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

• 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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      • oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, there’s an A/B implementation going on. The UBO maintainers hadn’t seen the crackdown themselves and had to rely on troubleshooting reports to see what is going on which is wild to think about - both on their skill but also did google specifically whitelist them or are they exceptionally lucky

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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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