YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround
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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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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.
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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No, author of this article, paying for premium is not a workaround.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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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Who uses Adblock Plus? Isn't uBlock Origin (Lite) the shit to go to?
ublock origin non-lite is the shit to go to
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Ublock Origin and NextDNS FTW.
DNS does nothing for youtube.
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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.
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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The workaround: Switch from Adblock Plus to uBlock Origin.
ABP has had random issues that break it often for years now. It's crap.
Wasn't adblock plus bought by some ad agency? I thought they were long gone...
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DNS does nothing for youtube.
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.
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
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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This may not get well recieved but yt premium is worth the money imho, but again I dont wanna pay those evil corpos.
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.
Agreed. But it's still too far of a timeframe to be worried about imo
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DNS does nothing for youtube.
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
Yeah, perhaps I'll try it out. I've made most of the changes they did in my config though.
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If you want to support a webpage, then donate to it. This ad-based business model should die.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
Do you use Firefox sync already?
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Do you use Firefox sync already?
Yup. Switching won't be a big deal.
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Yup. Switching won't be a big deal.
Librewolf has sync disabled, but if you enable that it's as easy as signing in. If it goes to shit like you're worried about, you still have it syncing
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Librewolf has sync disabled, but if you enable that it's as easy as signing in. If it goes to shit like you're worried about, you still have it syncing
I'm not worried about data loss. Honestly, the only feature I actually care about from sync is open tabs and recent history, since I'll often open something on one device that I was using on another. I don't really use bookmarks or saved passwords.
My main concern is security. I don't want my machines to be susceptible to malware, and with browsers being very complex, I want to make sure the dev team is very responsive in shipping security updates.
The main reason I use IronFox on my phone is that it works with FDroid, which is important because I don't have Google Play running on my main profile (I use GapheneOS). If the flatpak is updated within a few days of Firefox consistently, that's good enough. But if it takes weeks or more, that's too much.
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I understand your reasoning, and you're not wrong.
However, the amount that they charge you FAR outweighs the cost of compute, bandwidth and storage. The few tens of GB of bandwidth that you use and the storage costs of the video may cost them $1/user/month or less.
Their costs have been easily covered by ad revenue for decades. This subscription service is only because they've purchased all meaningful competitors and can now turn the screws and juice their customers for more money because they have no other options.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Sure, though they also need to pay people, run the platform, run Youtube music, pay for rights to things, and a bunch of other stuff. I’m not about to say that they aren’t another greedy corporation, that would be crazy, but ya’ll expecting to pay nothing are flatout ridiculous.
