uBlock Origin intensifies
YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto
Submitted 10 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world
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frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Odelay42@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re blocking it actively now. For me, it requires a tampermonkey script to bypass the blocker check in Firefox.
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Whenever that happens, the heroes in the ublock team does push a new fix in a few hours.
drhodl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have no issues on Firefox or Brave. I never see ads.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
There’s some A/B testing going on, for sure. My ublock origin on Firefox has never had issues
ptmb@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Finally subscribed to Nebula a few days ago. Between a third and half the creators I follow are there. I’m planning to move away from YouTube entirely, even if I can pay for premium or block ads I want to make the statement I don’t support their service anymore.
judgyweevil@feddit.it 10 months ago
I tried Nebula and it’s nice, bit it’s too US-centric (+ something from the UK)
atrielienz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m trying out nebula because I saw your suggestion and honestly a year for $60 isn’t terrible at all. But I’m having trouble finding creators (not because the app isn’t good but because it seems a lot of the channels I follow on YouTube aren’t on Nebula. I have two devices open actively going down the list of channels I follow on YouTube trying to find channels I want to follow on Nebula and so far I am striking out pretty bad. I hope I can get half the creators I follow on Nebula because so far it’s pretty decent from what I have seen. App is easy to navigate and pretty polished etc.
ptmb@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I am not sure if it is possible, to be honest. I decided to move as I saw a lot of the YouTubers I follow do sponsored segments on nebula, so I knew I was going to find at least them in there. If I do find any kind of page or tool to find out I’ll share it here
doodledup@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Isn’t Nebula a paid service?
ptmb@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Yes, I forgot to clarify that. I decided to pay for a nebula subscription, which is creator owned, and to try and stop using YouTube as much as I can.
I know this isn’t an option everyone can take, but for the ones who can, I think it sends a clearer message to YouTube and Google than any ad blocker, if you don’t respect me as a viewer I’ll stop using your service altogether.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, but from my understanding Nebula is creator owned.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
yea
mechoman444@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Again YouTube ads? What the hell are you people talking about?
Johniegordo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Mfers act like forgot about revanced.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 months ago
when they do this shit I wonder who their target audience is.
phantomwise@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Future uBlock/NewPipe users
Thanks for educating people about the usefulness of adblockers, YouTube ❤️
raid_dad@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Their wallets.
RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Red’s worth paying for, especially if you dont mind yt music.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
It’s not. Alphabet is already making billions off our data. Just use uBlock or ReVanced or whatever and don’t shovel more money into their greedy pockets.
RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And if they have your data, they didnt steal it, you signed it over or they bought it from someone you signed it over to, personal data is rarely stolen, mostly just handed off and then people act like they put a gun to their head to get it.
RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well because an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, i dont base my actions on how poorly someone else has acted. I just try and do the right thing.
jim3692@discuss.online 10 months ago
What would happen if all users start using adblockers, or the value of ads starts to fall?
I do not support the current, ad-driven, model of the internet. However, since the costs of subscriptions are increasing, while salaries are going downhill, it is apparent that ads is (seemingly) the only viable choice for now.
In the economy we currently live in, all of world’s wealth is slowly moving to ad networks.
Even donation driven models are currently straggling. Just look at the fediverse. The people donating to their instances are not enough to sustain them.
Capitalism has absolutely destroyed everything. The greed of stakeholders has milked most people. At some point people will stop buying the useless things or services promoted via advertisements, just because they will not be able to afford them. Then, no subscriptions, no point of advertising, no donators, no people hosting fediverse instances, just world hunger.
michaelnik@lemmy.world 10 months ago
FreeTube on desktop, NewPipe on droid!
possumparty@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Firefox and ublock on desktop works just as well.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
hanke@feddit.nu 10 months ago
Gratjay on desktop Grayjay on Android
Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
SmartTube on streaming devices!
bigb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Smarttube on Android TV OS
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Youtube has ads?
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Only for the paying customers, apparently. Crime pays, yarrr!
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Blocking ads isn’t a crime .
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Unlock Origin on Firefox With Sponsorblock is the answer.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 10 months ago
How do you unlock origin? I have been blocking it thinking it caused the ads
gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
It’s a typo, they mean the ad blocking software uBlock Origin.
Scrollone@feddit.it 10 months ago
And ReVanced on Android, SmartTubeNext on Android TV.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I like Tubular and/or Seal(a yt-dlp wrapper) on Android and don’t use a TV, but yeah, anything but the actual YouTube app is probably better.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 10 months ago
I think it’s back to just SmartTube. SmartTubeNext was a temporary thing to get SmartTube back on track iirc.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 10 months ago
This sounds like a problem I’m too third party client to understand
KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And thus we say fare thee well - U-Toob
SilverShark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I watch youtube on a smart TV where I don’t have a way to skip ads. I know there are ways to do it, I just never implemented.
