Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#2This may be controversial but YouTube ads are surely ones that meet all the reasonable criteria.
They're not a surprise, you know it's an ad supported business. They're served from YouTube so it's not random companies tracking you while you use a different service. And you can get rid of them by paying for the service.
What's the proposed alternative where you contribute for the service? Just paywall the whole thing?
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#3Never forget that Adblock Plus is a commercial product developed by a company which you can pay to get your ads listed as "acceptable ads" which makes them pass the filtering.
uBlock Origin is still probably the best tool for blocking ads: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#4This may be controversial but YouTube ads are surely ones that meet all the reasonable criteria. They're not a surprise, you know it's an ad supported business. They're served from YouTube so it's not random companies tracking you while you use a different service. And you can get rid of them by paying for the service. What's the proposed alternative where you contribute for the service? Just paywall the whole thing?
> And you can get rid of them by paying for the service.
Get rid of _some_ of them
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#5This may be controversial but YouTube ads are surely ones that meet all the reasonable criteria. They're not a surprise, you know it's an ad supported business. They're served from YouTube so it's not random companies tracking you while you use a different service. And you can get rid of them by paying for the service. What's the proposed alternative where you contribute for the service? Just paywall the whole thing?
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I just do not want to have a "business" relationship with google. I would not mind paying for youtube, if it was a separate company. But google does not need my money, and any money the get are used to actively making the world worse (WEI, SEO spam, Search getting worse, ...).
On a separate note, there are reports of people getting their whole google account locked for payment issues, expired cards and such. There is no way to reach a human there, and I really do not want to risk loosing my account I use on my phone as well (android :/) just because some bot decides it does not like me.
Would be fine if I could just have a separate youtube account, but no, that would make tracking harder...
Aaaand there still will be ads inside the videos (sponsored segments), and product placement.
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#6This may be controversial but YouTube ads are surely ones that meet all the reasonable criteria. They're not a surprise, you know it's an ad supported business. They're served from YouTube so it's not random companies tracking you while you use a different service. And you can get rid of them by paying for the service. What's the proposed alternative where you contribute for the service? Just paywall the whole thing?
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I just do not want to have a "business" relationship with google. I would not mind paying for youtube, if it was a separate company. But google does not need my money, and any money the get are used to actively making the world worse (WEI, SEO spam, Search getting worse, ...). On a separate note, there are reports of people getting their whole google account locked for payment issue…
I wouldn't mind paying for YouTube if its subscription cost was anywhere close to reasonable.
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#7This may be controversial but YouTube ads are surely ones that meet all the reasonable criteria. They're not a surprise, you know it's an ad supported business. They're served from YouTube so it's not random companies tracking you while you use a different service. And you can get rid of them by paying for the service. What's the proposed alternative where you contribute for the service? Just paywall the whole thing?
Blocking functionality, playing audio that is not kid friendly and wasting my time are all not reasonable.
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#8This may be controversial but YouTube ads are surely ones that meet all the reasonable criteria. They're not a surprise, you know it's an ad supported business. They're served from YouTube so it's not random companies tracking you while you use a different service. And you can get rid of them by paying for the service. What's the proposed alternative where you contribute for the service? Just paywall the whole thing?
The alternative might be Google paying their fair share of taxes. I might consider supporting their product then. Ad blocking is not as severe as tax avoidance though.
I have no sympathy for the service. If it's not profitable, Google can cover it from their other revenue streams with ease.
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#9> We know how important it is for our users to browse YouTube without ads for free. And we hope to come up with a solution soon!
No need to wait. Just switch to uBlock Origin where this is already fixed.
Here's a guide if they still show up and you're using UBO: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/178yasm/youtu...
(Basically you need to make sure you're up to date, and you disable any overzealous filter lists or custom filters so that the anti-adblock detection doesn't get tripped.)
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#10Never forget that Adblock Plus is a commercial product developed by a company which you can pay to get your ads listed as "acceptable ads" which makes them pass the filtering. uBlock Origin is still probably the best tool for blocking ads: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
Indeed, and unlike the morally unacceptable Adblock Plus, uBlock Origin continues to work on YouTube ads, although you will have to manually update your filter lists every day or so.