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In a way, the advertisers did find a way around ad blockers. Google built an entire browser and used Manifest V3 as an excuse to cripple ad blockers. Companie

In a way, the advertisers did find a way around ad blockers. Google built an entire browser and used Manifest V3 as an excuse to cripple ad blockers. Companies are also paying influencers, twitch streamers, and YouTubers to promote their products in a way that conventional ad blockers can't prevent.

NaturalPhallacy 4y ago
In case anyone reading hasn't heard of it: SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...
- kaushikc 4y ago
  Sponsorblock has saved me hundreds of hours from watching youtube ads and other time wasting bullshit. The devs deserve to be paid for making this awesome application.
  - matheusmoreira 4y ago
    Yeah, it's awesome. Skips useless stuff like intros too.
  - ThunderSizzle 4y ago
    Were you sponsored to say that?
    - memorable 4y ago
      I'm not the OP, but if I said that line, I'm 100% sure I am not being sponsored. It's just that good.
  - celestialcheese 4y ago
    Or, you know, pay for Youtube Premium and get no ads? Added bonus of supporting the creators who make those videos you watch.
    - RulerOf 4y ago
      YouTube premium doesn't skip in-content ad segments in videos. Sponsorblock does.
    - lapser 4y ago
      And yet, you'll still get sponsor segues.
- GekkePrutser 4y ago
  Wow never heard of it but that's nice. Also available for firefox by the way!
chlorion 4y ago
I am on Chromium and using the manifest V3 version of Ublock right now and I have noticed no difference between it and Firefox with regular Ublock. The very interesting thing is that none of Google's ads have ever made it through this new version of Ublock for me.
- TingPing 4y ago
  More ads will rely on unblockable methods over time.
yellowapple 4y ago
> Companies are also paying influencers, twitch streamers, and YouTubers to promote their products in a way that conventional ad blockers can't prevent. Which I'm okay with in the same sense that I'm okay with newspaper/magazine ads or billboards or TV/radio commercials: they're annoying, but easy to ignore compared to online ads chewing up CPU time and battery life while actively violating one's privacy.
matheusmoreira 4y ago
> in a way that conventional ad blockers can't prevent Yet. One day someone will create an ad blocker with machine learning that "sees" the ads and deletes them in real time. Should work on all content types, even on augmented reality.
- alwayslikethis 4y ago
  We already have SponsorBlock, which is just a crowdsourced manually created database of segments to skip.

NaturalPhallacy 4y ago

In case anyone reading hasn't heard of it: SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-youtube/mnjggcdmjocbbbhaepdhchncahnbgone?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...

kaushikc 4y ago
Sponsorblock has saved me hundreds of hours from watching youtube ads and other time wasting bullshit. The devs deserve to be paid for making this awesome application.
- matheusmoreira 4y ago
  Yeah, it's awesome. Skips useless stuff like intros too.
- ThunderSizzle 4y ago
  Were you sponsored to say that?
  - memorable 4y ago
    I'm not the OP, but if I said that line, I'm 100% sure I am not being sponsored. It's just that good.
- celestialcheese 4y ago
  Or, you know, pay for Youtube Premium and get no ads? Added bonus of supporting the creators who make those videos you watch.
  - RulerOf 4y ago
    YouTube premium doesn't skip in-content ad segments in videos. Sponsorblock does.
  - lapser 4y ago
    And yet, you'll still get sponsor segues.
GekkePrutser 4y ago
Wow never heard of it but that's nice. Also available for firefox by the way!

chlorion 4y ago

I am on Chromium and using the manifest V3 version of Ublock right now and I have noticed no difference between it and Firefox with regular Ublock. The very interesting thing is that none of Google's ads have ever made it through this new version of Ublock for me.

TingPing 4y ago
More ads will rely on unblockable methods over time.

yellowapple 4y ago

> Companies are also paying influencers, twitch streamers, and YouTubers to promote their products in a way that conventional ad blockers can't prevent. Which I'm okay with in the same sense that I'm okay with newspaper/magazine ads or billboards or TV/radio commercials: they're annoying, but easy to ignore compared to online ads chewing up CPU time and battery life while actively violating one's privacy.

matheusmoreira 4y ago

> in a way that conventional ad blockers can't prevent Yet. One day someone will create an ad blocker with machine learning that "sees" the ads and deletes them in real time. Should work on all content types, even on augmented reality.

alwayslikethis 4y ago
We already have SponsorBlock, which is just a crowdsourced manually created database of segments to skip.