Comment on [Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful

STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  His argument is:

  1. A lot of people were using poor adblockers.
  2. Youtube can block the bad ones but struggles with the good ones.
  3. People switch to the better adblockers (some of which require a subscription)

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  • Imalostmerchant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Which is why you always finish your antibiotics

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  • criticon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wonder how true that is for the average user

    My father disabled ublock because it didn’t let him use YouTube. I sent hima tutorial on how to update the list and purge the cache but it was too much work for him

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    • baru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Use Ublock Origin, not Ublock.

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      • criticon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I meant ublock origin

        Didn’t know there was a “vanilla” ublock

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Consider using VNC and simply doing the work for him. I find I just do not have the time to do all this stuff for my parents

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    • Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Never updated or purged ublock origin. Never got the popup. Is this only regional thing or Firefox built different.

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      • ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I may be wrong, but I think it has something to do with whether or not you had any custom filters enabled when youtube started cracking down on ad blockers. I also haven’t seen a popup yet, but I assumed it was because I’m too lazy to go beyond the vanilla UBO install.

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      • r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I never saw it on desktop.

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was annoyed when I got the popup, so I stopped using vanilla yt and started using invidious or freetube. Since then ubo updated a couple times. I used vanilla yt the past couple days for hours of educational vids, and got no antiadblock messages. It wasn’t until I saw this post that I realized that ubo autofixed itself. Ask your father to reinstall ubo on ff and see if it fixes it. Also, I don’t ever log on to yt, so maybe that plays a factor.

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    • oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      same here. it’s the real reason i don’t set it up for people, they need to be able to at least maintain it. My mother can’t get the update working either until i did it step by step with her and she practiced it several time.

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