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YouTube borked when users enable Firefox anti-fingerprinting:
Firefox users have recently started to notice that YouTube does not display videos properly when they enable the browser's anti-fingerprinting technology for better privacy.
When the privacy.resistFingerprinting privacy feature is enabled in Firefox, the feature will make the browser more resistant to fingerprinting scripts.
As fingerprinting can be used to track a user between different properties and even sites, it is a common feature suggested in Firefox privacy hardening guides.
A recent change on YouTube, though, is causing videos to have display problems when this feature is enabled.
[...] BleepingComputer has been able to reproduce this issue in both Firefox 72 and the recently released Firefox 75, so this is not an issue caused by Mozilla.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by epitaxial on Friday April 17 2020, @02:55PM (2 children)
Brave just sounds sketchy in every possible way.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2020, @04:57PM
There's a lot of misinformation about Brave.
Brave is fundamentally just a fork of Chromium with all the Google crap removed and a bunch of privacy first features (anti-fingerprinting, anti-tracking, auto HTTPS, disabling third party cookies, disabling scripts) all put into it and able to be toggled, per site, with two clicks. The ad replacement stuff is 100% opt-in. If you don't opt in you're basically using Chrome that's faster and has a bunch of native privacy stuff. If you do opt in then you get paid (in a crypto) to occasionally view some ads that you can use to do things like 'tip' sites you like. Personally I do not opt into the ad stuff, because I think consumerism is a horrible both on a social and individual level.
You can replicate some of the functionality using plugins in other browsers, but then you have the various issues with plugins + plugin compatibility. So for instance Google just castrated many plugin based ad-blockers that use Chrome with their recent changes with Manifest V3. AdBlock was (is?) selling the ability for some sites to get white listed, and so on. *Those* sort of things are what I'd call sketchy!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 17 2020, @09:15PM
You're just not Brave enough to try it.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.