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YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

uBlock Origin on Firefox or Librewolf works, or you could make a PiHole

Edit: Looks like PiHole won't work, still worth setting up for general use though!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

    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.

    So you’re still smug, and offering misleading advice. Peak substack vibes.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    uBlock Origin is a constant game of whack-a-mole

    No it isn't. Once in a while it stops working for a few hours, but I can't remember the last time that happened.

    They started embedding the ad directly into the same video stream

    That's false. Twitch does it, YouTube doesn't. You can use any alternative frontend like Invidious or Grayjay and verify this quite easily.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 you're being kind of a knob for wanking so hard over a half-assed joke, even after getting the help you were complaining about.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months 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.

    i think that is with twitch only, its very expensive to do, thats why youtube hasnt done it yet.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    You're probably using a chromium browser.

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