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Youtube has better anti-adblock now. Other than Invidious, any way around it? Purging and re-dowloading the ublock stuff didn't work (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by downdaemon@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

I've been seeing these posts for a couple of months now, but I haven't had any issues with uBlock origin and Chrome at work, or uBlock origin and Firefox at home. Why am I able to still use these things if YouTube has been blocking them for a couple of months now?

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Same, they must not have rolled it out to everyone, I have firefox/ublock origin on PC and android and have yet to see an ad on youtube, and the quality and speed of loading seem to be fine.

I doubt they would ever do this, but I wonder if they have some metric about the user's likeliness of clicking ads, and prevent more 'advertisable' users from blocking the ads but let some keep blocking them because it wouldn't make as much of a difference, or they would just leave youtube. If my adblock stopped working I would stop using youtube, without a doubt. I am allergic to ads.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

That actually seems plausible. I never click anything except for a video I'm searching for. I don't engage on YouTube, and if there's an unskippable ad, I immediately leave. So I would definitely fall into the "unlikely to click ads" category.