yep… i did. they keep coming up, somehow. very annoying.
Comment on youtube getting more agressive
stoy@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Get Firefox, install uBlock Origin, clear the filter cache, and reload the filter cache.
Worked for me and my dad
It is time to stop the Chrome plauge.
tiita@lemmy.world 11 months ago
tyrant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I switched over to piped.video and no ads. Just moved my subscriptions over. Not sure how long it will last but so far it’s good
Denvil@lemmy.one 11 months ago
If that doesn’t work, get the youtube enhancer extension. Turn off it’s buikt in adblock. You’ll have a bunch of buttons on the bottom of the video, one of which is remove ads, which becomes skip ads when an ad plays. You will still get ads, but you’ll be able to instantly skip them all without setting off their adblock detector. (Ps, to get the bar in fullscreen, set it to bottom of window)
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Huh I might try some ytenhancer only sessions to keep a eye on how bad eds have been getting without having to waste my time
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Yet, I’ve not gotten any of these messages on Chrome + uBlock Origin sofar.
HuddaBudda@kbin.social 11 months ago
They are probably hitting people in waves, in an effort to make sure this isn't a surge, then a massive protest like the Unity situation.
But once google realizes they'll have to burn serious money and make their product worse on the global stage to fix the problem, they'll quit just like Microsoft, AOL, and Netscape.
But I think this campaign is just there to loosen the people who installed an ad-block, but have no idea what an ad-block is.
Which will be different from the people who know about "alternate methods," and will easily slip the google net unnoticed.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
It’s more like field testing the change than managing backlash. They go somewhat hand-in-hand, but the intention Google has is mainly to reduce false positives.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That didn’t work for me. Seems theyre still detecting it.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Updating uBlock has a bigger Impact than choice of browser. You could be situated in one of the data clusters that implement new detection methods first, so the filter lists are not updated yet when they hit you with a changed detection script.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I feel like all of these suggestions will have short lifespans.
There is no good replacement for YouTube currently, but ultimately a long term solution means replacing the service.
A long(er) term solution than little hacks with FF and ublock are things like piped.
Goodie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s currently working, but every few days youtube will tweak something, and sometime later (minutes to hours) there will be an ublock update for it.
Sometimes you have to wait a little longer, but this is the arms race.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I find it funny that a company as big as Google is loosing to little ol uBlock
Goodie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s often far easier to attack than defend.
Google has to find and block every way, ublock just has to make a new way to bypass the blocks.
glorious_albus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Classic mantra of cybersecurity. “We’ve up be right every time, they’ve to be right only once.”
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re working on a final solution to the ad blocker problem. If they’re successful in pushing their Web Environment Integrity API, there’s nothing Firefox or ublock will be able to do.
Vendul@feddit.de 11 months ago
EU as the final boss battle
Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 11 months ago
What about pipe like solutions hostux etc? How do they work? Is it through API? Can Google block it like reddit did theirs? Also if google is so concerned about add blockers why do they allow those extensions in their Chrome store?
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not having any fun. How dare they! With all the evil virus attacks nowadays and most of them starting through online ads, using an adblocker is a matter of security. And it is my decision, not theirs. None of their business.
Johanno@feddit.de 11 months ago
Especially funny since blocking ublock is illegal in the EU
charonn0@startrek.website 11 months ago
Some arms races aren’t what they appear to be: blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday…
Goodie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I might read the article later, but your thesis is right.
This isn’t a arms race, it’s also convenience race.
Is it more convenient for me to turn off ublock, or go through ublocks menus and update its filters? Do I dislike ads that much? Maybe I do, maybe I don’t. But some people will turn off their adblock of choice, even if it technically still works if you update it. Their conversion rate of viewer to ad consumer will (probably) go up.
charonn0@startrek.website 11 months ago
It’s worth the read. I really only posted it because you have to respect the technical prowess involved. Also it’s kind of funny.