YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers::YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers. In a statement to The Verge, YouTube’s Christopher Lawton says the company has launched a “global effort” to urge people to allow ads on the platform.
YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers::YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers. In a statement to The Verge, YouTube’s Christopher Lawton says the company has launched a “global effort” to urge people to allow ads on the platform.
Uninstall Chrome (includes Edge, Brave, Vivaldi & many more) and replace with Firefox plus uBlock Origin
Problem solved
I personally prefer LibreWolf (Firefox based)
I think we should stop sending people to alternative “Firefox based” browser that will likely break compatibility even more than it is broken on Firefox. It will only frustrate the user and send him back to random chromium based alternative like brave. Firefox default privacy settings are more than enough for the regular user.
I didn’t say it’s good for most people, I just prefer it and think other privacy oriented people should as well
I understand. I am sure that most, if not all people who care about privacy already use Firefox. We need to help regular users to hope into Firefox. These people tend to know almost nothing about computers and a site that doesn’t work is Firefox not working.
Yeah but Firefox uses non private defaults like Google as the default search engine
We need to rid chrome of its monopoly first. Google is a privacy nightmare but it’s only because of chrome hegemony over the browser ecosystem that they are able to forcibly DRM the web and castrate adblockers.
I’ve seen LibreWolf mentioned a few times. What’s the difference between the two?
LibreWolf is just hardened Firefox
There’s also Palemoon (Firefox cringe)
Yeah but LibreWolf is hardened and far more private and secure
It doesn’t solve the problem they still throw a warning every three videos. Brand new Firefox install with only u block. Both at latest version you block updated daily
Purge cache and update, it’s that simple.
What part of I update daily did you miss? You think I’m here updating daily and not clearing my cache? Yt is blocking the updates 6 hours after they are live…
Don’t be a condescending prick if you have no idea of the situation on the ground It’s that simple.
Yikes response
If you would happen to have further information I am all ears. I don’t have time for people who reiterate information from a script when I’ve already preformed the troubleshooting step they suggest. Just because it’s still works for them does not mean I’m not being rotisseried by Google and it’s never-ending ads. My current temp fix is I rip FF out of my PC and Reinstall it after nuking all it’s data then I add unlock back. Which is the only temp fix I have found…
So in a word yes I am pissed.
Invidious
Dude, I’ve been using Ublock for years and this last month I had to update 4 times tops, it works just fine.
On my tv I just downloaded smart tube and I’m also ad-free.
On my phone ublock didn’t even need updating.
Did you read the article? Specifically the part about how YouTube are selectively rolling out the warnings and how not all users are affected? I’m trying to not be pissy but you lot are infuriating.
I have gotten the warnings and got rid of them, Google is updating their script every so often but the ublock devs update the filters pretty quickly.
You’ll get the warning in between these updates but that’s it.
Could you do me a favor and inform my browser of that so it only shows me a warning tonight? I could deal with a warning instead of the blockade that stops any content from loading.
Just follow the steps the devs listed on their reddit post, that should work.