Technology @lemmy.ml doublepepperoni [none/use name] @hexbear.net 1y ago

Looking at the uBlock Origin subreddit and reading the struggles people have with Youtube's new anti-adblock measures

Can't wait until Google flips them on globally for all users doomer

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I'm willing to pay a monthly subscription to help keep uBO fully functional. If I pay a subscription to a service like youtube to remove ads then I am only ad free on youtube. Whereas uBO blocks ads on everything.
- Regardless whatever we’d be willing to pay, there’s no way for uBO to effectively route the collected funds out to all publishers (also I guarantee there’s gonna be a fight of “views on my site are worth more than theirs”), and so the cat and mouse game will continue forever.
  
  I do not want my money to go to paying off publishers. I want my money going to support well funded and continuous development of a product that defeats their current business model. I hate being tracked and sold. I want the entire system to die.
  
  I may not be smartest tool in the shed, but couldn't they collect funds on one shared account, and manage those funds after voting or other type of deciding power in the organization?
I have no problems since I switched to Firefox
- It seems to be happening to people regardless of the browser they're using. Google's currently only testing the new measures on random accounts
  
  Oh thanks for the info. Fuck Google
Youtube invites the user to use nonfree javascript, so there's no telling when their engineers will get the upper hand (it seems that they already have). The only sustainable solution is to drop youtube entirely or support a libre frontend...

And also to educate everyone you can on libre software philosophy so they know to reject the next iteration of this injustice instead of waiting for the bruises to appear.
Piped and Invidious for when that happens. I will never surrender
- My invidious has stopped working today (in the UK).. all the videos fail to load and the fixes (like turning on video proxy) do not fix it.. I've noticed a few piped and invidious instances having similar issues.
  
  Probably related to the issues I began having yesterday with Revanced- suddenly, videos started to infinitely buffer after around 1 minute of playing. I ended up having to update + reinstall Revanced entirely. Looking at the Revanced subreddit it seems more and more users have started getting affected by the same issue these past few weeks.
  
  Google's definitely doing something.
  
  I am not a piped user so I am not 100% updated but as far as I know, Google is blocking the various piped instances by their IP
  
  It happens to me sometimes but you can hop instances and usually it ends up working
Freetube is still working for me, I recommend give it a try :)
I use Firefox for desktop and PipePipe on mobile, no issues yet, when I do no more Youtube because fuck ads. This is why I datahoard as my meager datastorage allows.
I'm trying to find where you can support the authors of blocklists. So far I've only found Peter Lowe's Patreon.
What is the best alternative to YouTube? Is there one?
- PeerTube.
  
  It really needs traction.
  
  I can't really find a good instance to use. Do you know one I should make an account on?
For folks on macOS who use Safari, Vinegar is a fantastic extension that disables YouTube ads.
On Ublock + Umatrix, hasn't seen anything weird at least for now on Firefox.

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