Comment on YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 2 days ago
You guys see ads? I think you're doing the Internet wrong.
Comment on YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 2 days ago
You guys see ads? I think you're doing the Internet wrong.
Gaywallet@beehaw.org 2 days ago
I love how this is smug and offers no advice. Peak substack vibes
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 2 days ago
uBlock Origin on Firefox or Librewolf works, or you could make a PiHole
TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Unless I’m mistaken, PiHole won’t block Youtube ads because they’re served from the same domain as the videos.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
correct
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 1 day ago
Well, shit. Comment updated.
webkitten@piefed.social 1 day ago
Adguard won’t work but uBlock Origin on Librewolf or Firefox works with at least the EasyList subscription (possibly Peter Lowe’s too). You can also use either the built in tracker in Vivaldi (just go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Manage Sources) and enable EasyList/disable the Allow ads from our partners).
Vivaldi also supports MV2 uBlock Origin for now; it will say it’s not supported but Vivaldi is fighting the removal of MV2).
I’ve had a good mix of filters and haven’t gotten the adblock warning for Youtube (knock on wood). It’s been a while since configuring but I think enabling Disable pre-fetching (to prevent any connection for blocked network requests and I’m an advanced user will help out.
I have all the uBlock Filters, EasyList, AdGuard, AdGuard/uBO – URL Tracking Protection, Block Outsider Intrusion into LAN, Online Malicious URL Blocklist, Phishing URL Blocklist
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Pihole doesn’t work for YouTube, because they host the ads on the same servers as the videos. Blocking ads would also block videos. And uBlock Origin is a constant game of whack-a-mole, with YouTube constantly trying new ways to evade the ad blocker.
Hell, they’ve even started embedding the ad directly into the same video stream if they think you’re using an ad blocker, so it’s all one contiguous video that runs straight from the ad into the video you wanted to watch. Then they just block you from skipping ahead in the video stream until the ad is done.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 1 day ago
I've never had Ublock origin fail. Plus, there's Sponsorblock for blocking in-video ads.
Alternately, you could use an app that does it for you.
Finally, I don't know what substack is, but you seem like kind of a knob for wanking so hard over a half-assed joke.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
they havnt evaded unblock origin so far, its only they have slowed the start of a video for a few seconds. i would imagine theyw ould try to increase the starting time for a video overtime.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You’re probably using a chromium browser.
Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Install another browser like Librewolf (ublock included) or Brave. That’s it, say good-bye to the ads, and not only in Youtube. And don’t use the “ad-company” browser in the future if you don’t like ads.
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Uuhhh, yeah, no. Don’t do this. Librewolf – or really any Firefox browser – is going to be a lot better choice than the homophobia-and-crypto Chromium browser.
NightFantom@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Android using waterfox with ublock, no ads on youtube or anywhere else
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Unfortunately Firefox is also an ads company now, but still gecko-based browsers are the only good choice rn
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 1 day ago
I don't like the direction they're heading, but Firefox still works just fine with UBlock Origin, Sponsorblock, etc.