Submitted 1 year ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to technology@lemmy.world
https://9to5google.com/2023/10/31/youtube-ad-blockers-launch/
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2787773 (!google@lemdro.id)
Vanilla Brave blocks ads and doesn’t show the blocker. Ublock & Better YouTube will cause it to trigger. Tampermonkey script prevents the blocker from appearing after disabling/enabling Ublock for a video or two.
Fuck YouTube and Google. They make enough money selling my data.
Ublock doesn’t trigger it. Better YouTube does. Remove it and you’re golden.
Brave is commercial grade malware. How anyone can willingly install that on their system and then complain about google selling data is beyond me. At this point, Firefox is without alternatives.
Ublock was triggering mine, odd that it doesn’t trigger for others
And I just followed instructions on this page
github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976
And it fixed it
I’m self hosting an invidious instance and not once have I noticed any interruptions. 10/10 just use a public invidious instance and be done with it
Oh look! This shit again. Lemmy is becoming more repetitive than 4chan
be me.
reading lemmy
see yet again that YouTube is blocking ads
see the entitlement in the comments that seem to think YouTube should be both free of ads and free to use and that Google should subsidize it for some reason
post my copy-paste comment reiterating that YouTube is a business and not a charity
see comments from idiots that attack the commenter instead of actually trying to argue against the point or come up with any sane solution or any attempt to advance the conversation
realise people just want the labour of others for free
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See you again next week, fren.
I’m willing to engage this discussion with you :).
I don’t believe i’m entitled to any labor for free, but i do oppose the mechanic of huge corporations starting with good & free services, and when they then become a monopoly, suddenly i’m “entitled and want labor for free and an idiot” when i don’t agree with all the enshittification, money grabbing, privacy violations, and everything else they think they can get away with.
If you start a service with a certain premise (it being free, little ads, …), and then once you’re a monopoly and want some extra money start changing all that, while making sure any competition has as little chance as possible to challenge you… yeah, good luck with that XD.
And i’ll make a predition, give it 5 years at most before game passes go through this phase. Currently all the gamers are “wow, these are such good value”, once it gives the publishers enough of an excuse to stop allowing you to buy them, watch the same fragmentation & raised prices, enshittification, possibly even advertising getting added to it once you’re stuck using such a system.
I don’t believe i’m “entitled”, but i won’t support such tactics & monopoly abuse. They came to power by pretending to be a free site to share videos on, and they’ll die that way as far as i’m concerned. Good riddance.
> try to do meme arrows
> fail
Jej
It’s mostly that the multi billion dollar profit organisation didn’t need to do this. Where does that money go? Even though it’s over the back of the labour and time of both the content creators and people watching.
Google is doing 60 billion dollar profit fine. Thanks.
Su pasta es mi pasta, I’m using that from now on
You mean people shouldn’t chase that sweet, sweet fake internet score?
still using revanced on android and it’s fine
My original install of Vanced is still working!
why the fuck do they call it that it makes no sense and I can never remember what its name is
Grayjay is the best all in all app for Android and Invidious Cross Platform. It syncs everything.
Definitely not blocking here… but… I have to ask. Which takes precedence, YouTube’s T&C’s or EU law?
Obviously, the law beats any T&C.
Until yesterday I was blocked from youtube, despite using UBO. Today it works. I don’t know if it is random or if UBO does something. Possibly it will stop working again. In any case I started using piped (hope they don’t decide to do something with it).
UBO updates their filters when they can, as they find and fix changes.
Youtube directly responds to those patches by updating their system. Last I checked, they do this twice a day.
Any time your UBO isnt stopping youtube, you are using filters from before youtubes last update. Opening your UBO settings, clearing and updating your filters, and refreshing your browser fixes this.
The only time it doesnt is if UBO hasnt patched youtubes most recent changes. This window of time is teeeny tiny.
Google chrome U block user here. Still works fine
Use grayjay.app
Proprietary garbage
It is at least source available. I prefer they didn’t use the license they’re using but it’s there right to do so.
