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It costs about 15 per month to watch YouTube without ads.
You can't buy YouTube Premium everywhere.
Is there any place where you can't buy it, yet you get ads?
Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#112Honestly, the only product that can really compete with uBlockOrigin at this point is a version of AdNauseum for Youtube -- something that registers a click on every single ad that YouTube shows until it stops showing you more ads. There is currently no negative feedback for YouTube ads. They are free to show you ads every single minute if some manager there thinks that this will increase monetization by 1%. And no,…
Adnauseam clicks aren't charged to advertisers. Google's click tracker is smarter than that.
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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Your proposed alternative is that it's simply run at a loss? I don't think that's a particularly reasonable business proposal.
What makes you think Google is running at a loss?
He's talking about YouTube. If no one watches ads or pays for premium, how will YouTube make money?
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It reassures me. Because if gorhill cared about money, he would have a 100% ethical, simple way to immediately open the floodgates and make a five- to six-digit amount per year. This suggests to me that he doesn't need nor care about having more money, and will be very hard to corrupt by offering money. How do you bribe a person that has free money with no strings attached offered to them and says "no thanks"?
Blackmail Threaten physical harm
Well those aren't bribes, but I see what you mean.
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
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It's my browser running on my computer, I get the final say in how content is presented to me.
The service is running off their servers, so they get the final say in whether to present content to you at all. Don't cry foul when your account is terminated.
That's assuming GP has an account.
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#116[self-promotion] On iOS and macOS, StopTheMadness auto-skips YouTube video ads. https://underpassapp.com/news/2023-10-19.html
Use this extension on iPhone. Worth the money. Prevents sites from disabling PiP video too.
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My memory may be rusty, but iirc he already gave away the uBlock project (sold?) once. The new maintainer immediately started pulling shady moves so gorhill forked uBlock into uBlock Origin and has maintained it to this date (7+ years).
It was not sold. It was transferred to a the contributor of a Safari port. Only the GitHub repository though, not the extension store page. That has always remained with gorhill. So, no one's install was compromised proof: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/0797d040740de8e9f7552...
Why did origin get made then?
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was not sold. It was transferred to a the contributor of a Safari port. Only the GitHub repository though, not the extension store page. That has always remained with gorhill. So, no one's install was compromised proof: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tree/0797d040740de8e9f7552...
Why did origin get made then?
The name origin was used because google took it down for using the name ublock after the GitHub repo transfer
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#119Never forget that Adblock Plus is a commercial product developed by a company which you can pay to get your ads listed as "acceptable ads" which makes them pass the filtering. uBlock Origin is still probably the best tool for blocking ads: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
I have uBlock Origin installed in Arc, and ended up getting burned by the YouTube adblocking blocking purge because each time the warning came up, I checked to see if there was a way to whitelist YT and didn't find it. Now I'm watching YT in Safari on my iPad, where the block doesn't apply. So: anyone know how to whitelist YT in uBlock Origin in Arc?
Use invidious. You can import your subscriptions really easily. I self host my own instance on an old laptop (exposed via WireGuard to my server. I connect via local IP when at home)
Re: Adblock Plus and (a little) more
#120Never forget that Adblock Plus is a commercial product developed by a company which you can pay to get your ads listed as "acceptable ads" which makes them pass the filtering. uBlock Origin is still probably the best tool for blocking ads: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/
i love ublock origin and have used it for years. i recently migrated to macos and was disappointed to find that ublock origin doesn’t work with safari. what’s the best ad-blocking option for safari on macos?
There's a webkit based browser called Orion that I've been trying out that supports chrome extensions. That's the closest thing I think.