Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin - And a Dinosaur
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Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely due to personal interest. This blog post is where I write down what I know. Some Background Here’s...

Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin::Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely due to personal interest. This blog post is where I write down what I know. Some Background Here’s…

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    This war is not something YouTube can or in my opinion wants to win. All they want to do is make it annoying enough for non-technical people to give up and purchase premium. They know they can’t win at this game. What they can do is make these changes frequent enough and annoying enough.

    Simply put, even if Google hires full time staff to keep fighting this issue, at some point not serving ads becomes cheaper. On the other side of this trench we have an opensource project backed by a mob of fed up people for whom never seeing another ad is too soon. In pure fight of numbers Google is outnumbered and outgunned.

    Linux is an excellent example of community effort. It’s huge, well supported and develops at a pace other companies can only dream about and yet they have around 5-10k contributors. uBlock has 40k stars on GitHub alone. Not all contributors and/or developers, but this this ads problem is something that affects everyone and is universally hated by everyone and rest assured the more Google and others try to push ads the more people will awaken to fight back.

  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Plot twist, it is YouTube sending those moronic support requests.

    Edit: I checked out the reddit thread and people really are moronic.

    A:

    I can’t access YT at all now. I just get a big, blank empty page. I’ve tried following every single step in the guide and nothing works. Before, I was able to watch videos if I opened the link in a private browser, but now even that doesn’t work. Using Firefox btw. What am I supposed to do now?

    B:

    I just started having this problem this morning. I realized I forgot to disable Ghostery, one I took care of that the page would load again.

    A:

    I ain’t disabling Ghostery…

      • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        You don’t need Ghostery if you have uBlock Origin, it only increases the chance of the two adblockers interfering with each other. It’s like those boomers who have 5 different anti viruses on their Windows PC… Just stop it!

  • sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.chEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Good article. Rather than relying on uBo people should just stop using services they dislike (YouTube) and move to something else. Of course many people don’t want to change what they’re used to.

        • Candybar121@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          the only time in my life i ever use vimeo is when i look up a video and its been removed from youtube

      • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        well, since the debacle I was thinking: do I really need YT? What if I don’t access it at all, will my life become miserable? Nope, because YT is not something I NEED, just something I WANT. Once we realize that, it’s easy to look elsewhere, or even find something more productive to do.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I feel like I’m living in a utopia since more of my YT usage comes from a Nvidia Shield TV with Smart Tube Next and YouTube Revanced on a phone, in a nutshell I have been unaffected by all this mess… For now.

  • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️@7.62x54r.ruEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Best way to punish Youtube: Use a functioning ad blocker and then open dozens of tabs on auto play and mute them. Let them play perpetually.

    Another way that would cause advertisers to potentially drop them or pay considerably less would be to do this without an ad blocker and then post evidence of it. With enough people doing this, advertisers won’t want to pay.