• Mii@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Oh look, YouTube managed to circumvent uBlock for like two hours again before someone figured out a fix, lol.

    Seriously, I wanna know how much funds Google allocates to fight ad blockers just to come up with a working solution every odd month that then gets fixed by the uBlock community in hours. There’s no way this is profitable for them or gets a sizable number of uBlock users to buy their subscription.

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      I’ve seen what effort goes into it at somewhere else, it’s a lot

      not sure I’d say it’s unprofitable though, given just how goddamn much money google does make from its advertising monopoly. but I get what you meant with the conversion angle nonetheless

    • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
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      24 hours ago

      Sadly, the majority of humanity aren’t intelligent people. This is most likely working for them with hundreds of idiots.

  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Please don’t make posts to TechTakes that are just bare images without a description. The description can be simple, like “Screenshot from YouTube saying ‘Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service’”. Some of our participants rely upon screenreaders. Or are crotchety old people who remember an Internet that wasn’t all social media feeds sharing snapshots of other social media feeds.

  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    No problem, set your useragent to openai, boom no more advertisements. Every other video is some weird video about how great google is however. Strange that. (Note: this is a joke, not something that I tested and actually works).

  • shoulderoforion@fedia.ioOP
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    2 days ago

    i use ublock origin

    reddit still good for something: Filter Lists–>uBlock filters–>uncheck the “ublock filters - quickfixes” box and then reload the page.

    this worked for me