Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users

eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Frellwit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  By doing that you’re wasting bandwidth on all the CDNs that hosts ALL your filter lists. Updating the Quick fixes list should be enough. (Which updates every 5 hours automatically on uBO 1.54).

  How to manually update Quick Fixes

  • Click 🛡️ uBO’s icon
  • the ⚙ Dashboard button
  • the Filter lists pane
  • the 🕘 clock icon next to the uBlock filters – Quick fixes list
  • the 🔃 Update now button.

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    mate, that won’t even scratch a single server’s bandwidth, much less that of a CDN.

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    • Star@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      @Frellwit@lemmy.world is right, the following FAQ is from the uBO’s YouTube Mega Thread on reddit.

      How often should I manually update filter lists? Can I somehow automate this?

      YouTube filters are in a list named uBlock filters - Quick fixes. The list updates every 12 hours. It’s the only list you might need to update - only if this page says it’s fixed, but you’re getting the message.

      If you’re not getting detected. Don’t update. Current estimated cost for just ONE of uBO’s CDNs: HERE. This is with other lists updating every few days. uBO’s not a company, it’s a volunteer project using free services, which have limits that we cannot cross.

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      • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        completely different scenario from a manual purge though

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