• @leave_it_blank
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    1181 year ago

    It’s funny. Before this crackdown none of my co-workers used adblockers. To install an add-on was too much hassle. They just watched the ads.

    Now suddenly they became interested after hearing about them again, and almost all are running Firefox with ublock origin now.

    YouTube should have just kept quiet, I don’t believe they are better off now more than before.

  • @[email protected]
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    451 year ago

    This is a big reason Google wanted to push the whole “web integrity” thing. There would have been no way to use an adblocker after that and they would have won the blocking wars. It’s bad enough they’re gimping Chromium with Manifest v3, but they tried for it all.

    • @[email protected]
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      261 year ago

      Welp They are still cooking it, for now only on android as to boil the frog slowly but it will come back.

      • @glorious_albus
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        1 year ago

        Wait what are they doing on Android?

        • @takeda
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          71 year ago

          Adding that stuff to Android, so if you don’t have the genuine YouTube app the server won’t even serve you the videos. It is meant to kill things like ReVanced.

  • hh93
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    381 year ago

    Or use adnauseam and fuck up their ad-tracking infrastructure beyond just blocking the ads

    • @[email protected]
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      241 year ago

      I actually had to get rid of adnauseam because YT detected it pretty consistently, ublock origin as of this comment still works fine on YT though.

      • @takeda
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        51 year ago

        From what I understand AdNauseum is built on top of uBlockOrigin so you supposed use it instead. The thing is that it isn’t as frequently updated and due to recent YouTube wars this is currently required.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Great suggestions.

      I’d strongly recommend Dearrow instead of Clickbait remover now (I used to use Clickbait).

      It’s made by the same developer who made Sponsorblock, which I also strongly recommend (it skips over in-video sponsors, title sequences, non-music sections in music videos, etc.). Just remember to turn it off for channels whom you wish to support.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    I noticed that the Behind The Overlay extension in Firefox can also defeat the YouTube ad blocker pop up.