Is there anything new in this post that I’m missing?
I don’t think so.
Nope. This has been going on for months already. Nothing new here. There’s atleast three different kinds of pop-ups for adblock users and the same solution works for all of them.
which is? besides not using YouTube?
Disable all other adblockers, disable enhanced tracking protection for youtube.com in Firefox (shield icon in addres bar), remove your custom adblocking rules and update uBlock Origin manually atleast twice a day; settings > filter list > quick fixes > click the clock icon > click update. Alternatively you can also just purge catches and update all filters but that takes longer is is not necessary
I’ve been sitting pretty with both uBlock Origin and uMatrix stopping both the ads and the delay from YouTube. Not sure what exactly is doing which, but it’s been working for me
Yeah it might not matter but for people having issues with these pop-ups, that’s the most likely culpript
right, thank you but I think I will stick with invidious for a while, that’s easier
It’s a strange post in general. Someone’s substack, written in some generic faux-journalist style, with one source for the main claim (“a Redditor”), who isn’t linked to. Don’t know why it’s being shared here.
It’s a substack post. At this point, my quality expectation is
- Wordpress - Probably someone who really cares about what they write about
- Substack - Either low effort spam like this that gets upvoted for some reason or someone pushing their agenda, hard
- Medium - Either spam, wrong, dumb, or too simple. Literally never worth reading.
My understanding of the three platforms, too. Interesting how similar people congregate in platforms.
I’m okay with just not using YouTube. The Internet sucks compared to how it was back in the day. Now it’s built around selling you something. Fuck that.
It’s not even about selling you something, it’s about selling you, period. They sell the user’s attention to advertisers, and don’t much care about anything else because anything else is too hard to quantify in a spreadsheet.
These days I mostly go for paid content like Nebula, alternative platforms like Odysee or PeerTube, or even Newgrounds - remember them? It’s not always possible to avoid YouTube entirely since some creators I follow only have a presence there, but transitions like this take time.
Same. Since… forever I maybe use youtube once or twice per year. There’s nothing interesting for me there that I can’t find somewhere else, and often in written (not video form), which is less time consuming and less prone to useless “padding” for “monetization”.
Invidious still wotks great for me.
There’s also Piped.
Peertube is also gaining traction and I personally enjoy that, just needs more content creators to stop worrying about chicken and egg and start protecting their content.
Ublock origin is still working fine for me with the occasional manual filter list update.
same here. u block works fine for me.
Fuck YouTube
Too bad the alternatives suck so much. Vimeo used to be nice. I don’t know where they went wrong.
Vimeo was never intended as a YouTube competitor. It’s like saying Flickr is a competitor to Instagram.
rather than uninstalling adblockers entirely, can’t they just whitelist YouTube? Ad Trackers only have value when they track people across multiple sites: if the tracker only functions on YT then users get the video views they want and YT gets near-worthless tracking data.
There is a reason I only watch YouTube on my phone or laptop and not my smart TV. Because we went from one ad every few videos to multiple unskippable ads per video. It has become worse than old cable TV.
AdNauseam is great.
Where do I sign up? I’d take 720p with no ads easy
They’re counting on people being complacent and just whitelisting.
The problem is, they’re probably right to try the tactic too. People need those dopamine hits.
Didn’t this happen a couple months ago? I’ve been using UBO after the update and NewPipe (Android)/FreeTube (desktop) before that without issues. The new thing they’re doing is the 5 second delay for Firefox users.
