- cwagner ( @cwagner@beehaw.org ) 73•1 year ago
Is there anything new in this post that I’m missing?
- ericjmorey ( @ericjmorey@beehaw.org ) English17•1 year ago
I don’t think so.
- Thorny_Insight ( @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ) 11•1 year ago
Nope. This has been going on for months already. Nothing new here. There’s atleast three different kinds of pop-ups for adblock users and the same solution works for all of them.
- stebo02 ( @stebo02@sopuli.xyz ) 2•1 year ago
which is? besides not using YouTube?
- Thorny_Insight ( @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
Disable all other adblockers, disable enhanced tracking protection for youtube.com in Firefox (shield icon in addres bar), remove your custom adblocking rules and update uBlock Origin manually atleast twice a day; settings > filter list > quick fixes > click the clock icon > click update. Alternatively you can also just purge catches and update all filters but that takes longer is is not necessary
- TheCalzoneMan ( @TheCalzoneMan@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
I’ve been sitting pretty with both uBlock Origin and uMatrix stopping both the ads and the delay from YouTube. Not sure what exactly is doing which, but it’s been working for me
- Thorny_Insight ( @Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
Yeah it might not matter but for people having issues with these pop-ups, that’s the most likely culpript
- stebo02 ( @stebo02@sopuli.xyz ) 1•1 year ago
right, thank you but I think I will stick with invidious for a while, that’s easier
- janguv ( @janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 5•1 year ago
It’s a strange post in general. Someone’s substack, written in some generic faux-journalist style, with one source for the main claim (“a Redditor”), who isn’t linked to. Don’t know why it’s being shared here.
- cwagner ( @cwagner@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
It’s a substack post. At this point, my quality expectation is
- Wordpress - Probably someone who really cares about what they write about
- Substack - Either low effort spam like this that gets upvoted for some reason or someone pushing their agenda, hard
- Medium - Either spam, wrong, dumb, or too simple. Literally never worth reading.
- 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 ( @01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ) English2•1 year ago
My understanding of the three platforms, too. Interesting how similar people congregate in platforms.
- SomeoneSomewhere ( @SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ) 34•1 year ago
FYI: This has been going on for about a month. If you still see warnings, update your ad blocker, switch to UBlock Origin, and/or check their FAQs.
- !ozoned@lemmy.world ( @ozoned@beehaw.org ) English23•1 year ago
Invidious still wotks great for me.
There’s also Piped.
Peertube is also gaining traction and I personally enjoy that, just needs more content creators to stop worrying about chicken and egg and start protecting their content.
- 0x815 ( @0x815@feddit.de ) 18•1 year ago
YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users
Firefox users are reporting an ‘artificial’ load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it’s part of a plan to make people who use adblockers “experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using.”
- Skelectus ( @Skelectus@suppo.fi ) 46•1 year ago
Honestly, staring at a blank page for 30 seconds would be preferable to 30 seconds of ads.
- !ozoned@lemmy.world ( @ozoned@beehaw.org ) English17•1 year ago
As someone that watches Twitch through MPV, I can confirm watching “Ad Playing” is preferable to actually watching an annoying ad.
- Crotaro ( @Crotaro@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year ago
I knew I wasn’t just imagining things. I like to listen to music on YouTube when driving to work. And sure, the internet reception there is spotty (danke, Merkel), but for a couple weeks now I’ve consistently had a very long “buffering” period every time the next video/song loaded up.
Well, joke’s on them. I found out about NewPipe and its built-in video/audio downloader, because I complained to an acquaintance about it.
- Leonard Kelley ( @DeForrest_McCoy@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
I only seem to barely notice the difference… At first i couldnt understand what everyone was talking about…but yeah its a small delay over what it used to be. Also it seems any bookmarked vids will no longer autoplay… you have to click play… is that a thing anyone else has to do ?
I tried Edge and it seemed only a small bit faster to me, but it did autoplay. Are there any other anomalous strange effects google has done to youtube that i might have missed ?
I never had issues with adds on FF and ublock … still don’t.
- howrar ( @howrar@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
Needing to click to play a video is a Firefox feature, and it’s been there for ages already. It doesn’t allow any audio to play until you interact with the page.
- cmnybo ( @cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ) English15•1 year ago
Ublock origin is still working fine for me with the occasional manual filter list update.
- tuckerm ( @tuckerm@supermeter.social ) 9•1 year ago
Yeah, I actually haven’t seen the nag screen in a couple days, whereas I was seeing it often last week. Whatever updated circumvention uBlock has figured out, it’s working just about perfectly.
- aeternum ( @aeternum@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
same here. u block works fine for me.
- zcd ( @zcd@lemmy.ca ) 12•1 year ago
Fuck YouTube
- Maestro ( @Maestro@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
Too bad the alternatives suck so much. Vimeo used to be nice. I don’t know where they went wrong.
- Summzashi ( @Summzashi@lemmy.one ) 5•1 year ago
Vimeo was never intended as a YouTube competitor. It’s like saying Flickr is a competitor to Instagram.
- JWBananas ( @JWBananas@startrek.website ) English8•1 year ago
- mPony ( @mPony@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
rather than uninstalling adblockers entirely, can’t they just whitelist YouTube? Ad Trackers only have value when they track people across multiple sites: if the tracker only functions on YT then users get the video views they want and YT gets near-worthless tracking data.
- Coffee Junky ❤️ ( @coffeejunky@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
There is a reason I only watch YouTube on my phone or laptop and not my smart TV. Because we went from one ad every few videos to multiple unskippable ads per video. It has become worse than old cable TV.
- EmperorHenry ( @EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ) 6•1 year ago
AdNauseam is great.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
Where do I sign up? I’d take 720p with no ads easy
- Skies5394 ( @Skies5394@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
They’re counting on people being complacent and just whitelisting.
The problem is, they’re probably right to try the tactic too. People need those dopamine hits.
- 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 ( @01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ) English1•1 year ago
Didn’t this happen a couple months ago? I’ve been using UBO after the update and NewPipe (Android)/FreeTube (desktop) before that without issues. The new thing they’re doing is the 5 second delay for Firefox users.