It’s funny. Before this crackdown none of my co-workers used adblockers. To install an add-on was too much hassle. They just watched the ads.
Now suddenly they became interested after hearing about them again, and almost all are running Firefox with ublock origin now.
YouTube should have just kept quiet, I don’t believe they are better off now more than before.
If Twitch taught us anything, this is just the beginning.
What happened on twitch?
Made it more difficult to block ads than YouTube’s pathetic attempt.
I was really surprised (and annoyed) to see some ads on Twitch yesterday.
Straight up the first ads I’ve seen in a long time were on twitch.
Then of course the first ad I see was for Narcan followed by an ad for Smirnoff.
God I fucking hate ads
Ads need to be clearly identifiable as such here.
Twitch embeds ads directly into the stream now. They’re next to impossible to block now, though I’ve heard some people say it’s still possible.
Try ttv-lol-pro, it works for me.
I will have to try that. My way of blocking twitch ads is using my vpn. But it disconnects me from chat for a few seconds, when an ad should appear.
Great, let the Streisand effect bite Google in the bum.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
This is a big reason Google wanted to push the whole “web integrity” thing. There would have been no way to use an adblocker after that and they would have won the blocking wars. It’s bad enough they’re gimping Chromium with Manifest v3, but they tried for it all.
Welp They are still cooking it, for now only on android as to boil the frog slowly but it will come back.
Wait what are they doing on Android?
Adding that stuff to Android, so if you don’t have the genuine YouTube app the server won’t even serve you the videos. It is meant to kill things like ReVanced.
YouTube works fine in Firefox on Android with ublock origin
Adding attestation crap to WebView
Or use adnauseam and fuck up their ad-tracking infrastructure beyond just blocking the ads
I actually had to get rid of adnauseam because YT detected it pretty consistently, ublock origin as of this comment still works fine on YT though.
From what I understand AdNauseum is built on top of uBlockOrigin so you supposed use it instead. The thing is that it isn’t as frequently updated and due to recent YouTube wars this is currently required.
A miniscule amount of tomfoolery
uBO + iFrame script + Clickbait Remover + YouTube NonStop, the only way to clean up the YT crap and don’t want to or can use a front-end or desktop client.
Great suggestions.
I’d strongly recommend Dearrow instead of Clickbait remover now (I used to use Clickbait).
It’s made by the same developer who made Sponsorblock, which I also strongly recommend (it skips over in-video sponsors, title sequences, non-music sections in music videos, etc.). Just remember to turn it off for channels whom you wish to support.
YouTube won’t work with ublock on Vivaldi…
Guess it time to switch to Firefox.
I can’t. I use fairly PWAs regularly and Firefox is NOT great with them.
What is a PWA?
Progressive Web Apps. Basically websites but with icons on your desktop or app launcher.
Progressive Web Apps.
Agreed. I use Firefoxfor my braising but I install my PWAs under Samsung internet.
Gotta disable Vivaldi’s integrated Adblocker and use uBlock only, at least that’s what fixed it for me.
Here is my issue. Anyone who is worth their weight in computer science salt will tell you this bullshit lockdown policies, vs the hacks that break them. don’t do anything except make rich board members look stupid and the people who implement them have leaked a work around. i remember when police scanners and detectors were going back and forth in the early 2000s
then waze and google maps started to add share features for drivers. Oh a cop is sitting here a couple miles up. thanks crowd sourced map data.
i would like to think there is someone incredibly intelligent telling these people its crap and the board is jerking off over short term quarter profits
I noticed that the Behind The Overlay extension in Firefox can also defeat the YouTube ad blocker pop up.
