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Daily Discussion Thread: Fri 13 Oct 2023 (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by bot001@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Anyone starting to get 'ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube' popups on the site on desktop? It went away when I pressed the X to close the popup but I foresee more shittiness (and a cat and mouse game with ad blocker devs).

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Got ublock origin? Go to the dashboard (click the shield, then the cogs) and under MY FILTERS enter the following:

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am a dumdum… ages ago I got Firefox on my phone and tried to sort this out but adblockers don’t seem to work or be allowed on iPhone. I know that there are extensions for Safari but would those be detected and get my access blocked?

I’ve been trying to remember to use Brave for YouTube but I am definitely getting targeted ads from general browsing

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

DO NOT USE BRAVE I'm not even kidding that thing is absolute bad news. Like win11 levels of fuckery and tracking

[–] Cendana@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Fucking marketing.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

:( Thankfully I mostly forget to. Someone on the other place said that it doesn’t work anymore anyway. Not sure if that’s with adblockers or if the inbuilt stuff is getting detected.

There are Safari extensions but those would probably get detected.

I hate this. I’d accept a reasonable amount of ads but they’ve been dialed up for pester power, ads enlarged for misclicks, and when that hasn’t been lucrative enough it’s now strongarm tactics.

The internet is going to shit and avoiding/mitigating that is increasingly requiring tech skills I struggle to keep up with

[–] Outlier1031@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I use brave browser which comes with a youtube ad blocker built in

[–] mysticgreg@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes in Chrome, No in Firefox - so far... (both running uBlock Origin).

[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hm, maybe this'll finally get me to go back to Firefox. I also run uBlock Origin.

[–] mysticgreg@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FF FTW :D

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People left Firefox? I think I came to Firefox from netscape.

[–] mysticgreg@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

That's me too: Lynx -> Mosaic -> Netscape -> Firefox.

Damn I'm old.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

No, but I pay the $10/month to not have to worry about all that.