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Post by TerrifiedMouse »

master-lincoln wrote: post #182
TerrifiedMouse wrote: post #39

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YouTube isn’t just a video sharing site though. It’s a social media site. There is value in people participating by replying and Liking/Disliking. Frankly, banning ad-blockers feels like treating the symptoms rather than the cause. There is something wrong with your platform if people hate your ads so much that if they can’t block them they would rather not visit your site at all.

Youtube is an ad showing platform. All the other features are just there to get people to view ads. If you stop viewing ads you are of no value to Youtube.

If you participate in the social network, i.e. post comments and vote, you are creating some content. So your value isn't completely zero.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by hedora »

gustavus wrote: post #230
Justsignedup wrote: post #137

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

I'll give a warning with that, the traffic generated by adnausem starts to get cloudflare suspicious and then you end up having 1/2 of the internet made inaccessible because Cloudflare decided at some point you are a bad actor and you're pretty much hosed from that point on.

Good thing I get my internet access from a major internet service provider that stuck me behind a carrier-grade NAT!

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by yedava »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #224
wintermutestwin wrote: post #204

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You are now "paying" google twice - once with money and twice by giving them your data.

Your data is worthless if they can’t use it to show you targeted ads.

Even if you pay for Youtube, Google still shows ads in their other products (search/maps etc...). So the data is not worthless. It also gets stored forever and Google can figure out other ways to monetize it.

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Post by stjohnswarts »

soultrees wrote: post #28
flakes wrote: post #9

I've been using uBlock since shortly after it launched, and I'd rather lose access to all Google services than not have an ad blocker. I seriously question how people use a browser without one. Completely changes how the web feels.

It’s crazy. Even with an adblocker you are subjected to a crazy amount of ads or hostile design. With ads, it’s just a free for all on your attention.

hostile design, maybe? i use pihole and ublock and it's really rare that I see an ad on any of my devices. What am I doing wrong?

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Post by carlosjobim »

kriro wrote: post #58

I have been hit a lot by the adblock-block and my default browser for youtube was Chrome with uBlock. There was some back and forth and it still worked around 50% of the time. I took the oportunity to try the youtube experience on a brand new clean browser, not logged in. My seed recommendations were 80% right wing and conspiracy material. I humored the algorithm a bit and after three days I was basically in a right…

If you're having a bad experience, that is pretty much your own fault. Make a new account or refresh the history on your old account and then spend 10 minutes subscribing to quality channels and you will not have any low-quality recommendations from YouTube.

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Post by nicbou »

flakes wrote: post #9

I've been using uBlock since shortly after it launched, and I'd rather lose access to all Google services than not have an ad blocker. I seriously question how people use a browser without one. Completely changes how the web feels.

I run a commercial website. I built it without ads of annoyances. That's just how the web looks and feels to me.

Even SEO spam is dealt with with uBlocklist, so that the main offenders are gone. I forgot about Pinterest and all the Stackoverflow clones.

Then I use my iPad in a pinch and remember that most people are used to a much louder, annoying web. I can't believe that people use Medium without an ad blocker.

I wonder if people notice that this website is much quieter, or just enjoy it more on a subconscious level. I like to think that it's a competitive advantage.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by Fatnino »

gustavus wrote: post #230
Justsignedup wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'll give a warning with that, the traffic generated by adnausem starts to get cloudflare suspicious and then you end up having 1/2 of the internet made inaccessible because Cloudflare decided at some point you are a bad actor and you're pretty much hosed from that point on.

The city of Palo Alto's website is "protected" by some cloudflare clone wannabe. It somehow decided that my residential ip address (also in Palo Alto) is a threat and I can't access any city website now. Just get an infinite loop of "are you human?" challenges.

My workaround is to use Tor. That sails right through.

Excellent job. My tax dollars at work.

Re: uBlock Origin 1.53

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Post by Modified3019 »

throitallaway wrote: post #218
Condition1952 wrote: post #169

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Can’t you sideload applications like a hacker?

Our computing landscape has deteriorated if installing an application/extension outside of a walled garden makes you a "hacker."

I believe the comment was facetious.
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