▲ 790 ▼ YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com) submitted 1 year ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world 223 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (5 children) Yeah, close to probably 10 years for me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] AJ1@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (4 children) I've been ad-free youtubing since it came out in '06 or whenever that was. It's a shame that they disabled uBlock on Chrome, I used to really enjoy my chromebook before it became spam cancer permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] adarza@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (2 children) there is mv3 version of ubo here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home dunno how well it works on yt, though. i use dlp on a pc for the time or two a month i 'need to' look at a yt vid. adguard's free browser extension is also mv3 compliant (for chrome). i think the old adblockplus (disable 'acceptable ads' and ignore offer to 'upgrade' to a paid version) is, too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) "Not as well as uBlock Origin" is the answer to that. I got warnings to disable my ad blocker on my Chromebook recently, but did not get the same on my Linux desktop using Firefox. I really ought to get away from the default software on the Chromebook (Firefox via Crouton or Android or something), but it didn't work well last time I tried. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago Is there support for blocking individual elements of a page in v3 version of uBlock Origin? (I won't be surprised if it lacked it). I usually block various other elements of page like useless headers/footers/comment sections on some sites I routinely visit on Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago Yeah, I used ABP for a while and got occasional ads, didn't discover uBO til later. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AJ1@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (4 children) I've been ad-free youtubing since it came out in '06 or whenever that was. It's a shame that they disabled uBlock on Chrome, I used to really enjoy my chromebook before it became spam cancer permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] adarza@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (2 children) there is mv3 version of ubo here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home dunno how well it works on yt, though. i use dlp on a pc for the time or two a month i 'need to' look at a yt vid. adguard's free browser extension is also mv3 compliant (for chrome). i think the old adblockplus (disable 'acceptable ads' and ignore offer to 'upgrade' to a paid version) is, too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) "Not as well as uBlock Origin" is the answer to that. I got warnings to disable my ad blocker on my Chromebook recently, but did not get the same on my Linux desktop using Firefox. I really ought to get away from the default software on the Chromebook (Firefox via Crouton or Android or something), but it didn't work well last time I tried. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago Is there support for blocking individual elements of a page in v3 version of uBlock Origin? (I won't be surprised if it lacked it). I usually block various other elements of page like useless headers/footers/comment sections on some sites I routinely visit on Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago Yeah, I used ABP for a while and got occasional ads, didn't discover uBO til later. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (2 children) there is mv3 version of ubo here: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home dunno how well it works on yt, though. i use dlp on a pc for the time or two a month i 'need to' look at a yt vid. adguard's free browser extension is also mv3 compliant (for chrome). i think the old adblockplus (disable 'acceptable ads' and ignore offer to 'upgrade' to a paid version) is, too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) "Not as well as uBlock Origin" is the answer to that. I got warnings to disable my ad blocker on my Chromebook recently, but did not get the same on my Linux desktop using Firefox. I really ought to get away from the default software on the Chromebook (Firefox via Crouton or Android or something), but it didn't work well last time I tried. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago Is there support for blocking individual elements of a page in v3 version of uBlock Origin? (I won't be surprised if it lacked it). I usually block various other elements of page like useless headers/footers/comment sections on some sites I routinely visit on Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 child) "Not as well as uBlock Origin" is the answer to that. I got warnings to disable my ad blocker on my Chromebook recently, but did not get the same on my Linux desktop using Firefox. I really ought to get away from the default software on the Chromebook (Firefox via Crouton or Android or something), but it didn't work well last time I tried. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago Is there support for blocking individual elements of a page in v3 version of uBlock Origin? (I won't be surprised if it lacked it). I usually block various other elements of page like useless headers/footers/comment sections on some sites I routinely visit on Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 1 year ago Is there support for blocking individual elements of a page in v3 version of uBlock Origin? (I won't be surprised if it lacked it). I usually block various other elements of page like useless headers/footers/comment sections on some sites I routinely visit on Firefox. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 year ago Yeah, I used ABP for a while and got occasional ads, didn't discover uBO til later. permalink fedilink source parent