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Never 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/
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Never 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/
The acceptable ads program was another bluff-call, where people who had been claiming "I only object to intrusive ads. If there was a way to only allow passive and well-behaved ads I'd allow them!" got their alleged wish and then got angry about it
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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.
[self-promotion] On iOS and macOS, StopTheMadness auto-skips YouTube video ads. https://underpassapp.com/news/2023-10-19.html
Workable, I suppose, though it still plays a split second of the ad while the skip happens. Perhaps a pause (or mute?), skip, then resume might be possible?
I'm not entirely sure how they detect an ad blocker? They could reasonably terminate my entire Google account for having settings that look like an ad blocker.
Use piped.video and others to get around it, I guess? I can't afford YouTube premium, and the ads are usually offensive, sometimes inappropriate, and never something I would buy or use. Im subscribed to around 950 channels so I have all the reason to stay, but this weird invasive behavior is inappropriate and I'm not sure I care enough about the entertainment value.
It looks like YouTube's dark-pattern marketing strategy (highlighting the "Allow YouTube Ads" button), is they'd rather have you enable ads than pay for premium. They're getting too greedy with demonetising videos and still making money off of them, to the amount of ads they play; same goes for other streaming platforms. So far on Firefox with uBlock Origin I haven't come across it.
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I'm paying $8.30 / month for the Family option. That's like 2 or 3 coffees. In other countries this is more expensive, but it's adjusted for local buying power. Both you and the parent simply come up with reasons to avoid paying, getting the service for free. No matter how you look at it, what you're doing is immoral, because if everyone did it, YouTube would be permanently paywalled and placed under DRM. You're a pr…
There's nothing immoral about blocking ads. Avoiding paying taxes might be, yet Google does it anyway.
If there's a reasonably priced subscription available (or another business model), and if the publisher doesn't want your eyeballs while you have an adblocker active, there's no argument you can make for the morality of adblocking. It's your computer, you can be selective about what you execute on it, but the publisher should also be free to reject your visit.
Blocking YouTube's adblock detection legitimizes all the changes that Google is making in Chrome, being why we can't have nice things. And it's similar to extensions designed to workaround paywalls, or software piracy. Sooner or later adblocking will become illegal.
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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.
I'd wager you have a higher probability of getting yourself banned if you do give them money.
And then if you do get banned you have absolutely zero recourse. "Yeah, we banned you, yeah your ban was totally double checked by a human and it was deemed correct, beep beep. The decision is final. And no, we won't tell you why we banned you."