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

[obrien_must_suffer@lemmy.world]

Never. I hate Brave more than the few ads that get through on iOS with AdGuard or the recently released uBlock Origin Lite.

[lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

If they are technologically inept, reduce their accounts to limited, lock down the admin account. That will prevent them from uninstalling FF/installing Chrome, and if the admin account sets a shortcut on their desktop(s), they won't be able to remove it. Disable Edge (there are multiple ways to do so), install the necessary extensions on FF, then change FF's desktop icon and text to "Chrome".

Problem solved.

[lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Some of us made Gmail accounts long before Youtube even existed, and still rely on youtube for tutorials and other things of that nature that aren't found anywhere else.

Don't be a pretentious dick about it.

[lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Most people don't even know what Invidious is, let alone the fact that there are other video hosting sites that aren't youtube (Vimeo, for one).

Invidious is always breaking, too, and most people will stop using it when that happens.

We are talking about most people, not the absolutely tiny minority of technical users who are aware that such a thing as Invidious even exists.

[whyjiffie@sh.itjust.works]

I see, but lite is much less effective. google has worked hard to make it lose its capabilities. it may still be effective at blocking youtube ads (though as it cannot use frequently updatable blocklists it probably has a higher delay for fixes when something breaks), but it cannot have specific rules for less popular sites, because of chrome's low limit on allowed filtering rules, and even though it can hide ads, that's not the sole function of ublock origin. ubo is a complex content blocker, with versatile tools to defuse site tracking on lots of websites. lite cannot do that anymore effectively, because both its capabilities have been reduced (e.g. it cannot edit network traffic anymore I think), and the number of filtering rules that it can load.

and even before lite, ubo could not be as effective on chrome as on firefox, because of slight differences in the extension api, with not so slight practical differences.

[runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

change FF desktop icon and text to "Chrome"

The new incognito mode?

[nindelofocho@lemmy.world]

Where do you get ublock for ios? Its not mentioned on github or on the site

[omegasunkey@ani.social]

But isn’t this what people are trying to avoid when it comes to digital privacy? User data being used in less algorithms?

Yes. Invidious and other programs, websites and anything else are useful for these kind of things. When you go to another house and in another computer you want to see some video but not affect the watch history of the user that uses the computer mainly. Or just simply watching some video that you wouldn't normally watch.

But most people who use YouTube actively on their main computer binge-watch. Sometimes they follow creators, sometimes they follow what the algorithm recommends them for the day. Invidious does not have such algorithm, since its a proxy. So, it is really not for everyone.

[altphoto@lemmy.today]

You could just use plain vinegar.

[scoffinglizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Stop using youtube and start using peertube. WE DONT FUCKING NEED GOOGLE!

[frozenpopsicle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Article wasted my time. I want it back moe90.

[cley_faye@lemmy.world]

Imagine using Adblock/Adblock plus in 2025.

[cley_faye@lemmy.world]

WE DONT FUCKING NEED GOOGLE!

Unless you make extremely popular video with hundred thousands views in the first day, in which case, yeah, good luck with peertube.

[cley_faye@lemmy.world]

Beside a big whack behind the head, Ublock Origin Lite is supported on chrome. You lose some features, and it is slower to update, but should still mostly work. Unfortunately, the youtube/ublock fight move quite fast, so results won't be as good on that front.

[sexy_peach@feddit.org]

Everyone else has switched to Ublock Origin adblocker years ago Try it, it's the only real one

[w3dd1e@lemmy.zip]

It’s not on iOS or I would. I use uBlock on my PC.

[w3dd1e@lemmy.zip]

I just tried this and I get an alert that unlock isn’t fully available. Seems it can’t access web request API.

I’ll give it a spin out of curiosity. I pay for Kagi anyway. I’m very opposed to Google.

[muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works]

AdGuard and SponsorBlock work fine on Safari on iOS.

[dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world]

You can disable Edge if you don't want people launching it... "accidentally." There are a myriad of ways. Most recently I've used Edge Blocker, which does what it says on the label. Note that this will cause the opening of any file types associated with Edge by default to silently fail if you don't reassign them to some other program.

The install Firefox and uBlock origin. Unless your parents deliberately go out of their way to download and install Chrome (and depending how heavy-handed you want to get you could even prevent this by busting them down to a limited user account) they won't have any choice but to use the correct browser installed on their system. That is to say, the only one.

[scoffinglizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

That does not apply to most people. Also, peertube is really getting better recently.