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I tell everyone about Firefox and uBlock Origin. Blocking YouTube ads is enough of an argument to convince anyone to at least try it out. I've never seen someone who didn't love the ad-free web experience. It's actually safe to just install this software on random computers: people's quality of life will be invisibly yet thoroughly improved, they will notice that things are just better even if they can't explain why. They'll be a lot safer from malware too.

The objective is to reduce the return on investment of advertisers as much as possible. This will only happen in significant enough numbers once a significant portion of the population is blocking ads. It's our moral imperative to spread ad blocking technology far and wide.

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> It's actually safe to just install this software on random computers

+1, i actually did this a couple times on some friends computer when i noticed they hadn't any blocker installed (although i did tell them afterwards).

Let's run a crowdfunding to rent some maleware on shady forum to install ublock origin without consent :)

Related to the last bit: I was somewhat surprised DuckDuckGo is not a total scam because for years it got installed on my pc packaged with other software if I wasn’t paying attention (or the installer was especially crappy and didn’t let me opt out)

Huh, I think it's really critical to understand that the ad blocker is there, so you can turn it off sometimes. I run across forms all the time that silently fail to submit until I turn off the ad blocker.

Really? I can think of maybe once in the past ~year. I run into more sites broken by just using Firefox or by ads themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if ublock fixes more sites than it breaks.

Firefox barely runs though. I've had to start opening up Edge just to get Reddit to load because FF slows to such a crawl.

There might be something wrong on your system. I switched a long time ago but sometimes run chrome to compare performance, and it's on a par.

If you come across a site where the performance is noticeably worse than in Chrome, it may be worth notifying the owner. The alternative is to live in a Google-controlled dystopia.

> If you come across a site where the performance is noticeably worse than in Chrome, it may be worth notifying the owner.

There is an exception to this - G sites routinely run slower on FF, but this is very likely how Google wants it to be.

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