• TheEmpireStrikesDak
    30•4 months ago

    I’ve never got one of those anti-adblocker messages on YouTube and I just use a vanilla browser with no addons and I get zero ads. The Channel 4 website won’t let me watch anything without disabling the adblocker, so it’s not like my browser is in some super stealth mode where servers can’t tell I’m blocking ads. I’m not complaining though.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆English
      -62•4 months ago

      I’ve never got one of those anti-adblocker messages on YouTube and I just use a vanilla browser with no addons and I get zero ads

      If you use Firefox, uBlock Origin is installed by default.

          • "no" banana
            37•4 months ago

            It is not. I just installed Firefox today on a new machine. It is, however, synced to all my machines when I’ve logged in.

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              -32•4 months ago

              Then I guess I must be getting special treatment from Mozilla then or somehow am downloading a different installer from GetFirefox.com because it’s always been installed for me on a fresh install after a reformat or when putting it on someone else’s computer since I switched back from Chrome after rumors about Manifest V3 started circulating a few years back. 🙄

              • @PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldEnglish
                44•4 months ago

                You are someone I most often agree with on Lemmy, but you are simply mistaken here. Plug-ins get restored if you login to a Firefox account, so perhaps that’s why you think that it’s default for UBO to be installed, but it simply isn’t.

                • "no" banana
                  24•4 months ago

                  That’s what I’m assuming as well. They must be getting it from logging in.

              • @n_emoo@lemmy.ca
                21•4 months ago

                Im guessing adding plugins is part of your default workflow when installing browsers somehow. Ublock origin is the most used plugin on firefox Id reckon, but a fresh install doesnt carry it.

      • Blastboom Strice
        37•4 months ago

        If you use a mozilla account it automatically installs addons that you have on other browsers, that might be why you think it’s installed by default.😅

      • TheEmpireStrikesDak
        2•4 months ago

        Nope, not using Firefox on mobile. (I do on Linux mint though, and even with ublock I still got YouTube ads last time I was able to actually connect to the Internet.)

  • kratoz29English
    22•4 months ago

    I barely use YT on the desktop (mostly used with Smart Tube then YT Revanced) to even face these issues…

    Glad to know the Ublock team is still fighting this as soon as possible.

  • metaStatic
    22•4 months ago

    Google sells youtube to twitch, suddenly a multi-trillion dollar company …

    Yeah, adblockers are a solved issue and only still work because google knows anyone using them will leave before watching dozens of ads per video, and those numbers are high enough to be a real threat.