What about uBlock Origin, young Billy???
That stuborn saint refuses to take my money.
He just continues to make uBlock out of pure spite.
Absolute madlad, the uBlock Origin creator.
What is it about the line " Billy, Noo!" that always kills me?! Its so stupid but it fills me with joy when I hear it or read it.
-Grayjay/libretube/fluxtube/pipepipe/skytube -Piped (web) -Ytdlnis -Ytdlp -Brave -Firefox + ublock -Spotube/simp/bloomee
Stop using chrome already.
Got adblock and yt premium, that way the creators I watch still benefit
Also especially if you get a family plan and split the cost it’s really not too bad, £5 a month seems pretty reasonable to me for yt plus music
Ironically this Meme is an AdBlock Plus advertisement.
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uMatrix and uBlock origin ::: spoiler
uMatrix
I used uBlock origin and have for years but I’ve never heard of uMatrix. I see from the description kind of what it does, but what’s the benefit here?
Based on the description, it looks like it’s designed to be able to block or allow 3rd party stuff on webpages. For example, it looks like, if you wanted to, you could block Twitter embeds from loading in a given news article. I imagine it can also block hidden 3rd party stuff, too, the kind that you only notice if you look at the network tab in the browser’s console.
How do you support uOrigin? I can’t even find the donation page
You don’t. They do not accept donations, and instead recommend donating to blocklist authors.
I’d watch this ad all day, every day
But if you pay for YouTube premium you won’t have ads… for the first couple of years until they corner the market, and change the terms of services several times to maximize profits. uBlock and donating to open source FTW. shout out to yt-dlp
+1 for ytdlp
Also ad lock blocks ads on all of the platforms you use. YouTube plus just removed them from YouTube… I ain’t paying 20 different places for ad free use when they charge like $15+ each, maybe if it were $1 each for nah they are all greedy.
Good point. And it wouldn’t surprise me if google was still using YTP subscriber viewing data to target them on other platforms and websites. Actually, I’d be surprised if they weren’t doing that.
This is exactly it.
Cable TV was originally meant to be TV with no ads, see where that has come.
Streaming services were meant to be on demand shows/movies with no ads, see where we are now.
YouTube premium will enshittify the exact same way. How do I know this? They already won’t listen to paying customers and content creators who bring customer to the site. They do customer unfriendly moves like removing dislikes to make a quick buck from big corporations. They will make it shittier given the chance.
Jeez I’m old enough to remember paying to go to the theater so I could watch a movie without commercials
oof.
I’d happily pay for YouTube if they didn’t want such a ridiculous price for it.
Family plan is around 5 bucks per person. Even the individual plan is cheaper than one trip to the movies.
That depends on how many people are in the family and how many people are paying their fair share. Odds are that the children won’t pay because, well, they’re children. Teenagers might pay their way depending on if they have a job or not. And many households only have one primary source of income (with maybe a side job providing just a little extra). Which means most people would probably be footing the bill themselves for the whole family.
When you go to the Zoo, do the kids pay for themselves? The price per person is that, price per person, not who pays.
Yep, that sounds similar to Europe. A movie ticket is easily 15 euros, plus transport, pop corn, etc.
I’d happily pay for Youtube if they stopped tracking me
It used to be like 3€ without music bundled into it. I don’t want Music. Give me that plan back.
The dad is correct here; AdBlock Plus is corporatized, and uBlock Origin is the better option hands-down in every capacity.
Dad is supporting Youtube Premium though, even more corporatized
And shares revenue with content creators.
I remember when ABP started whitelisting ads as part of some twisted business model. I switched to uBlock so fast and haven’t looked back.
THEY FUCKING WHAT.
I can die now. I’ve seen peak hypocrisy.
They did. If I remember right it actually started with them kissing the Google ring first.
“p-please, shit in my mouth, daddy g” -abp
It used to be the defacto extension, everyone used it. I remember when the dev sold out. I get it, money can be exchanged for goods and services, but now they can’t show their face in many places as they are ‘the lowlife piece of shit who sold out abp’ and that’s basically a death sentence in tech hub places.
Yes, but sleep soundly at night on a big pile of money.
Yes but you cannot donate to uBlock, so he is doing the best he can
Correct, but you should donate to the list maintainers, not the enemy.
I really don’t agree with this. AdBlock Plus is a technically inferior, directly competing standard that sucks up to advertisers by doing something only marginally less scummy than taking bribes to look the other way. These two extensions are both licensed under the GPLv3, but I seriously doubt Gorhill, the developer of uBlock Origin, sees much if any benefit from ABP’s source code. uBO uses ABP’s filter list syntax, but if ABP ceased to exist, the lists would work just the same.
If ABP had their way, they would monopolize adblocking as effectively a protection racket, and being given funding to create that sort of ecosystem is toxic to an open Internet. Giving ABP any money is worse than losing it down a sewer grate. uBO at this point in time should be the only adblocking extension anyone is using, because it’s the one that’s actually working toward a better Internet.
Look man he is a kid he is trying to suport adblocking, I do not expect him to try to find a way to anonomusly send it to uBO, he will search adblock and pay it… not saying its a good choice, I am saying its a choice I would expect a child who is trying there best to make
I don’t blame Billy for being naive. I am not saying Billy should instead track down Raymond Gorhill and mail them cash.
Nonetheless, what Billy has done – in good faith and thinking he was helping – is make the Internet a very slightly worse place and spent money to do so.
