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Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker (www.windowscentral.com)
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Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker::Windows Phone to the rescue. A lot of YouTube users want to know how to get around the new annoying YouTube pop-up telling viewers to disable their ad-blocker.

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[-] Dultas@lemmy.world 85 points 2 years ago

I don't know what voodoo magic I've pulled. But I'm still not getting pestered by YouTube to turn off ad block and I'm still watching 5 - 10 videos a day. FF w/ uBlock Origin and piHole

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

Probably just A/B testing.

[-] Dultas@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Possibly. Does seem a little long for that being they've been doing this for a couple weeks at least. Maybe I should try it on some of my other devices / computers.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 30 points 2 years ago

It isn't rolled out to everybody at once.

[-] syl3nt_claudio@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I had those warnings and they stopped for me 2 days ago

[-] sudoroot@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yea I thought I was lucky until a few days ago. Same setup as you; FF, ublock, and pihole. Started with the first message, then this morning I just got the message saying 3 video limit lol.

Thankfully, purging all caches in ublock origin makes it stop for a bit.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

And the arms race is on.

[-] iasad12@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Sadly, I am getting the warning even whitelisting YouTube on Ghostry. I have to turn off Ghostry altogether to do away with the warning.

[-] Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Same here, I have YT watch history turned off and have ads blocked through Brave (I know I know, I’m trying to find a better browser) and haven’t seen anything at all yet, on my pc or phone.

[-] nix@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Any particular reason to not use Firefox with addons like ublock? Just curious

[-] Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I just don’t trust Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation is just a front for their corporate side, the Mozilla Corporation which somehow reaps in millions in profits despite being a free browser. I read that most of their profits come from letting Google integrate search and other features into Firefox. I’m currently migrating to Librewolf for PC which has the same framework but lots more privacy functionality. For iOS, Brave collects a lot less information about you than Firefox- check the App Store pages for each browser and compare.

[-] Tibert@jlai.lu 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't understand your ranting about mozzila. In the wiki page you posted right there :

Any profits made by the Mozilla Corporation will be invested back into the Mozilla project. There will be no shareholders, no stock options will be issued and no dividends will be paid

Where is the profit on the page? The revenue isn't profit, it's how much money they make without the costs.

Then how do you expect a browser to survive without revenue? There are 3 major browser engines on the market today :

  • chromium (backed up by Google, sucking big money)
  • ~~blink~~webkit (baked up by apple, with big money too)
  • Gecko (I think) for Firefox. And it also needs lots of funding.

Al of them suck up huge amount of money.

For revenue, they also have more products than Firefox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_products which also make money or not.

[-] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  • chromium (backed up by Google, sucking big money)
  • blink (baked up by apple, with big money too)

Blink = Chromium. WebKit is what Apple uses (and is what Blink was originally forked from).

[-] s_s@lemmy.one 19 points 2 years ago

The Mozilla Corporation is a tax entity for the Mozilla Foundation. Your bullshit detector is miscalibrated.

[-] there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 7 points 2 years ago

Why is it every time I see something about Brave it’s either singing it’s praises or demonizing it’s failures, there’s literally no in-between

[-] anarchost@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

By encouraging you to buy their paid services, which are now on your computer with or without your consent

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/brave-browser-secretly-installing-vpn

[-] Bulletdust@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

FF w/uBlock Origin and + PiHole = No YouTube disable adblocking pestering here also...

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