I am in France
Nobody said adblocks stopped working. It’s YouTube who blocks YOU from watching when adblock running
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TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I see loads of posts thag adblockers stopped working on youtube. However, I still have no ads there. I’m running vivaldi with ublock on Linux and Vivaldi with minminguard on Android (EU based).
Is this a firefox issue, US only,…?
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No ads here, adblocker active and I can watch yt in the Netherlands. Either the ad block detecting is not perfect or not globally active.
gigachad@feddit.de 1 year ago
I’m on fiefox with ublock and didn’t notice any change, Germany…
Azzu@lemm.ee 1 year ago
There’s 3 reasons why you might see this AdBlock nonsense:
- YouTube changed something and the filter lists need a bit of time for volunteers to update them
- Your auto update of filter lists did not pull the above update yet
- Some other addon/privacy feature interferes with ublock or triggers the adblock detection themselves
If you didn’t run into any of these yet, you’ll have no problems.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 year ago
Google/YouTube never rolled out new features to all users at once, especially for new controversial features. They always do staged rollout (e.g. 1% of users, then 5%, then 10%, etc), often geographically limited too. That way they can gauge the potential impact if the feature before fully deploying them (e.g. whether the new features would actually increase their projected revenue or actually decreasing it).
TheInsane42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That would explain a lot. We’ll see how this develops. For me it would be no big loss when adblock detectoon starts to work here. Loads of spare time to get back. ;) (no ads or no content, as I refuse to watch ads)
teamevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The moment an ad loads I close the window and copy the link to another browser. I’m not watching ads for a company that is making billions selling my data why they cry poverty because I won’t watch ads. Seriously fuck off Google.