Once again, ad blockers prove to be a great security measure.
I wish if ad blockers were on option on things like Smart TVs and smartphone, not just on my browser.
A must have, if you want to browse the web without ads, trackers, malware and more. There are other browsers you could use, but with #firefox, you can install add-ons to help you mitigate all the tracking and ads. You can even install desktop only add-ons now, and supporting a engine which is not #chromium (controlled by Google) like every other major browser.
There are multiple forks available on the F-droid if you don't want to use plain firefox. This works on desktop too, I recommend #LibreWolf.
My favorite way of blocking ads, you have control over which domain the app can connect. It works like a VPN, but it does not make any outgoing connection. The bad thing is, if you want to use an actual #VPN, you can't have both at the same time and you need to disable your custom DNS.
I recommend to enable in settings > advanced options > block system apps, and individual domains too. When you open the app for the first time, it asks you if you want to block essential request for the apps to work, I recommend to enable this if you don't want apps breaking.
You android vendor may be killing the app, for this reason is necessary to add the app in the list of apps not be optimized by the system. If this issue keeps happening follow the guide from dontkillmyapp.com (advanced)
Official website: TrackerControl.org
A DNS works like a translator, computers are good with numbers, but we are not good at memorizing long numbers. Computers communicate with each other using the Internet Protocol (IP), which are pure numbers. For example, your instance #IP is 104.26.8.209 but is easier to us just type lemmy.world.
A DNS is like a table where it has a relationship between keys pointing lemmy.world to 104.26.8.209, so your computer knows where is the computer is trying to connect.
Let's imagine an app is trying to connect to "https://ads-from.company.com", if you are using a DNS which blocks known domain ads it will redirect that request to "0.0.0.0" which is like sending it to a black hole. There are multiple DNS available, which different purposes, for ads, malware, porn, gambling, etc.
#Mullvand VPN has a guide in how to use their DNS for multiple devices.
Have in mind that these are not full bulletproof protections, one may work better than the other, and can break from time to time. With popular services with ads, like social media, you could use alternative front-ends to their official client or website.
Here is a list of alternative front-ends and an add-on to automatically redirect to them, you have to use it with a browser and you can add as a shortcut to the home screen, better if it works like a #PWA https://libredirect.github.io
Alternative apps
on android it's possible. i use firefox with ublock origin, and revanced.
And for ad-free YouTube specifically on Android-based smartphones, LibreTube is my personal fav but there are plenty of other options such as NewPipe, Clipious, and YouTube Revanced.
depends on if you want to sign in to your account. to my knowlege, only revanced can do that.
This may be an entirely separate conversation but I end up sticking with Firefox+uBlock because I can never get any decent performance out of other front ends.
Google continues to push blatant scams with their ads and wonders why people run adblockers.
I've seen the Joe Rogan and Dr. Phil ads mentioned in the article, as well as George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks and others. I've reported the ads multiple times.YouTube needs to squash this NOW instead of just pretending they aren't aware of it.
Nah buv let it exlode and cull the weak /s
You can be demonetized on youtube for saying fuck too many times or too early in a video. Yet the advertisers are allowed to show me ads that, literally, are saying you can use their product to make AI porn of your friends against their will.
One would think that with their resources, Google/YouTube could actually vet the ads they run on their platform before they run them. At the very least, check the ads coming from unknown companies
They could, but the goal is 100% automation to maximize profits. Much cheaper to just run an algorithm than using a human being.
They're able to do that on all the videos everyone else uploads. They turn a blind eye to ads because all they care about is the money.
They only scan the videos whether they can put ads on them, and content id so they can get music labels to upload their stuff to the platform. They don’t care about the rest.
You're assuming they care about the content of the ads. If they're getting paid, they run the ad, that's it.
I would think the celebrities these are supposed to be would sue the shit out of YouTube for allowing this whether they agree with the message or not. Seems like a pretty strong case. The interesting part is how would you ever authenticate these sort of messages. I would think after losing a few of these cases YouTube would stop allowing ANY celebrity type messaging.
I hope they get absolutely railed by lawsuits
I ended up uninstalling the official iOS app and went to the browser with vinegar. I kept reporting these scam ads and YouTube doesn’t bother removing them. Google doesn’t care if their users are scammed because the users aren’t their customers
Unless the user actually is their customer, then they don't show them ads. ;)
Shoot, I didn’t even consider Google purposefully allowing scam and malicious advertisements as a means to sell YT premium
"You either die a product, or live long enough to see yourself become a customer.
-Bruce 'Capitalism' Wayne
My solution to prevent these scams from showing is an add blocker called "uBlock Origins". On my phone I use "Revanced" and "Grayjay". Poof no more scams. Like and subscribe for more tips and tricks.
all of the ...vanced clones kept failing on me. Grayjay had been seemless and perfect just my 2c
It's valid 2c. I haven't had an issue with Revanced besides when I need to update.
Youtube is cancer. I recommend using their competion, for example Dailymotion, to keep them on their toes
We are on the fediverse, why not peertube?
You could also stare at a blank wall instead, which is just as exciting as any of the other video platforms.
I'm working towards it, starting with Newpipe for my current content while searching for new.
We are on the fediverse, why not peertube?
I feel sorry for the people that are exposed to this shit by Google, especially those that are less tech savvy that aren't blocking ads.
Educate as many people/loved ones as you can folks about this to protect them and to fuck Google.
You can hear it in the voices. The weird part is, I could completely see Rogan and Phil agreeing to do these kind of ads if it didn't have repercussions. I wonder if that's the plan. They let them do the deep fakes to trick the people they want to trick and then for the rest, it's a deep fake and they had nothing to do with it.
Agreeing with the content sure. But letting them use their voices and images without getting paid? Hell no. If they were paid then it’s no different than if they made them.
How would we know either way, so what would be the risk? The videos aren't being flagged or taken down, soooooo....
Yea this is sketchy AF. Not to mention concerning due to its potential implications. Going to be interesting how not only YouTube but other platforms deal with this.
If I had to watch an ad, deep fake or not, I'd just stop watching YT vids altogether.
Is this new for anyone? Every time I saw ads somewhere on the web half of them were scams.
Youtube has comerciales 😱
"i continue to watch ads and blatantly targeted bullshit, and have the gall to whine."
Look, there are at risk people who don't understand what they are consuming, but those who write tech articles are not among them. Those are just idiots.
PEBKACK.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
