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[Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful (odysee.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 10 months ago (3 children)

His argument is:

A lot of people were using poor adblockers.
Youtube can block the bad ones but struggles with the good ones.
People switch to the better adblockers (some of which require a subscription)

[–] [email protected] 68 points 10 months ago

Which is why you always finish your antibiotics

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm hearing first time that some of the adblockers require subscription... Like, there's ublock origin, the one and only god out there, why would you like to go somewhere else, even closed source?

Edit: damn autocorrect

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I wonder how true that is for the average user

My father disabled ublock because it didn't let him use YouTube. I sent hima tutorial on how to update the list and purge the cache but it was too much work for him

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Use Ublock Origin, not Ublock.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I meant ublock origin

Didn't know there was a "vanilla" ublock

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Consider using VNC and simply doing the work for him. I find I just do not have the time to coach them through a document and I just do all this stuff for my parents instead. Life's too short to explain where the any key is.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Never updated or purged ublock origin. Never got the popup. Is this only regional thing or Firefox built different.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I may be wrong, but I think it has something to do with whether or not you had any custom filters enabled when youtube started cracking down on ad blockers. I also haven't seen a popup yet, but I assumed it was because I'm too lazy to go beyond the vanilla UBO install.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

No, there's an A/B implementation going on. The UBO maintainers hadn't seen the crackdown themselves and had to rely on troubleshooting reports to see what is going on which is wild to think about - both on their skill but also did google specifically whitelist them or are they exceptionally lucky

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I never saw it on desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I was annoyed when I got the popup, so I stopped using vanilla yt and started using invidious or freetube. Since then ubo updated a couple times. I used vanilla yt the past couple days for hours of educational vids, and got no antiadblock messages. It wasn't until I saw this post that I realized that ubo autofixed itself. Ask your father to reinstall ubo on ff and see if it fixes it. Also, I don't ever log on to yt, so maybe that plays a factor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

same here. it's the real reason i don't set it up for people, they need to be able to at least maintain it. My mother can't get the update working either until i did it step by step with her and she practiced it several time.