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[Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful (odysee.com)
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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Never updated or purged ublock origin. Never got the popup. Is this only regional thing or Firefox built different.

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

    I may be wrong, but I think it has something to do with whether or not you had any custom filters enabled when youtube started cracking down on ad blockers. I also haven't seen a popup yet, but I assumed it was because I'm too lazy to go beyond the vanilla UBO install.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    No, there's an A/B implementation going on. The UBO maintainers hadn't seen the crackdown themselves and had to rely on troubleshooting reports to see what is going on which is wild to think about - both on their skill but also did google specifically whitelist them or are they exceptionally lucky

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