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Youtube's War on Adblock Got Worse
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Damn. Looks like I'll have to update Ublock again.
I noticed that YouTube began setting my videos to the lowest resolution, when set to Auto, since a day or two ago.
I installed an extension to force the resolution I want, and it took maybe 10 seconds to grab.
Like hell am I allowing ads.
Its been doing that for years for me, even as a day 1 premium subscriber.
I have to manually select 1080p every single video
I'm on premium and my videos load like shit too when forced to high resolution with the plugin.
and before anyone says anything, I get family YouTube for $3 a month. switch your VPN to turkey, login in incognito, buy it. I had to go this route to keep even more shitty ads playing on my kids switch. my home is already layered with pihole adblocking and ublock on every computer. $3 is fine by me.
I don't care about "tracking", you need to decide if that's something you really even need to worry about. you need to set your expectations of what you are "protecting". privacy is a very grey area, if you think the government is tracking or looking for you, you've got larger issues. for most people, blocking 99% of ads is perfectly acceptable. use disposable accounts if you want for other things. use bitwarden or another password manager and MFA. you'll never be 100% "private" unless you buy a cabin in the woods and disappear.
Revanced is the answer
Or Grayjay.
Please enlighten me, what is grayjay? Or just a link to a website
It's an android app that allows you to follow content creators across several platforms and enjoy their content. Platforms includes the like of patreon, youtube, nebula, peertube, soundcloud...
Its tagline is: "Follow Creators not Platforms". You can only get it from their Website: https://grayjay.app/ made by https://futo.org
ah okay, thanks for the enlightenment
Somehow I'm completely sleeping on that entire issue. I've been running JS-blockers, ad-blockers and privacy-protectors for so long, the ad spam went entirely by me. Every now and then I'm testing something on my add-on free, unmodified Edge just to see if it's my addons or the site is actually broken, and I'm shocked at how sites actually look compared to my experience. I wouldn't know how anyone is able to rawdog the internet.
Once server side ad blocking makes its way into mainstream, ad blocking I think will get interesting. Closer to the old ad blockers for cable television.
Don't worry, we'll always be able to detect ads and block them. It's by nature of an ad to be detectable. I highly doubt YT will manage to add ads into the content, not the into the video part, but inside the content, like some Youtuber do already for their sponsoring and even then we have sponsor block.
What do you mean by server side?
Heres a better article on the technology: https://adguard.com/en/blog/youtube-server-side-ad-insertion.html
It basically makes ad blockers as we use them not work by injecting the ads into the video itself. It will also make things like sponsor block/ublock origin/etc... not work. They are testing the waters as of now.
So you don’t mean ad blocking you mean ad serving.
yes
Been using freetube since the war began. They cab't even benefits from my data
my tv, laptop, and phone continue to play ad free. good thing googles fighting this war on what’s probably under 10% of their user base though
Ive gotten blocked outright. No videos play whatsoever. Ive seen a few posts on reddit of people complaining theyre having the same issue. Not sure what or why? Seems to be account specific.
It was going on for quite some time already, It's just getting worse now. also Invidious instances are totally blocked now and youtube has broke all the work around from Invidious team.
we are losing this war guys D:
For the moment. You might say we are.losing the battle. Wouldn't come close to saying we are losing the war though.
Truth
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
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