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Can anyone recommend a good alternative that works well under Linux and block ads and trackers well? In particular YouTube ads?

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Firefox with uBlock Origin has been working well for me, for ads at least. I haven’t looked too much into blocking trackers but I think Firefox has some ability to do that

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Yeah it has some and if it doesnt work Extensions can help out. As it uses still the v2 manifest. It is just straight up better to use firefox ( or their “children” like librefox ( a bit hardend firefox browser ). It doesnt depending on chromium, its not a big Corporate that is super greedy.

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This is the golden combo in my opinion. uBlock Origin is an excellent adblocker and it works best with Firefox. The built-in privacy features of Firefox are also decent, even when left at the default settings.

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Firefox with uBlock Origin ✔

What about a search engine though?

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DuckDuckGo

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uBlock Origin for blocking advertisements everywhere, works with YouTube too. SponsorBlock for automatically skipping parts of YouTube videos with sponsored advertising.

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Libre Wolf with uBlock preinstalled could be what you need.

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I use Vivaldi + AdNauseam (though they have a built-in adblocker which I have disabled.)

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