Wanted to mention this seems to be fixed, but I was never able to find a tool that could tell me why it was occurring.

It was ultimately NTP (clock), but it was actually the router clock. I switched PCs and I think my original PC had software to talk to the router, which must’ve been setting the time. It seems like it changed to a completely different time at some point.

Changed it, then just released/renewed/flushed dns. I also manually turned on the time service at some point and ran a sync from the command prompt just to be safe. and everything is acting normally now.

I’m not sure what to read from the storage. From what I can see only the cookies are being used. (1 cookie)

Is there a way to tell when each of them are interacting with it?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1894286

Update: So far i’m down to 2 extensions:
Ublock
600% sound volume

Memory still ballooned from 1GB to 5GB.

When I checked processes before closing, even after force unloading Youtube under processes, GPU was using around 1 GB. There was literally nothing else I could unload that would stop this.

Again I loaded all tabs just to be fair…GPU is using half of that currently. I’m also questioning the reliability of about:processes to an extent, because I couldn’t actually see what was adding up to the 5 GB I was seeing in task manager.

I also tried some advice I saw to just whitelist youtube, as it sounds like google does something regarding adblockers. But this did not seem to do anything noticable.

edit: based on another post, trying troubleshoot mode, though i’m always uncomfortable having all site blockers (ublock now) turned off.

I don’t know how to do that.

‘Improve Youtube!’
600% sound volume
7TV
Auto Tab Discard
Better TTV
Libredirect
LiveTL
Privacy Badger
Tampermonkey (No scripts enabled)
Ublock
User-Agent Switcher and Manager

i’d say about 40 tabs, mix of:
Danbooru
Youtube
Kbin
Reddit
Amazon
game8.co
libreddit

Plain Firefox

It’s probably because I generally saw the sub shutdowns as a result of the protest, and not as an ongoing protest. Reddit clearly wasn’t in any talks with the mods at that point and vica versa.

Honestly i’ll just go with it being months. I’m basically just arguing semantics at this point.

I mean, I remember it being weeks myself.

But it’s not as if things went back to the way they were either. There were definitely effects due to those weeks.

It wasn’t the right argument is the issue. Like only the last thing he ever said was directly saying CPC.

Like if thats what we wanted to find out we clearly got the wrong person to ask it.

I still use redirects to visit Reddit (I don’t bother if they don’t work), mainly because one of the main communities I track didn’t really move here.
Does Youtube count? That’s pretty much the only other thing I could think of.

I’m not

I can’t even try using an alternative redirect because apparently all of them are blocked.

Was strict the default? I’d assume the standard would be the default.

I’d imagine if you were using strict you want the sites to break because you absolutely do not want fingerprinting. That kindof restriction usually comes with the breaking being expected.

Uhhh…that’s not a meme, as the other guy said it’s virtue signalling. I don’t even know why you would fallback on it being a meme since people generally agreed with what you said.

If anything I think that makes you sound like an ass but that’s just me.

I mean yeah, but Spez we know for a fact actually did something.

Meanwhile someone will be eating gummies to cure themselves of some modern disease instead of using actual science-proven medication.

Okay

But in this entire discussion we haven’t even tied him or his homophobia to the feature change this article is discussing.

I mean, it’s more like I wanted to see more discussion about brave. It’s not even like it’s talking about things the CEO specifically did to the browser, it’s just talking about the CEO.

And yeah I’m complaining about different threads in a post, when 3 comments are about the browser and like 15 are about the CEO.

If you have something to say negative about brave from this feature, that’s cool, but I’m not seeing it.

I’m…honestly surprised you can be on lemmy when you damn products over singular people. Just cause I know there’s people who have tried to dissuade others from lemmy over the developers. And in that case the people involved are even closer to the code than a CEO would be.

I mean it’s derailed the entire thread so pretty much nobody is talking about the removed feature anymore.

Wait why are you on the privacy community when you don’t care about the parts that are specifically related to privacy?