The experience with Youtube is getting so much worse. It used to be one ad at the start of the video. Then it was two. And now ads in the middle of the video. They are also so long! It completely breaks the narrative of the video and is so distracting.
All of this just makes me want to watch less Youtube, which is likely not a bad thing.
balder1991@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even with a premium account I’m stopping using YouTube little by little ever since they made their forced translation of titles and these AI voices that make the experience for bilingual people just horrible.
SilverShark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is the most baffling feature ever. Why would anyone want to have titles translated? The video itself is not going to be translated! I guess it’s because of these auto subtitles that are simply not that reliable nor do they make for a good viwing experience if you really don’t know the language.
Even Youtube’s algorithm already doesn’t suggest videos from languages in which you don’t search in! My youtube shows me stuff only in the languages I usually google with.
And the ads with this ai voice… Damn they are weird.
elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
if you TV is running android, you can use SmartTube
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
SmartTube Beta has been a life changer on Android TV. I would just avoid youtube on my tv because fuck ads. But then i found SmartTube Beta, and wow. No more ads!
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I hope I can be the motivation you need with these super simple steps (will take a few minutes).
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Have they made anything like this for Roku yet?
MakkaPakka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
When the ad is playing, are you able to press up a couple of times and click on the little (i)? It might then go to a “why am I seeing this ad” page which you can then click ok on then click on don’t watch this ad again and it will skip the ad. Doesn’t work if you’re casting a video from a phone, and it doesn’t work on some channels.
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That stipped working. Now the option it gives you is to block the ad going forward after it finishes
SilverShark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I did not know this, and I love it! Thanks for sharing!!!
pyre@lemmy.world 10 months ago
on the rare case that i watch YouTube on tv, if it’s at the beginning, i just quit the video and restart over and over again until i see a 5 sec skip. sometimes it takes longer than the ads would’ve taken but I’d rather do that than take it on the chin to be honest. I’m also hoping others do it too so maybe they get some telemetry data.
and if it’s in the middle of the video i just quit. if it’s important enough i can just watch it on my phone or PC without ads.
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You could see if an adblock dns works, you dont even have to set up pihole for that (its just local hosted adblock/whattheheckyouwant dns).
If it makes problems you can set it to default or cloudflare or somethingSetting another dns is in most cases just going to the settings and pasting a link
Scrollone@feddit.it 10 months ago
DNS blocking doesn’t work on YouTube ads because they’re served by the same domain of videos.
wiccan2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m in the same boat here, I watch on my TV through a Roku and I don’t think there are any options for ad blocking.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 10 months ago
testing
Does that mean if viewing numbers plummet they won’t roll it out?
zerofk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Very likely - but that’s not going to happen. Some people will watch less, some will complain but keep watching the same amount, and the majority will just take it as a fact of life and not change their behaviour.
fodor@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I think we’ve seen enough changes in social media platforms over the past few decades to say that your claim is true until it’s not. As payments to content creators fall, and as garbage postings increase, the actual value to the average user of the site is clearly decreasing. So we’ll see how long YouTube is relevant.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 10 months ago
I yet have to see my first ad on any youtube video.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m around long enough to have seen them, before blockers were a thing.
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 10 months ago
I’m still self hosting Invidious… Watching YouTube videos without ever visiting YouTube…
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
You can even access your instance with playlet on roku github.com/iBicha/playlet
Bosht@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Link? Or just Google it?
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 10 months ago
docs.invidious.io/installation/
The docker section there is what I used.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
revolt.
20cello@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Revanced
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Shhhhjh
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Days ago I discovered vacuumtube for steam deck. It’s basically youtube with tv interface but with all the adblocks. It works wonders in game mode and even has controller support.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
For free?!
BadNewsNobody@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I use SmartTube on my Nvidia Shield TV box and don’t ever deal with any ads. It’s appalling whenever I have to use vanilla YouTube for anything.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If they circumvent uBlock, then PeerTube, here I come
reddig33@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just means I will find something else to watch. I’d pay for ad-free YouTube if it didn’t cost as much as HBO.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I’m not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I’ll finally be able to do something else with my time.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 10 months ago
☝️ And it works, I can confirm.
chelatna@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Most of YouTube is already a waste of time anyways.
katze@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
Just like lemmy, yet we are here. Sometimes we need to waste some time.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I haven’t seen an ad on Youtube in several years, thanks to uBlock Origin.
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
NewPipe is my friend
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hmmm maybe I’ll just learn to read finally.
guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Anyone not blocking ads on YouTube needs to start blocking ads and sponsored content on YouTube.
www.mrfdev.com/enhancer-for-youtube sponsor.ajay.app
revanite@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I used enhancer but it seems the dev has stopped updating it for Firefox and only updating it for chrome.
Moved to Tweaks for YouTube and am quite happy with it so far; seems to also have more options.
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/tweaks-for-youtube/