Brave Browser still ad free. Just never use the browser for anything else, and never log in to your account from it,One of my PCs got hit with the latest wave of anti-adblock, although it only really happens in private windows (in Edge with ublock installed). Get a bunch of pre-roll ads that don't actually play but do delay watching what I actually want to watch. It's also the only one with Windows 10 Home on it, all my other boxes (with Win10 LTSC or Windows 7) are much less affected.
It's just a HTPC that I do nothing with except watch streaming content so nothing stopping me from installing a different OS if it keeps it up.
There's no such thing as a free market.I'm not a lawyer, but I'd imagine it falls under the "if you don't like their terms, don't use their product" thought. Unless they become some sort of government defined "town square" or "essential utility" I don't think it matters what they allow or disallow. I get that things can be murky in terms of what businesses can dictate (restaurants, for example), but unless we somehow prove they are racist or transphobic or some bullshit, no one is going to make YT change what they demand.
And honestly, that's how it should be. Let the free market dictate how much bullshit we'll put up with. Sure it seems like YouTube is the behemoth none of us can do without, but eventually if we all get fed up other platforms WILL rise to fill that need. Now, how those new platforms will pay for themselves is not clear, but if we're fine with supporting a new platform with a little fee, YT would probably ask why you won't just pay for YT premium if you don't want ads.
I've noticed that it doesn't seem to affect embeds, which is probably what's happening here. We could all just liven up the video thread with whatever we want to watch lol.A "hack" to get around ads on any video, with any browser, running any extensions by using Bing:
Copy the video address into the Bing search window, then scroll down to the fist video link:
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That should open a second Bing window that will start playing the video directly w/o ads:
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I tested the Bing trick on an unmodified Chrome browser for a few minutes, but on my normal browser (Vivaldi) I've had UBock Origins running for so long that I'm not sure I know what embeds are, in this context. The only thing I see are various channels doing the "This Video is supported by VPN_Tank_warfair_game and here is a 1min spiel of me reading the text they sent me."I've noticed that it doesn't seem to affect embeds, which is probably what's happening here. We could all just liven up the video thread with whatever we want to watch lol.
I just mean videos embedded in a webpage. I assume Bing is embedding the video similarly to how you would post one on a forum, and I've never had Youtube complain about that. It makes sense though, since people will stop embedding them if they break for everyone. Someone could probably make a script that generates a page with the embed code any time you click a youtube link.I tested the Bing trick on an unmodified Chrome browser for a few minutes, but on my normal browser (Vivaldi) I've had UBock Origins running for so long that I'm not sure I know what embeds are, in this context. The only thing I see are various channels doing the "This Video is supported by VPN_Tank_warfair_game and here is a 1min spiel of me reading the text they sent me."
No surprise that there would eventually be some kind of middle man trying to crop up. Next thing you know, this entity will sell out and youtube etc. will use them as an endorsement and not change a single fucking thing in their content patterns.Started getting YouTube ads again (Edge with ABP). I went into the ABP settings and noticed that this option was checked. Unchecked it and no more ads.
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Or make me watch ads at the start. Their length can be based on the length of the video. Just stop interrupting the content with gay commercials.No surprise that there would eventually be some kind of middle man trying to crop up. Next thing you know, this entity will sell out and youtube etc. will use them as an endorsement and not change a single fucking thing in their content patterns.
If there wasn actual honest "standard" out there, I wouldnt mind a 30 second to a minute commercial on like youtube. But shit, Amazon hit me with 3 and 4 fucking minute commercial breaks on my TV down at the dock (its old and uses a dongle). Theres gotta be middle ground, eventually.
No surprise that there would eventually be some kind of middle man trying to crop up. Next thing you know, this entity will sell out and youtube etc. will use them as an endorsement and not change a single fucking thing in their content patterns.
If there wasn actual honest "standard" out there, I wouldnt mind a 30 second to a minute commercial on like youtube. But shit, Amazon hit me with 3 and 4 fucking minute commercial breaks on my TV down at the dock (its old and uses a dongle). Theres gotta be middle ground, eventually.