Comment on YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match

• TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unless I’m mistaken, PiHole won’t block Youtube ads because they’re served from the same domain as the videos.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    correct

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  • DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, shit. Comment updated.

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• 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

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• 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.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • 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.

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  • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re probably using a chromium browser.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nope, Firefox. YouTube does A/B testing for their ad methods, so what works for you won’t work for everyone.

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