509
Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
150 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker::Windows Phone to the rescue. A lot of YouTube users want to know how to get around the new annoying YouTube pop-up telling viewers to disable their ad-blocker.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 86 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I don't know what voodoo magic I've pulled. But I'm still not getting pestered by YouTube to turn off ad block and I'm still watching 5 - 10 videos a day. FF w/ uBlock Origin and piHole

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 12 child comments
    •
  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Same here, I have YT watch history turned off and have ads blocked through Brave (I know I know, I’m trying to find a better browser) and haven’t seen anything at all yet, on my pc or phone.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Any particular reason to not use Firefox with addons like ublock? Just curious

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [+] -19 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I just don’t trust Firefox. The Mozilla Foundation is just a front for their corporate side, the Mozilla Corporation which somehow reaps in millions in profits despite being a free browser. I read that most of their profits come from letting Google integrate search and other features into Firefox. I’m currently migrating to Librewolf for PC which has the same framework but lots more privacy functionality. For iOS, Brave collects a lot less information about you than Firefox- check the App Store pages for each browser and compare.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I don't understand your ranting about mozzila. In the wiki page you posted right there :

    Any profits made by the Mozilla Corporation will be invested back into the Mozilla project. There will be no shareholders, no stock options will be issued and no dividends will be paid

    Where is the profit on the page? The revenue isn't profit, it's how much money they make without the costs.

    Then how do you expect a browser to survive without revenue? There are 3 major browser engines on the market today :

    • chromium (backed up by Google, sucking big money)
    • blinkwebkit (baked up by apple, with big money too)
    • Gecko (I think) for Firefox. And it also needs lots of funding.

    Al of them suck up huge amount of money.

    For revenue, they also have more products than Firefox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_products which also make money or not.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why is it every time I see something about Brave it’s either singing it’s praises or demonizing it’s failures, there’s literally no in-between

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •