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  • It shouldn’t be a difference, what Ublock and Brave and network based blockers such Pihole do is they have a list of domains that are not allowed to load on your system.

    If they find that www(dot)adexample(dot)com is trying to load in your browser, they simply block it and the video continue.

    Maybe the only different is the privacy itself that offer something like Libretube vs something like YouTube + Ublock. While using Libretube, you are only loading what is neccesary, you are not giving Google more information that you shouldn’t, and while you using YouTube in Firefox for example you are loading all the cookies, trackers and that stuff, even in private browser with maximum privacy settings and adblocker.


  • I know this not answer your questions, but I was like this years ago, I wanted everything open source, everything in VM or container with minimum permissions, only open source drivers, only flatpak, and all that stuff. I was like that for 3 or 4 years, in the meantime I changed my email address to a provider with better reputation than Google, I stop using everything that was proprietary, stop using Google services. Even did the most stupid thing, deleting my 5 years old Steam account because “I don’t need Steam to play, I can pirate games or play open source games so Valve or the companies can’t access my data”

    And what happened then? While I was happy owning my stuff, I don’t have that much things to do on my system, can I play? Yeah, an pirated game through Bottles (since is sandboxes and pirated) but was a pain in the ass, the 50% of the games required at least 2 days setting up Wine to make them work, and I’m not an Linux expert but I know my way around. And by the way, at the moment I was using NVIDIA, and their open source graphics at the moment were shit, not sure how they are now, but you can’t literally run Terraria, no joking.

    And now that I mentioned NVIDIA open source drivers, at least at the moment you can’t even play a video on Firefox because of the stuttering, I can’t even try Hyprland or Sway, and even Plasma ran so bad, was so fucking laggy on both Xorg and Wayland.

    Oh and the most cancerigneous thing: I distrohopped like 1 time a day searching for the distro with the most compatibility. How many time I wasted on this.

    So I suggest you: Don’t do that. Don’t be me. Want to play? Why don’t you set up a dual boot and let Steam only in the secondary OS that you don’t want to use? If you want be sure that Steam can’t access your other OS, you can encrypt the whole disk or partition. I can tell you, for sure, that videogames are pretty delicate and when you try to run something over different layers, something usually can break and you don’t know why.






  • I’m not sure about this case because I don’t use flatpak that much, but to be honest I hate when I install an Electron based program such Freetube, and even though I installed the BIN binary (arch btw, not happened this on Debian based distros) for some reason my package manager decided to install the whole Electron framework with DE included. I get that it depends on it to work, but I don’t need 40 Electron packages to show in my Wofi that I would never use, is so ugly. The same with Qt programs and any single KDE app (but I understand in this case)

    I mean, yeah I understand that Freetube depend on Electron to work, but why when installing Steam this is not the case?