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
Comment on [Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful
Isoprenoid@programming.dev 7 months agoHis argument is:
- A lot of people were using poor adblockers.
- Youtube can block the bad ones but struggles with the good ones.
- People switch to the better adblockers (some of which require a subscription)
criticon@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
baru@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Use Ublock Origin, not Ublock.
criticon@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I meant ublock origin
Didn’t know there was a “vanilla” ublock
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 months 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
Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Never updated or purged ublock origin. Never got the popup. Is this only regional thing or Firefox built different.
ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip 7 months 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
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 7 months ago
I never saw it on desktop.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 7 months 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.
oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip 7 months 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.
Imalostmerchant@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Which is why you always finish your antibiotics