Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete

EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• TacticsConsort@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I will pay for an adblocker before I pay for an ad provider to stop harassing me

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  • ours@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Chad uBlock Plus dev doesn’t even want our money.

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    • rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Chad Raymond Hill who refuses to accept donatoins or sponsorships of any kind.

      That being said the people that maintain the filter lists I believe, don’t quoute me on this, you can donate to a few of them. Really depends if they mention it on their githubs though and you pretty much have to go about finding them on your own as there’s no real centralized list of all the people that contribue to the filter lists.

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      • ours@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s correct. uBlock Plus’ Github says he won’t accept donations but give instead to the unsung heroes maintaining the lists on which his software depends.

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    • Freefall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      YouTube shell company running highly effective subscription based ad blocker! Hahaha I could see it.

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  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If anything, adblock taught me about pi-hole, which brought me into the raspberry pi world.

    And id rather spend money on that.

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  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    adguard for windows, which is also available on CrappleComputers and I think it’s also on linux

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• Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m not so sure. Once they are embedded in the video they become hard to block. Twitch is like this now.

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  • RexWrexWrecks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And yet there are userscripts you can use to block out twitch ads. I haven’t seen one for months now despite not being a subscriber.

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  • nutt_goblin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m holding out some hope, since twitch is live but YouTube is pre-buffered, but they could still block loading past the ad on a timer or a key computed from hashing the decoded frames of the ad, idk

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