Android @programming.dev askat @programming.dev 1 yr. ago

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world

9to5google.com YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world

Since May, YouTube has ramped up its block of ad blockers and the company has now fully launched this policy worldwide...

Technology @beehaw.org ijeff @lemdro.id 1 yr. ago

9to5google.com /2023/10/31/youtube-ad-blockers-launch/

Technology @lemmy.world ijeff @lemdro.id 1 yr. ago

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world

9to5google.com /2023/10/31/youtube-ad-blockers-launch/

Google @lemdro.id ijeff @lemdro.id 1 yr. ago

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world

9to5google.com /2023/10/31/youtube-ad-blockers-launch/

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My Firefox and Ublock extension must be living under a rock then because i don't see any ads.
- Same
- SmartTubeNext on FireTV stick, ReVanced on the phone and Firefox/uBlock origin on the PC. I've only seen the news about this elusive change. At this point I'm curious which ad blockers are not working and what their market share is.
  
  ublock actually IS affected by this. I've had it multiple times, that I got blocked. However the uBlock team is extremely fast at adding better filters, and each time I had the problem it only took about an hour until it worked again (though I needed to update the filters manually, since that is normally done only once a day)
  
  So if you weren't watching YT right in those one hour intervalls you wouldn't have noticed it.
- I keep seering variations of this post and after the first few I stopped checking youtube to see if my ublock on firefox still does ok.
  
  Yep. Clickbait title to the max.
- I think it's just google chrome where ublock doesn't work. My friend uses ungoogled chromium and he hasn't seen it either.
Chromium based browsers, (Chrome, Edge) are blocking ad blockers.
Firefox is NOT.
Also, Chrome is not a browser, it is an advertising tracking piece of software that surveils your every click. In the 'olden' days, this was called spyware. It's a piece of software that exploits it's users. It, like spyware, used to be bundled with all kind of other programs. Does anyone remember the line, "Also install Chrome Browser" when you installed other software?
Have a better life, install Firefox and uBlock Origin.
Also Fuck Brave, they are liars.
- i will print that comment out and glue it to every bus stop in a 50mile radius
  
  Also every stick one on every network jack
- Claiming Chtome to not be a browser is needlessly hyperbolic.
  
  It's a spyware browser.
- What did Brave do?
  
  Iirc they are also spyware and I recall something abt the token being built into the browser tho I'm not entirely sure what
- I have already wondered, why it's still working for me :). Good to know, then it's finally settled, I will stay on Firefox. I hope it will continue to work with adblockers there... (Google has way to much "stake" in Mozilla)
  
  While it's true that Google has way too much potential influence over Mozilla, I don't think they'll ever get their hooks too far in the Firefox browser since there is so much community involvement and so many thriving forks -- Librewolf, Fennec, Mull, Waterfox, even Tor.
- Btw. do you know the technical reason why it's still working with Firefox? Does it have to do with this new anti-adblock-API that was recently introduced in Chrome and Safari?
  
  Yes, that's my understanding. And because Firefox is not chromium based they can't mess with the underlying code. Plus uBlock Origin works better on Firefox and it gets updates faster.
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- I imagine it's like most YouTube updates (if not all) that are rolled out partially to different users through different areas.
- Wasn't there an EU ruling recently, that blocking users from accessing content just because they use an adblocker is illegal?
  
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My revanced doesn't care
- Genuine question: how well does the app work? When I was looking at the reviews in the app store they were um, scathing at best.
  
  The app isn't in any app store(officially) it's only hosted on their own site/GitHub. If you are root you can take advantage of a lot of nice to haves that a non-root install misses(such as the "open in app" function of Firefox)
At this point - unless there's a very good reason - I just don't interact with YouTube's site or app anymore.

I hope YouTube pulls a Reddit, and federated video services get the same bump. Creators can plug NordVPN, Brilliant, and Wix just as well on PeerTube, and we won't have to watch dumbass political ads anymore.
- You underestimate the cost and complexity of video streaming.
  
  I can assure you, I do not.
- I don't have experience with any of those, YouTube is still ad free for me luckily, but how plausible would a completely peer hosted video streaming service be? Like TOR based or something like that where it's the collective of all the users hosting.
  
  Realistically? Virtually impossible. Youtube handles petabytes of data daily, and just the storage capacity would burn the money of everyone but the big corporations. There simply isn't a way to compete with a corporation that can afford to throw millions at a machine that doesn't make profit enough to cover those massive costs.
  
  You mean like https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances ?
  
  It's not just plausible, it already exists. See joinpeertube.org . There are more than 1000 instances already. Just need more content creators (some are already dual-posting, or migrated entirely).
  
  There's also LBRY, but it operates on some goofy-ass crypto scheme, so I assume it will fail.
I recommend https://grayjay.app/ you can follow creators cross platform and watch yt without ads
- I would totally give them some money for it if I watched more yt on my phone, but I rarely ever do that. They desperately need a desktop version.
you use youtube with adblock because it is a great repository of information without having to deal with ads

i use youtube with adblock because it costs google money

we are not the same
Just don’t use youtub.
Really?... My Brave with uBlock Origin is working fine.

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