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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Or just use uBlock Origin? It blocks YouTube's ads (and their adblocker-blockers) right out of the gate. It's also available on Firefox for Android.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the moment, Youtube is managing to push ads onto me despite uBO.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you followed the instructions in the devs' Reddit thread? (At the bottom of the thread, they also have a section of instructions for people who've already gone through the process of purging their filters before.)

Also, make sure nothing else (ex. another adblocker, including your browser's built-in adblocker) is causing issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is better than Adblock.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's too much of a pain to use for me personally. I really don't want to spend time figuring out which scripts to enable every time I visit a new site. Adblock I can just turn on and forget with minimum effort.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have never had to touch anything on uBlock origin. Well, before this youtube stuff when I sometimes have to manually update a block list when YT gets a new adblocker blocker

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I never had to touch anything in uBlock Origin, not even once, I just have to remember to check for updates every now and then. I see some people saying sometimes they still get ads on youtube, not sure if it's youtube testing new targeting, but I've never seen ads on YT anyway, I guess I'm not interesting enough to them XD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I already use uBlock Origin. I haven't had any issues with it. I was replying to the person who said NoScript was better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Download Firefox. Look up "ublock origin firefox" in search engine of choice. Click install. Done!

It's that easy....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was replying to the comment saying that NoScript was better...I already use uBlock.