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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

That's actually just kinda hilarious ngl

[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Google-owned YouTube succeeded in shutting down the popular third-party YouTube Vanced app back in 2022

And 4 seconds later an alternative appeared.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 4 months ago (30 children)

I'm yet to see literally any of these things while using UBO, I almost feel like I'm being gaslighted at times.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I had completely forgotten about their war on adblockers. Haven't had to play with uBlock for months.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Did you have to mess around with it at some point?

I've been Firefox with uBlock Origin for a couple years and haven't ever messed around with the settings other than turning it off for a few select websites. Haven't had any of the issues other people reported with youtube.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

At the very beginning I had to switch from ABP to uBO. I actually used ABP specifically because I wanted to allow through some non-obtrusive ads, because I think it's morally right to let companies make a profit if they're not being overly obnoxious about it, and ABP's Acceptable Ads policy is great for that. Unfortunately ABP was slower to implement something to avoid YouTube's fuckery, so I switched to uBO. Google has shot themselves in the foot because now instead of a small number of ads getting through, none do.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

At the very beginning of their crackdown I remember I had to update shit a few times to get rid of that 'no adblocker' screen but yeah...its been months now and youtube is perfectly normal.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would have said the same if loading any youtube page didn’t take literally like 15 seconds

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

I just loaded up a video instantly with Firefox + uBlock Origin.

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