Update 1/16 - Adblock has informed BleepingComputer that its engineers fixed the problem and released ABP 3.22.1 and AB 5.17.1 on the Opera and Edge extension stores. The same versions are currently in review on the Mozilla and Chrome add-on stores, and should be made available soon.
People are still using Adblock?
I thought we moved to uBlock Origin several years ago…
It’s always fun when I can recommend something better to friends, especially when the new thing requires no new compromises
Adblock plus --> uBlock Origin
LastPass --> Bitwarden
uTorrent --> qBitorrent
ktorrent and keepassXC are better for me.
I use Flud on mobile and Transmission on PC, personally.
1Password is pretty good, too.
Does ublock origin even work with chrome on YouTube anymore? I switched to Firefox a couple months ago because, even after updating ublock origin, YouTube still detected that I was using an ad blocker and refused to show me content.
Clear the filter cache on ublock origin, and update the filters to the latest ones, should work
What are the latest filters?
Go into the dashboard, clear the filers and update them there.
Yes.
It does still work, but YouTube is often pushing breaking changes multiple times per week. It’s really an arms race.
I think you mean:
Latest YouTube update causes massive performance hit.
YouTube causes the performance hit. Not the ad blockers. If ads weren’t creating such big performance hits by themselves, folks wouldn’t all need to use ad blockers.
Yeah but the reactions around this has been incredibly jumpy.
We only get to ring the bell of “YouTube is blocking adblockers with performance hacks!” once. Now if/when it finally happens, it’ll be met with “are you really sure that’s whats happening now?”-skepticism.
It’s super important to keep an eye on any shenanigans from Google, but it can’t be done by raising alarms on incorrect information if the alarm bells are to be trusted.
It’s super important to keep an eye on any shenanigans from Google, but it can’t be done by raising alarms on incorrect information if the alarm bells are to be trusted.
Nicely said, I might repurpose that phrase in the future :)
Something something crying wolf?
The boy who cried wolf, rephrased.
Until Youtube no longer loads period with an ad blocker people will still use them and even then people will find back doors to prevent the firehose of ads Google wants to subject you to. They wanted a monopoly and now they are big mad they have to deal with the consequences of that decision
I don’t know why anyone even uses the YouTube app. Newpipe has always worked for me and I’ve never seen an ad once and always can watch in whatever resolution I want.
laughs in Piped
Sorry - smugness isn’t nice. But I don’t know why people are still trying to use Youtube directly, when there are clearly much better options.
iPhone users don’t have the option of a convenient app, though I understand brave browser can work. Either way android users have an easier time blocking ads then Iphone users. I pay for YouTube family so my kids and the TV can avoid ads.
I dont know much about this topic, I just seem to recall a post on the front page of my lemmy app a while ago saying to NEVER use brave as it was a scam. Is there truth to this?
I don’t think it was a scam as such. I think people didn’t really understand their model. I haven’t stayed informed on it though so maybe there is more to know.
Depends on why they were saying it was a scam. It’s functional as a browser, so not a scam on the most basic level. It hasn’t always been as privacy-supporting as it claims (somewhere between Chrome and Firefox if all are carefully configured, it seems). Brave also has a dubious crypto rewards scheme baked in.
It may depend on location but I get awful long buffering times with piped.
Yeah, it could be. I host my own instance of Piped, and it feels like pretty much the same experience as if I were browsing YT directly.
Laughs in Invidious (docker container) 😎
I can attest it is very weird. The entire browser slows down on transition to full screen (lags like your machine has a virus or something) and introduces a buffer wheel of lag after the first 10 or so seconds of every video.
Wait, so it wasn’t even YouTube doing it? 🤣
