Unless they encode ads into video it won’t stop adblockers. And if they do encode them, they need to figure out a way to block users from skipping ads by clicking on video bar or rewind buttons during this ads playback. Highly unlikely they will do any of this, so you should not worry ublock got you covered. And by forcing more ads on users google invites even more rippers. The more companies resist change the more people will find ways around it.

Don’t forget good old hosts file. This file exists on both linux and windows.

Everyone ones to know how to use linux without wanting to learn. Asking questions without wanting to understand will get you nowhere. Most can’t even read the welcome pages.

If you think asking questions first before doing your own research and learning on your own you doing it wrong. You will never be successful anywhere not just linux.

Arch Linux is good but only for people willing to learn what you mentioned and much much more. If you don’t have time to at least read arch wiki don’t even try installing it. But this should be true for any linux or unix distro. If you don’t have time to learn it don’t use it.

You should do your own research which linux or unix distro will work for you. Don’t ask someone else. What works for them may not work for you. Without first doing research and trying various distros yourself you will fail. If you are not willing to learn don’t even bother just stick with windows.

Don’t know about anyone else but it was 100% true for me. I love linux and never switching back. Never even tried dual boot, just installed linux and started learning everything i need in it. I can say i learned so much more than when i used windows. Linux has a learning curve much greater than windows, but if you put the work into it you won’t regret it. But if you are a gamer i highly recommend having a second pc with windows, don’t bother with dual boot.

Yeah switched to linux two decades ago and never looked back. The only regret i have is that i haven’t switched earlier.

No you are just renting to see more ads.

• Mahjongg
• Tetris
• Chess
• Checkers

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_Lab

Kaspersky has a backdoor of their own in their software with full access given to Russian gov.

Edit: LOL Down votes by all the Kaspersky users or Russian bots? Trust me this won’t fix your backdoor problem.

TaskWarrior (https://taskwarrior.org)

Does lemmy.world block it?

Very nice, thanks for sharing this.

Never tried LibreWolf yet, but i will. Thank you.

This is also a good and better idea, thank you for pointing that out.

I believe that firefox is one if the few who has at least some sort of protection against it. But you should always use different browser profiles for anything you do online at least on computer and especially if you use vpn.

If google is doing this, they have a much better way to track them. Maybe fingerprints or something called evercookies. Which is harder to protect against.

The good thing is there are some software and browsers who are tackling this issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_fingerprinting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting

There is also Mailfence, very good.