I already have firefox installed on all my machines slowly transitioning over. Chromes new UI updates are really pushing me over to firefox faster. Now when I set up nee computers for friends I install firefox for them, when they ask me why not chrome I tell them chrome is old news and not to be trusted which they happily accept and use firefox. Slowly the tide is turning.

Whenever I'm helping a friend with their service, the price of my intervention is then switching over to Firefox, haha. The tide will turn

I stopped using Chrome and YouTube... If a service is getting close to unusable for you without an ad blocker, you should just ditch it.

I've been Chrome-less for several years and I am "Google-free" with regards to email, phone, services, etc.

However, going without any Youtube is difficult. There's a lot of interesting content out there. Do you use an alternative way to access it, or go without it entirely?

If I'm really motivated I either just download the content (yt-dlp) or use duckduckgo search interface. It's actually not bad.

I started hosting Viewtube app hoping I'll catch up, but while it's quite amazing (surprisingly light and emulates subscriptions behavior for you), I had issues with it... So as for now I remain mostly cut off.

There is a lot of great dev and ops related content (conferences) that I come back for, but not for subscriptions I used to love.