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In the last year, youtube anti-ad-block only ever occurred to me once and I fixed it in 2 minutes by reading the instructions on that github issue. All I had t

In the last year, youtube anti-ad-block only ever occurred to me once and I fixed it in 2 minutes by reading the instructions on that github issue. All I had to do was manually trigger an update for uBlock Origin's filter lists then restart firefox. The filter lists update automatically, but a new youtube change got around them and the filter had a fix inside an hour (too short a time for my extension to auto-update it's filter lists).

chii 3y ago
This has been continuing for the past couple months. I don't see youtube giving up tbh, and i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube. This is different to other ads, which is a crowdsourced list of filters, and isn't on a small or single individual to keep up. There must be a better way to utilize the crowd to make it work.
- jeron 3y ago
  > i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube Don’t underestimate what open source can and will do just to spite things they despise
- autoexec 3y ago
  > This has been continuing for the past couple months. I don't see youtube giving up tbh, and i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube. If UBO stops working, I'll use newpipe, if that stops working I'll use yt-dlp and if that stops working I'll use whatever else people have come up with, and if nobody has anything that gets rid of the ads I'll just stop watching youtube. I don't see that happening though. As long as we have computers that still work for us, I doubt google will come up with a way to stop ad blocking entirely. Maybe we'll have youtube re-release groups that manually edit out the ads and re-upload videos from popular channels to P2P sites. Maybe we'll get AI that can download videos and edit out the ads for us. We'll figure something out.
  - paulryanrogers 3y ago
    There is YT Premium
    - CuriouslyC 3y ago
      We do not negotiate with terrorists
      - lapetitejort 3y ago
        I would think posters on HN would understand that a service costs money. Any time I can pay with money instead of with my sanity, I choose money.
        spartanatreyu 3y ago
        > a service costs money Ahh, but that's just it. Youtube Premium isn't a service, it's a package. If I could pay for Youtube by itself I would, but I can't, so I shan't.
        graftak 3y ago
        It does not cost $14 a month per user to run yt, they inject their music service into the price even if people don't want or need google music. $5 would've been fine esp. considering they don't produce any of their content and even subscribed users see ads/promotions added by the creators.
        s3p 3y ago
        I would have paid. But 14 per month??? Who do they think they are lmao. They can make money from unobtrusive ads but the moment they started injecting ads in the MIDDLE of videos I went straight to ad blocking. Also we're in the minority so they aren't losing that much revenue because of us.

chii 3y ago

This has been continuing for the past couple months. I don't see youtube giving up tbh, and i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube. This is different to other ads, which is a crowdsourced list of filters, and isn't on a small or single individual to keep up. There must be a better way to utilize the crowd to make it work.

jeron 3y ago
> i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube Don’t underestimate what open source can and will do just to spite things they despise
autoexec 3y ago
> This has been continuing for the past couple months. I don't see youtube giving up tbh, and i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube. If UBO stops working, I'll use newpipe, if that stops working I'll use yt-dlp and if that stops working I'll use whatever else people have come up with, and if nobody has anything that gets rid of the ads I'll just stop watching youtube. I don't see that happening though. As long as we have computers that still work for us, I doubt google will come up with a way to stop ad blocking entirely. Maybe we'll have youtube re-release groups that manually edit out the ads and re-upload videos from popular channels to P2P sites. Maybe we'll get AI that can download videos and edit out the ads for us. We'll figure something out.
- paulryanrogers 3y ago
  There is YT Premium
  - CuriouslyC 3y ago
    We do not negotiate with terrorists
    - lapetitejort 3y ago
      I would think posters on HN would understand that a service costs money. Any time I can pay with money instead of with my sanity, I choose money.
      - spartanatreyu 3y ago
        > a service costs money Ahh, but that's just it. Youtube Premium isn't a service, it's a package. If I could pay for Youtube by itself I would, but I can't, so I shan't.
      - graftak 3y ago
        It does not cost $14 a month per user to run yt, they inject their music service into the price even if people don't want or need google music. $5 would've been fine esp. considering they don't produce any of their content and even subscribed users see ads/promotions added by the creators.
      - s3p 3y ago
        I would have paid. But 14 per month??? Who do they think they are lmao. They can make money from unobtrusive ads but the moment they started injecting ads in the MIDDLE of videos I went straight to ad blocking. Also we're in the minority so they aren't losing that much revenue because of us.