#adblock

[anarchopuppy]

Here's uBlock Origin's official guide to bypassing youtube's anti-adblock popups, updated weekly. Please share widely. Don't reward google for their predatory anti-consumer bullshit

To summarize: 1. Get uBlock Origin and make sure it's updated to the latest version. 2. Click on the gear icon to get to the dashboard, go to "Filter lists", and make sure that "uBlock filters - Quick fixes" is up to date

Repeat those steps any time you get another popup (google and uBlock are having an arms race right now so it might stop working at any moment), and if you have any more problems, read the reddit thread for troubleshooting advice

#youtube #ublock origin #adblock #ad blocking #youtube ads #practical #not gardening

[radicalgraff]

Ad blocking in Melbourne

#adblock #ad block #subvert

[pigeonphd]

btw guys, ublock and youtube have been in an arms race for the past few weeks so circulating filter lists is pretty useless since youtube gets wise to each one in a matter of days. what you should actually do is remove all your custom filters related to youtube and then force update your filter list whenever you see the anti-adblock pop up again

#the filter lists that are going around will actually activate youtubes anti-adblock regardless of your other settings #whereas the ublock developers are updating the built in filters almost as fast as youtube is noticing them #ublock origin #youtube #adblock

[moomingitz]

#Youtube #uBlock Origin #adblock #Spongebob Squarepants #memes #lol

[theculturedmarxist]

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

#samsung #privacy #surveillance #pi hole #raspberry pi #internet #adblock #adbusting #youtube #twitter thread #pihole

[ailurinae]

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If you just use uBlock Origin and don't layer random other adblockers or rules on top, you should be fine on YouTube. Adding special rules yourself or multiple blockers is just making trouble for yourself.

#AdBlock #anti-adblock #YouTube #uBlock Origin #computers #my posts #SponsorBlock

[chthonic-cookie]

handy diagram guide to the uBlock vs Youtube situation

thought this might be useful, but mostly wanted to illustrate the sisyphean cycle we seem to be trapped in

uBlock Reddit thread :

(there's probably a new thread stickied at the top of the subreddit)

remember to follow all the instructions first! After that you will be trapped in the cycle above, but we're in it together! :)

#ublock #youtube #youtube adblock #adblock #ublock origin #firefox

[dat-soldier]

Guhh

adblockers rly arent working now... it's no longer a pop up window...

would be a shame,,,,,,,,

if i pressed the Embed button, revealing a smaller video player.........

#youtube #adblock #ublock #youtube adblock #shame for music playlists but hey i still got my mealtime entertainment

[river-taxbird]

Cool interaction I just had on twitter! It's not easily enforceable, but it seems like the thing youtube are doing where they detect if you are using an adblocker is not only economically unviable, but could actually be illegal in europe under GDPR! It requires determining if you have specific software available on your computer, which legally you can't do without consent under GDPR. I really hope someone is able to fight this! I know it's a longshot but it would be super cool.

Link to Alexander Hanff's original tweet showing a legal letter from the EU that re-enforces this point: https://twitter.com/alexanderhanff/status/722861362607747072

#privacy #youtube #adblock #ublock #law #gdpr #gdpr compliance

[radicalgraff]

"Ad block"

Painted on a broken ad space during a demonstration in Paris against Macron's retirement reform

#graffiti #graff #protest #anti-ad #anti-pub #subvertising #adblock

[aloftmelevar]

2023 has been, without a doubt, the most depressing, dire, enraging year for the internet. youtube is blocking adblockers. twitter is a racist homophobic NFT bro incel's paradise. tumblr is shoving their dumbass live service in our faces (yet it's still the most habitable social media right now). reddit had that whole API disaster thing. instagram killed hashtags and now it's basically impossible to grow an account on there...and horrific everything-phobic comments are allowed, and if you report them or call them out, YOU'RE the one who gets banned.

at the beginning of 2023, most of these websites were still themselves for the most part, but for some reason it was this year when they all decided to burst into flames. the internet is literally uninhabitable. we live in a world that's suffering from inflation, where the average neurodivergent youtube junkie like me isn't able to afford 15 dollars a month to remove ads. there are too many streaming services. everything is too much. it's too overstimulating.

#adblock #youtube #youtube adblock #i'm not gonna be able to combat this shit forever #at some point i'm just gonna have to take the L and accept the fact that i'm a boomer zoomer

[stormy404]

"the problem isn't that there's ads, its the length of them-" actually the problem is that there's ads at all. fuck being constantly manipulated into buying things. fuck capitalism and consumerism.

youtube is owned by one of the richest companies in the world, they don't need to have ads to stay afloat.

#youtube #adblock #adblockers #ublock origin #ublock #anti capitalism #fuck capitalism #fuck youtube

[nuka-rockit]

#youtube #adblock #ads #google #FUCK YOU IM NOT BUYING PREMIUM SUCK MY DICK #youre a multi billion company get over it #maybe if you dont want people to adblock dont force them to watch seventeen unskippable ads per video with scam ads on the side #my stuff #ok to rb #yt

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #polls about the internet #submitted dec 9 #adblock

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Instead of the “Adblock is not allowed on YouTube” message, my video player got replaced by a Cease and Desist letter and a box prompting me to write a response.

#dream #youtube #adblock #cease and desist

[assbestos]

firefox wrapped. you blocked 8,463,285,221 ads

#adblock #firefox #like truly I look on my various adblocking/datafucking extensions and it’s blocked 300 ads in a single 2 hour period of me being online