Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a theory that YT deliberately makes you wait the length an ad would have been if you have uBlock Origin installed. Ive just let it “buffer” for 30 seconds or so and it will eventually load the video.

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  • Typhoon@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d rather watch nothing than an ad trying to sell me something.

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Still better tbh

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  • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am fine if it means I don’t have to watch some scam ass ad.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think this is true, and I still prefer it to an ad. Even if it’s longer than the ad would have been.

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My despise to ads is so big that if someday ads are completely unavoidable I’ll settle for a system that just blackens the screen and mute the volume for the duration of the ads. It will still be worth it.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have no problems with ublock on Firefox or Librewolf, unless I try to skip past what the video already loaded, then it’s a dice roll whether it’ll work or not

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• BaroqueInMind@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have the same problem, and after you start clicking play, often you can wait it out and the video will play on its own

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  • attero@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This mostly happens when you use youtube while being logged into a google account.
    I fixed this by using firefox containers + addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/switch-container/

    • logout from google / clear cookies.
    • switch to a new “google” container and login to see your subscrpitions
    • if a video doesn’t load switch to decontained

    also has the nice benefit of not messing up your reccomendations when clicking on random yt-links from other sites

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    • BaroqueInMind@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This does not work on phone OSes

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I use Grayjay on Android, and it tends to do a good job. I can have subscriptions w/o being logged in to my YT account, and videos load after 5 secs or so every time.

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• Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is like they know you're using adblocks, so instead of trying to force ads down your throat, they try making your experience miserable by breaking their own viewer or whatever. It is absolutely petty of them.

  Leave a video sitting there in idle for too long, come back, it plays for 10 seconds then has to reload itself. Sometimes, it doesn't do this, so it requires a complete refresh.

  They can do this bullshit all they want but I am not letting up on blocking ads.

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• gndagreborn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For me, it works… After a 15 second load and an insufferably laggy UI despite having no identifiable system bottleneck.

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah yt is basically unusable on Firefox with a blocker and it’s 100% by design. Yt even gives a helpful pop-up offering to tell me why it’s running so slow.

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• ronl2k@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I switched from Chrome to MS Edge and don’t have that YouTube ad-blocking issue with uBlock anymore.

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  • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    MS Edge is Chrome, with a slight MS reskin.

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    • ronl2k@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      MS Edge allows extensions that Chrome does not. It still fully supports uBlock Origin.

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      • moopet@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I did not know that - but surely since it’s based on Chrome, that means they’re going to have to follow suit at some point?

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