Do any YouTube blockers work anymore? The last two I was using just stopped working a few weeks back
Firefox + uBlock. Hasn’t failed me once, not even when they recently tried to push back against adblockers.
Revanced on mobile as well.
The problem with Revanced is the installation. Most users don’t want hear “go to the GitHub” or “definitely don’t get it from the .io site because that’s malware” which is an install I’ve seen linked on Reddit.
On mobile I use NewPiped. Different UI, and it’s not perfect, but it works more as an RSS feed (with optional recommendations), so no algorithm trying its best to get as much attention from you as possible.
That was intentional by google. Stop fucking using Chrome
I don’t. Stopped working on my tv, my PC Firefox, mobile everything.
For TV, assuming you have an Android TV, you can use SmartTube.
For mobile, use ReVanced. It’ll ask you to provide an APK of a specific version of the YouTube app, which you can download from here.
For PC, use Firefox and the uBlock Origin adblocker. I know you said you don’t use Chrome, but I’ll explain why people are saying not to use it specifically with uBlock Origin: Basically, with Chrome’s update to Manifest v3, that’ll greatly impact uBlock Origin and its ability to do its job.
All three options above also include the ability to enable/ install something called SponsorBlock. SponsorBlock uses community submissions to (based on the user’s preference) either skip or give the option to skip portions of a video such as sponsorship segments or “like and subscribe” segments among other things.
Firefox + uBlock Origin are still fine
For some reason I have ublock and have it set to on when I’m on YouTube, but it doesn’t do anything. I still get ads.
Clear the uBlock cache and refresh the filters
First, backup your uBlock Origin settings. Next, try resetting your uBlock Origin settings.
Stop using Chrome
I don’t. Ever
uBlock Origin on PC and NewPipe on android have been working fine for me
Recently? I deleted new pipe off my phone like a week or two ago cause it wasn’t working
Yeah I haven’t had any problems the last couple of weeks. Currently using version 0.27.2 on a Pixel 7. I used to use ReVanced but had issues with it
Brave browser
I use SmartTube on my android tv sticks, no problem. I do wish autoplay had better intelligence though.
This is an ad in itself. Hilarious.
Is it tho if it’s pounting out ABP isn’t any good?
Ublock origin FTW
There is no such thing as bad publicity.
Is this you Ji…Ji…Jimmeh?
Ironically this Meme is an AdBlock Plus advertisement.
Get F-Droid, and go use NewPipe. Export your subscriptions from YouTube and load them into NewPipe. Problem solved.
It’s too bad that there’s no iOS equivalent. :'(
There’s Yattee. Open Source and works quite well.
Thank you! I’m switching to iPhone today whenever It gets here, and the loss of newpipe is one thing I’ve been really worried about. I’ll check out the app you recommended after I’m done setting up my new phone
I’ve just started using AdNauseum, which I think builds off of uBlock Origin, but also silently clicks and hides ads instead of just the latter. So far it seems to work pretty well, although I did have to set some sites to strict blocking.
Just keep in mind the possible cons of using AdNauseam.
With traditional adblockers like uBO, the ad content never gets loaded. With AdNauseam, it does, it’s just not shown to you.
That means the ad network is likely to get:
- Your IP
- Your Browser Header
- Possibly the site you’re on
And it also makes you heavily identifiable, because to any ad server, a single user mass-clicking their advertisements by the thousands is going to make you very easy to track across sites, just by behavior alone.
So while it’s good if you just want no ads and to do a little monetary harm to surveillance advertising, it’s not good if you want privacy. (Unless you set it to show ads, but still click on all of them, and you’re the type that does sometimes click on ads, then it does become good for obfuscation)
I’d definitely recommend the same team’s other work: TrackMeNot, as it does a decent job of obfuscating your search queries. (Just make sure that if you use a privacy-focused search engine like DuckDuckGo, you disable any auto-searching on Google, since that just gives them your IP, without obfuscating the searches you aren’t making there anyways)
THERE IT IS!! I remember a thread on reddit about a year ago where someone linked that and I forgot what it was called and couldn’t find it for my life. Ty!
Does that make money for google when it clicks ads?
In the short term it ought to make money for advertisers like Google from those who choose to place ads, but ideally in the long-term, it loses them money by dramatically devaluing clickthroughs if enough people use it.
I don’t necessarily know if this is true, though, and whatever case, it seems like AdNauseum’s mission statement is to prevent profiling by blanket clicking everything, not to devalue ads. I just don’t personally use it because I’m content with blocking everything and don’t foresee much personal benefit in AdNauseum.
I like your answer more than what I was gonna type up :P
Up until a couple days ago, I was using uBO & PrivacyBadger in tandem. Maybe I’ll back to that, as I sit closer to your viewpoint vs giving ads any revenue stream. It’s kinda in the same realm as why I’d buy a game using CDKeys vs pirating/torrenting. It’s a morally grey area that makes it somewhat redeemable, but the point still stands. In AdNauseum’s case,
you really can’t tell what ads are clicked on and therefore don’t know what any revenue stream is going in to which pocketsyou can inspect the ads it clicks on after the fact, but the money for said clicks still go somewhere, even if it’s in the fraction of a fraction of a cent.Heh, I may just switch back. Thanks?.. Yeah, thanks!
Yes Billy, yes!
AdGuard on iPhone was the best purchase I ever made. Combined with baking soda and vinegar - perfect
