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[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

With Google providing 80% of Mozilla's finding, I think we can all see whats going to happen next.

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I feel like this isn’t talked about enough. Sure

just use Firefox

But for how long is it gonna work that way until they too deprecate v2

[–] MrFlamey@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Don't worry. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Personally I feel like I'm too addicted to Youtube (and Reddit, which is what brought me back here), so if I can't block ads, perhaps I'll be able to quit. To be honest though, even just disabling watch history and reducing subscriptions makes a massive difference to how addictive it is.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm more worried that sites will start to demand it for "security purposes".

[–] sfxrlz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It will be either of those two. The effort required to circumvent the restrictions will get increasingly higher. As someone fittingly said a few days ago. Let the 1984 commence.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago

They're the only alternative for now.

[–] jakob22@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

The Google payments were never guaranteed for Mozilla. If they didn't have a backup plan in place to reduce spending, that's on them. Let Mozilla return to its garage opensource roots.