14 points

Oh look, YouTube managed to circumvent uBlock for like two hours again before someone figured out a fix, lol.

Seriously, I wanna know how much funds Google allocates to fight ad blockers just to come up with a working solution every odd month that then gets fixed by the uBlock community in hours. There’s no way this is profitable for them or gets a sizable number of uBlock users to buy their subscription.

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I’ve seen what effort goes into it at somewhere else, it’s a lot

not sure I’d say it’s unprofitable though, given just how goddamn much money google does make from its advertising monopoly. but I get what you meant with the conversion angle nonetheless

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Sadly, the majority of humanity aren’t intelligent people. This is most likely working for them with hundreds of idiots.

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5 points

no to this, kthx

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I mean, yeah, the people on Lemmy aren’t atypical of the populous though.

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Please don’t make posts to TechTakes that are just bare images without a description. The description can be simple, like “Screenshot from YouTube saying ‘Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service’”. Some of our participants rely upon screenreaders. Or are crotchety old people who remember an Internet that wasn’t all three websites sharing snapshots of the other two websites.

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i use ublock origin

reddit still good for something: Filter Lists–>uBlock filters–>uncheck the “ublock filters - quickfixes” box and then reload the page.

this worked for me

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5 points

Did this disable ad blocking or just tell the notice to fuck off?

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ad blocking works fine with this unchecked. from what i gather this particular switch is a recent addition per the ublock app update, which broke youtube ad blocking. i’m sure ublock will rectify it, but in the meantime this workaround works around it.

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5 points

Thanks for the heads up!

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No problem, set your useragent to openai, boom no more advertisements. Every other video is some weird video about how great google is however. Strange that. (Note: this is a joke, not something that I tested and actually works).

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6 points

TL;DW - They do whatever Aaron tells them to.

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2 points

what

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2 points

The video is titled, “How the Jets Trade for players.”

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2 points

still don’t get it

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