• hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Right?

    I have two tabs open…one is a site that is overtly and actively promoting products to me, with literal links to retailers where I can buy the stuff they’re promoting…the other is YouTube.

    The promotional site’s uBlock counter is at 4.

    YouTube’s is at…139.

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      1 year ago

      Leave that YouTube tab open open for a day and see how many thousands of items uBlock has blocked.

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        1 year ago

        I see absolutely insane numbers on Google docs, 10000+ blocked. My total per year is now over 5 million. A lot more intense than a few years ago, where it took multiple years to reach 3 million.

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          1 year ago

          Holy shit, I have multiple tabs open and have only been using Firefox as my default browser for about 1.5 3-months (August 9th). Each YouTube tab has over 10k blocks and lifetime blocks since installation is over 4.1 million!

          Edit: found the document I made in Obsidian to plan my move from Brave to Firefox and the created data is August 9th.

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          1 year ago

          Wow I haven’t even looked for all time blocks! I’ll have to look…

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        1 year ago

        Yup, I left youtube up on my laptop all day today and this is ublocks total. It’s fucking crazy that some people don’t bother with adblockers

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        1 year ago

        UBlock and Little Snitch light up like 4th of July for me anytime I absolutely have to browse anything google related.