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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)
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Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

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[+] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Or just use uBlock Origin? It blocks YouTube's ads (and their adblocker-blockers) right out of the gate. It's also available on Firefox for Android.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For the moment, Youtube is managing to push ads onto me despite uBO.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    Have you followed the instructions in the devs' Reddit thread? (At the bottom of the thread, they also have a section of instructions for people who've already gone through the process of purging their filters before.)

    Also, make sure nothing else (ex. another adblocker, including your browser's built-in adblocker) is causing issues.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's too much of a pain to use for me personally. I really don't want to spend time figuring out which scripts to enable every time I visit a new site. Adblock I can just turn on and forget with minimum effort.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I have never had to touch anything on uBlock origin. Well, before this youtube stuff when I sometimes have to manually update a block list when YT gets a new adblocker blocker

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I never had to touch anything in uBlock Origin, not even once, I just have to remember to check for updates every now and then. I see some people saying sometimes they still get ads on youtube, not sure if it's youtube testing new targeting, but I've never seen ads on YT anyway, I guess I'm not interesting enough to them XD

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