moe90YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround
harsh3466The workaround is pay for YouTube premium.
With all due respect, no the fuck it ain’t
With all due respect, that’s exactly what the article suggests is the solution.
Didn’t read it, did you?
The article can say that the sun is blue, that doesn’t make it true - which is the point you’re ignoring.
Because buying premium is not a workaround for an ad blocker not working, it’s giving up on the broken extension.
I’m not going to debate you on that, but the original commenter was saving people the effort of reading a pointless article, and getting shat on for it.
I didn’t think that was fair.
I don’t care if you want to debate it, the point of the article is wrong. The original commenter doesn’t deserve the hate, but their summary of the article, while being accurate, is not a real work around. I didn’t attack them, so I’m not in disagreement there.
I read it it comes off as an ad for premium
And that ain’t the solution
… Did you?
That said though, there is one ad blocker that still works. Two words: uBlock Origin. Yes, I know that Google has blocked it from its Chrome Extension store, but there is still a way to get uBlock Origin on Chrome that our how-to extraordinaire Kaycee has detailed.
Agree. I was just citing the article.
The Internet is full of people who can’t understand irony unless they’re slapped in the face with the /s.
Fuck youtube and their shit premium pricing
I think that’s fine. Let the non-tech-savvy users pay for the service. It seems like they deserve it, and also they keep YT running for “free”.
You can keep enjoying YT with Firefox + uBO or PipePipe on your phone.
I’m pretty tech savvy and pay for premium. It’s just too good a value for my household right now.
You could save nearly a couple hundred a year in most instances. LG have a dev account path, android is relatively simple I hear and various foss apps and patching apps will cover most.
Google are undeserving of more money
But I don’t just use it for watching videos. I also use YT music to listen to a few hours of music every day, and I also use it as off site storage for hundreds of hours of 4k video.
taazare you paraphrasing what the article said or saying it yourself?
I’m saying it yourself to them for us
I was just citing the article’s stated workaround since that’s what everyone will want to know.
Don’t shoot the messenger, they’re just citing the “workaround” from the article. The article also mentions using uBlock but only after writing two paragraphs convincing you that Premium is totally the solution to go with.
I hate when they say paying the premium is a “solution”. It’s worse. That’s why nobody is doing it.
I actually have a Premium subscription, but it’s kinda half assed journalism to suggest that as a solution.
How is it worse?
It’s not free.
Citizen, that sounds like communist anti-consumption talk.
Now go back to working 60 hours a week so you can buy things to feel better about having to work 60 hours a week.
I mean, I’d never buy anything by that logic alone.
Man, if YouTube weren’t paying my bills, I’d drop it in a heartbeat, such an exploitative, predatory platform.
Just stick with Firefox and uBlock Origin.
Especially since Adblock Plus take payment to whitelist adverts.
tarknassusHave you noticed uBlock Origin being a bit hit and miss on YouTube lately? I’ve had it happen a few times lately where the video won’t play, or an ad comes up but doesn’t play. I’ve had to keep refreshing until it gets to normal where it just plays the damn video.
I think youtube might have implemented something that prevents the server from delivering the video files until the expected duration of the ad has passed. This idea is completely unfounded, but this is what it feels like to me.
julyWhat about the UI elements? Because they take a long time to load too
Thats fine for me. Just make sure to always “Reject all” on the cookies. If you accept then the whole site sometimes breaks for me.
[deleted] in lemmyMaybe it is a regional thing? I was watching YouTube 30 mins ago with no issues and haven’t ever had any unless I open a new tab but don’t try to watch u til the next day. Then I just need to refresh and it is off to the races.
Work PC and I have to use edge there with Ghostery (ugh). Was trying to find a decent coding tutorial. Every page load of a video was a playback error that instantly vanished when I hit reload. No problems on FF with uBO today, though.
a b testing
or he needs to update his unlock
I use different shared PCs at work and this happens every time on the Windows 11 machines. Some ad plays before the video, but disappears when I refresh the page. This doesn’t happen on the Win 10 machines we still have left. In forced to use Chrome there but everything has UBlock Lite enabled.
