| ▲ | sevenzero 5 hours ago |
| What browsers would you recommend? I use Brave but it's still Chromium under the hood. It's the only one that I never had trouble with adblock though. Also lets me play youtube on mobile when my screen is locked. |
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| ▲ | yard2010 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Vivaldi - built in ad blocker, the creator is a nice guy, transparent business model. It might be rough around the edges, but it's much better from every alternative imho. |
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| ▲ | chinathrow 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Firefox. |
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| ▲ | dickeeT 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | is it as greedy as chrome for the ram? | | |
| ▲ | dspillett 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | In my recent experience: definitely yes, though not significantly worse. Unless you have [many] hundreds of tabs open (which I do as I have neither executive function nor organisational skills), or have a machine with very limited RAM, I don't think you'll notice a difference. This is anecdata, of course, take with a pinch of your preferred flavouring powder. | | |
| ▲ | mapt an hour ago | parent [-] | | Chrome on Windows is running with thousands of tabs "open" over dozens of windows, but it does practically max out on a certain number of tabs per window (not just the GUI, but something in the memory architecture), and it does stack fat cache which will crash the whole thing if it digs deeper than your available space. Windows even runs (semi-playably) 2020's shooters in this condition, though you need to kill any windows close to the tab limit that are full of recently opened tabs. [Yes, I know, the horror] |
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| ▲ | theandrewbailey 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes: https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-chrome-2026/4 > Chrome also came in at slightly lower memory consumption across all the benchmarks with total memory usage on average at 4.67GB to Firefox at 4.83GB. |
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| ▲ | sevenzero 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | sham1 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, actually! Well, it does require you to install an extension[0], but it can be done. [0]: <https://github.com/mozilla/video-bg-play> | | |
| ▲ | sevenzero 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Thats good to know, but I am a "out of the box" person. I never want to have to manually install extensions as thats just more stuff to remember when setting up a new machine. Yea thats a me problem, but still. | | |
| ▲ | input_sh 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It used to support it out-of-the-box as well, but it's technically against YouTube's ToS to allow this without paying for a premium, so now you need this as an extra hoop. | | |
| ▲ | robin_reala 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why should a browser be policing YouTube’s ToS for them? | | |
| ▲ | Aachen an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Agreed, this sounds strange indeed. Much more likely is that Google found a reliable way to detect the screen status using a standard feature and Mozilla just implements the standard neutrally | |
| ▲ | input_sh 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wouldn't know, as I have never been in charge of one, but I imagine Google having the power to make your browser completely irrelevant would be a pretty strong incentive. |
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| ▲ | kioleanu 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You want to have your cake and eat it too, I think the best solution in your case is paying for youtube | | |
| ▲ | sevenzero 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Or I just keep using brave and not pay for the biggest media corpo that just passed Disney in revenue. | | |
| ▲ | Fnoord an hour ago | parent [-] | | Was Brave pre-installed on your computer or did you remember to install it? |
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| ▲ | Aachen an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | You don't install software on your machines that didn't come pre-installed/configured? | | |
| ▲ | chneu 22 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They're literally asking for a paid YouTube feature to be free "out of the box". Lol wild. |
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| ▲ | dspillett 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Even youtube's app itself doesn't allow that unless you pay. I suspect they've nobbled most browsers into not allowing it, either by technical measures or (more likely) the strong-arm tactic of saying “if you don't block this we'll find a way to make the entire of youtube practically unusable on your browser”. I've been using Grayjay recently which does allow that, amongst a number of other useful features (integrating other media sources, lack of adverts every few minutes in some content). Might be worth considering as an option. | | |
| ▲ | phs318u 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Kagi’s Orion browser on iOS is able to play YT vids in the background. |
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| ▲ | high_na_euv an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | You can play yt video in firefox with locked screen but you need to use desktop mode | |
| ▲ | lukan 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It allows you to play youtube without ads with ublock origin. | | |
| ▲ | sevenzero 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I used ublock origin for a while, but I kept having issues with it on Youtube due to Youtubes anti adblock measurements. Brave for some reason always had a fix for it pretty quickly, so I never experienced these issues with it. Maybe I could try a different browser again on my next machine. |
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| ▲ | freehorse 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | In iOS kinda yes; you have to request desktop version, and once you activate the lock screen for the first time you have to press “play”. Then it just plays and auto plays in the background. Don’t know about android, but there is also an extension there that blocks the visibility page api for YouTube. | |
| ▲ | purerandomness 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Why not simply use NewPipe [0]? You also get ad filtering and you can download Audio/Video streams from within the app. [0] https://newpipe.net/ | |
| ▲ | tdeck 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yes. That's the primary reason I use it, but you have to install an extension called "Video Background Play Fix". | |
| ▲ | ranger_danger 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Tubular app does, and it blocks ads |
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| ▲ | StingyJelly 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Brave origin on linux looks pretty solid now. Now I'm using that and Librewolf. |
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| ▲ | dwedge 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I will never use Brave after the debacle where they injected content into sites downloaded over HTTPS to pretend people were promoting their crypto token and adding a "donate" button on the page. | | |
| ▲ | StingyJelly 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | That made me avoid it for a long time but there hasn't been more concerning behavior since, so some point, we can move on. | | |
| ▲ | dwedge 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Did they ever address it? It's still the same company with presumably the same ideals. I was using it daily at the time, maybe it's better now. | | |
| ▲ | a96 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Brave is a series scam company. Always has been, always will be. |
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| ▲ | sevenzero 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I just checked it out, but it removes Tor access? It would pretty much downgrade the regular browser | | |
| ▲ | StingyJelly 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think using tor in brave just makes you stand out more - stock tor browser is probably a better setup. Whonix even better. | | |
| ▲ | heavyset_go 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | It helps if you're doing mundane things and want to help people who need to mix their sensitive traffic with it. More people "legitimately" using Tor makes it less likely to have its exit nodes outright blocked, as well, and assuming all traffic from them is malicious. | | |
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| ▲ | anthk 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Brave it's spyware, keep going with Librewolf. You can disable some fingerprinting support for WebGL -but- you need UBo for sure (and JShelter). |
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| ▲ | kuerbel 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I still use Firefox. It does all I need with no ads. That's nice. |
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| ▲ | dotcoma 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Currently using Helium. |
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