ijeff to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year agoYouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world9to5google.comexternal-linkmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1138arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1138arrow-down1external-linkYouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world9to5google.comijeff to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square65fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-square@xoggy@programming.devlinkfedilink42•1 year agoIt’s all good just make sure you have an up-to-date ublock-based extension: https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/ As of writing this Adblock Plus isn’t working with Youtube but no reason you should be using that over ublock origin anyways.
minus-square@CmdrShepard@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoI have Ad Guard installed and still use UBlock Origin for its features.
minus-squareThe DoctorlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoI’m still waiting for Google to ban uBlock Origin from the Chrome addon store.
minus-square🦋 Benjamin West - 🐒🌻linkfedilink2•1 year ago@drwho @xoggy yeah eh. Maybe it has such a unique footprint it just opens up more tracking opportunities through fingerprinting. 🙃
minus-squareThe DoctorlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoI think they just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
It’s all good just make sure you have an up-to-date ublock-based extension: https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/
As of writing this Adblock Plus isn’t working with Youtube but no reason you should be using that over ublock origin anyways.
I have Ad Guard installed and still use UBlock Origin for its features.
I’m still waiting for Google to ban uBlock Origin from the Chrome addon store.
@drwho @xoggy yeah eh. Maybe it has such a unique footprint it just opens up more tracking opportunities through fingerprinting. 🙃
I think they just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
All the more reason to switch to Firefox!