No. It works across all my systems. I never see ads on YT. However…
Videos not loading or playing delayed: That’s a YT feature which they implemented for Firefox users, to annoy them. And to promote Chrome as “the fastest” webbrowser.
I also have dns issues at home… I should fix them already. Sometimes, a page doesn’t load on the first try.
zewmI experience the same issue. All the elements on the page load extremely slow or sometimes not at all.
I noted an experimental rule in uBO to address delays, but have not tried it yet myself.
You can try user agent switcher. Sometimes it is detected or causes issues, but if YouTube thinks you are running Chrome then you may get better service.
I haven’t had any issues like that, it’s been working fine for me
If on mobile, try setting it to desktop mode. Also, getting the chameleon extension and pretending you are using chrome can also help.
I am not an expert so don’t quote me here, but I think there are ways of bypassing the agent switcher/spoofer (like chameleon) revealing the true browser you are using… that would actually make you MORE fingerprintable.
I sometimes get a popup warning from YouTube that my account will be blocked from viewing videos if I keep running an ad blocker. But the warning goes away after a while and YouTube still works. I don’t see ads except on mobile.
Oddly, they also keep begging me to “return” to YouTube Premium, though I have never paid for YouTube Premium.
Oddly, they also keep begging me to “return” to YouTube Premium, though I have never paid for YouTube Premium.
This is just ‘normal’ commercial psychological manipulation.
Returning sounds better than starting, so a small percentage of people would sign up that wouldn’t have otherwise if it was worded accurately.
Or even better, Librewolf.
ekZeppSadly i have to stop using it. Librewolf has start getting some graphic bug, i also can’t upload pictures to some website (it show just lines). Now i’m trying Floorp.
This is caused by not allowing the website to access your html canvas data. You can fix this in the address bar by clicking the icon on the left of the URL to grant permissions.
To add to this.
This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
Canvas data gives a lot of datapoints that websites can use to fingerprint your browser. This allows them to track you across multiple sites even if you’re blocking ads and pi-holing tracking services.
There is an unavoidable tradeoff between convenience and security/privacy. Privacy features are inherently less convenient than allowing everyone access to everything.
You could disable canvas blocking globally (I’m assuming, I haven’t looked) and the problem would go away, but you’ve then weakened the privacy protections that were built in to the browser.
Honest question, but what makes librewolf BETTER?
In firefox you can easily toggle off the studies telemetry bullshit in the settings. Librewolf is just firefox with those things ripped out right?
Yes. I consider it better because it’s preconfigured for privacy, includes UBlock Origin by default, and rips Mozilla’s telemetry out. So you never have to worry about them sneaking something new in a later update.
I’m more worried about the updates not happening in a timely fashion. Is it just a passion project by a handful of devs, or is there some kind of funding?
Update frequency/latency hasn’t been an issue in the 2 years I’ve been using it.
Sure, but what about in 2 years from now?
I used IronFox for a couple years and it suddenly stopped getting updates, and it took me a few months to realize and switch to something else. I don’t want that to happen again.
I like the idea of librewolf, especially that it’s just a patch set on top of Firefox, but someone needs to maintain that patch set. This would be fine for simpler software, but browsers are complex and I just worry that updates will stall out with little warning.
Certainly a valid concern, but it’s true with any software. I think enough people (techies especially) are using LibreWolf that a lack of updates would be visible quickly.
Perhaps. But a browser is something I’d prefer to just forget about and not track updates. So it’s very likely that I won’t check if it has gotten updates for a few months.
Two years is enough time for Firefox itself to cease to exist. Cross that bridge when you burn it
Maybe? It’s a lot less likely for FF to disappear than LibreWolf.