Meanwhile on Newpipe: just another day with no ads.
YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures
Submitted 15 hours ago by wegbier@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/
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Etterra@discuss.online 5 hours ago
ter_maxima@jlai.lu 2 hours ago
NewPipe simply does not work for me. Every video fails to play.
The best YouTube experience I’ve achieved so far is still using the official website with a ton of firefox addons.
Sudomeapizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 minutes ago
Ive seen mentioned elsewhere, but recently it looks like they blocked all vpn access. When using newpipe, it all works again for me when i turn off my vpn!
spongebollocks@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
try pipepipe
kepix@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
honestly waiting 3 seconds of buffering is not the end of the world. i just have ptsd from the last isp, and makes my brain think i dont have net.
currently experiencing this on librewolf, however cromite desktop loads in instantly. google also have to fight against revanced, smartube, tubular…etc. this is a long ass battle and bless every codemonkey fighting the big brother.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I wonder how much they spend trying to defeat adblockers versus how much revenue they lose because of them.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 41 minutes ago
Even if only 1% of people used adblock, then that’s 1% of millions of dollars of ad revenue. It’s easily enough to put several people on this as a full time job if they want to.
I’m sure Google saw it as only a minor issue at first, but the number of people using adblockers is presumably going up all the time.
The irony being of course that adblock usage is skyrocketing only because companies like Google have made the Internet so thoroughly ad-polluted it’s intolerable to go without one.
ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I finally had to update (19.16.39 --> 20.12.46) and repatch my YouTube on Android via ReVanced. I’ll probably need to do that again in 6 months. I use uBlock Origin and LibreFox on PC and SmartTube on my TV. I hope Google understands I won’t be watching YouTube with ads.
VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Sams everything
seven_phone@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Or how Google decided to choke on its own greed.
timewarp@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I have a Premium subscription, but I can give you an even bigger reason to never use YouTube. They actively push brain rot in their search. No matter what words I use to search for something, it is almost always the same results. Looking for nostalgic videos from the 90s? YT: “Here is the most recent brain rot on the Internet.”
Pirate@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Same thing on Google results. I don’t use Google but I use what are basically frontends for Google and all it feeds you with every search are AI-generated websites.
Every Google search must be precedented by writing “Reddit”, now.
treyf711@eviltoast.org 9 hours ago
YouTube is really cool right now. The video ads that come up are ai voices just rambling about some new discovery and a minute in I have no idea what the ad is supposed to be for. Another cool thing that happened while I was at work was YouTube showed me some sort of blocky AI generated image in the top left of what appeared to be a woman performing fellatio. The neat thing was that it was an ad for roof repair.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Something tells me that 5 years from now YouTube will no longer exist
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Google trying its best to destroy adblockers and adblockers going “lmao low diff” is sooooo entertaining.
danielsan256@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Use the grayjay app from the FUTO team
hogmomma@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I paid for their app and I’ve never felt more torn about recommending a product. On the one hand, it works pretty darned well (except for the inability to comment ON YouTube). On the other hand, I’ve contacted their support at LEAST three times and have no response. No bueno.
danielsan256@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Wait, what do you mean you paid? That’s a free app😬
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Interesting writeup with some interesting techniques. I should read these some more
Monstrosity@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
I use Pop_OS & today I was browsing the Store & stumbled on this app called ‘youtubedl-gui’.
Really interesting piece of software. Maybe check it out!
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Noticed it for a single day, then ublock must’ve updated and everything works fine again. I will drop YT entirely before I watch a single shitty ad on there, let alone pay for a sub.