I only know the DNS blocking from them.

ETA: Not sure if their app does more.

DNS blocking (such as AdGuard) doesn’t work for everything. Ad blocking extensions are the only way to block YouTube ads in your browser as far as I know.

Good thing there’s so many options for people to find what they’re looking for.

Thunder is my personal recommendation with Raccoon being my next choice.

If you’re interested that is. Otherwise just pretend I was never here.

Probably upset about “Happy Holidays” or something.

Nice. I’m hoping to get there eventually, but work stuff is keeping me on Windows.

When I stop needing Windows, that’s gonna be one of the first distros I try. Haven’t tried the atomic distros properly yet.

I’ve heard good things about Bazzite if that’s an option for you.

Well, that’s not surprising to see. Thanks for the clarification.

Would not be surprised at all. Just want people to know about that instead of still being mad about some bullshit someone spewed years ago.

This was apparently never an official statement. It was someone in an interview that misspoke.

A Firefox fork like IronFox with an aggressive adblocker setup like uBlock Origin in medium mode blocks paywalls and all kinds of annoying popups on most sites. Takes a bit of tweaking to not break some sites, but after that it’s amazing.

So, I’m using IronFox on Android with uBlock Origin on medium mode. Not an ad or other problem to be seen on that site. On Windows I use LibreWolf with the same uBlock setup.

These are aggressive setups that can break some sites, but after a while of tweaking it carefully you don’t notice it’s there anymore.

Sounds like a dream job if it wasn’t Fox or similar.

I’d honestly rather Fox focus on this than their usual conservative mouthbreathing.

You see stuff like this a lot with Chinese videos. I recently saw an electric supercar type vehicle from them jump potholes automatically at high speed as if it was nothing. Just keeps driving with zero wobble or death after landing.

Individual people aren’t going to make any difference unless they’re carrying HDs full of training data around with them.

Yes, but most people don’t know that. Any excuse to make another big player look bad.

Most countries would grab onto something like this for some free propaganda.

ETA: The US and China especially love sniping at each other like this.

Lonely weebs, obviously.

On a more serious note, people might just find it enjoyable for some reason that doesn’t work for you.

Much as I love bidets I doubt this guy owns or uses one.

(some) internet malware is ads, but not all ads are malware

That’s backwards. (Most) ads are malware, but not all malware is ads.

The majority of ads are, at best, dangerous and, at worst, actively malicious. The ad networks don’t care to review them because they make money either way.