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The best bypass is to use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox https://gith
by breve 1y ago
The best bypass is to use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
- Aperocky 1y agoNever realized anything was happening as I was on Firefox, until I saw ads as my wife was browsing youtube despite installing ublock for her years ago.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoYouTube recently started showing ads through uBO in Firefox.
- djrj477dhsnv 1y agoOn what platform? I've been using Firefox and uBO on Linux and Android for over a decade and never seen a YouTube ad.
- stubish 1y agoThey do staged rollouts, maybe a-b testing. It seems to generally be region based rather than platform.
- aspenmayer 1y agoYou might need to check that you are using all appropriate blocklists as well. The subreddit usually has a sticky/pinned post for YouTube related issues as this has been a slow moving target for about a year now.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoI'm on Windows 10.
- gpvos 1y agoUbuntu.
- weberer 1y agoDo you have other extensions? For example, I can see that uMatrix is also blocking all requests to doubleclick.net
- Aperocky 1y agoI've not seen the ads at least not yet. There was a few times when Youtube try to top me from viewing because I was blocking the ads.
- madaxe_again 1y agoMy wife was pissed when I installed an adblocker for her - turns out she likes the ads.
- abbadadda 1y ago“Heavy sigh.”
- TechDebtDevin 1y agoThere was a podcast I was listening to this week, and they were discussing the purpose of marketing emails, and they came to the conclusion that they're for women who actually open all of them lol. It was half sarcasm and pretty funny, not trying to by misogynist or something
- yonatan8070 1y agoI recently saw my GF's inbox, it's full of marketing emails, and when I told her she can unsubscribe or block them, she said she likes them as well.
- huey77 1y agoRight! My girlfriend runs ads all the time and even after explaining to her uBlock existed (before MV3) she wasn’t that interested. I can’t stand them, but she doesn’t seem to mind them. In fact sometimes enjoys them - not missing deals I suppose? I don’t quite understand it.
- bloudermilk 1y agoSwitched (back) to Firefox from Chrome years ago and haven’t looked back. Between uBlock and Privacy Badger my web experience is pretty good despite the endless assault on end users.
- aziaziazi 1y agoI can’t help seeing ad blockers as fairless content consumption, like choosing to download films, musics and books without paying the creator and the distributor (VOD, MOD, concerts, libraries…). Sounds great for you but how would that work if everyone would do the same? Although we all be happy to se more competition, using an ad blocker on Google sites (and G-add financed-sites) have no positive effect for the competitors. Don’t take me wrong, I hate Ads and Google methods but we can’t all rob the same store and hope there will be infinite food on the shelves and that the next store will benefit from that.
- chgs 1y agoAlmost all content I consume is not funded by adverts, it’s funded by passion or subscription or donation. Adverts have no positive effects for anyone other than the advertising firm. They cost the viewer more than the provide the advertiser
- mercantile 1y agoI sincerely hope that having produced a comment like that, you are not using ad blockers of any kind in any browser, including the reduced functionality Chrome uBlock Origin on manifest V3. For me, ads broke the informal social contract between provider and end user years ago. Small, unobtrusive advertisements might've been okay, but ads eating an inordinate amount of my time and bandwidth, which exfiltrate my personal information, and which are served to me via SEO tricks and dark patterns are not okay. If sites want to ban me for not viewing their ads, fine. In the meantime, I won't lose any sleep over using my adblocker. For you, if you are lecturing us on the moral imperative of viewing ads, then you better be viewing those ads yourself rather than only espousing cheap rhetoric.
- norskeld 1y agoSpeaking of 'works best in Firefox'... I mainly use Chrome (kinda have to), and it's practically impossible to use it for reviewing big GitHub PRs with many files changed (UI just freezes), but everything's perfectly fine in Firefox!
- zelphirkalt 1y agoCould this be a subjective experience? Is it reproducible on multiple machines? And have you tried it with a new profile?
- norskeld 1y agoWell, many people have complained about this very issue, and it was actually from this [1] discussion that I learned that Firefox handles big PRs just fine. No amount of jumping through hoops, including creating a new profile, helped to make it work in Chrome. [1]: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/39341 https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/39341
- abustamam 1y agoOur CTO was giving a hybrid presentation in a conference room on zoom, and his M3 Mac kept complaining of high memory usage. Chrome was rated at taking 60GB of memory. No single consumer application should be taking over 60gb of memory.
- gavinray 1y agoI use Edge on both Win + Android, and uBlock Origin works perfectly on both.
- throw123xz 1y agoLast time I used Edge (early this year), it asked me if I allowed to track me (the usual cookies message) when I opened a new tab, so while they still support Mv2, I'm not sure if it's the browser to use if you want some privacy and block ads.