Obscurity is an advantage in an arms war like this. The more popular a workaround gets, the more effort will be put into defeating it. You know it works, it doesn’t need to become popular to validate that.
Firefox is still sitting at under 5% of users and it’s the Firefox flavour of uBlock origin that I’m seeing people say still works at blocking YouTube ads (plus it sounds like Google is shutting them out of Chrome, though we’ll see what happens to the browsers based on forks of chromium). It’s a massive number of people in absolute terms, but tiny relative to the number of users who don’t use FF + uBo.
PlantJam@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And ublock origin continues to work, thankfully. Disappointing to see the article failed to mention it.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Obscurity is an advantage in an arms war like this. The more popular a workaround gets, the more effort will be put into defeating it. You know it works, it doesn’t need to become popular to validate that.
Gabu@lemmy.world 9 months ago
uBlock is already massive, what are you on about?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Firefox is still sitting at under 5% of users and it’s the Firefox flavour of uBlock origin that I’m seeing people say still works at blocking YouTube ads (plus it sounds like Google is shutting them out of Chrome, though we’ll see what happens to the browsers based on forks of chromium). It’s a massive number of people in absolute terms, but tiny relative to the number of users who don’t use FF + uBo.
spiderkle@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
And it’s gonna take considerable effort to completely block it. And then you’d still have Pihole to fall back on.