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Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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Post by 13415 »

izacus wrote: post #35
echelon wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google is too big. All of the giant tech companies are. This behavior is a symptom of reaching across industries in search of growth. Is there any reason a grocery store should be a movie studio? This sucks the air out of the room for smaller companies to innovate. Search would be much better if it wasn't being shoved down our throat by a single company that controls (or buys access to) all of the panes of glass Amer…

Ok, so if Google is too big and YouTube is split away from Google... who exactly will pay for bandwidth, server and transcoder costs for all the adblocking freeloaders? If you ever tried to host videos yourself, you'll quickly see that it costs a stupid amount of money to manage. Why would a standalone YouTube LLC. allow anyone to access it with an adblocker and without subscription? (People seem to lose their mind o…

Either Youtube has a viable business model (e.g. with subscriptions) or they don't. If they don't have one, that's certainly not my problem. I'll use Youtube with an ad blocker as long as it works and won't use it otherwise. It's not rocket science.

Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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Post by 13415 »

IanCal wrote: post #2

This 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?

Ads are very surprising to people who have been using ad blockers for decades. The web experience is totally different. On a side note, I stopped watching TV in the 90s and turned to "internet only" because ads were too annoying. It's weird that companies advertising with Google think people like me could potentially buy something based on ads.

Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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Post by beej71 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #56
TheRoque wrote: post #50

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I learned the other day that the developer(s ?) of uBlock origin don't even accept donation. That's a really dedicated behavior for someone owning on app installed on probably a million devices, that could make money in an instant if he wanted to.

tbh, that scares me, simply because of the potential that one day, someone will offer enough money that it can't reasonably be expected from anyone to decline that offer.

Is ubo under an open source license? If so, it would instantly fork.

Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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Post by franczesko »

bad_user wrote: post #22
ssl232 wrote: post #6

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I wouldn't mind paying for YouTube if its subscription cost was anywhere close to reasonable.

I'm paying $8.30 / month for the Family option. That's like 2 or 3 coffees. In other countries this is more expensive, but it's adjusted for local buying power. Both you and the parent simply come up with reasons to avoid paying, getting the service for free. No matter how you look at it, what you're doing is immoral, because if everyone did it, YouTube would be permanently paywalled and placed under DRM. You're a pr…

There's nothing immoral about blocking ads. Avoiding paying taxes might be, yet Google does it anyway.

Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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Post by gcanyon »

martin_a wrote: post #3

Never 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/

I have uBlock Origin installed in Arc, and ended up getting burned by the YouTube adblocking blocking purge because each time the warning came up, I checked to see if there was a way to whitelist YT and didn't find it. Now I'm watching YT in Safari on my iPad, where the block doesn't apply.

So: anyone know how to whitelist YT in uBlock Origin in Arc?

Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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Post by muro »

kouteiheika wrote: post #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 li…

It costs about 15 per month to watch YouTube without ads.

Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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Post by tortoise_in »

breakall wrote: post #39
martin_a wrote: post #3

Never 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/

i love ublock origin and have used it for years. i recently migrated to macos and was disappointed to find that ublock origin doesn’t work with safari. what’s the best ad-blocking option for safari on macos?

But then again we have to buy apple anyhow

Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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Post by wahnfrieden »

izacus wrote: post #38
dewey wrote: post #11

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That sounds like one of these reasons that people come up with to justify their unwillingness to pay. Are you also boycotting every other large company that uses the tax system in a legal way that you don't agree with? I'm all for big companies paying their fair share, but I'm not blaming the company, I'm blaming the people in charge who don't close these loopholes. Same issue as with Ireland in the EU, undercutting…

The mental contortions freeloaders do to feel better about themselves are always fascinating to watch on HackerNews. Somehow it seems really hard for people here to be honest with themselves and admit that they really just want YT for free and someone else (Google) to shoulder the cost. And they also whant to rant at Google while they pay for their services. :)

When Google receives tax breaks from the US, it is another form of welfare “freeloading”. A tax break is indistinguishable from a handout except by name.

Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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Post by dchest »

tizio13 wrote: post #47
breakall wrote: post #39

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i love ublock origin and have used it for years. i recently migrated to macos and was disappointed to find that ublock origin doesn’t work with safari. what’s the best ad-blocking option for safari on macos?

I currently use 1blocker(paid version) and it seems to be working pretty well compared to Firefox with ublock. I use it both on iOS and macOS. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/1blocker-ad-blocker/id13655310...

It works great, but doesn't work against YouTube's anti-adblock yet.

Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more

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Post by dchest »

muro wrote: post #66
kouteiheika wrote: post #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 li…

It costs about 15 per month to watch YouTube without ads.

You can't buy YouTube Premium everywhere.
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