▲ 2057 ▼ YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com) submitted 2 years ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@lemmy.world 485 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android@lemdro.id)
[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 90 points 2 years ago (3 children) uBlock Origin FTW! permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) I love that, in a competition between a corporation worth hundreds of billions of dollars and a FOSS project, all Google managed to do was annoy uBlock Origin users for like a week. I just had to manually update the extension and restart my browser a few times. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago I have been lucky, no ads, no message. Probably my region gets the updates so late uBlock has already compensated. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago If the numbers ghostery and that are posting is true then overall it's working out as intended. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) I love that, in a competition between a corporation worth hundreds of billions of dollars and a FOSS project, all Google managed to do was annoy uBlock Origin users for like a week. I just had to manually update the extension and restart my browser a few times. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago I have been lucky, no ads, no message. Probably my region gets the updates so late uBlock has already compensated. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago If the numbers ghostery and that are posting is true then overall it's working out as intended. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wizzor@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago I have been lucky, no ads, no message. Probably my region gets the updates so late uBlock has already compensated. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago If the numbers ghostery and that are posting is true then overall it's working out as intended. permalink fedilink source parent