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Re: No adblocker detected

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Post by kelvinjps10 »

nananana9 wrote: post #68
jdprgm wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really can't comprehend how aggressive ad blocking isn't the norm and at 90%+ at this point. Whenever someone just doesn't seem to care i'm concerned something is wrong with them. Youtube ad blocking was briefly not working for me recently and the volume of ads just while doing some chores which forced interrupting flow to go manually skip was astounding and enraging. It's like if I was at a quiet library and every…

Most people don't use the internet at a whole - if you just stick to the 10 biggest apps/websites, the experience is acceptable without an adblocker. As for YouTube, blocking their ads is basically a part-time job at this point. On the desktop it breaks once a month, on Android NewPipe stopped working recently, and soon you won't be even able to install third party clients.

I have stopped ads in everywhere for YouTube and they haven't broke: Mobile revanced so far good new pipe it broke but I only use it for downloading videos. On Firefox I use ublock and it has never failed me. Then on tv I'm using smartube

Re: No adblocker detected

#132

Post by kelvinjps10 »

dns_snek wrote: post #123
happymellon wrote: post #95

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Firefox and UBlock Origin has never broken for me and works effectively.

Consider yourself lucky. Some of their A/B tests seem to be designed to psychologically torment you with videos "buffering" for 10-60 seconds before they start playing, navigation taking 15+ seconds. If that happens to you, this thread [1] is sometimes updated with manual workarounds that sometimes work: www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001) www.youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.web_ena…

Although what you describe seems annoying, still no ads

Re: No adblocker detected

#133

Post by kelvinjps10 »

ryandrake wrote: post #64
jdprgm wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really can't comprehend how aggressive ad blocking isn't the norm and at 90%+ at this point. Whenever someone just doesn't seem to care i'm concerned something is wrong with them. Youtube ad blocking was briefly not working for me recently and the volume of ads just while doing some chores which forced interrupting flow to go manually skip was astounding and enraging. It's like if I was at a quiet library and every…

I think people are just hopelessly used to their lives being saturated with ads. On TV, on the Internet, on radio, on billboards, at restaurants, at the airport, at the gas station, in stores, out of stores, almost every surface that could have an ad on it either does now or will one day. This saturation has been so complete and normalized that people are blind to it.

I wonder if they're effective at all at this point

Re: No adblocker detected

#134

Post by discomrobertul8 »

ahofmann wrote: post #91
nananana9 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people don't use the internet at a whole - if you just stick to the 10 biggest apps/websites, the experience is acceptable without an adblocker. As for YouTube, blocking their ads is basically a part-time job at this point. On the desktop it breaks once a month, on Android NewPipe stopped working recently, and soon you won't be even able to install third party clients.

I hear this often. My experience is totally different. I've installed ublock origin and I'm using Vivaldi as my blink engine wrapper. I've never seen a YouTube ad since years. I wonder why anyone has to fight for an ad free YouTube.

> I wonder why anyone has to fight for an ad free YouTube.

90% of my YouTube use is on my smart TV. There's not really a straightforward way to block ads there. Used to be many years ago that a PiHole or similar would work, but they clued onto that years ago.

Re: No adblocker detected

#135

Post by luckys »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #116
throwawaygmbno wrote: post #51

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This is a fine social contract for the independent blogger just sharing their thoughts on the Internet and maybe hoping to get a few dollars for their server cost. Mega corporations that have been sucking up personal data for a couple decades now are not people. There is no social contract with them. They just sell your data. If you know what they are doing, know how to block it, and refuse to, you are complicit in m…

>This is a fine social contract for the independent blogger just sharing their thoughts on the Internet and maybe hoping to get a few dollars for their server cost. The trouble is the ad-blockers will block their ads as well. Visit somewhere like John Gruber's Daring Fireball site which has the least offensive ad placement possible yet his adverts are still blocked.

With Ublock Origin at least, you can whitelist websites that you want to see ads on.

Re: No adblocker detected

#136

Post by mrheosuper »

dns_snek wrote: post #123
happymellon wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox and UBlock Origin has never broken for me and works effectively.

Consider yourself lucky. Some of their A/B tests seem to be designed to psychologically torment you with videos "buffering" for 10-60 seconds before they start playing, navigation taking 15+ seconds. If that happens to you, this thread [1] is sometimes updated with manual workarounds that sometimes work: www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001) www.youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.web_ena…

>videos "buffering" for 10-60 seconds before they start playing

Thanks, that explains a lot, why i sometime have trouble with youtube, while having perfectly fine internet connection.

Re: No adblocker detected

#137

Post by barnabee »

toastercat wrote: post #41

I'm torn. I'm not a huge fan of ads and I don't have a lot of respect for the modern ad networks. However this culture of expecting websites to host the data then freeloading off it by blocking the tracking and ads is also a bit ugly. There is an unwritten social contract here. Websites are willing to host and organise a vast number of content because that'll attract an audience for ads. If there are too may freeload…

There’s no social contract in advertising supported content. It’s a business model based on calculated, long term psychological manipulation[0].

At this point I’d prefer it all to disappear entirely along with the content that “can’t exist” without it. I’m pretty sure we’d be ok.

[0] Sounds dramatic, but it’s basically true.

Re: No adblocker detected

#138

Post by fragmede »

discomrobertul8 wrote: post #134
ahofmann wrote: post #91

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I hear this often. My experience is totally different. I've installed ublock origin and I'm using Vivaldi as my blink engine wrapper. I've never seen a YouTube ad since years. I wonder why anyone has to fight for an ad free YouTube.

> I wonder why anyone has to fight for an ad free YouTube. 90% of my YouTube use is on my smart TV. There's not really a straightforward way to block ads there. Used to be many years ago that a PiHole or similar would work, but they clued onto that years ago.

The straightforwards way is to give Google money to get rid of them.

Re: No adblocker detected

#139

Post by mediumsmart »

Squarex wrote: post #65
mediumsmart wrote: post #48

The message does not show on Orion and I have no adblocker installed. I was also not told any Jellyfish facts.

Have you disabled the bult-in adblocker?

I am not aware of a built in adblocker as a component. The browser is zero telemetry by default and quite a few sites helpfully point to howto disable adblock plugins in chrome and firefox tutorials when they encounter Orion.

Re: No adblocker detected

#140

Post by tapete2 »

cookiengineer wrote: post #62
dheera wrote: post #25

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setTimeout(() => { // fuck up all future javascripts setTimeout = setInterval = requestAnimationFrame = () => {}; Element.prototype.appendChild = () => { throw new Error("Blocked"); }; document.addEventListener = () => {}; window.addEventListener = () => {}; Object.defineProperty(document, "readyState", { get: () => { throw new Error("No JS"); } }); document.write = () => {}; // fuck up canvas if(window.HTMLCanvasEle…

Is there a Browser extension that farbles all these APIs on purpose instead of blocking them? By farbling I mean making the data look like it's the most common Windows configuration, for example.

AdNauseam does something like this.
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