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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 notpushkin »

submeta wrote: post #195

Wow that’s a lot of work to avoid paying 10is dollars a month? I use ad blockers everywhere, but for me it’s „set it and forget it“. I don’t have time and energy to adjust that regularly.

YouTube is an incredibly valuable product. It's hard to believe that it's possible for a platform like this to exist at all, even more be sustainable with ads only (maybe it isn't though). I'd gladly pay $20/mo for that – to anybody other than Google.

I do understand that with Premium they actually have an incentive to pivot from their current surveillance tech niche to a more decent model, but uhhhh. That's Google we're talking about. It's just not happening.

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

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Post by anthk »

BuyMyBitcoins wrote: post #115
ranting-moth wrote: post #20

Yes, but YT seems to be doing a lot of A/B testing so what works for others doesn't mean it works for you. If I see an ad I just close YT for the rest of the day.

I should generate some incompressible 4K 60 FPS videos that consist of three hours of randomly generated static and upload them out of spite.

Easy to do with ffmpeg/mencoder.

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

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Post by piva00 »

davedx wrote: post #190
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.

The problem is, how these things sometimes go is: you are fed up of ads so you start paying them. Then a year or two later you get ads as a paying user too. There’s a long history of paid products doing this. Look at Windows, Smart TVs, etc…

In my case I was fed up with ads and subscribed to the YouTube Premium Lite offering 2 years ago, in September I got an email with:

> Thank you for being one of our first Premium Lite members.

> We’re writing to let you know that after October 25, 2023, we will no longer offer your version of Premium Lite.

And so I refused to be nudged into a more expensive subscription, YT didn't give me any more information why that subscription wasn't being offered so fuck them, I will use ad blockers for as long as they work.

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

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Post by Moldoteck »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #172
RockRobotRock wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If what you're saying is that people who don't watch ads and don't pay for Premium will leave the platform, that seems like a desirable outcome to Google.

Unlikely. They need all the uploaders, and the uploaders need all the viewers, and they need both of those to be in the unholy massive numbers. Well, they want. No one actually needs to be a trillion dollar business instead of a million dollar business. But the point is it's unlikely they want all non-premium users to go elsewhere, not even merely the non-premium ad-blocking users. In fact, they don't even really wan…

uploaders care for premium payers. They receive much more money for them. There'll also be some ppl that will watch with ads despite them being so intrusive, I guess yt uploaders will be ok

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

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Post by everdrive »

Possibly unrelated, but youtube videos stopped playing on Safari on my iPhone yesterday. Previously, Youtube would play via Safari, and the ads wouldn't. This was apparently a bug / unimplemented feature. I do have AdGuard (non-premium) on my phone as well as overly-aggressive lists on my Pihole, so it's possible there's something new going on there. It looks like free Youtube may be coming to an end.

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

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Post by Lio »

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.

I don't wish to be tracked by Google.

If I paid for YouTube Premium then I voluntarily provide even more tracking data to Google. If they offered an ad free tier where you weren't tracked then I would pay for it.

Since Google don't respect people's right to privacy or to watch content ad free I don't pay them and instead use ad blockers locally and pay for a proxy server with ad blocking DNS.

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

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Post by Moldoteck »

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.

i pay for premium. But funny thing, this will not disable the tracking, so I still use the ublock. I've also had problems when visiting my parents in another country and background play was blocked bc yt premium was not available there, even if i was a paying customer. At that time I was using yt in firefox mobile with background play. I also still get sponsored ads and need to use the sponsorblock extension, that does not work for yt mobile app. In other words paying premium solves a small subset of problems and gives a worse experience compared to ppl that use ublock+sponsorblock in the browser

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

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Post by Moldoteck »

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…

lol, no.... ppl will continue using it and eventually will start paying or will switch to shortform content on tiktok/ig

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

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Post by Pikamander2 »

ranting-moth wrote: post #20

Yes, but YT seems to be doing a lot of A/B testing so what works for others doesn't mean it works for you. If I see an ad I just close YT for the rest of the day.

I've found that you can also refresh the page until YouTube knows you're just wasting their bandwidth and gives up serving ads for a while, or open the video in Incognito mode where it seems to give you a grace period.

For extra fun, install one browser with Adblock Plus (with acceptable ads disabled) and one with uBlock Origin and swap between them as needed.

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