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Daily Discussion Thread: Fri 13 Oct 2023 (aussie.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Anyone starting to get 'ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube' popups on the site on desktop? It went away when I pressed the X to close the popup but I foresee more shittiness (and a cat and mouse game with ad blocker devs).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Got ublock origin? Go to the dashboard (click the shield, then the cogs) and under MY FILTERS enter the following:

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I am a dumdum… ages ago I got Firefox on my phone and tried to sort this out but adblockers don’t seem to work or be allowed on iPhone. I know that there are extensions for Safari but would those be detected and get my access blocked?

I’ve been trying to remember to use Brave for YouTube but I am definitely getting targeted ads from general browsing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

DO NOT USE BRAVE I'm not even kidding that thing is absolute bad news. Like win11 levels of fuckery and tracking

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Fucking marketing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

:( Thankfully I mostly forget to. Someone on the other place said that it doesn’t work anymore anyway. Not sure if that’s with adblockers or if the inbuilt stuff is getting detected.

There are Safari extensions but those would probably get detected.

I hate this. I’d accept a reasonable amount of ads but they’ve been dialed up for pester power, ads enlarged for misclicks, and when that hasn’t been lucrative enough it’s now strongarm tactics.

The internet is going to shit and avoiding/mitigating that is increasingly requiring tech skills I struggle to keep up with

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I use brave browser which comes with a youtube ad blocker built in

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes in Chrome, No in Firefox - so far... (both running uBlock Origin).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hm, maybe this'll finally get me to go back to Firefox. I also run uBlock Origin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

FF FTW :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People left Firefox? I think I came to Firefox from netscape.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That's me too: Lynx -> Mosaic -> Netscape -> Firefox.

Damn I'm old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No, but I pay the $10/month to not have to worry about all that.