ABP has also been owned and run by a shady investment firm for the past decade.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
The workaround: Switch from Adblock Plus to uBlock Origin.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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.
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Not a solution for most people, unfortunately…
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Could you elaborate on why not?
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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).
bilb@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I wonder what percentage of views are done with a general purpose web browser vs. YouTube apps on phones and TVs.
OmegaSunkey@ani.social 3 weeks 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.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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)
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
No uBlock on my phone. :(
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks 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.
cooligula@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You can have it on iOS as well. Use Orion browser instead of safari and install UBO from the firefox addons store ;)
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
kahnclusions@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t work properly… Orion still really falls short. I use Brave on iOS just because of Adblock and paywall bypass.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
kahnclusions@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wasn’t adblock plus bought by some ad agency? I thought they were long gone…
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.