On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:15:54 +0200
Nick <nick@???> wrote:

> On 24-10-2025 16:05, ael via Dng wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 06:56:22AM -0700, Fred wrote:
> >> Maybe someone could write an add-on/extension to Firefox rather than
> >> duplicating major functions that Firefox already has.
> > Really?? I get all the advertising torture if I use ff to view youtube
> > and it's viewer has extremely limited control. And does not allow a
> > clean download.
> >
> > Or did I miss something?
> >
> > ael
> >
> Yes you missed uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock which are working great
> in Firefox. I never see ads.
>

Well, we'd then need to personally work to download each video we wish to
use. I can and have done that before with websites, but it's very very
tedious and time consuming.

Also, recall that ad blockers are being constantly worked against by
these companies. Facebook being a notable case, where it literally took
weeks for ad block plus team to fix their ad blocker on that site.

David