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YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge (gizmodo.com)
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YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.

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[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 108 points 2 years ago

Some solutions:

[-] snipvoid@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

Vinegar on iOS is also still working perfectly

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

Can’t say that’s it’s been working perfectly both on my iPhone and on my iPad, but it’s certainly helped a lot.

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[-] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 67 points 2 years ago

I give it a year, tops, before they start serving ads in premium too.

[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 43 points 2 years ago

Fuck YouTube

[-] barbecue_sprinkler@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

YouTube had a good humble beginning before monetization fucked everything up. It was a bad idea to begin with. For now, best stick with piped and all the apps that use piped as backend. NewPipe and LibreTube. Want to support a creator? Go buy merch or something. Dont give Google a second of your time.

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[-] Kedly@lemm.ee 41 points 2 years ago

It really isnt getting harder to dodge past the initial recent push. "Go to settings, purge cache, refresh list, refresh youtube" is just as many steps today as it was when this recent push started

[-] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 9 points 2 years ago

I've still yet to see it.. not even had to do any of those things. Something about my setup I guess neutralises it.

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[-] Knightfox@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago

Big thing that helps is switching off of Chrome. I've been seeing a lot of people say that we should stop using Chrome and I just hadn't gotten around to it. Once the YouTube adblocker started picking up Ublock Origin even after clearing the cache I hard switched to Fire Fox and installed Ublock Origin.

I have not cleared my cache once and I haven't seen a single ad.

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[-] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 2 years ago

It wouldn't shock me if they removed ublock origin from the chrome store

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 119 points 2 years ago

Just use Firefox. It's better as a browser, anyway.

[-] V0lD@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I will when they finally fix dragging tabs between windows

Edit: I'm not saying the operation isn't functional, I'm saying it lacks certain small visual feedback aspects like popping a tab out into a new window while dragging. This in and of itself isn't breaking, but Firefox had a lot of rough edges like that every time I used it, and I'm using this specific one as a benchmark to judge if I should give the browser a shot again

[-] Trail@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Huh, what is the issue? Been working fine for me for years.

[-] Moderationslog@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago

Classic layer 8 problem

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago

PEBCAK baby!

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[-] systemglitch@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Strangely nit-picky. The reason this matters to you is because you are used to it. It's so small an aspect of the browser though that you would forget about it quickly. Imo of course. I never even noticed this when I changed and I use the function many times a day.

[-] V0lD@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Correct, it matters to me

So, as long as Firefox doesn't really offer something that in my opinion outways all it's UX issues, I am not inclined to switch

Looking at my score, appearantly that is offensive though

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[-] dasgoat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I do that all the time with ff?

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[-] vhalragnarok@linux.community 27 points 2 years ago

So they are cracking down on Adblockers and increasing the price of Premium as well.

I wish there was an alt platform that we could use, because even the FBI recommends using an Adblockers (and TBH what sane person would roll without one?)

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 13 points 2 years ago

The FBI does not recommend using adblockers so that you can avoid ads on YouTube. That's just 🤦‍♂️ worthy.

Every adblocker I know of can be disabled on specific sites.

I know this is an unpopular opinion here, but Google is within their rights to show ads or make you pay. It costs more than it probably should, and they serve more ads than they should, but their platform is unique and expensive to run; most uploads do not make them money.

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[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I recommend Invidious.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 6 points 2 years ago

Peertube, odysee

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[-] Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 years ago

Switched to Freetube and convinced my dad too as well. No ads, no algorithms, no shit yt search that never works. We're chilling.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

Probably jinxing myself here, but I have yet to have a single problem. Linux, Firefox, ublock origin.

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[-] Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Are ads really that useful when the users subjected to them hate ads from the start?

[-] SrTobi@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

Not to the advertiser, but to the one getting money for the ad.

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[-] zingo@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

Freetube for the win. Built in sponsor block.

[-] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

μBlock Origin works for me still (Firefox), but I had to remove my custom filter to remove Shorts from the Subscription page - seems like they can detect it if I have any YT-specific rules.

I've got FreeTube set up as a backup in case μBlock does ever fail - but its lack of tabs really make me not want to use it as my primary access yet. I think they could benefit a lot from creating a browser-based UI, kind of like what Plex has.

[-] Gekoloniseerd@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I’ve just installed Yattee for IOS. It works great. There was a post for this a day ago? Also for other platforms. Fuck YouTube.

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[-] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Weird. I've been running AdBlock and AdGuard for years and nary an issue with youtube. I just never see ads there.

FWIW it was only when I added a vpn to my mix that I started being made to submit to captchas whenever I do anything like search

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I use a whitelist firewall. It is like a lock on my front door. I don't use an adblocker. I manually add only websites I wish to visit. Extorting me for only visiting websites I trust and wish to visit is criminal. I am the reason Ad Blocks are a thing. They are the lazy person's mostly effective whitelist firewall.

All ads are are serving you another website you didn't ask to visit and with unknown bad actors that are not effectively vetted. Ads are like a house party in your home where one of your guests opens a window in your bathroom and let's a dozen random people into your home without your knowledge. The person that let them in sneaks around the hidden guests while trying to prevent you from noticing. It is criminal behavior. This is privateering, aka pirates that have a legal charter from a criminal government.

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[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

Im using Yattee on iOS with no issue. From the damn App Store, don’t think they’re cracking down very well.

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