Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin - And a Dinosaur
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Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely due to personal interest. This blog post is where I write down what I know. Some Background Here’s...

Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin::Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely due to personal interest. This blog post is where I write down what I know. Some Background Here’s…

  • sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.chEnglish
    205·
    1 year ago

    Good article. Rather than relying on uBo people should just stop using services they dislike (YouTube) and move to something else. Of course many people don’t want to change what they’re used to.

    • Kalash@feddit.chEnglish
      442·
      1 year ago

      and move to something else

      There is nothing comparable to youtube.

      • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        well, since the debacle I was thinking: do I really need YT? What if I don’t access it at all, will my life become miserable? Nope, because YT is not something I NEED, just something I WANT. Once we realize that, it’s easy to look elsewhere, or even find something more productive to do.

      • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.worldEnglish
        216·
        1 year ago

        You can’t honestly say there isn’t anything comparable to YouTube. I can think of 3 of the top of my head. You just want 1-1 and that’s not possible

      • sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.chEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        In what ways do you mean? I don’t know much about the creator side of things.

        However if it has something to do with less ease of use for the creators then that’s something that should be worth going through. By giving more value to other platforms then we can assume those platforms will make more and better changes for their influx of users. Similar to how people didn’t want to leave Reddit for Lemmy. There isn’t as much content and the apps and infrastructure aren’t as good. Well, Lemmy development has taken off since the Reddit migration because of the value given to the platform.

    • moth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Agreed, we need more creators uploading their content both to YT as well as to other hosting sites that are less explicitly against the viewership. Google only cares about maximizing their profits, and it’s sad to have witnessed how YT has degraded over the years. It used to be a place that cared so much about the user experience and now… It’s an ad serving tool, and not much more.

      Once enough big creators decide to support alternative platforms we may see a growing number of people who check out of YT for good.

      • EfwisEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        The creators are making money from the ads, they probably won’t abandon ship at yt unless they stop making revenue. A lot of the creators on yt rely on the ads to be worthwhile in creating the content.

        I agree, yt is getting stupid with their ads, from what I understand they are now including ads in the yt premium subscription aervice, which is supposed to be ad free mind you.

        As long as greed dictates content, creators won’t abandon ship, unless they can have ads on the alternatives to make money on.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I feel like I’m living in a utopia since more of my YT usage comes from a Nvidia Shield TV with Smart Tube Next and YouTube Revanced on a phone, in a nutshell I have been unaffected by all this mess… For now.