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Vietnam is passing a new law, going into effect on February 15, that will ban unskippable ads as well as delays before closing banner ads.

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[–] Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Install another browser like Librewolf (ublock included) or Brave. That's it, say good-bye to the ads, and not only in Youtube. In Android use Youtube Revanced. In Android TV (Nvidia shield, google TV, etc) use SmartTube.

And don't use the "ads-company" browser in the future if you don't like ads.

[–] LukeZaz@beehaw.org 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

or Brave

Uuhhh, yeah, no. Don't do this. Librewolf – or really any Firefox browser, even with how Mozilla is right now – is going to be a lot better choice than the homophobia-and-crypto Chromium browser.

[–] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 days ago

Android using waterfox with ublock, no ads on youtube or anywhere else

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately Firefox is also an ads company now, but still gecko-based browsers are the only good choice rn

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't like the direction they're heading, but Firefox still works just fine with UBlock Origin, Sponsorblock, etc.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yup! Just not immune to enshittifying

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago

firefox got drunk on the google revenue stream and decided not to innovate away from google.