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Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Isn't it fun going down this road rather than fixing the need for ad blockers. (The ones beyond I'm just not interested)

The fbi recommends using adblockers which is amusing to me as Google is headquartered under their jurisdiction.

Drive by scams malicious scripts and straight up videos that google themselves would kill the account of a creator for.

And on top of that there's only so many times in an hour I can watch an ad for raid shadow wallet in an hour before I need a suicide hotline

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Even if they throttled my speed so that I'm wasting the same amount of time waiting for the site to load as i would be by watching an ad, I still win because I didn't have to watch an ad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sadly it works for YouTube. Yesterday I noticed a friend disabled uBlock Origin on YouTube. They don't care that there's workarounds, they'd rather watch 2 min ads than read up about something they are not interested in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you tell your friend ads waste far more time than the 3-5 second delay you get on Firefox with ublock? I mean, I get someone would hesitate to install another extension like User-Agent Switcher because you don't really want to trust it, but even then just using ublock is still faster than watching ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You assume people are rational, they are not

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh look, ANOTHER thread filled with users shocked that Google doesn't give a damn about ad blocking customers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Dude, no one here is shocked or angry. There are just normal people calmly discussing ways to bypass yet another attempt from Google to stop AdBlockers. If anything, you're the guy who spent the entire day yesterday screeching at people in another thread who don't want to pay for YT Premium, and is still doing the same thing now, in a community dedicated to piracy no less. You just deleted the vast majority of your comments because you were too embarrassed when people called you out for licking the boots of a trillion-dollars corporation and being angry at other people who don't want to follow your example.

Go touch some grass, it's free (just like YouTube!).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sorry to stomp on the hate parade, but a ublock origin dev says this a adblock bug. Just use ublock origin.

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1746263759495077919

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

People should use Firefox and uBlock Origin

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sadly it doesn’t work for me anymore (and yes I have followed uBlock’s instructions).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What exactly doesn't work?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Using Firefox and uBlock Origin, and following uBlock’s instructions re: resetting and updating. Getting timeouts and popups from YT regardless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'm sorry to hear that because I had similar problem but clearing cookies & cached web content option ended up working for me. Hope you find something that work because it was awful to experience ads after so long. I track stuff I subscribe to with TubeSync but still like to search for new topics & the ads were annoying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

YouTube is already a sedated, anaemic whale of a website. Adblock probably makes it run faster, given it usually removes stuff rather than add it. If you want speed, I recommend a frontend such as Invidious or Piped, it's what I use on my weaker laptops where YouTube takes half a minute to load.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

firefox and ublock, which works for me. From what I have read this is happening to chrome users.

Or Newpipe

or Revanced

or Freetube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

yeah, FF with ublock, sponsorblock and return dislike on PC works fine.

revanced on mobile works perfectly as well.

youtube can stick it up their ass.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Or uYou on iOS

Or SmartTube on android TV

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You don't have to jailbreak an apple device anymore, side loading works?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You don’t have to jailbreak, you just have to use AltStore and “renew” the app every 7 days. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass in all honesty but it’s still better than watching ads.