Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Stitch0815@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Raymond Hill is the absolut GOAT

  “No way around it” always ends the same After 2 days uBlock just works.

  Taking no donations, just maintaining out of pure spite

  Love to see it

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Spite is a form of currency. lol

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      spite and hatred are incredibly powerful motivator.

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, you’re thinking of Sprite, specifically the bottle caps.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m still waiting for them to just to implement Wildvine. It has to happen at some point.

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    • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Widevine

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        yes, that thing :)

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, I wonder why they hadn’t done it yet, except for paid movies.

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah, they probably already have the tooling in place. Maybe the power (heat + work) cost to encode a Mr. Beast video hurts the profit too much.

        Maybe they’re afraid of putting widevine at the working end of the likes of ublock origin and brave. iIIRC some of the WV keys are in the wild, they just keep em close to the action not to make them rotate them out.

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Works on my machine fails to account for A/B testing. Everytime someone says something’s not working, they also mean it’s not working on my machine/account.

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  • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    uBlock origin is the same code on mine or yours machine. It does not need a graphics card, nor uses some particular instuctions of the CPU.
    On Firefox Stable on Flathub at the time of writing, with default settings and default lists, it will work as expected on Youtube.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Google does not always provide the same Youtube code/challenges to you and me. That’s what A/B testing is about.

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      • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Is uBlock Origin working for you specifically, enabling it alone with no other add-on?

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• StinkyRedMan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Stopped working for me last weekend if i’m logged in. Youtube deploy this kind of things in waves usually.

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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yep. Still working on mine. I also use windows 10. Dunno if that matters or not.

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• glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So seamless that I didn’t even notice

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• LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mine isn’t working flawlessly with this exact set up, but it’s just forcing me to refresh the page every time I load a new video. Still no ads.

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  • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you using other add-ons?

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    • LordPassionFruit@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nope, just uBlock. If I disable uBlock before loading the page everything works fine as well, so I’m pretty sure it’s uBlock.

      But I’m on Linux (openSuse Tumbleweed) and have had some interesting “distro specific” bugs in recent months, so I’m chalking it up to “my OS + Firefox” and not “uBlock”

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      • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I am also on openSUSE Tumbleweed, but using Flatpak Firefox.
        Perhaps you can try disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox to see if it chinges anyting.

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