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Never 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 ago
YouTube recently started showing ads through uBO in Firefox.
- djrj477dhsnv 1y ago
  On 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 ago
    They do staged rollouts, maybe a-b testing. It seems to generally be region based rather than platform.
    - aspenmayer 1y ago
      You 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 ago
    I'm on Windows 10.
  - gpvos 1y ago
    Ubuntu.
  - weberer 1y ago
    Do you have other extensions? For example, I can see that uMatrix is also blocking all requests to doubleclick.net
- Aperocky 1y ago
  I'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 ago
My wife was pissed when I installed an adblocker for her - turns out she likes the ads.
- abbadadda 1y ago
  “Heavy sigh.”
- TechDebtDevin 1y ago
  There 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
  - nashashmi 1y ago
    Yes, they do open them all with so much eagerness it makes me wonder how they are able to manage so many emails. But eagerness and window shopping is their calling.
    - flkenosad 1y ago
      Massive generalization but sure lol
- yonatan8070 1y ago
  I 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 ago
  Right! 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.

thaumasiotes 1y ago

YouTube recently started showing ads through uBO in Firefox.

djrj477dhsnv 1y ago
On 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 ago
  They do staged rollouts, maybe a-b testing. It seems to generally be region based rather than platform.
  - aspenmayer 1y ago
    You 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 ago
  I'm on Windows 10.
- gpvos 1y ago
  Ubuntu.
- weberer 1y ago
  Do you have other extensions? For example, I can see that uMatrix is also blocking all requests to doubleclick.net
Aperocky 1y ago
I'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 ago

My wife was pissed when I installed an adblocker for her - turns out she likes the ads.

abbadadda 1y ago
“Heavy sigh.”
TechDebtDevin 1y ago
There 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
- nashashmi 1y ago
  Yes, they do open them all with so much eagerness it makes me wonder how they are able to manage so many emails. But eagerness and window shopping is their calling.
  - flkenosad 1y ago
    Massive generalization but sure lol
yonatan8070 1y ago
I 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 ago
Right! 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.