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Ublock users who got hit by Youtube's anti-adblock effort- how's your experience been? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
38 comments fedilink

I started getting the dreaded anti-adblock pop-ups on Youtube when they started ramping up their efforts a month or so back, and I initially went through the whole rigamarole: First it was just the pop-up, then it was the pop-up with the timer, then the 3-video countdown finally leading to the video player being disabled outright.

Throughout all of this I did the recommended Purging All Caches -> Update Now routine on the Ublock Dashboard at least once a day to keep the pop-ups away, but when it got to the player getting blocked it didn't seem to work anymore. Since I'm on Firefox, I experimented using Containers and found that I could just log in to my YT account on a different container to keep using Youtube until that container started getting blocked.

In the past few weeks I've noticed no issues though apart from having the video player blocked once, which was fixed by purging all caches and updating and I almost forgot about the whole anti-adblock thing altogether. It does seem like YT pages are loading slightly slower than they used to though.

Are you still having issues with Ublock on Youtube or were you even affected at all?

YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers by doublepepperoni in c/android@lemdro.id
[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

I'm assuming this will escalate to some insanely locked down DRM scheme. Guess I'll enjoy uBlock, ReVanced and yt-dlp while I can

YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users by doublepepperoni in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

They're just being dicks considering how tiny the Firefox userbase is

I fully expect to have to be fingeprinted, DNA tested and retinal scanned to access cOnTenT in a year or two

*Permanently Deleted* by doublepepperoni in c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Yup, I'm pretty sure tons of liberals believe this completely uncritically and don't even think about it

Let them eat burgers! Austrian chancellor says low-income families should eat at McDonald’s by doublepepperoni in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure how things are in Austria but where I live fast food is really expensive for someone strapped for cash

Reddit is dead. Long live the Fediverse. by doublepepperoni in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Apparently American Reddit has been plastered with ads from a billion-dollar Evangelical Christian campaign for months and Jewish, LGBT amd atheist users have been especially targeted

Religion and Politics were categories you could not opt out of

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Why does the Youtube Shorts interface suck so bad (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net
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Why is there no seekbar and why can you only pause?

Why does scrolling up or down on the mouse wheel bring up another video?

Why is it siloed off into its own thing anyway? They're just short videos.

Anon plays L4D2 by doublepepperoni in c/greentext@lemmy.ml
[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

L4D2 is such a timeless classic that the only thing that its imitators could do was dilute the formula with leveling and progression nonsense

Legendary PC developer says Denuvo is “a punishment to the consumer” by doublepepperoni in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

The Titanic is a legendary ship, but it wasn't a very good ship

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The one area where I actually prefer using my phone over Windows (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/technology@lemmy.ml
13 comments fedilink

When I want to type a special non-English character like Ø, on my Android phone I simply long press on "o" on the keyboard and it brings up every variation of the letter o you could think of.

On Windows, the best you get is "please memorise this giant list of four number codes". If I'm going to have to google the code I'm probably just going to copy the letter and paste it into whatever I'm writing.

Why not add them to the damn emoji menu (Windows key + .)

Stop using Brave Browser by doublepepperoni in c/firefox@lemmy.ml
[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

The author points out that Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, co-founder (and ex-CEO) of Mozilla, and founder of Brave, donated 1,000 USD in support of a proposition to ban same-sex marriage.

My impression was Brave got started after he got hoofed out of Mozilla or left on his own accord after the backlash for showing his ass to be a homophobe. Redditor types were of course very angry about this blatant disregard for frozen peaches and jumped onto his new venture in droves

Looking at the uBlock Origin subreddit and reading the struggles people have with Youtube's new anti-adblock measures by doublepepperoni in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Here's hoping uBO manages to stay on top of the adblock arms race after this shit gets rolled out to everyone 🤞

Looking at the uBlock Origin subreddit and reading the struggles people have with Youtube's new anti-adblock measures by doublepepperoni in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

It seems to be happening to people regardless of the browser they're using. Google's currently only testing the new measures on random accounts

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Looking at the uBlock Origin subreddit and reading the struggles people have with Youtube's new anti-adblock measures (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/technology@lemmy.ml
36 comments fedilink

Can't wait until Google flips them on globally for all users doomer

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Hello. Please make the hyperlink colour more easily distinguishable from other text (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/hexbear@hexbear.net
0 comments fedilink

Thank you

Piracy > resellers by doublepepperoni in c/piracy@lemmy.ml
[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

The latter option does leave you with the game in your Steam account though, which is infinitely more convenient than downloading a repack made by some Russian somewhere in 15 parts from 5 different filesharing websites

...I mean, I assume. It's not like I've ever bought a game... or several games... from resellers side-eye-2

Keep it simple by doublepepperoni in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Finnish has no articles troll

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