Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users

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• crackajack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Youtube is still fast for me though.

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  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    kthx

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    • crackajack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As I lack knowledge on IT, I’m not telling anyone what I might be doing inadvertently to still have a fast YouTube streaming 😛

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• steelrat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Still not going to give them a dollar ever.

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• KonalaKoala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have LIbreWolf with uBlock Origin and NoScript (and Redirector I can turn on to redirect me from watching videos on YouTube.com to YewTu.be on a moments notice of something funky going on with YouTube), and so far, I have not noticed any ads or anything for a long time. I’m probably at the point of beginning to wonder what a YouTube Ad is.

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• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is not new. They started doing this when the adblock detection was ramping up too

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• Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sure if you consider captcha to be a punishment. Poor baby.

  I use VPNs but I’m not going to be a slave or a fanboy to avoiding facts and reality.

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• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  if you get adguard for desktop and load it with userscripts from greasyfork to block youtube’s bullshit it’s still okay, I barely ever have any hiccups since I loaded 5 different userscripts to block youtube’s anti-adblock bullshit. I sometimes get an error telling me the video couldn’t be played, but I almost never see their bullshit telling me to turn my adblocker off.

  There’s also “FreeTube” which is an app for several desktop operating systems. there’s also the many instances of invidious you can check out and access from almost any device with a web-browser.

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  • cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve got Adguard installed on my router (openwrt). 👍

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    • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, I’m disabled and can’t work, unfortunately I can’t afford a place of my own or my own router to install my VPN or adguard onto.

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  • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m running uBlock Origin and a pi Hole and I haven’t seen shit change for months. Not sure what voodoo I have going on judging by other experiences.

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    • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      recent updates to ublock for firefox have made its adblocking way more powerful.

      Where do you go to get pi hole? is that the one that requires docker?

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The official YouTube app is slso terrible, so maybe it’s their excuse for terrible products?

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