Submitted 1 year ago by Jezebelley@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/youtubes-ad-blocker-crackdown-spurs-record-uninstalls/
Massive misinformation warning for the article:
“Cologne-based Eyeo, which operates Adblock Plus, AdBlock, and uBlock […]”
They mean uBlock, by uBlock, LLC. Which is based on, but is distinct from uBlock Origin. uBO is the original FOSS project still developed by Raymond Hill. uBlock just steals their code and makes it use the acceptable ads frame to show some ads payed directly to Eyeo.
Thanks for the information! Hope people see that uBO is still standing firmly against this YouTube bullshit
Not to mention, Eyeo thought it was a good idea to replace ads with their own:
www.theverge.com/…/adblock-plus-now-sells-ads
Some courageous thinkers over there.
Record uninstalls of shit adblockers
Hmmm, weird.
Anyway, cross-posting one of my favorite random comments from some other cool person I saw in a thread the other day :
Android :
iOS :
Web :
Desktop :
TV :
Android TV - SmartTubeNext
Apple TV - Yattee with this guide
SmartTube is amazing. The dev is super reactive, there are updates almost daily. I watch YT mostly on my TV, I’m really thankful it exists!
This needs the LG webOS ad free youtube added.
I highly doubt people are uninstalling their ad blockers. If anything they’ll just disable it on YouTube if it’s that big of an issue to them.
Firefox + uBlock still works for me on desktop. For my SmartTV and my phone I’m using other frontend applications to get around the ads.
Why would they run their old ad blocker after installing uBlock instead of uninstalling their old one?
The same reason grandma has three different antivirus applications installed.
Fucking pathetic all-around
People don’t know they can disable ad blockers for one specific website only?
sceptical Thor meme. But does it? Does it really?
Hey as long as that’s the narrative Google believes…
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 1 year ago
Hmm…
“last month saw a record number of ad blockers uninstalled—and also a record for new ad blocker installs”
So… they simply switched to UBlock Origin?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
That’s how I head it. People got a lesson in not using ad blockers that have playing nice with Google.
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not really. It seems to imply that people started to hop around trying to find one that worked. Not everyone is savvy enough or in tech groups to understand or even be aware of UBlock. Most people just install whatever based on how much they like the icon. UBlock themselves don’t feature in this article and they don’t publish their install numbers, I don’t think they even track them, so we don’t know.
ElleChaise@kbin.social 1 year ago
I swear the way IT people speak about non-IT people is so funny. You guys act like everyone is borderline retarded because they don't know intricate details of your hobby/career. Acting like you're a part of some other group that doesn't understand human beings and their attraction to shiny things. It's like watching an alien try to sneak into society.
Corgisocks@programming.dev 1 year ago
Does Firefox track addon installs? Currently shows 6,923,048 Users on the UBlock addon page, I wonder how they get that number and how often it updates.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
And I’d prefer it staying that way. If uBlock becomes too big, Google will go after them directly and that would most likely end uBlock working on Google websites.
Hammerheart@programming.dev 1 year ago
The owners of Ublock, eyeo, are extensively quoted in the article, although ublock itself is only mentioned once as one of their holdings.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, if they put all of the info in the title who would be able to make up their own assumptions?
Moneo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Probably also people with multiple adblockers removing one of them. I uninstalled privacy badger since this whole ordeal has informed me it’s redundant.
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Or they switched from Chrome to Firefox.