HumanPersonJul 9, 2023

Youtube adblock blocking

https://sh.itjust.works/post/900095

Youtube adblock blocking - sh.itjust.works

I know the topic of whether adblock is piracy is debated, but I am guessing there are a lot of adblock users here and I was wondering if anyone has seen the youtube adblock warning message in the wild. I use ublock origin and still haven’t seen it once.

Show threadKururinJul 9, 2023
If you use uBlock origin you would never see it. I use both PiHole + uBlock origin and I would never see it lmao.
Show threadkostel_thecreedJul 9, 2023
Pihole does nothing on YouTube as their ads are served on the save server as the videos.
Show threadKururinJul 9, 2023
I know, but they help with the ads on the website itself. Not the videos.
Show threadkostel_thecreedJul 9, 2023
But you have ublock? It’s just redundant at that point.
Show threadNato Boram
It would help on other websites and on some in-app ads from mobile devices
Jul 9, 2023 at 5:58pmWeb
Show threadkostel_thecreedJul 9, 2023
Yes but on the same browser it is redundant.
Show threadZorqueJul 9, 2023
Redundancies being a bad thing is a very capitalist point of view.
Show threadkostel_thecreedJul 9, 2023
how? lol
Show threadShurimalJul 10, 2023

In a capitalist POV, redundancy is just unneeded cost for things that are "not needed".

In an engineering POV redundancy is insurance to make sure things work as needed even when part of the system fails.

For example, Apollo flight computers were triple redundant, and the outputs from all three were compared before being fed into engines. If two outputs would be 0.98, but one was 0.12, it's most likely that the third one is wrong and should be discarded. This makes it very likely that correct control intput is given to the engines all times and the whole thing would not crash and burn because of a random bit flip.