YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
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YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
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#2With great need for revenue comes great foolishness. Like the idea you could squeeze the 1% of the population who could, if hostile, easily undo all your drm defenses in a bang and help the rest of the population to do that too. Another unity moment, created by well incentivized management.
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#3Mega thread issue on GitHub tracking this https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976
Reddit is not and should not be considered a tech support site.
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#4YouTube will "lose" the war, but they'll make adblocking difficult enough for a while that it might get some premium subscribers in the short term in exchange for the loss of goodwill.
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#5I use youtube in Firefox via a dedicated container, I wish that I can specify ublock rules by container because I have to disable most of rules to avoid adblock detection of youtube. I don't know what it is possible except creating a specific profile for YouTube which is annoying.
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#6YouTube will "lose" the war, but they'll make adblocking difficult enough for a while that it might get some premium subscribers in the short term in exchange for the loss of goodwill.
They haven't lost any good will from me. I don't feel entitled to use an ad supported service for free without the ads. Personally I've been paying for premium for a while and I find it worth it.
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#7YouTube will "lose" the war, but they'll make adblocking difficult enough for a while that it might get some premium subscribers in the short term in exchange for the loss of goodwill.
If you're neither paying YouTube any money nor watching their ads, meaning you're a pure money sink, why should they care about your goodwill?
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#8Why, from first principles, should YouTube allow this? Why shouldn’t they go thermonuclear?
I understand ads are annoying - I block as many as I can! - but I’ve never seen someone put together a coherent defense of the practice.
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#9Apart from the Youtube stuff, the post also highlights something else, entitlement towards free services like uBlock origin.
> It’s one thing to play cat and mouse with YouTube. It’s quite another to deal with a wave of angry users.
> And then one of the moderators actually deleted their Reddit account. “The ID in the post wasn’t updated because my mother was hospitalized,” they said. It’s sad to see them leave because of some drive-by comments — new users who sign up for Reddit, leave their comments,
I have seen this becoming more and more common on open source projects and totally free services, where people act as if they are entitled to something as if it is their god given right. The people doing public services like uBlock origin can only take so much from the mob.
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#10With great need for revenue comes great foolishness. Like the idea you could squeeze the 1% of the population who could, if hostile, easily undo all your drm defenses in a bang and help the rest of the population to do that too. Another unity moment, created by well incentivized management.
This 1% has been free-riding the YouTube experience. I am part of it. But I know I'm a free-rider, I am not feeling righteous about it.