Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?

    • Zuberi 👀
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      36 months ago

      Any non-chrome browser will experience a 5 second delay (IF they have an adblocker)

      • be_excellent_to_each_other
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        6 months ago

        FWIW, with Firefox on Linux with pihole on my network and ublock origin, some component (or the mix) of those things seems to have meant that so far I have yet to experience a single one of the things Google has been doing since the adblock wars began again. I just checked now to see if there was any delay, and there is not.

        I haven’t seen a single popup, nor a single warning, no slowdowns, and no ads. I installed freetube in preparation for getting screwed, and although I like it, ad-wise and speed-wise it’s no different than hitting youtube directly.

        ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • Zuberi 👀
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          26 months ago

          “Checked to see if there was any delay” is not entirely a good argument when I have post history of going through the JS.

          That 5000ms wait is still in there; if I had to guess, your Pihole is preventing any real issue there.

          • be_excellent_to_each_other
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            56 months ago

            OK. I’m not claiming google isn’t trying. I’m claiming it doesn’t matter, and this is a solvable problem for end users. Most others in this thread are saying just FF and ublock does it, so I probably have overkill going on.

            I only know this is happening with Youtube recently because of seeing other people talk about it.

            • Mario_Dies.wav
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              36 months ago

              Same here. uBO + Firefox

              If there’s been a delay, it’s not been noticeable to me