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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 tibbydudeza »

zlg_codes wrote: post #437
tibbydudeza wrote: post #414

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But how much you spend eating out/DoorDash/Uber Eats in a month ???.

You are mistaken. I may be on the Orange Site, but I am in fact not an entrepreneur or a techbro pulling $100+K/yr. I'm not rich enough to waste money on delivery services. I recently got mad that the Wendy's biggy bag went to $7 and eat out less because I'm not paying $10+ for a single meal unless it's something I can't (easily) make at home. You can't get Subway for less than $12, and it's a fucking sandwich . Most…

When we switched to WFH during Covid I bought a bean expresso machine as a Nespresso pods really did not do it for me - saved a fuckton of money - now I just need to get an icemaker for making iced coffee in summer.

It has been a decade since we had a TV in our household - it just laptops, tablets, phones and a PS5 for my gamer kid - so it's just Spotify/Youtube for them plus TikTok for downtime.

I rarely watch movies - think Spiderman No Way Home was the last one.

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

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Post by guerrilla »

Saris wrote: post #430
guerrilla wrote: post #411

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It sounds like you get it but what I'm saying is you just add colo'd (or whatever) peers. Nobody in particular needs to be responsible for that. Bandwidth in Eastern Europe, for example, is dirt cheap - practically free. It'd be similar to how we do Mastodon: a bunch of different peer networks with a bunch of different funding and management models. You don't need to rely on the instance server for hosting, just init…

Does peertube support using another host as a dedicated P2P peer, and it would load balance over available hosts? I feel like I looked into that before and it was only clients watching the video that could do it. But if it can now, that would be the missing piece that I wasn't getting.

As far as I understand it that is possible in multiple ways. What's not currently possible (unless something changed) is load balancing write operation.

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

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Post by chii »

hunter2_ wrote: post #398
Ekaros wrote: post #298

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I actually wonder what is the balance between maybe a small team of software engineers finding way to block adblock vs generate revenue for periods when they are successful. In the end it really is question that when they manage to block adblock do they make more money than they spend in effort.

This effort is confined to YouTube, but the return of someone uninstalling an ad blocker (the user's response could be more targeted, but some will fully uninstall) reaches Google more broadly.

I'd imagine the user would not uninstall the adblocker, just disable it for YouTube.

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Post by pharmakom »

shiroiuma wrote: post #443
gosub100 wrote: post #334

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> you all just have to figure out new life with it. then they'll put the whole site behind a paywall, which could have mixed results. Everyone is focusing on paying the creators, but advertisers are also paying for moderation. voat showed us what an unmoderated reddit is like, and bitchute shows us what unmoderated youtube is like: trying to find DIY birdfeeder videos against the tide of holocaust denial and Podcast…

>and bitchute shows us what unmoderated youtube is like Have you actually read any YouTube comments lately? YouTube doesn't have any moderation at all.

I reported some neonazi content just the other day and YouTube booted it off.

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Post by chii »

ath3nd wrote: post #389
CubsFan1060 wrote: post #260

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I'm curious -- what do you want to happen in this situation? What is your best desired outcome? It sounds like you are arguing that video sharing sites are a utility?

Video sharing sites of the size/impact of Youtube, similarly to social platforms like Facebook/Instagram/Twitter whatever, and platforms like Google Search/Maps, etc have a tremendous impact on society. They have become a major way of how people communicate, make daily choices, purchasing decisions, vacation plans, etc. When a company is that big and that impactful (despite being a for-profit company), it is in inter…

How much more tax are you willing to pay to have these extra utilities be run by govts?

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Post by raffraffraff »

colpabar wrote: post #90
gorhill wrote: post #52

A reliable way I found to confirm whether there is new anti-content blocker code released by Youtube is to visit uBlockOrigin's reddit sub[1]: If there are well over 1,000 "here now" (near top right), this confirms the anti-content blocker code has been updated. If well below 1,000 "here now", all is fine. At time of writing, it's fine. * * * [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/

This is clever and I'm definitely using it. Website idea: a downdetector-like site that uses reddit's "here now" numbers to give insight into whether something is going on with a certain thing. edit: Has anyone else not really been affected by the new youtube adblock policy at all? I think I have seen the warning a single time, and I use youtube all the time . I only use ublock origin and privacy badger... on chrome.…

My wife uses YouTube a lot more than I do. I watch occasional tech related videos or stuff that's been sent to me. She uses it for audiobooks, music, some podcasts. She subscribes to a bunch of channels. It's her account that's logged in on the TV. I've never seen a message warning about adblocker use on my account, whereas her account got temporarily disabled. She ended up paying for premium.

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Post by Moldoteck »

acdha wrote: post #305
Moldoteck wrote: post #302

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It prevents some of it, better than nothing

It doesn’t prevent Google from tracking you in any way. The most you could say is that if YouTube is loading third-party ad network it’ll prevent those services from tracking you, but that’s not especially useful when Google can resell your data to the same company.

if it doesn't prevent, why it includes trackers that are blocked in this case? Not including them is easier than including & maintaining, no?

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Post by mavhc »

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #402
mavhc wrote: post #327

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And yet still they're the most popular sites, why hasn't everyone moved to an objectively better solution?

Network effects.

Network effects are good for the creators who make it big.

Is there a way to build a recommendation engine with a distributed system? Or a search engine?

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Post by mavhc »

Astraco wrote: post #403
mavhc wrote: post #327

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And yet still they're the most popular sites, why hasn't everyone moved to an objectively better solution?

Because it comes configured on your phone or browser, and learning to use new tools implies will and effort.

Your non phone computer comes with Edge/Safari, yet most people use Chrome
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