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Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by malka »

PeterStuer wrote: post #43
all2 wrote: post #12

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This. I've pretty much stopped using YouTube since the adblocker blocker shut me out. I figure it's a good time to kick a bad habit. :D

To be fair Youtube has to make a profit somehow. Ad revenue, direct and/or through profile data collection is easy and effective but the worst businessmodel for human sanity. I like that they at least offer an alternative for the ad viewing part through Youtube premium. I don't know about the US as streaming services seem to have catalogues orders of magnitude more extensive than over here in Europe, but compared to…

> To be fair Youtube has to make a profit somehow

If they were not Google, I'd be ready to pay about 10 euro/m.

Since it's Google, they can rot in hell for all I care. I'll happily freeload them as most as I can.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by theshrike79 »

skrebbel wrote: post #83
jchook wrote: post #54

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Chrome now aggressively blocks ad blockers on YouTube.com

Hmmm source? I know youtube does but I didnt know Chrome does.

Site and browser owned by the largest ad company in the world don't want you to block ads.

News at 11.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

haunter wrote: post #74
throwaway141455 wrote: post #61

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"I want my browser to load ads as fast as possible" is an interesting take

Why did you make a new account just for this comment?

It's possible that they work for an ad company, or aspire to do so, or work in a business where saying anything even mildly disparaging about adtech could be problematic.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by neurostimulant »

RileyJames wrote: post #135
codeflo wrote: post #48

From the “uBO works best in Firefox” page, I found this gem: > Firefox will wait for uBO to be ready before sending network requests from already opened tab(s) at browser launch. > In Chromium-based browsers, this is not the case. Tracker/advertisement payloads may find their way into already opened tabs before uBO is ready, while Firefox will properly filter these. That’s a hell of a “bug” in Chromium, that blocker…

I thought chromium was open source?

If this "feature" is intentional, then even though it's open source, your patch to fix the behavior may not be accepted.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by eikaramba »

lodovic wrote: post #93
swanee wrote: post #30

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They have been rolling out ad-blocker detection with warning popups telling you to disable it. Mine were skippable the first few times but that lead to a final 3 warnings with the player refusing to load after. They seem to be doing a lot of A/B testing with the system currently.

you can block the detection popup itself with uBlock. Seems to have done the trick for me.

No don't do that. And stop spreading misinformation. There is a thread on Reddit explaining why this is absolutely stupid and will only result in you losing access to YouTube. Or do you really think YouTubes for works like this.

The biggest problem currently are people spreading those types of misinformation see https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtu...

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by Tao3300 »

mopenstein wrote: post #157
beej71 wrote: post #19

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I'm trying Grayjay, which works great, and I've noticed one big thing: it doesn't keep showing me an endless stream of stuff to keep me on the site. It just shows my subs and a handful of suggestions. As a consequence, my time spent on the site is way down, and the time I do spend is higher quality material. But I'm with you. There's no way I'm watching an ad on YT. If they figure out how to only stream with unblocka…

>If they figure out how to only stream with unblockable ads, I will never visit the site again That's their goal. If you're not earning them money, they don't want you. You don't exist to them and you not watching their ads/videos is no threat at all.

It's a win-win!

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by Tao3300 »

hellotheretoday wrote: post #70
PeterStuer wrote: post #43

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To be fair Youtube has to make a profit somehow. Ad revenue, direct and/or through profile data collection is easy and effective but the worst businessmodel for human sanity. I like that they at least offer an alternative for the ad viewing part through Youtube premium. I don't know about the US as streaming services seem to have catalogues orders of magnitude more extensive than over here in Europe, but compared to…

YouTube premium pricing is ridiculous. $14 a month for android and $19 a month for iOS? Get out of here How much could they possibly make from ads in a given month off a single user. Best case scenario with a user that watches YouTube like 4 hours a day 6 days a week and clicks through once every week. $4? Probably not even that. And yet somehow YouTube premium needs to be almost $230 a year for apple users? I bet th…

FWIW we would hate them less too.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by specialist »

chakintosh wrote: post #142
squarefoot wrote: post #53

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And money. Metered connections do exist, and ads consume a lot of bandwidth which is not free.

The cognitive load is the worst part of ads for me. The amounts of ads that display an X to close the banner only for that X to be an actual link to another fkn ad or straight up opens a new tab. Not to mention the invisible divs spanning the entire page so wherever you click, it's gonna open a link which is most of time either porn, betting sites or aliexpress. This sh* should be illegal.

Yup. They're pollution. (There's gotta be a phrase for "cognitive load" + "pollution".)

I used to love tech ads. I'd inspect every ad in BYTE, Creative Computing, etc. I'd even buy Computer Shopper, a massive catalog interrupted by some articles, just for the ads.

Ads can be useful, informative, and engaging. I wouldn't mind that.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by Condition1952 »

malka wrote: post #152
Justsignedup wrote: post #137

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Ad nauseum solves this. Sure you get tracked but you also send all the wrong signals.

Ad nauseam is "weirdly" banned from the chrome store. Guess it hurts them :)

Can’t you sideload applications like a hacker?

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by Condition1952 »

skrebbel wrote: post #76
haunter wrote: post #74

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Why did you make a new account just for this comment?

Some people have a weird habit of creating a throwaway account for every comment they make, no matter how mundane. I’m not sure what the rationale is, something privacy-ish i guess?

I like destroying accounts from time to time. Prevents becoming attached, identifying you with your comments, flushes your permanent record, etc.

Besides, it’s a pain in the ass and you might get banned so you end up working fewer hours for the website.

People with careers are getting cancelled because of their opinions published online. Nudging people to identify themselves online is inviting them to dig a grave

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