I swapped to Chrome years ago because YouTube stopped working right on Firefox.
I've started the process of swapping back to Firefox after 10 years with Chrome over this.
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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Ironically YouTube seems to work better for me in firefox, although the issue in chrome may be caused by browser extensions
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There were a few extensions you could run in firefox that told youtube that it was totally for reals being accessed by a chrome browser.
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Use firefox
And if you don't like Firefox, use one of the Firefox forks. Some of them are very Chrome-like.
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Everyone should ditch chrome
My fucking organization refuses to support anything but Chrome. I hate it so much.
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I take this as a sign that it genuinely still works to block ads and hasn’t sold out and become malware like those others that used to be popular.
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And that is why I went to Firefox once Google announced this bullshit.
Swapping is pretty painless. It even brings over all your passwords and stuff these days. Best get to swapping before Google disable that as well. They'd just love to keep you hostage.
Use a third party password manager, don’t rely on browser default ones
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https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh
Doesn't cover 100% of what uBO did, but it still works just as good IMO with DNS based ad-blocking on top.
Surprised so few people are aware of this. It seems equivalent to me when you give it the same permissions Ublock Origin had.
Agreed. I haven't even found anything that it doesn't block that UbOrigin did.
But then the whack-a-mole game continues, and you're constantly having to find new extensions to serve the same task. When you could simply switch to firefox, deal with the very minor growing pains, and keep using uBlock with no problems whatsoever.
Always has been.
I was a super early adopter for firefox. I started using it back in 2005-2006. I'm pretty sure it was still in beta when I started using it.
Over the past 20 years I've watched while firefox users have formed a goddamn cult around a software. It's insane to me, especially because I'm seeing exactly the same things from Mozilla that I was seeing from Microsoft (and later Google) at the time I decided to switch from IE to firefox to begin with...
Firefox isn't special. It's falling for all the cloud-based privacy invasive enshittification that Chrome has so far. It's just getting there slower.
So cool your jets. Especially considering uBlock Origin Lite is uBlock Origin. It's just compatible with the Manifest V3 standard.
the what store now
Not surprising, Google is an ad company at this point.
It never was anything else