YouTube cracks down (again) on ad blockers.

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• kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The moment they actually succeed in forcing ads on me, is the moment where I simply stop watching. Ads have become so frequent, so distracting, and so dangerous (scams, malware, disinformation) that they are pushing the world – not even just the internet – to the brink of destruction as more and more outrageous shit gets manufactured in the hope for clicks.

  I will never pay for YouTube and I will NOT visit any site with ads. I do, however participate in patreons and other methods of paying creators.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Google is there own enemy. They could make ads less awful but they instead wonder why everyone is blocking them.

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    • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Everyone? The majority of the world still uses Google

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think someone’s quarterly goals include “reduce ad-free viewing hours” because every few months we get a half assed block that is countered hours later.

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• Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  aww, they’re trying so hard.

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• orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A reminder to use YT less, or to use third party YT browsers. How convenient!

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• ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Supposedly if you’re using a vpn albania is one of the few places that hasn’t been tainted by YouTube adware

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  • Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I lived there for a year and am moving there permanently in a couple of months. Albania is such an underrated country in so many ways. It has its problems, but man, it is a bajillion times better than living in the US.

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• LoreSoong@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Websites dont have the ability to see what addons you are using. Youtube must be tracking and storing local traffic data to accomplish this.

  Seems illegal

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  • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can tell when someone is blocking ads without seeing add-ons. Many ad blockers aren’t even add ons

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve got this a few times on both my Windows and Linux machines. Uninstalling uBlock Origin, restarting Firefox, and reinstalling uBlock Origin had always fixed it for me.

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  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    reinstalling shouldn’t fix anything, it’s not buggy. that probably fixed it because technically you updated the filterlists. but there’s a button for that.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t know that, I’ll try that next time!

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• mtchristo@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I believe they will end up by winning.

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• JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Scum gonna’ scum.

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