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FreeTube works very well for watching YT videos. They have adblock and sponsorblock. You can subscribe without logging in. You stay out of the ecosystem as it were.

This is a cat and mouse game. The overarching issue here is the web embraced the monoculture of Chromium as the basis for browsers. Can we really expect any less?

I've had good success with Violent Monkey and scripts from Greasy Fork on every browser I run, which is Edge (work becoz SSO), Chrome, and Firefox. They have never been detected.



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