For mobile it’s between using revanced, Grayjay or brave. At the moment I’m willing to use any one of the three that works on a given day.
…If you have Android and $10 to throw at the problem.
Theres also NewPipe its free and open source
For reference, payment is optional.
I see there’s a lot of negativity around GrayJay and their licensing and I don’t disagree; but there’s a battle going on here It’s Google against the world. Having private paid entities working on this alongside the FOSS efforts is definitely not a bad thing. The fact that they’re running source available means that other people can look at what they’re doing even if they can’t use their code directly.
They can use the code directly. The license allows “review, compilation and non-commercial distribution”.
It doesn’t explicitly allow modification, but they do define “code” as “the code and any part of it and any derivative of it”, so clearly derivatives are expected.
Absolutely good suggestion. Please check this out. Louis Rossman has a really in depth video with more information about the app on his channel
This must be the worst recommendation I’ve seen here
Love the Ficsit mug in the photo 😆
I just use the Vivaldi Browser and watch all my YouTube in browser. shrug
It has? 🤔
Just checked for myself and I’m not getting any popups, but perhaps it just hasn’t quite hit my region yet?
Maybe you’re like me and are already blocking the popups, too.
Monopolistic and some shit
The entire internet nowadays is either monopolized or close to it. I miss the days of many servers hosting indie websites, as opposed to one or two companies per niche.
I only use Firefox for youtube and nothing else… it still just works the same as ever - the only ads I see are the ones the creators make themselves for sponsors. I only use Chromium-based browsers for anything that has nothing to do with google…
Try Sponsorblck. It can block sponsors, and a couple of other things. You can also set a skip button for specific segments and skip them if you want. Users like you can mark sponsor and other segments for others to be able to skip.
Is it just me or is WireMin closed source?
In addition, the app contains Google tracker (This is what App Manager shows).
It’s not the first time I’ve seen this app recommended in Lemmy and I don’t understand why.
I think there are a lot of similar apps in Google Play.
Yeah, they haven’t published the source code yet. I asked the WireMin team, and it seems they are a small team still finalizing the code. What is the App Manager called tho?
No they don’t.
there was an attempt
Maybe we need to lock off discussions about this from public view, lest they figure a way around it.
You think they don’t have spies?
I recon at least 1 of the users here relays information to them, or even IS working for them.
No issues with revanced
Same here
Not on my PC
I haven’t seen an ad on YouTube in several years. Doubt I’ll ever see one.
Haven’t seen an anti-adblock message yet, and I block ads in all sorts of ways across my devices.
I’ll just use an ad blocker-blocker
uBlock Origin has that feature built in
That is what google uses, after all they attempt to block your adblocker. You would need an ad blocker-blocker-blocker.
Well uh… Whatever they’re doing ain’t working for me, because I’m yet to see one of these popups.
with FF and ublock i can watch yt as always. Never got the poup. But as of today, the youtube page is just blank. I can search and watch anything, but the start-page is blank. (no account)
I’m getting the pop-up, which I can click to close and watch videos on my FF + Ublock.
Clear you cache on UBlock Origin
lol, good luck with that Google
For non-Premium users.
Google is keeping their services free for long enough, so people start believing it’s supposed to be like that. At the same moment they keep posting for their music streaming, cloud storage and the rest…
It’s not free. They take your data while alsp giving you ads. A quick Google suggests they have about 280 billion in annual revenue. Which part of that is free?
Nope. Non-premium here, and my ublock still works perfectly fine.
Is there a fediverse alternative to youtube?
iAmTheTot@kbin.social 1 year ago
I have not changed anything about my browsing habits and I spend like 12 hours a day on YT, haven't yet seen this. Not very universal.
rurutheguru@lemmings.world 1 year ago
3 similar but different questions:
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
PC (ubuntu) and Android both w/ FF & uB. Have yet to see this in Canada.
But it does typically take Google a little while to remember that we’re part of the world…
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Pc, usa, chrome
iAmTheTot@kbin.social 1 year ago
Phone, home pc, work pc, laptop, tv. Canada.