I just tried this and I get an alert that unlock isn’t fully available. Seems it can’t access web request API.

I’ll give it a spin out of curiosity. I pay for Kagi anyway. I’m very opposed to Google.

AdGuard and SponsorBlock work fine on Safari on iOS.

You can disable Edge if you don't want people launching it... "accidentally." There are a myriad of ways. Most recently I've used Edge Blocker, which does what it says on the label. Note that this will cause the opening of any file types associated with Edge by default to silently fail if you don't reassign them to some other program.

The install Firefox and uBlock origin. Unless your parents deliberately go out of their way to download and install Chrome (and depending how heavy-handed you want to get you could even prevent this by busting them down to a limited user account) they won't have any choice but to use the correct browser installed on their system. That is to say, the only one.

That does not apply to most people. Also, peertube is really getting better recently.

Blocking abp was the last straw for me, thank you for suggesting librewolf

Oh my. THANK YOU for that edgeblocker! Going to get that on every computer in my home.

Yeah I'm not "the boss" of my parents. My dad was very tech savvy, but he doesn't have the same memory and cognition as he used to so when I set it up nice he likes it, but any friction sets him off to "solve" the problem... By doing some random totally different thing that doesn't so much solve the problem as "gets it working, sort of" with a browser he recognizes. Then because there are ads he loses interest and just puts on the 24/7 news cycle.

"I've found a workaround"

Workaround (according to article): "First of all, YouTube Premium"

The actual workaround (according to article): "Two words: uBlock Origin. Yes, I know that Google has blocked it from its Chrome Extension store, but there is still a way to get uBlock Origin on Chrome"

Seems like they are being paid by Google. Actual workaround should be to drop Chrome.

Fyi uBlock Origin Lite was recently released on iOS

Why pick shit out of your cereal, when you can just get the other brand that doesn't have shit in it?

I feel like I’m often getting new devices or reinstalling my OSes. I restart from scratch a lot. Going through the steps to harden Firefox becomes tedious. Librewolf starts from where I want to be.

Yes even meta noticed that the qualityof videos on peertube is increased, they're illegally scraping all the content for training their closed source for-profit ai video generator

Hence the part "nobody noticed" in the headline

Unless the instance owner is a network god, they blacklist the IP address almost immediately (they see thousands of videos watched at the same time from the same IP address, trivial to detect)

It's almost irrelevant to subscribe to a channel, the algorithm anyway pushes whatever it wants ignoring your requests

My thoughts exactly, what a heap of crap. Tom's Guide used to be one of the good ones out there, real shame.

What I was wondering though is if they detect browser plugins through some public ID - how difficult is it to change those? In Firefox it's absolutely trivial, you can simply download the extension, open it as a zip file, and then edit the files inside with a text editor and change the ID.

Haven't used chrome for years, but extensions used to be javascript files just as well, so I doubt they are that hard to edit. Unless they found a way to block installations from local files and enforce their shop, no idea if that's a thing.

dont give them solutions, they want to be angry

I mean, Firefox + uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock makes YouTube usable without giving Google more money

To my knowledge, sponsors do not give money to Google, just to the creator. So SponsorBlock isn't needed.
But I have to admit that some sponsored segments can be obnoxious as hell, so I can understand why one would use it.

Ah, yes, you're right. If the focus is just on not giving money to Google then SponsorBlock is unnecessary.

However, I also find most sponsored segments obnoxious as hell so SponsorBlock still helps with making the YouTube experience better in general