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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 236 points 1 year ago

There are no better adblockers, uBlock Origin is all you need and is already updated to bypass it.

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 112 points 1 year ago

Unlock origin is the adblocker that people are installing. There are a lot of people with shitty adblockers out there, I guess they are switching.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

I bet all those people with shitty adblockers are also probably googling better ad/YT compatible blockers lmaoo

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I searched "YouTube adblocker" on both google and DDG. The first mention of ublock origin was in the 1st page of Google (just at the bottom, under "recommended adblockers for Firefox", the 2nd option). There was no mention of it on DDG, even though I clicked "more results" once (so searched the equivalent of 2 pages). The problem with Google search is not google, it's SEO, that affects all search engines.

[-] TalkingCat@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

To be fair someone that uses DDG most likely already has ublock origin.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Can confirm. I use DuckDuck Go and uBlock.

Thing is, searching with DDG takes time to get used to, as it doesn't work the same way as Google. Google uses a lot of convenient algorithms that are also a double edged sword.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I use DuckDuck Go and uBlock

uBlock or uBlock Origin?

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Eh... Um... Know what? Probably should've guessed that there would be a uBlock Not-The-Origin if there is a uBlock Origin.

Yeah, I meant uBlock Origin.

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