YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet - eviltoast

Google’s anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

    • dracul104@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      It’s too much of a pain to use for me personally. I really don’t want to spend time figuring out which scripts to enable every time I visit a new site. Adblock I can just turn on and forget with minimum effort.

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        1 year ago

        I have never had to touch anything on uBlock origin. Well, before this youtube stuff when I sometimes have to manually update a block list when YT gets a new adblocker blocker

        • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          I never had to touch anything in uBlock Origin, not even once, I just have to remember to check for updates every now and then. I see some people saying sometimes they still get ads on youtube, not sure if it’s youtube testing new targeting, but I’ve never seen ads on YT anyway, I guess I’m not interesting enough to them XD

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        1 year ago

        Download Firefox. Look up “ublock origin firefox” in search engine of choice. Click install. Done!

        It’s that easy…