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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers โ€” and it's doing something about it::undefined

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[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

The only device I use for YouTube is my android phone, because it runs Firefox and ublock origin. For this exact reason.

Google's clever though, they broke full screen video in Firefox in Android 13. Now I have to restart Firefox after putting the first video in full screen, after that the videos still play.

[-] WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you use an iOS device? I have an app that works very well and is on the app store, no side loading

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

What's stopping you from posting the name? I have an iPad that I used to use for YouTube in the kitchen but now it's only Netflix and nebula.

[-] wervenyt@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

In general, posting publicly about these kinds of workarounds is a bad idea. It'd be great to share them with the world, but the sooner Youtube finds out about them, the sooner they break. Keeping the recommendations to in-person or at least in private channels helps to maintain the obscurity that allows them to exist.

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