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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago (5 children)

uBlock Origin is reliably blocking the blocker blocker for me at this time, though a few popups got through a couple weeks ago.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, uBlock in Firefox is doing it 100% for me. Haven't even seen a youtube ad or a complaint that I should stop blocking ads.

[–] Chev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well if you are using Firefox, you obviously life the easy life. But what about the Edge or Chrome users here? Habe some respect for those poor guys.

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They suffer voluntarily simply by choosing not to switch their browsers to non-chromium.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that suffering is self inflicted if we’re talking about home users. In an enterprise environment you might need to convince your admin to add Firefox to the company portal.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel sorry for Chrome/Chromium users who can't even use real ad-blockers because Google is scared of uBlock Origin and deprecated MV2

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't. Most of them have the ability to use something else and have chosen not to.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

That's another way to see it.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 year ago

Same, it's a cat and mouse battle .. lol

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like blockers

[–] r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave is dropping the ball. It's the only mobile option.

[–] Postcard64@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Firefox with uBlock Origin on Android. Isn't there the same for iOS?

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iOS web browsers are forced to use the safari/WebKit engine, so you don’t get Firefox extensions, sadly.

The main benefits of using Firefox on iOS is if you prefer it’s interface or want to sync with desktop Firefox (which is why I use it).

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 0 points 1 year ago

Hyperweb might work though.