Never saw ads against adblock. I use firefox with ublock, and alterbative sponsorblock clients for youtube on android :)
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Same I also add Decentraleyes and Privacy Badger to my repertoire. Never had a problem but maybe I should think about the sponsorblock extension as well
This is what I use also, but youtube stopped it and blocked the videos. The work around was opening in an incognito window.
Never had any problems. Did you used to log into an account, maybe that makes a difference?
Adblocker will die when there's no more ads to see.
when there’s no more ads to see.
the surviving AI will be upset at the loss of revenue that occurs, but since they'll exterminate the human race, it's not an entirely unexpected side effect.
I never even noticed their 'battle' using YouTube revanced. (only youtube client I use)
Well I'm not seeing any ads, so I'd say yes
I've been using uBlock Origin in Firefox on both Linux and Android this whole time. If Lemmy hadn't lit up about it, I wouldn't have noticed. I never saw one ad or that "dur hur no ad block" message.
And I let Youtube ads run for YEARS. Ads basically everywhere on the net have become intolerable in their content and quantity, so I said enough. And it is 100% Adsense's fault.
Yeah I've always been on firefox and I haven't noticed a single thing change during the last year of all this hubbub about Youtube.
Ads basically everywhere on the net have become intolerable in their content and quantity,
I was reading a huffpost article the other day on my work computer on Firefox that doesn't have an ad blocker. The page was refreshing with new ads every 5 seconds and took up like 20% more CPU power than before I opened the page.
So huffpost is now in my mental blocklist.
yeah we need a coalition of sites that agree a single page serve is fine, they don't need tons of garbage running in the background.
The fact that ads are so intolerable is the problem. I understand that much of the internet being free is because of ads. But we went from the early days of the internet where ads were malicious, active annoyances to the modern internet where ads are malicious, passive annoyances. Clicking on an ad no longer ruins my afternoon with a virus, but it does log and sell my data to the highest bidder. Nearly every ad on the internet is in bad faith.
Until we have better ads, I will block absolutely everything I can.
There's no such a thing as good ads. Not even before the internet.
I'm actually going to disagree there. Where I live there is a monthly magazine delivered free to anyone who wants it. The magazine is 100% adverts and is paid for entirely by the people advertising. It's very useful when you're trying to find a plumber of sell a car or whatever.
EDIT: But you were probably being hyperbolic and I will agree that I dislike to see adverts anywhere that I'm not actively searchibg them out
In other words, the yellow pages.
This made me discover freetube, which is ads free and an excellent way to cut on YouTube « time sink » that Google is so good at, with its recommended tab, auto play feature, clickbait title.
I read the announcements but I haven't seen an ad yet on any of my shit.
uBlock seems to have won the arms race, since whenever I had problems it worked again after updating it.
Yeah, never noticed a thing of this "war" because of FF and uBlock origin.
It all just kept working, including on Youtube.
I've never given Youtube a cent and I always use adblock, on the endpoints and my network, and I have had no problems watching anything I wanted on youtube. I guess you just have to mercilessly block ads at all levels to achieve dominance
With unlock I didn't even know there was an arms race. Seamless performance the whole time!
Keep using adblockers and don't surrender your digital freedom to big tech corporations. Also check out private frontends for YouTube (and other plattforms: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/
Honestly, whenever I want to watch YT, I just open YT with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock in a Private Tab. Haven't really noticed anything, and honestly it helps me to stop watching videos.
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