Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround

Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wasn’t adblock plus bought by some ad agency? I thought they were long gone…

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know about that but they do have a program where advertisers can pay them in exchange for their ads being allowed past the block.

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• zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ABP has also been owned and run by a shady investment firm for the past decade.

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• ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The workaround

  Quit using YouTube directly and proxy your request through an Invidious instance.

  Your requests are mixed in with everyone else’s, only 1 machine touches YouTube directly and that’s the server hosting Invidious.

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  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not a solution for most people, unfortunately…

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    • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Could you elaborate on why not?

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      • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Most people don’t even know what Invidious is, let alone the fact that there are other video hosting sites that aren’t youtube (Vimeo, for one).

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      • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I wonder what percentage of views are done with a general purpose web browser vs. YouTube apps on phones and TVs.

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      • OmegaSunkey@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You see how often growing youtubers complain about more than 85% of their viewers are not subscribed to the channel, or how just some videos have more views than their main content? The issue is that Invidious doesn’t have the algorithm Youtube provides to everyone, and that not a lot of people really watch their subscribed page.

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unless the instance owner is a network god, they blacklist the IP address almost immediately (they see thousands of videos watched at the same time from the same IP address, trivial to detect)

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• W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No uBlock on my phone. :(

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Firefox on Android has it.

    But if you’re on iOS you’d better speak to Tim Apple about it, assuming he’s finished noshing off Trump.

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    • cooligula@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can have it on iOS as well. Use Orion browser instead of safari and install UBO from the firefox addons store ;)

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      • W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I just tried this and I get an alert that unlock isn’t fully available. Seems it can’t access web request API.

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        I’ll give it a spin out of curiosity. I pay for Kagi anyway. I’m very opposed to Google.

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      • kahnclusions@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It doesn’t work properly… Orion still really falls short. I use Brave on iOS just because of Adblock and paywall bypass.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On Firefox on Android you can use extensions. I’ve been using uBO for years on my phone.

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  • kahnclusions@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As much as I hate to say it, if on iOS use Brave. You can disable the crypto shit, but it’s got the best adblocking on iOS, and paywall bypass built in.

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    • obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why?

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