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[–] 84 points 9 months ago (7 children)

uBlock Origin doesn’t work on radio, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had to endure ads on YouTube.

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  • [–] 44 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Ikr? If they still complain about YouTube ads the suffering can't be that bad or they would finally install a fucking ad blocker.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    a LOT of people have no idea how any of that works. And I don't shit on them, I help them. Sometimes I install uBlock on people's computers without telling them because if I told them then whenever their printer stops working it would be my fault, but they often get surprised after a while like, huh I don't get ads anymore that's weird and great...

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Last person I helped install Firefox+uBlock on their phone went back to the YouTube apps in no time, as far as I understand they just liked the app better. Evidently a lot of people don't mind ads that much, which is ludicrous to me.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    VPNs with DNS level blocking like Mullvad gets around ads on most podcasts for me. I don't pretend to know how that works, but it does.

    When it doesn't I get ads from Papua New Guinea, which I don't mind because I don't understand what the fuck they're saying and it sounds funny.

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