Good luck Youtube, you fools.
YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps
Submitted 7 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24131338/youtube-ad-blocker-crackdown-mobile-apps
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hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
gentooer@programming.dev 7 months ago
I hope the YouTube Kodi plugin stays working, otherwise I’ll have to write a script to download all latest videos in my subscription to my home server.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I literally just use the Dislike Re-Adder, also used uBlock Origin and never got an Anti-AdBlock message
jeremyparker@programming.dev 7 months ago
I still get block messages in Vivaldi, but not Firefox.
feebl@feddit.nl 7 months ago
[deleted]FatCat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fuck the grocery store emplyee for raising the egg prices. What a bitch ami right??
🙄🤭
TheBat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Grocery store employees can’t dilly dally and push half baked code. YT employees can.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Garlic gross misunderstanding of software development, especially in large organizations.
Ignorant opinions only speedrun.
feebl@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Any%
Pantoffel@feddit.de 7 months ago
It’s a management decision. Even if the responsible developer left, the next in line would take up the job. We work for a living and there is little choice in ethical companies you can join for adequate pay.
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This sound familiar to anyone?
PoliticallyIncorrect@lemm.ee 7 months ago
microG & Newpipe working like a charm…
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 7 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
YouTube is bringing its ad blocker fight to mobile.
In an update on Monday, YouTube writes that users accessing videos through a third-party ad blocking app may encounter buffering issues or see an error message that reads, “The following content is not available on this app.”
It also began disabling videos for users with an ad blocking extension enabled.
But now, YouTube says its policies don’t allow “third-party apps to turn off ads because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership.” This appears to target mobile ad blockers like AdGuard, which lets you open YouTube within the ad blocking app, where you’ll get to view videos interruption-free.
“When we find an app that violates these terms, we will take appropriate action to protect our platform, creators, and viewers.”
This likely won’t come as pleasant news to all the users who watch YouTube through ad blocking apps, but it doesn’t look like YouTube is backing down in its battle against ad blockers anytime soon.
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PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They need to distract the MBAs with a box of crayons to eat so the adults can make good decisions.
JCreazy@midwest.social 7 months ago
LibreTube hasn’t worked in a couple of weeks
Grippler@feddit.dk 7 months ago
Yeah that really sucks
Schorsch@feddit.de 7 months ago
Yeah so I’m not the only one! Does anybody know what’s the matter?
JCreazy@midwest.social 7 months ago
YouTube is blocking it, the only way to fix it is to go into settings and disable the piped proxy
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t see how they’ll stop these without majorly changing the functionality of the site. Most just load the none ad portions of the video. I don’t understand how they’ll prevent that.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
The simplest solution is to embed the ads in the video stream.
Stefaan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s why we have the sponsorblock add on lol
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But the ad blocking algorithm can notice the jump cut, (simple audio/video/meta data.) irregularities and then just jump forward to the regular video.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
The simplest solution is to embed the ads in the video stream.
Then people could fast forward past them.
I’d be fine with it, but advertisers won’t be happy until you’re forced to stand up, say “Mc Donald’s”, and then answer a short quiz about the ad that just played before you can continue.
nl4real@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lmao, I keep hearing about this but my Ublock Origin & Firefox keeps chugging along fine on both desktop and mobile. Eat my ass, Neal Mohan.
Rooki@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I hope they understand soon why we have ALL of those tweaks and adblockers. Because vanilla youtube SUCKS, Ads everywhere, not customizable and tracking even if you are paying.
Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We will find a way. Never give up or give in. Screw your shareholders!
ben_dover@lemmy.world 7 months ago
it would be amazing if they could just add a mobile ui to Smarttube Next (best android tv app imho) - it supports login, sponsorblock & dearrow, you can cast to it, etc. - and it’s updated constantly, via a prompt in the app, no external download or play store necessary
RatCornu@ani.social 7 months ago
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Okay so I will just keep using NewPipe
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
spoofing app signature makes revanced not work and clipious also not working so im down to just newpipe sponsorblock and yt on browser
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ungoogled chromium + uBlock origin + pihole and I haven’t had any issues so far (Germany)
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I don’t get it. If Google really cares about ad revenue, why not just slap a DRM to each and every videos? They can protect their interests, and DMCA anyone who dares to circumvent it. Even a low effort DRM will do.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Now? They’ve always been playing whack-a-mole against third party apps.
Icalasari@fedia.io 7 months ago
And yet it still can't figure out how to get past two adblockers at once
It's stupid that it works, but it works
ivn@jlai.lu 7 months ago
Why would you use two adblockers?
Icalasari@fedia.io 7 months ago
Because so far, not a single YouTube update has let them get past it. Basically, I switched adblockers but forgot to uninstall the old one, then by the time I noticed, I had also noticed that the combination somehow, for some bizarre reason, ends up confusing anti adblockers to the point of not even getting "disable adblocker" messages. It's not something involving their blacklists either because they have the same blacklist (due to the aforementioned replacing one with another then forgetting to uninstall the older one)
TheBat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Twice the protection
Double the security
PS: Doesn’t apply to condoms.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid.
Dvixen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Squizzy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Phew
Squizzy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Seeing this at 21 minutes past gave me a slight pause.
moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Lol
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They’ll fail so hard, can’t wait to watch this train wrack. If YouTube is gone tomorrow this is just a little inconvincing to me. Competition will pop up for every single element. Be it gaming, music or video trailer or fan made content. YouTube is stacking so high, they haven’t noticed we’re ready to replace them. Not one huge Jew YouTube, just small parts and people create 4-10 bookmarks to get the same content.
Niiru@feddit.de 7 months ago
This is the same comment that appears on every YT update for 15 years. No, it won’t happen. YT is too big to fail and real competition is almost non-existent (due to various reasons). Some have tried, all have failed, unfortunately.
Also, I’m sure people would rather pay a monthly subscription than go to other plattforms.
Deway@lemmy.world 7 months ago
While I agree YouTube won’t die because of this, nothing is too big to fail.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I didn’t mean YouTube will die, it’s obviously too big at the moment. With “they’ll fail” I mean the CEOs who plan this, will fail, because there are alternatives. I should’ve been more precise. YouTube knows that, that’s why they added shorts, they are already bleeding users.
eluvinar@szmer.info 7 months ago
YouTube’s Youtube crackdown now includes third-party apps
Maeve@kbin.social 7 months ago
Yes. The day after I posted I'd been happily using piped for a few days, it stopped working.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Okay, then in exchange can I get a UI that doesn’t suck?