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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 culopatin »

very_good_man wrote: post #27

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…

Well it’s up to the users to pick something else if they don’t like it. Why don’t we all use Vimeo for example? They are an ad company, their plan was to lure and lock users. They are not the only company using that tactic. Any subscription based service is the same way, or worse because you are tied to the content by paying.

For example PS plus. You spend time in the service and then your subscription runs out and you can’t access or even fully use games you paid for.

What makes google different? Why do users endure the pain?

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

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Post by kibwen »

Gigachad wrote: post #37
very_good_man wrote: post #27

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…

How would competition even work? How could any company succeed proving a product to a user base that doesn’t watch ads and doesn’t pay for the service? Would be like proving an alternative to cater to shoplifters.

Let's permanently dispense with this weird notion that blocking ads is theft. When you're listening to the radio, it's not theft to change the station when ads come up. When you're watching TV, it's not theft to mute the TV and get a drink when ads come up. Youtube has zero moral expectation that people will actually watch the ads it serves. They're giving a product away for free, and people are consuming it for free; end of story.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

very_good_man wrote: post #27

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…

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

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Post by duskwuff »

chatmasta wrote: post #17
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

Does YouTube show ads in the embedded player? Wouldn't it be easy to make an extension where you can click a button in YouTube when an ad pops up, and it moves the video into an embedded player on a localhost domain? (Or even the extension's local chrome-extension:// domain) I guess YouTube could always block that domain from embedding videos, but if the extension allowed the user to set a custom domain from /etc/hos…

A lot of videos on Youtube aren't embeddable.

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

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Post by Ayesh »

Very misleading.

It downloads a text file maintained by someone at a repository that lists all uBO YouTube Fixes, and compare it to the latest YouTube JS files. Not all JS updates contain anti-adblock codes, so what this website shows is pretty misleading.

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

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Post by culopatin »

zlg_codes wrote: post #21

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 suppo…

But the people spending time making the content at a quality that’s not a shaky 320p video are not going to those because they rather make money via ads. So the users won’t leave

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

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Post by amanzi »

zlg_codes wrote: post #21

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 suppo…

Most of the people who upload content to YouTube are doing it because of the ads. So many people have managed to become full-time YouTubers because of the revenue sharing from ads. And these people upload the content that we all enjoy watching. It's a virtuous cycle that I don't think can be replicated with PeerTube.

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

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Post by treyd »

Gigachad wrote: post #37
very_good_man wrote: post #27

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…

How would competition even work? How could any company succeed proving a product to a user base that doesn’t watch ads and doesn’t pay for the service? Would be like proving an alternative to cater to shoplifters.

Simply find an alternative model. Billboards still exist even though people that don't speak the language they're written in might see them. You can't force people to view things they don't want to, that's a torture technique.

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

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Post by dmonitor »

blitz_skull wrote: post #35
crazygringo wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Bad metaphor. No one is stealing anything from YouTube. Meanwhile a tantrum is a display of socially unacceptable behavior because you don’t like something. Very much a tantrum.

bandwidth and hosting have associated costs. unlike piracy, which is just creating copies, this is using Google’s electricity to provide you a service without giving anything in return.

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

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Post by antman »

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.

It is a tantrum in a way that a store with a lot of cash, that was giving out free clothes until all other clothes went bankrupt, and then raised the prices and hired a security guard, and the security guard could not stop all those people that were used to get the stuff free kind of tantrum!
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