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YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround

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  • A [email protected]

    Please elaborate...

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    #151

    FreeTube is a FOSS youtube frontend.

    FreeTube occasionally has issues on videos with preroll ads where the video fails to play because the ad won't be fetched. This can sometimes be mitigated by running an ipv6 rotator script and blocking freetubes access to ipv4. The one I run reassigns my ipv6 address once every 5 seconds to a new randomly generated valid address.

    Sometimes even this doesn't block the ads (again causing the video to fail to play) in which case selecting the share icon from the freetube interface and clicking "open invidious link" will open a web browser pointed to whichever invidious instance is set to your default.

    The freetube folks are working on implementing DASH, which should eliminate the need for these workarounds once successful.

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    • A [email protected]

      FreeTube is a FOSS youtube frontend.

      FreeTube occasionally has issues on videos with preroll ads where the video fails to play because the ad won't be fetched. This can sometimes be mitigated by running an ipv6 rotator script and blocking freetubes access to ipv4. The one I run reassigns my ipv6 address once every 5 seconds to a new randomly generated valid address.

      Sometimes even this doesn't block the ads (again causing the video to fail to play) in which case selecting the share icon from the freetube interface and clicking "open invidious link" will open a web browser pointed to whichever invidious instance is set to your default.

      The freetube folks are working on implementing DASH, which should eliminate the need for these workarounds once successful.

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      Thank you!!

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        FreeTube with an ipv6 rotator and Invidious will make sure you never have to deal with this.

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        You can also use Freetube with tor/socks5 proxy, and every time you open Freetube, you automatically get a new IP.

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        • swelter_spark@reddthat.comS [email protected]

          You can also use Freetube with tor/socks5 proxy, and every time you open Freetube, you automatically get a new IP.

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          This is true, but I try not to put such a heavy load on the TOR network personally. Its always good to have folks using it for clearweb stuff like this though, keeps the network legitimate.

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            #155

            The workaround: Switch from Adblock Plus to uBlock Origin.

            ABP has had random issues that break it often for years now. It's crap.

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            • S [email protected]

              I am willing to completely ditch YouTube and not access it, but there are a couple of channels that just aren't anywhere else that I do enjoy watching.

              Currently, I use RSS feeds in order to stay up to date with their videos, and I use new pipe to actually watch the videos, but still, it's annoying. I would like to stop using them and cannot. I feel as though I'm being held hostage.

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              I've noticed quite a few people who used to do YouTube videos have moved to podcasts because of YT's fuckery.

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              • L [email protected]

                No, author of this article, paying for premium is not a workaround.

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                #157

                It has some real "Ukraine should just stop fighting a losing war" vibes. I wonder how much Alphabet paid them for that article. Probably not much.

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                • P [email protected]

                  Who uses Adblock Plus? Isn't uBlock Origin (Lite) the shit to go to?

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                  ublock origin non-lite is the shit to go to

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                  • P [email protected]

                    Ublock Origin and NextDNS FTW.

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                    DNS does nothing for youtube.

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                    • P [email protected]

                      To be fair all the "dancing around and jumping through hoops" is enabling developer mode (which is just a switch in the extension settings) and turning back on manifest 2 in chrome://flags then just reloading the extension.

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                      given that you know about them. they will also get removed soon according to their description.

                      lots of users won't get to know all this, or if they do, they won't go messing around there because "its complicated"

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                      • kolanaki@pawb.socialK [email protected]

                        The workaround: Switch from Adblock Plus to uBlock Origin.

                        ABP has had random issues that break it often for years now. It's crap.

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                        Wasn't adblock plus bought by some ad agency? I thought they were long gone...

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                        • spacecadet@feddit.nlS [email protected]

                          DNS does nothing for youtube.

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                          This is correct, even pihole is helpless against YouTube's fuckery

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                            Sure, but what about in 2 years from now?

                            I used IronFox for a couple years and it suddenly stopped getting updates, and it took me a few months to realize and switch to something else. I don't want that to happen again.

                            I like the idea of librewolf, especially that it's just a patch set on top of Firefox, but someone needs to maintain that patch set. This would be fine for simpler software, but browsers are complex and I just worry that updates will stall out with little warning.

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                            as I understand their build system is automatic. updates are not, but they have an update checker companion thing, and flathub too can manage that if you install from there

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                              Tom’s Hardware, Ad Block Plus, paying for YouTube Premium as a “work around”?

                              Guys this content was by boomers for boomers

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                              Guys this content was by boomers for boomers

                              Tom's Hardware sold out looong ago, sold in 2007 to some faceless consortium. The original "Tom", Thomas Pabst, who is GenX and not a boomer btw, has had nothing to do with the site since.

                              The editor of this article looks to be a millennial btw.

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                              • clot27@lemmy.zipC [email protected]

                                This may not get well recieved but yt premium is worth the money imho, but again I dont wanna pay those evil corpos.

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                                I think it's decent value but I'm already running extensions or mods to skip the in-video ads, so I may as well just block ads for free too.

                                If YouTube Premium ever got an official sponsorblock, it'd become a good deal.

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                                  Maybe? It's a lot less likely for FF to disappear than LibreWolf.

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                                  Agreed. But it's still too far of a timeframe to be worried about imo

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                                    DNS does nothing for youtube.

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                                    Never claimed it did. I have YouTube ReVanced on mobile, and SmartTubeNext for the TV.

                                    (But TBF, Ublock Origin does in fact block YT ads on the desktop.)

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                                      Agreed. But it's still too far of a timeframe to be worried about imo

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                                      Yeah, perhaps I'll try it out. I've made most of the changes they did in my config though.

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                                      • J [email protected]

                                        If you want to support a webpage, then donate to it. This ad-based business model should die.

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                                        Donating costs me money. Donating to every single website I like or rely on requires far more money than I have available or am willing to spend. I don't know your situation, but I'm not rich. I don't have that kind of disposable income to just throw around.

                                        That said, thanks for mentioning that. I did donate to kbin when it was still around, but I've forgotten to set up donations for mbin and kbin.earth since switching over. I'll have to get on with that.

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                                          Yeah, perhaps I'll try it out. I've made most of the changes they did in my config though.

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                                          Do you use Firefox sync already?

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