FreeTube has been going strong for me.

Oh no, poor Vance. How his mother holding up? When’s the funeral?

I can do that without paying tho.

Lmao, you want to have a good laugh, read through the reddit comments on this. Full of corpo bootlickers talking about how poor Google needs to make money, why won’t you think of the corpos??

Wiktionary has this without the AI hallucinations.

If you use a Google service on a locked down Google device, what magic fix are you hoping for? There are limits. If you’re unwilling to make any meaningful change, then unfortunately you’re out of luck and either need to suck it up and watch the ads, or pay Google for an ad-free experience. Or you can leave their ecosystem and be free.

Its not like those are mutually exclusive. Long term vs short term fix.

Something more insightful than the obvious solution screaming in your face?

Their way out is using an external device.

The Firefox forks I use probably do, but they also have purge on by default, so I don’t think about it. I don’t want any website to know anything about me unless I explicitly log into my account. I would probably feel differently if every website wasn’t constantly trying to suck up all my data all the time, but they’ve used up all my good will so it’s scorched earth they’re getting from me.

I don’t use standard Firefox since they started enshitifying, but looking at it, it looks like they basically sandbox each website so that they can’t see each others cookies. If that solution works for you, then go for it! But every website you visit is still leaving those cookies, and I’d personally rather purge them all and start fresh each session so I know there’s no funny business going on.

Because there’s no good way to do that reliably and easily, because the corporate world is run by douchebags with a rapists-mentality.

Yup, every single time. Not hard when you use a password manager.

Also, lmao, how the hell is rejecting cookies, something that corporations have exploited to make the internet an increasinly hostile place, a “Luddite-y” response? Read up on the Luddites sometime. They are wildly mischaracterized. They weren’t anti-progress like people have been propogandized to believe, they were anti-exploitation of workers.

Actually, now that I think about it, that is a Luddite-y response, and I’m damn proud of it.

Its not body shaming, its overcompensation shaming.

I can just log back in when I need to be, thank you.

Me too!

There’s still good fries, just not at shitty fast food joints.

Yeah, I’ve wondered the same thing about my settings. I’m certainly no expert so there may be something I’m doing wrong. It MOSTLY works though so I haven’t been hard pressed to dive into it.

The everyday person has political views that are classified as extremist by the actual extremists as a way of deflection.

I torrent on Mullvad, it works but its often slow and I don’t connect to peers that say are available.