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Re:Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge... by yumraj on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @10:48AM (#48477142)
Such as?
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Re:Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge... by packetlost on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @11:13AM (#48477592)
accuweather.com was the biggest one, though it looks like they fixed it sometime in the last month.
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Re:Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge... by mrguyorama on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @02:55PM (#48480981)
I used accuweather.com in Firefox a bunch a decade ago. Did not have problems.
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Re:Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge... by packetlost on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @08:10PM (#48484588)
It was specifically broken like 4~ years ago and fixed within the last month or so.
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Re:Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge... by HDBaseT on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @06:47PM (#48483835)
YouTube is an example of a site that Firefox has trouble handling.

Unsure if its a Firefox bug, Google pushing nonsense or uBlock Origin but constantly the YouTube UI Lags, video playback buffers, freeze, etc. Some days its near unuseable on Firefox, but I push through.

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Re:Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Edge... by tremon on Thursday June 11, 2026 @08:04PM (#48498126)
> YouTube is an example of a site that Firefox has trouble handling

That's fully on Google. I use plenty of other streaming sites where Firefox handles full-screen video just fine. Coming from the web search company that penalizes the rest of the Internet for slow-loading pages, Youtube is basically an embarrassment and I'm convinced this is completely intentional.

It's gotten so bad that I don't even try to watch Youtube in-browser any more; when someone posts a link that I think might be worth the effort, it goes straight into youtube-dl and I'll watch it offline or not at all.

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