YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

Rabbit_Games

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Out of town and staying with family, which means I'm away from my custom router and it's blocking/protection. Using Edge with Ublock Origin and custom filters. No issues for me.
 

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YouTube continues to become more obnoxious with ads not even just these playback ones but in the sheer number of ads in it's search results as well. Instead of adapting they just become a shitter and shittier experience necessitating the further need for ad block in the first fucking place. I hope they enshitify it to the point the website becomes worthless and actual alternatives pop up.
 
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Cad

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Am I the only one still just using chrome on MacOS with ublock origin and never once seeing ads on youtube or it refusing to play?

On the other hand when I get on youtube on my TV, there's like 45 second + unskippable ads. Collateral damage?
 
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Am I the only one still just using chrome on MacOS with ublock origin and never once seeing ads on youtube or it refusing to play?

On the other hand when I get on youtube on my TV, there's like 45 second + unskippable ads. Collateral damage?
If it is an android TV or player, sideload SmartTube, skips all the ads without any issues. The worst I get is 5-10 seconds of black screen when starting a video the first time I open the app. Once that first video is played, I never get it again. It also has fairly accurate skip indicators for in-video ads (NordVPN, for example) or engagement reminders (make sure to like and subscribe!) if you don't want to put up with those either.

No idea if the app exists for Apple.
 
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Rabbit_Games

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I wish we’d get a Router option for OpnSense (or similar) that worked as well as Ublock Origin.
 

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I'm still using Firefox/uBlockOrigin. I've seen brief threats for a day or two at a time but nothing persistent or recent. They can continue to fuck off.
 

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They've marked Ublock on the chromestore as potentially being removed soon due to it "Violating their ToS". Still working flawlessly with Vivaldi.
 
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