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fuck off YouTube, I will never watch ads

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I will read arcane texts by candlelight before I watch ads. fuck off. Susan Wojcicki go to fucking hell

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NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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just checked, my ublock says it’s blocked 16 million ads on youtube since i installed it

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emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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love my ublock origin, but occasionally youtube gets ahead in the arms race

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Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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occasionally youtube gets ahead in the arms race

never had this happen to me once. is it because I use firefox instead of kkkhrome?

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Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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im a firefox ublock partisan, the bastards are knocking upon the walls and occasionally getting through. defenses rally quite promptly so the whole affair could be missed

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ZapataCadabra [he/him]@hexbear.net
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I use chrome on a Chromebook and my ublocker has never failed me. I watch 1-2 YouTube videos a day usually.

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redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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It sounds like a lot until you remember that each video includes half a million ads.

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the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]@hexbear.net
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Where do i find that data? Sounds fun

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NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]@hexbear.net
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clicked the little ublock icon in my addon toolbar

i might have misread it though, 16 million is probably be the number it’s blocked on all sites combined since it says that no matter what site i’m on

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AntifaSuperWombat [she/her]@hexbear.net
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Last time I watched Youtube without ad blocker I got 3 ads in a row from our local nazi party. Sure as fuck not gonna do that again.

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DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Interesting, why do I get the weird suspicion the right is never encouraged to change their minds, let alone listen to the other guys?

Look at their tantrum over GTAVI for not looking like a country club, if they have the right to never have their sacrosanct opinions questioned, so do I.

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shath [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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just wanna be left alone stop trying to sell your slop to me i literally could not care less FUCK

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TheModerateTankie [any]@hexbear.net
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Ublock stayed ahead of google for a week or two, but now it’s blocking me again. Opening links in a private tab still works, though.

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CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net
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So far I’ve been able to make the promt go away every time by going into UBlock’s settings, purging the cache, and force updating all of the lists. I assume people are still rapidly pushing updates every time Google changes something, the pace has just slowed a bit.

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TheModerateTankie [any]@hexbear.net
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I turned off ublock, reloaded youtube, and then turned ublock back on and now I can watch videos ad-free again.

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SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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Adding the below to ‘My Filters’ on uBlock Origin has worked for me the whole time

! 2022-07-23 https://mobile.twitter.com

mobile.twitter.com##.r-11nfnuw.r-16wqof.r-1dqxon3.r-16y2uox.r-kemksi.css-1dbjc4n

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

If youtube ever pops up the ‘please disable adblockers’, just go to the uBlock dashboard, select ‘Filter Lists’, hit ‘Purge All Caches’ and wait for it to finish, then ‘Update Now’, then refresh your youtube tab and it should be back to working

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Sushi_Desires@hexbear.net
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Raymond Hill will save us

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Bobby_DROP_TABLES [he/him]@hexbear.net
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Chrome or Firefox?

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TheModerateTankie [any]@hexbear.net
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Firefox

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Bobby_DROP_TABLES [he/him]@hexbear.net
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That’s weird, I have the same setup and it’s working fine for me. Could be related to whatever OS you’re using or the version of Firefox you have installed. Might be worth looking into getting Pi-hole setup if you can’t get Ublock working again and are willing to get a little technical.

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an_engel_on_earth [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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https://github.com/TheRealJoelmatic/RemoveAdblockThing this is a script that has a different way of blocking ads which is so far undetected by youtube. Can recommend

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princeofsin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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The hero we need

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