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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 disiplus »

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…

I have been paying for YouTube premium for years now. And they are spamming the shorts feature with almost no way to turn it off on mobile or ignore it anymore. They are pushing me to stop paying for premium. Are they this stupid.

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

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Post by Analemma_ »

kibwen wrote: post #42
Gigachad wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

This goes both ways though. If it's not theft to not watch the ads, it's not "anticompetitive" to not serve you the video if they think you're blocking ads. What "competition" are they even blocking? The competitors who are just waiting to jump in and do exascale video hosting for free, forever, to users who bring in no revenue?

Either accept the cat-and-mouse game, pay for YT premium, or stop using YouTube. Complaining that Google is somehow wronging you by not giving you the free video hosting you're entitled to is asinine.

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

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Post by ses1984 »

alphazard wrote: post #24
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.

it’s funny you think google would just let that happen.

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

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Post by Foivos »

ehaliewicz2 wrote: post #32
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.

There is no theft when I use youtube because I was never going to click on ads in the first place. The value of me watching ads is absolutely zero. (From my point of view in fact, it's negative).

What value do you bring to YouTube, especially since YouTube does not make any money from you?

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

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Post by hooverd »

dmonitor wrote: post #49
blitz_skull wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

is it stealing if you mute or don't watch the ads without blocking them per se?

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

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Post by autoexec »

kmlx wrote: post #30

what i’m reading from these comments: we will do anything, including leaving youtube, but for sure we will not be either watching ads or paying for content.

There's zero reason to think that people who are unwilling to sit through ads are also unwilling to pay for content. Many people pay content creators directly. They send donations. They buy merch. They even pay for useless shit like emojis just to show their support publicly.

People simply want to choose which creators they support, when, and how, which is entirely their right

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

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Post by carlosjobim »

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.

"The government should pay people to make videos and then distribute them for free" in 3...2...1...

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

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Post by tibbydudeza »

thanhhaimai wrote: post #31
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…

I don't understand this viewpoint. There are plenty of us who find YouTube useful and willing to pay for the service. I'm not as sure as you are that an exodus will happen.

The same kind of folks who refused to accept the reality of MP3 and punted Ogg Vorbis.

Is it really worth $13.99 to die on - nope it is not.

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

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Post by endisneigh »

Imagine valuing your time so little you waste it trying to block instead of just abstaining or using premium.

When Facebook started being user hostile I stopped using it wholesale.

Anti Google YouTube folks haven’t gotten the message yet.

If you make 25 an hour - the bottom decile wage for software engineering - and waste more than half an hour on this a month, idk what to say. That’s a minute a day. Chop chop.

By the way if you consider YouTube premium for family or friend group of 5 you’re paying 5 bucks a month. That means you have 12 minutes a month to waste, or about 24 seconds a day.

If you’re at a typical FANG company making entry salary you have about 5 seconds a day to waste.

Time is precious. Stop wasting it trying to fight ads when you’re capable of paying to get rid of them.

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