Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube

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Do you agree?
	Yes, you are hurting the content creator's� feelings and future
	No, youtube is infringing on my rights with anti-ad blocker ads
	Just click out and suck it up OP lmfao
	I watch videos on dailymotion instead
	Goku using incognito mode

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Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

ded posted:

twitch is really aggressive about getting around ad blockers. youtube ain't got poo poo on it.

I had to give up on Twitch for the time being, ads all the time atm.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2023 16:11

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 16:14

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

TACD posted:

There's a Firefox extension that works great for me

Oh lovely, installed!

Much appreciated. :tipshat:

# ¿ Oct 19, 2023 18:48

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

temple posted:

Youtube isn't Google. Kind of like how Twitch isn't Amazon.

Just how many companies does Alphabet own/control?

# ¿ Oct 19, 2023 20:41

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Strategic Tea posted:

If you aren't getting the adblock warning it's because ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE at google has calculated that they'll make more money from not banning you

I'm a stingy bugger these days so god knows what they think i'm spending non existent money on.

Still got no warnings from them.

Hold on... am i in the "Control Group"? :stonklol:

# ¿ Oct 21, 2023 18:45

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Does Porn Hub do adverts? :stare:

# ¿ Oct 27, 2023 23:24

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I spent my childhood using CLI in MS-DOS. I ain't going to back to that if I don't have to.

MS-Dos 6.0, Autoexec.bat & Config.sys for life! :suicide:

# ¿ Oct 29, 2023 06:00

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

ded posted:

firefox + ublock + dont be logged in = i've still never seen these ads or ad gripes

I'm running Linux Mint with their version of Firefox + uBlock origin and am always logged in, not had any ads yet at all. :shrug:

Are they more heavily focused on the USA cause i'm in the UK?

# ¿ Nov 10, 2023 09:56

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Bertha the Toaster posted:

Literally the same as you, Mint with Firefox and uBO in the UK and I don't get ads, but I have been getting the no adblocking popup now and then. The last time I saw it it was on strike 3 of 3, so I guess the next time it shows might be interesting. I think if you don't use YouTube much and you're lucky with the filter updates you'll never see it as the filters update every 12 hours.

I'm watching about 6-8 hours of YT per day while gaming, history & tech content with the extremely rare song thrown into the mix.

If i start getting strikes and adverts i'll just watch more Twitch (currently negating their advert spam as well, extension: Alternate Player for Twitch.tv).

# ¿ Nov 10, 2023 13:32

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Any chance that they are only really interested in phone users but just spammed everyone because why the hell not? :thunk:

# ¿ Nov 10, 2023 17:15

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Jedit posted:

APTTV has problems, or did when I was using it. It doesn't let you store favourite emotes from streams other than the one you're watching, and it locks you out of mod tools.

Probably true, i never log into twitch any more so all of that is irrelevant for me, just watch. :shrug:

# ¿ Nov 11, 2023 13:25

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Apart from trying Opera for a few months i've been on Firefox since i left AOL. :corsair:

# ¿ Nov 12, 2023 13:21

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

roomtone posted:

if i hadn't been using adblockers for the past 15 years i don't know if i would watch anywhere near as much youtube as i have

cos those 30-60 seconds of ads i've occasionally been seeing lately is more than enough for me to stop and think wait, maybe there's something better to do than watch this video

I seem to have avoided everything so far (thanks Firefox!), but if end up being unable to avoid the ads i can do other things as well. :shrug:

# ¿ Nov 14, 2023 18:59

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

edit: i misread that.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2023 23:36

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

AutismVaccine posted:

I dont think you are supposed to run those together iirc

Isn't that like running two antivirus programs at the same time?

# ¿ Nov 25, 2023 23:11

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Finally got an advert!! :peanut:

It was a Disney banner ad on my Home Screen, advertising festive movies... like Die Hard.

That makes Die Hard an OFFICIAL XMAS MOVIE.... it always was to me. :c00lbert:

edit: Running Firefox + uBlock Origin.

Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Dec 10, 2023

# ¿ Dec 10, 2023 18:15

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

If google is going to AI la-la land then what's the most coherent/sane search engine at the moment?

# ¿ Mar 16, 2024 16:01

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

AutismVaccine posted:

I had for the first time a chair ad appear in the video list on the right side.

Is this new?

I am running FF with UBO Noscript Sponsorblock and some cookieblocker.

No uBlock Origin with your FF... or are you on mobile?

# ¿ Mar 16, 2024 20:27

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

AutismVaccine posted:

To be more precise:

I had to try like 10 videos, it appeared again (clicked a few random videos from the list):

I dont even know how something linux related is in my list

Linux Mint + Firefox + uBlock Origin here... no ads showing for me... i've had ads in the past when they google got frisky a few months ago but nothing since, sorry. :kiddo:

# ¿ Mar 16, 2024 21:36

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Klyith posted:

The exciting new tech for piracy is Usenet, the tech that's older than anyone ITT.

Gods i wish i was younger than Usenet. :rubby:

# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 22:49

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 16:14

Just Another Lurker: May 1, 2009

Zero VGS posted:

Before websites, there were Usenet Newsgroups. You'd post a message to a topic group like alt.sex.stories.moderated and it would be replicated across various news servers for everyone across the globe to enjoy, much like our posts.

Then someone figured out that you could take files like music or movies, and chunk their data into smaller numbered parts to post as messages (1 out of 900, 2 out of 900, etc), and people could use programs to download all those messages in bulk and reassemble them into a complete file. Those are referred to as Binaries.

These are all still in use today. Instead of telling a Plex/Sonarr server to download content from torrents, you could instead pay for access to a newsgroup server which run around between $5-10 per month and Sonarr will fetch the content from there. There's generally no need to use a VPN with these as most newsgroup servers don't keep logs of what anyone downloads. It also has the advantage of everything downloading ludicrously fast (my friend's gigabit fiber can pretty much max out) so you don't have to deal with say a torrent with poor seeds.

14 hours to get one short porn movie downloaded on my internet back in the day. :argh:

Hormones make you put with a lot of crap.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2024 11:04

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