Vietnam is passing a new law, going into effect on February 15, that will ban unskippable ads as well as delays before closing banner ads.
may have finally met their match
thank god ublock origin has finally just been invented
uBlock doesn’t come with financial and legal penalties, I’ll take Vietnam’s solution.
I don’t give a shit about all that since, wel, I have ublock.
I would rather everyone benefit and not only people technically competent enough to know about uBlock 🤷♂️
Not to mention the hassle of using youtube on different platforms beside your browser, specially on tv
Well you got a good point there. This is exactly why ads are incredibly evil.
You guys see ads? I think you’re doing the Internet wrong.
I love how this is smug and offers no advice. Peak substack vibes
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/s for everything except have a great day, which you should have absolutely still have!
Install another browser like Librewolf (ublock included) or Brave. That’s it, say good-bye to the ads, and not only in Youtube. In Android use Youtube Revanced. In Android TV (Nvidia shield, google TV, etc) use SmartTube.
And don’t use the “ads-company” browser in the future if you don’t like ads.
Android using waterfox with ublock, no ads on youtube or anywhere else
uBlock Origin on Firefox or Librewolf works,
or you could make a PiHoleEdit: Looks like PiHole won’t work, still worth setting up for general use though!
Unless I’m mistaken, PiHole won’t block Youtube ads because they’re served from the same domain as the videos.
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The biggest issue with Youtube is that it has no real competition, at least for traditional long-form content. They have no incentive to improve the user experience.
At best they will code the restrictions in for users in vietnam.
At worst they’ll block it in the region.
It just comes down to what costs more for them. This won’t improve things in other regions.
Not yet anyway, but it might have a ripple effect on other countries doing the same.
Just like EU consumer laws sometimes gets adopted by other countries a few years later.
