ijeff to [email protected]English • 8 months agoYouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world9to5google.commessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1133file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink40•8 months agoIt’s all good just make sure you have an up-to-date ublock-based extension: https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/ As of writing this Adblock Plus isn’t working with Youtube but no reason you should be using that over ublock origin anyways.
minus-squareThe DoctorlinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoI’m still waiting for Google to ban uBlock Origin from the Chrome addon store.
minus-square🦋 Benjamin West - 🐒🌻linkfedilink2•8 months ago@drwho @xoggy yeah eh. Maybe it has such a unique footprint it just opens up more tracking opportunities through fingerprinting. 🙃
minus-squareThe DoctorlinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 months agoI think they just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
It’s all good just make sure you have an up-to-date ublock-based extension: https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/
As of writing this Adblock Plus isn’t working with Youtube but no reason you should be using that over ublock origin anyways.
I’m still waiting for Google to ban uBlock Origin from the Chrome addon store.
@drwho @xoggy yeah eh. Maybe it has such a unique footprint it just opens up more tracking opportunities through fingerprinting. 🙃
I think they just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
All the more reason to switch to Firefox!