Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?

  • Z3k3@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Isn’t it fun going down this road rather than fixing the need for ad blockers. (The ones beyond I’m just not interested)

    The fbi recommends using adblockers which is amusing to me as Google is headquartered under their jurisdiction.

    Drive by scams malicious scripts and straight up videos that google themselves would kill the account of a creator for.

    And on top of that there’s only so many times in an hour I can watch an ad for raid shadow wallet in an hour before I need a suicide hotline

          • Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            10 months ago

            Using Firefox and uBlock Origin, and following uBlock’s instructions re: resetting and updating. Getting timeouts and popups from YT regardless.

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              10 months ago

              I’m sorry to hear that because I had similar problem but clearing cookies & cached web content option ended up working for me. Hope you find something that work because it was awful to experience ads after so long. I track stuff I subscribe to with TubeSync but still like to search for new topics & the ads were annoying.

  • Most Auspicious@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    YouTube is already a sedated, anaemic whale of a website. Adblock probably makes it run faster, given it usually removes stuff rather than add it. If you want speed, I recommend a frontend such as Invidious or Piped, it’s what I use on my weaker laptops where YouTube takes half a minute to load.

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    10 months ago

    firefox and ublock, which works for me. From what I have read this is happening to chrome users.

    Or Newpipe

    or Revanced

    or Freetube.

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        10 months ago

        You don’t have to jailbreak an apple device anymore, side loading works?

        • cuntonabike@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          You don’t have to jailbreak, you just have to use AltStore and “renew” the app every 7 days. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass in all honesty but it’s still better than watching ads.

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    10 months ago

    Oh look, ANOTHER thread filled with users shocked that Google doesn’t give a damn about ad blocking customers.

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      10 months ago

      Dude, no one here is shocked or angry. There are just normal people calmly discussing ways to bypass yet another attempt from Google to stop AdBlockers. If anything, you’re the guy who spent the entire day yesterday screeching at people in another thread who don’t want to pay for YT Premium, and is still doing the same thing now, in a community dedicated to piracy no less. You just deleted the vast majority of your comments because you were too embarrassed when people called you out for licking the boots of a trillion-dollars corporation and being angry at other people who don’t want to follow your example.

      Go touch some grass, it’s free (just like YouTube!).