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

MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Every other post about Ad blocking has someone pitching Brave.

  Brave has experienced some controversies over time, including the CEO having problematic political views; alleged sales of copyrighted data for AI model training; auto-completing typed-in URLs to affiliate links that generate revenue for Brave; content creators receiving unsolicited donations they couldn’t collect; and automatically installing their VPN service without the user’s consent.

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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Brave is also, you know, run by probably one of the worlds most evil people.

    Peter Thiel.

    The guy who is part of a group of people who wants to hook you up (using bff elon’s neuralink) and use your body as a biofuel source instead of just killing you. As a “more humane alternative to genocide”

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• tomjuggler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Pipepipe on f-droid is kept much more up to date in my experience. It’s a fork so basically the same

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• Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  NewPipe had to deal with some thing YouTube did to break things. And they fixed them super quick. Last time I had a video not work, I visited the GitHub site and saw there was a new release from 11 minutes ago. Installed it and the video worked perfectly.

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