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Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by zlg_codes »

People will leave Youtube once enough bullshit piles on. There is a point. The question is, will Google push it and trigger an exodus? I'm not sitting through ads to watch stuff. I'd rather not watch things at all than watch ads.

Peer to peer networks are still around. Vimeo still exists. Pretty sure DailyMotion and friends also still exist.

PeerTube and other stuff are making it easier for video communities to support themselves.

Eventually the only thing Youtube will be good for is supporting influencers and whatever mainstream media BS is going on.

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by crazygringo »

stephc_int13 wrote: post #18

Google is having a tantrum about ads blocker. They should know better.

I don't really see how a business blocking ad blockers is having a tantrum.

That makes about as much sense as saying a store hiring a security guard to reduce theft is having a tantrum.

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by chatmasta »

idonotknowwhy wrote: post #15
chatmasta wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox doesn't give me issues while logged out. But I've been blocked whilst logged in. Usually a uBlock update is available or I clear my caches and that fixes it. I like being logged in because I like to track what I've watched. So it's annoying to lose that when logging out. It'd be nice to have an extension that provides watch history independently of YouTube, so that I don't need to login.

I'm the opposite. I'm happy to pay for premium when logged in, but I don't like the echo chamber being built so I prefer to watch logged out, in which case I'd get ads without the adblocks

(As a point of pride, lest I be intrepteted as a corporate simp, I should add that this is an account I use entirely for leisure browsing and that's disconnected from the rest of my identity. I created it with Apple HideMyEmail and avoided supplying any phone number by setting up 2fa with a virtual WebAuthn device so I could setup a TOTP code, then generated that and saved it to my psssord manager.)

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by alphazard »

dvngnt_ wrote: post #3

I've never had an issue with Firefox

Also a Firefox user.

The internet is unbearable with ads. If a browser doesn't filter ads well it's unsuitable for use in 2023. If Chrome can't block YouTube ads anymore, then it's just not even a contender. The normies tend to lag a little with these things, but it won't be long before "Firefox is the one that works on YouTube" is common tech trivia.

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by macinjosh »

channel RSS + huginn + ytdl + jellyfin = your own private video feed

an added benefit is there are no recommendations so you can't get sucked in to the algo, nor tracked by it

if you come across a random video you want to watch you can have a bookmarklet to ytdl it to jellyfin

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by __jonas »

mtmail wrote: post #2

My current work-around is https://deturl.com/ and then click 'clean viewer'. Changing a video URL from www.youtube.com to www.pwnyoutube.com redirects there. Example https://www.pwnyoutube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

I use an extension to redirect youtube URLs to an invidious instance (https://yewtu.be/), it works okay.

I'm using this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ I've set it up to only redirect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\* so I can still use the regular YouTube UI for browsing videos. This invidious instance feels surprisingly snappy, perhaps even faster than the 'native' YouTube player.

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by very_good_man »

Thanks for posting - Google needs to face serious competition and market penalties for the recent anti-user behavior. I feel that the products that matter at Google are controlled by an extremely distasteful group of people. Looting the users amassed years ago by real innovator engineers.

For example, the real implied free storage in GMail has implicitly been reduced by 80%. Their failure to reduce prices and in fact their price INCREASES are just pure greed on display.

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by ttyyzz »

crazygringo wrote: post #22
stephc_int13 wrote: post #18

Google is having a tantrum about ads blocker. They should know better.

I don't really see how a business blocking ad blockers is having a tantrum. That makes about as much sense as saying a store hiring a security guard to reduce theft is having a tantrum.

The only thing I steal when I use an ad blocker is my lifetime back
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