I will not watch ads. That’s the first, unbreakable premise. If the service does not provide videos, I leave the service.
YouTube is expanding its ad-blocking powers — closes loopholes that allowed some users to bypass restrictions
Submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.zip
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cristian64@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thanks YouTube for the evolutionary arms race with ad blockers making a truly amazing ad blocker. I hope this is used as evidence for your monopoly with 90% of the market for online advertising. Time to standard oil Alphabet.
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Once I get my NAS setup this year, I’ll start actively downloading and backing up the videos I like from yt.
aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Huh. I got a couple of popups the other day. A quick refresh fixed it though. In my experience, YT has been miserably failing its war on adblockers. I’ve yet to disable mine to watch a video.
RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Eh, it only lasted for a few hours, then I updated the ublock origin filters and things were back to normal. In the meanwhile I just streamed youtube videos via a media player that had builtin yt-dlp (smplayer) support.
It’ll always be a game of cat and mouse.
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
it or a front-end to it is always #2 on the list of applications to install on my own new os installs–right behind firefox.
i don’t use yt much, but it’s sure nice to have. i can just drag over or copy/paste urls or video id right from a serp and never have to give google a even single page view.