youtube getting more aggressive… i’ve got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up
My family watches several Youtube channels on the main HTPC. It had Chrome for them to use, as that is what the kids and my wife are familiar with from school/ work. Then this BS started. I use Firefox on my personal PC and have yet to have a problem.
So I dumped Chrome off of the HTPC.
It would be amusing if Chrome lost a ton of market share to Firefox and other browsers.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Get Firefox, install uBlock Origin, clear the filter cache, and reload the filter cache.
Worked for me and my dad
It is time to stop the Chrome plauge.
Goodie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s currently working, but every few days youtube will tweak something, and sometime later (minutes to hours) there will be an ublock update for it.
Sometimes you have to wait a little longer, but this is the arms race.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I find it funny that a company as big as Google is loosing to little ol uBlock
charonn0@startrek.website 1 year ago
Some arms races aren’t what they appear to be: blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday…
tiita@lemmy.world 1 year ago
yep… i did. they keep coming up, somehow. very annoying.
tyrant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I switched over to piped.video and no ads. Just moved my subscriptions over. Not sure how long it will last but so far it’s good
Denvil@lemmy.one 1 year ago
If that doesn’t work, get the youtube enhancer extension. Turn off it’s buikt in adblock. You’ll have a bunch of buttons on the bottom of the video, one of which is remove ads, which becomes skip ads when an ad plays. You will still get ads, but you’ll be able to instantly skip them all without setting off their adblock detector. (Ps, to get the bar in fullscreen, set it to bottom of window)
theKalash@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Yet, I’ve not gotten any of these messages on Chrome + uBlock Origin sofar.
HuddaBudda@kbin.social 1 year ago
They are probably hitting people in waves, in an effort to make sure this isn't a surge, then a massive protest like the Unity situation.
But once google realizes they'll have to burn serious money and make their product worse on the global stage to fix the problem, they'll quit just like Microsoft, AOL, and Netscape.
But I think this campaign is just there to loosen the people who installed an ad-block, but have no idea what an ad-block is.
Which will be different from the people who know about "alternate methods," and will easily slip the google net unnoticed.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That didn’t work for me. Seems theyre still detecting it.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Updating uBlock has a bigger Impact than choice of browser. You could be situated in one of the data clusters that implement new detection methods first, so the filter lists are not updated yet when they hit you with a changed detection script.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I feel like all of these suggestions will have short lifespans.
There is no good replacement for YouTube currently, but ultimately a long term solution means replacing the service.
A long(er) term solution than little hacks with FF and ublock are things like piped.