had inserted affiliate links into the URL bar in the past.
censor stuff
Hard to say, the job of a search engine is to show you what you want to find.
@whou Don't forget the time they made it possible to 'donate' to creators, but when creators weren't signed up with their program #Brave would just keep the donation. So users would think they have donated for example to Tom Scott, but in reality he never received anything. Overall just a scummy company.
I heard of this methode of Tracking before, but never knew that this was it's name, anyway. As I searched for it, I found this article from Brave which gives a very easy to understand explanation of Bounce Tracking, I recommend reading it.
Ich habe schon viele Browser durch und viele haben ihre Vor- und Nachteile. Zur Zeit benutze ich Edge mit dem verbesserten Bing, weil ich ChatGPT4 + Internetanbindung testen wollte ohne 20 Dollar im Monat für einen kleinen Spaß auszugeben. Mittlerweile hat Microsoft die KI auch hart gestutzt. Zumindest kommt es mir so vor....
@b0tch Auf meinem PC läuft #Linux und als #Browser benutze ich den #Firefox und #Chromium. Habe eine Zeitlang mal #Brave ausprobiert, hatte mit dem unter #KDE aber Probleme und ihn daher wieder runter geschmissen.
Brave while performing well on benchmarks does not have an auditable codebase, and most privacy experts would recommend a privacy-focused firefox fork like librewolf or arkenfox
Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)
Is Brave Search trustworthy?
I heard a lot of bad stuff about Brave and their CEO lately and am now unsure if the search engine is any good? Do they censor stuff? Is any data collected? Can it be considered private?...
Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
Welchen Browser nutzt ihr? German
Ich habe schon viele Browser durch und viele haben ihre Vor- und Nachteile. Zur Zeit benutze ich Edge mit dem verbesserten Bing, weil ich ChatGPT4 + Internetanbindung testen wollte ohne 20 Dollar im Monat für einen kleinen Spaß auszugeben. Mittlerweile hat Microsoft die KI auch hart gestutzt. Zumindest kommt es mir so vor....
GitHub - pluja/awesome-privacy: Awesome Privacy - A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because PRIVACY MATTERS. (github.com)