I would happily pay for youtube without ads if I was confident that they wouldn't start putting ads in it anyways like always seems to happen with these services.
You could pay for YouTube Premium until it starts playing ads, then?
YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU
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Re: YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU
#52Re: YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU
#53Are people actually getting blocked? I saw the adblock-block popup once, and after flushing the cache and updating filters of my adblocker I haven't had any issues using yt since. Am I just in a lucky A/B group or is the detection and blockage actually that toothless?
I've been blocked for a week now.
Re: YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU
#54Are people actually getting blocked? I saw the adblock-block popup once, and after flushing the cache and updating filters of my adblocker I haven't had any issues using yt since. Am I just in a lucky A/B group or is the detection and blockage actually that toothless?
Chrome users are out of lock due to the way extensions work, Firefox users can continue blocking without issue.
Ah makes sense. Guess it also helps me that I never use yt with a user logged in.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not very hard to see when particular web requests did not happen, or particular JS did not execute.
That doesn't seem to be what is happening, because then uBlock Origin couldn't work around it. Also things like Newpipe and embedding can be used to bypass the block as well. I find all of this weird because it seems all so lacking in fundamentals. I'd expect indeed checking whether the content was actually downloaded. That'd be much harder to work around. In turn that should result in an ad blocker that downloads co…
It is beneficial for Google to drag out any cat and mouse game against ad blockers as long as possible. They are all built and maintained by volunteers, who get yelled at by assholes every time something changes and breaks an ad blocker even for a single night.
Google is trying to make this suck for the maintainers, explicitly so they stop maintaining the ad blocker.
Re: YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU
#56Are people actually getting blocked? I saw the adblock-block popup once, and after flushing the cache and updating filters of my adblocker I haven't had any issues using yt since. Am I just in a lucky A/B group or is the detection and blockage actually that toothless?
Yes, it's crazy. Upon updating ublock, even turning it off and clearing cookies resulted getting blocked.
you need to clear cookies and local storage on youtube.com and also google.com, update ublock, and make sure you're on the default filter settings, then you'll get unblocked
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uMatrix implements that. Highly recommend.
While highly recommended. Outside of the tech crowd, uMatrix is a maze to organise and most folk don't care that they are planted with tracking cookies.
For those users, there is uBlock Origin. Actually, I think it's the recommended suggestion by their developer for all users, isn't uMatrix no longer supported with uBlock Origin including many of it's features?
Re: YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU
#58Are people actually getting blocked? I saw the adblock-block popup once, and after flushing the cache and updating filters of my adblocker I haven't had any issues using yt since. Am I just in a lucky A/B group or is the detection and blockage actually that toothless?
I've been blocked for a week now.
you need to clear cookies and local storage on youtube.com and also google.com, update ublock, and make sure you're on the default filter settings, then you'll get unblocked
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#59is Google really that desperate for revenue that they need to do this shit? Comes off as desperate
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pointless, you are already in complete control of this. Just disable JS, enable it when you want. If a website doesn’t support your usecase, that’s on you, there is no ADA requirement for JS-free websites
Doesn't that same argument apply to cookie consent popups? Privacy shouldn't only be afforded to the more technical users.
I’d be interested to see the data that shows cookie notifications have had a useful impact.