Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube’s dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there’s an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

  • Slagathor@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Serious question: what is the best add blocker right now? I’ve been using ublock origin, but it doesn’t seem to be working that well these days.

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        11 months ago

        To be absolutely sure no one gets this wrong - uBlock Origin is what you want. Not just uBlock.

        • Ace! _SL/S@ani.social
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          11 months ago

          To be even absolutelier sure no one gets this wrong - use uBlock Origin on Firefox (or one of it’s forked versions) because every other Browser runs chromium under it’s hood which heavily restricts ad blocking abilities

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          11 months ago

          Add no-script to the mix and you are golden. On mobile I use adguard to filter ads from pretty much every single app and website. As soon as I can figure out a couple of things bothering me with FF mobile I’ll be moving over to it with extensions.

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        11 months ago

        Pls consider editing and making it unlock origin. They are different and someone who won’t know better will get the wrong one :)

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      11 months ago

      I apologize for my strongopinion but I believe yours is misguided or similar. Ublock origin is objectively the best ad blocker , they are an extremely talented team, dedicated and have been for a long long time.

      The enemy is getting stronger, not the defense not working well.

      :)

    • sunbytes@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Apparently you need to clear the plugin’s cache semi-regularly.

      As sometimes it won’t update itself as fast.