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YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers (9to5google.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 200 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Blocking adblockers apparently doesn't work well enough so google resorts to various forms of gaslighting (delayed video playback, api randomly returning wrong video, and now skipping video straight to the end).

[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Had the random API one the other day. Was nuts. Also the 5 second delay for Firefox too when it was a thing.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

I get that 5sec delay for the official YouTube app weirdly enough

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Lgeblock works great

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I have been using Brave as my browser for years, I have never once seen an ad on YouTube. Nor have I ever had any of the issues that have been reported with people using ad blockers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've had this issue where youtube is sort of breaking for me, but it shouldn't matter because I very begrudgingly pay for Youtube Premium.

(I'm not extremely tech savvy to the point where it's easy for me to set up a raspberry pi or whatever to watch youtube in bed on my tv OK?)

Anyways, sometimes it like, gets weird and the video player gets stuck at 0:00 and loops like 3 seconds of the video.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Pro top for premium: cancel sub, VPN into country like India turkey Ukraine etc, subscribe with credit card with no fx fees.

Enjoy 3usd per month rate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Assuming they're not from one of those countries already

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That was the assumption but the advice is for anyone who hates google enough but hates ads more or just wants to save money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just use an ad blocker that isn't Ad Block Plus on Chrome and you'll be able to go adless without sucking Google's cock.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

We responding to the guy who said he wants on teevee and doesn't care to fuck with it.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm confident its people using Chrome with Adblock Plus

[–] [email protected] 94 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don’t use brave, they’re shady. LibreWolf with uBlock Origin is plenty.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean they did also inject affiliate links without the users noticing which is really shady behaviour from a browser because it has one job, open the link I click and nothing else. But that's just IMHO if that is acceptable for you personally then there is no issue with that.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I do turn off all the rewards and other BS in the browser, but I will look into Firefox and uBlock. Thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Any reason for picking it over all the other chromium browsers?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Ungoogled chromium with some privacy extensions would probably be a similar experience.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It blocks in line ads and trackers, that's why I have been using it.

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[–] [email protected] 228 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I'm using firefox + ublock origin and have never had the reported issues either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Also firefox + ublock, but for me, it literally makes YouTube unusable. As in videos just flat out will not play in any way. I just get an endlessly loading spinner for the video

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I'm leeching premium from a friend so no ads on pc, but because I'm getting sick and tired of all the shorts shit being pushed onto me (even play automatically when I would open the YouTube app) I'm using Grayjay on my phone instead of the official YouTube app. Never ads and it even has sponsor block. Plus you can follow creators instead of channels, across platforms. And downloading a video means you can actually watch it without a connection too. It has more perks then someone paying for premium has. Piracy pais off.