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At the risk of being downvoted, here's a "conspiracy theory." Why did the ad block for firefox recently stop working for youtube and google sponsored video ads
by riprock 16y ago
At the risk of being downvoted, here's a "conspiracy theory." Why did the ad block for firefox recently stop working for youtube and google sponsored video ads? Personally, firefox's superior ad block was the last thing preventing me from defaulting chrome. Maybe google engineers figured out a way around the ad block, who knows. Regardless, does anyone know an ad block that still takes care of the video ads?
- Jach 16y agoI had this happen to me several weeks ago, it turned out the blocking list I had subscribed to (EasyList) got switched with the new default "Fanboy's List". I had switched back and haven't been plagued by video ads since.
- riprock 16y agoYay thanks, that fixed it! Okay now I just sound like a stupid douchebag :) Hopefully this helps some other people too.
- SageRaven 16y agoYou should give privoxy a try. Browser agnostic and very powerful if you have even the most rudimentary programming/HTML experience.
- andreyf 16y agoMaybe google engineers figured out a way around the ad block I can't imagine Google engineers trying to get around AdBlock. That would be evil (and, ahem, trivial). :-P
- dchest 16y agoThe reason is simple: YouTube changed video pages, so that YouTube downloaders and adblocks stopped working.