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Can't wait until Google flips them on globally for all users doomer

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[-] pensa@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

I'm willing to pay a monthly subscription to help keep uBO fully functional. If I pay a subscription to a service like youtube to remove ads then I am only ad free on youtube. Whereas uBO blocks ads on everything.

[-] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 4 points 1 year ago

Regardless whatever we’d be willing to pay, there’s no way for uBO to effectively route the collected funds out to all publishers (also I guarantee there’s gonna be a fight of “views on my site are worth more than theirs”), and so the cat and mouse game will continue forever.

[-] pensa@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I do not want my money to go to paying off publishers. I want my money going to support well funded and continuous development of a product that defeats their current business model. I hate being tracked and sold. I want the entire system to die.

[-] raptir@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Then you should stop using YouTube.

[-] pensa@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Nah. People should stop making careers out of tracking and selling peoples information.

[-] raptir@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Using YouTube, even with adblock, supports the idea that there is a market for this content and that it can be monetized.

[-] pensa@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Let's flip the script.

Using uBO, even on youtube, supports the idea that there is a market for an adblocker and that it can be monetized. Which if you read my top comment in this thread...

[-] maniel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

that's wicked, pay for something, just to not pay someone else

[-] letsgocrazy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Advertising is mental pollution. Opening your window to teams of people with PhDs in lying and manipulating you to just say whatever the hell they want.

[-] PeWu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I may not be smartest tool in the shed, but couldn't they collect funds on one shared account, and manage those funds after voting or other type of deciding power in the organization?

[-] mustardman@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I have no problems since I switched to Firefox shrug-outta-hecks

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

It seems to be happening to people regardless of the browser they're using. Google's currently only testing the new measures on random accounts

[-] mustardman@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Oh thanks for the info. Fuck Google

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Here's hoping uBO manages to stay on top of the adblock arms race after this shit gets rolled out to everyone 🤞

[-] NormalC@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Youtube invites the user to use nonfree javascript, so there's no telling when their engineers will get the upper hand (it seems that they already have). The only sustainable solution is to drop youtube entirely or support a libre frontend...

And also to educate everyone you can on libre software philosophy so they know to reject the next iteration of this injustice instead of waiting for the bruises to appear.

[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Piped and Invidious for when that happens. I will never surrender

[-] d4nm3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

My invidious has stopped working today (in the UK).. all the videos fail to load and the fixes (like turning on video proxy) do not fix it.. I've noticed a few piped and invidious instances having similar issues.

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Probably related to the issues I began having yesterday with Revanced- suddenly, videos started to infinitely buffer after around 1 minute of playing. I ended up having to update + reinstall Revanced entirely. Looking at the Revanced subreddit it seems more and more users have started getting affected by the same issue these past few weeks.

Google's definitely doing something.

[-] Peafield@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

I also did this, this morning and it seemed to fix it. If it becomes impossible to block ads I guess we all just stop watching YouTube...?

[-] strawberry@artemis.camp 10 points 1 year ago

google overestimates how much I like YouTube and how much I hate ads and google

Unfortunately, they do not care. They don't want people watching youtube, they want people watching ads.

[-] atkion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Good to know this isn't just me, I updated and reinstalled without resorting to forums, and it solved the issue for me too.

[-] gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top 3 points 1 year ago

I am not a piped user so I am not 100% updated but as far as I know, Google is blocking the various piped instances by their IP

It happens to me sometimes but you can hop instances and usually it ends up working

[-] SoftBun@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Freetube is still working for me, I recommend give it a try :)

[-] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I use Firefox for desktop and PipePipe on mobile, no issues yet, when I do no more Youtube because fuck ads. This is why I datahoard as my meager datastorage allows.

I'm trying to find where you can support the authors of blocklists. So far I've only found Peter Lowe's Patreon.

[-] tja@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

What is the best alternative to YouTube? Is there one?

[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

PeerTube.

It really needs traction.

[-] secret301@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I can't really find a good instance to use. Do you know one I should make an account on?

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

From what I understand you shouldn't make an account unless you're uploading, but I could be mistaken

[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am no expert, sadly. This community has some information and will likely have some advice.

[-] jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

For folks on macOS who use Safari, Vinegar is a fantastic extension that disables YouTube ads.

[-] darkeox@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

On Ublock + Umatrix, hasn't seen anything weird at least for now on Firefox.

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