Ive had to dick around with my adblock settings once every few days lately.
Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
mihnt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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Zellith@kbin.social 1 year ago
snooggums@kbin.social 1 year ago
Firefox + ublock origin = I haven't had to do anything for the last year and stuff just gets blocked with no downsides.
shamrock@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah this is the way. I honestly forgot they had ads until I pulled a video up on my phone to show a friend the other day.
praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You need a clean condom every once in a while.
Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 1 year ago
to clean a condom*
sagrotan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And don’t forget to show your appreciation to the people who maintain that whole shebang - of course, only if you’re able to. Sending here and there 10 bucks, for example to the Newpipe or libretube team - or to your resident open source adblocker - doesn’t hurt, it’s only a few clicks and it really makes a difference.
3migo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How would one do this? I use ublock origin on Firefox, but I’ve started seeing the same pop-ups on YouTube the last few days and would love to get rid of them.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
On PC: Click on uBlock Origin, click on the little gears to go to the dashboard, select the Filter Lists tab.
First, ensure that the first option, auto-updating filter lists, is turned on unless you have a reason for it to be off.
Then, make sure that you have ALL the add-related filters turned on, and all the annoyances filters selected as well. Only some are selected by default so you need to look them over carefully. Look over the other filters while you’re at it and turn on any others you’ve missed that you think you might want.
Then, once you have enabled all your desired filters, select “Apply changes” and then “Update Now” via the two large buttons at the top left of the page. You should see all the filters go from an orange triangle to something else. Export your new settings if you want a backup of what you just did, and close.
If a filter list you turned on breaks something, just turn the newly enabled ones off again OR whitelist the broken site. But honestly you shouldn’t have any problems, the uBlock Origin filter lists are pretty fine-tuned these days. I have them ALL turned on, lol.
I’ve done this several times over the last few weeks as I’ve been trying out Linux distros and refuse to use Firefox without ad-blocking. Let me know if you have any problems.
mihnt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Great call, thanks for adding that.
cor315@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We need more people like you in the world.
3migo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
3migo
Sadly it looks like Google/Youtube have now circumvented Ublock again. After implementing the changes you suggested above, it got rid of the pop-ups on Youtube for me for a week, and now they’re back and I can’t get around them even after updating Ublock. Hopefully Ublock gets around these quickly.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gah, sorry man. For myself I’m staying logged out of Youtube at this point, and I won’t try again until a more stable fix comes along. I imported my subscriptions into Freetube, and watching either there or on Youtube but not logged in. Sorry it didn’t last.
Azzu@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I had that problem as well, I had to make sure I didn’t have any other blockers/privacy/enhancer addons that changed YouTube in some way, after that, ublock worked properly again.
3migo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah, I am also using Sponsorblock. That may be doing it.
Azzu@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That still works. I had to disable “Enhancer for Youtube” and the Firefox-internal “Enhanced tracking protection”
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Lol it was some Google employee’s job for months to work on this anti AdBlock method and uBlock Origin bypasses it like same day
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Don’t assume ineptitude.
I’ve been in the position of being asked to implement an anti-feature. I made it take as long as possible to drive up the cost and designed it to be trivially bypassable because I’m not motivated to intentionally trash my own project.
david@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I don’t know who you are, or what you write, but thank you.
AssPennies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Subterfuge at work, a fun subject to study.
Some of my favorites from a declassified WWII “simple productivity sabotage” manual:
Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.
When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committee as large as possible — never less than five.
Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable"and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
When I first saw these I was like goddamn, psyops got to my executive director!
FUBAR@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Sounds like how work is done in large corps
bearwithastick@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Wow, most of these points just sound like a responsible way to handle all the bullshit wishes from employees. I’m not saying make it unnessecarily painful for employees to request changes. However, I currently work at a company that did the “just do it” approach for years, got big with it and now our department needs to clean up the bullshit of many years to get the company up to code with whatever regulations we are under.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
“Don’t order new working materials until your current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so that the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown.”
See also: lean manufacturing
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s I think the CIA sabotage handbook
atetulo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What’s funny about this is all of this pretty much comes naturally when you’re doing something you don’t want to do without a reason to do it.
Mango@lemmy.world 1 year ago
WWII changed their name to BMV I think.
Tick_Dracy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Do you know if there is a book (extensive article) which covers that in detail?
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Destroying them from the inside I see
Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world [bot] 1 year ago
Not all heroes wear capes, but you are a godsend!
freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
the prejudice, assuming they don’t wear a cape.
DooDeeDoo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I always thought if youtube pushes the anti ad policy too hard they risk alienating the tech people who will end up on another platform which will start growing much faster. What they do is come up with half assed ad blocking. So casual people and people on locked systems like iPhone YouTube app are forced to watch ads.
Anyone not bothered by ads or Lacy enough will make Google money by watching ads. So they’re squeezing as much money without going too far. If they wanted to, they could have ads which would be unblock-able.
actually_a_tomato@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If only they could do the same for Twitch