So YT has declared war on adblockers.
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I pay for YT premium... of course, I still have to deal with in video ads. That whole pay model for premium users never worked. So, people still pay and have to deal with content creators doing in-video ads. It's too much IMO.
Jeremy Falcon
I have had YT Premium for several years. Sometimes I get on some form of device where I'm not logged in and no adblocker. YouTube becomes almost unwatchable. A self incentive to get out and do something physical in the world.
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I have had YT Premium for several years. Sometimes I get on some form of device where I'm not logged in and no adblocker. YouTube becomes almost unwatchable. A self incentive to get out and do something physical in the world.
Amen, brother.
Jeremy Falcon
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Watch YT with Opera One (built in blocking) or use UBlock Origin plugin for Chromium/FireFox - they work around YT...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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UBlock doesn't work anymore. Saturday I got the message from YT that I needed to drop the ad blocker in order to continue watching a video. Browser was Edge on Linux Mint.
Da Bomb
fatman45 wrote:
UBlock doesn't work anymore.
As fast as Google/YT blocks, UBlock has a fix ... Click on "Report a problem", then "Update Now". Once done, then refresh and all is fixed. The alternate is Opera One ... Not blocked.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Despite trying to serve me several dozen ads per page, selling my view statistics, and effectively getting all their data for free (though they do pay contributors who get to certain subscriber / view counts) they have apparently decided that adblockers are a major menace to society (and profits) and I should pay them £12 per month to not see ads. Well, that's me not watching YT any more then. Sod 'em - the quality has been dropping for quite a while anyway.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Does no one use NoScript anymore? YouTube has a difficult time blocking adblock if their anti-adblock script can't run.
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Despite trying to serve me several dozen ads per page, selling my view statistics, and effectively getting all their data for free (though they do pay contributors who get to certain subscriber / view counts) they have apparently decided that adblockers are a major menace to society (and profits) and I should pay them £12 per month to not see ads. Well, that's me not watching YT any more then. Sod 'em - the quality has been dropping for quite a while anyway.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Youtube doesn't like something about my firefox settings, even if I disable my ad blocker. Im just going to abandon youtube. It's not worth the effort to battle yt's large staff to get ad-free content. I'll have to spend a few bucks a month for a music service (which I needed to do anyway), but I won't miss youtube that much.
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On desktop: when ad starts skip to next video then back to previous page (on FF at least)
Forgot to mention This removes ads entirely. Also on FF. Until Google blocks it. [Enhancer for YouTube™ - Chrome Web Store](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enhancer-for-youtube/ponfpcnoihfmfllpaingbgckeeldkhle)
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uBlock shows how many ads it blocked on the current page: YT is showing 10 today, but I've seen 53 before. I have nothing against ad supported models, but when you force that many ads on me, I'm not whitelisting you. And if you won't show me content without a greedy heap of crap being thrown at me, I'll bugger off elsewhere. It's like those GDPR banners which forces you to visit each of their vendors and deselect them individually: I'm not doing that, I'm not there any more and I'm not coming back. You get greedy and you lose visitors.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
OriginalGriff wrote:
uBlock shows how many ads it blocked on the current page
I suppose I just do not 'see' them because I do not look. So just now when I looked at the youtube side bar (right) I can see a list of 'videos' and some of them look like ads. But I almost never look at that. So I don't see them.
