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Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by mrkramer »

LtdJorge wrote: post #179
mrkramer wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Not sure if ublock can seek inside a youtube video. I was referring to a hashtag or simply a tag a piece of text that can be spotted and then that type of content skipped.

In videos with sponsors, YouTube adds a small notice when the video starts that says the video has sponsored content. It doesn't tell you where/when.

For example take a look at this sponsored video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkcWQO57bGk

YouTube adds an overlay* in the upper left corner which says "Includes paid promotion". The overlay leads to https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10588440

Also creator added "#sponosred" hashtag.

Both "Includes paid promotion" overlay* and "#sponsored" hashtag can be detected and therefore the video could've been skipped or hidden by some extension or by uBlock Origin filter. You can either rely on detecting aforementioned Google overlay* or sponsored hashtag.

*HTML code of "Includes paid promotion" overlay:

https://support.google.com/youtube?p=ppp&nohelpkit=1"> class="ytp-paid-content-overlay-icon">Includes paid promotion

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by gaius_baltar »

cmod wrote: post #173
sherr wrote: post #52

Thank you Raymond and all others involved with uBlock Origin. It makes the internet bearable for me and other family members. Every time I use the "YouTube" app on my elderly relatives TV and see how often it is interrupted with adverts I count my blessings that this add-on exists.

Fwiw - paying for YouTube premium removes all ads from all devices and I see it as a strong vote in favor of subscriptions that do so. But, yes, it’s nearly unwatchable in its free state.

Do not subscribe to YouTube Premium. The whole thing just makes the problem worse by still allowing ads and requiring you to log in using an account that is also tied to your real world identity (for payment processing). You just end up giving more data points to Google to track and don't get rid of all ads.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by rstuart4133 »

ravenstine wrote: post #25
shantara wrote: post #8

>uBO works best on Firefox Not a fan of the recent Firefox changes, but alone makes me keep it as the default browser

Same. I'm sad to say that Mozilla really lost its way, but Firefox is still the most libre browser I know of, thus I will continue to use it until it becomes otherwise.

The first entry in the change log makes me think Mozilla knows exactly what it's way is, and is sticking to it:

> Rejected by Mozilla Add-ons Team. The reason is that I did not provide an exact link to the origin of the hsluv-0.1.0.min.js library used by uBO to implement dark theme (uBO's About page does credit the author of the library). A README has been added to 1.41.2 to disclose the exact origin of the library.

And for that reason, I'm sticking with Firefox. It's such a delight to see "transparency and audibility" are a hard engineering requirement. We in open source don't have much in the way of firm engineering processes, but we have that - and usually it's enough to ensure our software doesn't actively undermine us.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by botanical »

mrkramer wrote: post #181
LtdJorge wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In videos with sponsors, YouTube adds a small notice when the video starts that says the video has sponsored content. It doesn't tell you where/when.

For example take a look at this sponsored video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkcWQO57bGk YouTube adds an overlay* in the upper left corner which says "Includes paid promotion". The overlay leads to https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10588440 Also creator added "#sponosred" hashtag. Both "Includes paid promotion" overlay* and "#sponsored" hashtag can be detected and therefore the video could've been skipped…

sponsor block skips the part where the speaker is talking about a sponsored product/service

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by mrkramer »

botanical wrote: post #184
mrkramer wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For example take a look at this sponsored video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkcWQO57bGk YouTube adds an overlay* in the upper left corner which says "Includes paid promotion". The overlay leads to https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10588440 Also creator added "#sponosred" hashtag. Both "Includes paid promotion" overlay* and "#sponsored" hashtag can be detected and therefore the video could've been skipped…

sponsor block skips the part where the speaker is talking about a sponsored product/service

But if the video is sponsored then the whole video is about a sponsored product/service.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by HeavyStorm »

sherr wrote: post #52

Thank you Raymond and all others involved with uBlock Origin. It makes the internet bearable for me and other family members. Every time I use the "YouTube" app on my elderly relatives TV and see how often it is interrupted with adverts I count my blessings that this add-on exists.

I switched from Spotify to a YouTube premium account. I get addless YT, YT Red (never used) and YT music for almost the same price as Spotify.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by fourseventy »

josefx wrote: post #64
fourseventy wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whats Manifest V3?

Modern browsers share a "standard" list of APIs for plugins, that makes it possible to write a plugin that runs in both Chrome and Firefox. Google decided to remove several APIs for "performance" and "privacy" reasons from the third version of that list. It just happens that all dropped APIs where used by ad blockers and that some of the announced "replacement" APIs weren't even able to handle the most commonly used…

Thank you.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by vagab0nd »

AnonHP wrote: post #144
sherr wrote: post #52

Thank you Raymond and all others involved with uBlock Origin. It makes the internet bearable for me and other family members. Every time I use the "YouTube" app on my elderly relatives TV and see how often it is interrupted with adverts I count my blessings that this add-on exists.

Tangential question to anyone reading this: How does uBlock Origin block in-video ads that are in video format? I thought all those are embedded in the video stream and served from the same hosts that serve the video. If not, how has YouTube not changed the way it serves the video to disable such blocking functionality? Note that this is not about text ads that may be overlaid in the video or text ads elsewhere on th…

Not a direct answer to your question, but look up a browser extension called "SponsorBlock". It auto-skips in-video ads. These days I don't watch YouTube without this.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.41

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Post by tylerfontaine »

sjhgvr wrote: post #180
tylerfontaine wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, the list doesn't seem to be compatible with piHole (at least >5.0), and in searching around there's some beef between pi-hole folks and the oisd maintainer. I won't perpetuate it by posting links, but it's sad to see for sure.

dbl.oisd.nl (and hosts.oisd.nl for that matter) are Pi-Hole compatible.

Oh, great! Thank you :)
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