So which alternatives are best for youtube and streaming?
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2026
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Firefox
I'm sure Chrome users will find another excuse to not switch just like the last few dozen times Google screwed them over.
I just use Pi rewards and Sponsorblock, and it does okay. The Pi.hole only works when they use weird DNS so if it goes through YT, it doesn’t work. I think it uses aliases, but I haven’t studied it thoroughly.
Sheeple
So basically every browser we it-guys told you to ditch for years or decades is now fucking you, like we told you they would...
Also, that twitter and facebook stuff, uh. Yeah, that’s also pretty much exploded exactly as foretold. The googlez is being evil. The list goes on, and yet all of those companies literally run the world because people continue using them.
If you haven't moved already, I recommend Firefox or one of its forks.
I rly like firefox, I have been using for the last two years.
I've been using exclusively since the early 2000s.
On Android, it's about 10x the size of Chrome. I'm guessing that's because Chrome uses the OS internals (chromium) for rendering while Firefox rolls its own (gecko).
Firefox still does manifest v2 so adblockers still have full power.
I switched to Waterfox on desktop when Firefox threatened to move to "AI-First". Firefox walked back that shitty decision when they saw the user backlash from it, but I never saw a compelling reason to switch back.
laughs in firefox
Firefox, Librewolf, Mullvad Browser. Just pick one.
If you want to stay with the blink engine, Vivaldi or Brave.
Quit Chrome.
Don't recommend Mullvad Browser to people who just want a regular daily driver browser unless you want them to freak out and never try anything again.
To anyone uniformed - Mullvad Browser, while technically Firefox based, is actually a fork of Tor, and by default wipes everything on exit, as well as expects users not to tinker with it or install any addons to avoid fingerprinting.
If you want to stay with the blink engine, ~~Vivaldi or Brave.~~ you're part of the problem, so don't.
FTFY.
Every Blink-based browser contributes to Google's harmful hegemony over web standards.
Or Iceraven. All extensions, even desktop ones work.
You can pick all of them, and for different purposes. Better to use different personas on different browsers, on different OS's.
Time to ditch chromium then, right? right?
if people cared they'd have ditched chrome dozens of times already. people don't care. it's sad
That, or use a chromium fork that ignores manifest v3 and supports manifest v2.
For now. Maintaining v2 takes resources, and google can make it more and more difficult with every update. Eventually the cost/benefit ratio is going to get too high
When I first heard about all of this and saw there was a Ublock Lite that wouldn't block everything, I thought it was going to be bad, but I switched to that and it seems to block everything fine for me?
If you're on a Mac Orion and Safari, if you're on Linux Librewolf and possibly Orion for most browsing and Chromium for YouTube.