ad blocker no longer works with youtube?
Discussion
Google / Youtube fundamentally changed the way the content providers use it, and how we, the consumers use it.
Initially it was free, and people like me put videos up on how to make / mend things, and they chose if they wanted to have ads in their videos. I chose not to (it's far too boring to generate revenue anyhow). Then Youtubers became a thing. Big money.
I always took youtube as part of the package of "rewards" for me using Gmail, I know for a fact they make a killing trawling my content (emails, photos etc etc) for data collection and selling (targeting marketing etc).
Previously content providers made money from in-video product endorsement / placement, and also by allowing ads, which Youtube took their cut from. Youtuber gets rich, Youtube gets paid for the ad comission.
All of a sudden, they peppered YT videos with ads every 5 minutes - ruining any content you want to watch uninterrupted - they don't time the ads with any system - they are just slapped in every x minutes. It is beyond "OK" and is a clear shove in the subscription direction. Even the content providers have no control over when the ads appear.
On top of this, one of the great resources of youtube is / was the ability to find "how to" videos, and when you are trying to diagnose a problem with your Whirlpool Aqua 335B7GB washing machine, you usually have to watch the first few seconds of loads of videos to find out if a) they are talking about the item of concern b) the video is not all about the youtuber, and c) it has the content you need to make your repair. Insert mandetory ads at the start of every single video, and this becomes impossible. You just give up.
I'm not adding yet another subscription to my catalogue of subs. I'll just strt using whatever competition arisis as a result of this heavy handed move, or, I'll keep updating my adblockers with ones that work.
The current one, Fadblock , has been taken down by Google (Who'd have known!) so awaiting a new release any day now.
FYI - regarding the stealing/T&Cs discussion - we've been skipping ads on our Youvue and Sky boxes for a very long time already. It's not like everyone has all of a sudden taken a moral 180. It's the same thing, different platform.
Initially it was free, and people like me put videos up on how to make / mend things, and they chose if they wanted to have ads in their videos. I chose not to (it's far too boring to generate revenue anyhow). Then Youtubers became a thing. Big money.
I always took youtube as part of the package of "rewards" for me using Gmail, I know for a fact they make a killing trawling my content (emails, photos etc etc) for data collection and selling (targeting marketing etc).
Previously content providers made money from in-video product endorsement / placement, and also by allowing ads, which Youtube took their cut from. Youtuber gets rich, Youtube gets paid for the ad comission.
All of a sudden, they peppered YT videos with ads every 5 minutes - ruining any content you want to watch uninterrupted - they don't time the ads with any system - they are just slapped in every x minutes. It is beyond "OK" and is a clear shove in the subscription direction. Even the content providers have no control over when the ads appear.
On top of this, one of the great resources of youtube is / was the ability to find "how to" videos, and when you are trying to diagnose a problem with your Whirlpool Aqua 335B7GB washing machine, you usually have to watch the first few seconds of loads of videos to find out if a) they are talking about the item of concern b) the video is not all about the youtuber, and c) it has the content you need to make your repair. Insert mandetory ads at the start of every single video, and this becomes impossible. You just give up.
I'm not adding yet another subscription to my catalogue of subs. I'll just strt using whatever competition arisis as a result of this heavy handed move, or, I'll keep updating my adblockers with ones that work.
The current one, Fadblock , has been taken down by Google (Who'd have known!) so awaiting a new release any day now.
FYI - regarding the stealing/T&Cs discussion - we've been skipping ads on our Youvue and Sky boxes for a very long time already. It's not like everyone has all of a sudden taken a moral 180. It's the same thing, different platform.
Edited by Griffith4ever on Tuesday 6th February 11:34
Well said!
They even put adverts in the middle of music videos now, I mean come on!
I was also going to raise the point of people skipping adverts on sky / Freeview, as I don't see how it's any different. Presumably the ones moralising sit and watch all of the adverts intently at it would be immoral to do otherwise.
They even put adverts in the middle of music videos now, I mean come on!
I was also going to raise the point of people skipping adverts on sky / Freeview, as I don't see how it's any different. Presumably the ones moralising sit and watch all of the adverts intently at it would be immoral to do otherwise.
TameRacingDriver said:
Well said!
They even put adverts in the middle of music videos now, I mean come on!
I was also going to raise the point of people skipping adverts on sky / Freeview, as I don't see how it's any different. Presumably the ones moralising sit and watch all of the adverts intently at it would be immoral to do otherwise.
It's different because as being a member of Youtube I agreed not to use adblockers. They don't do anything to counter adblockers, for people not signed in, who may not have agreed to do so. They even put adverts in the middle of music videos now, I mean come on!
I was also going to raise the point of people skipping adverts on sky / Freeview, as I don't see how it's any different. Presumably the ones moralising sit and watch all of the adverts intently at it would be immoral to do otherwise.
I guess it is moralsing because to my view of morals - if I, or anyone, agrees to do something then they should try their best to do it - or a lot of what is fundamental falls apart. This is usually more important if what I agree to is not easy or it's really only my conscience that is enforcing it. Especially as, in this case, I could withdraw from the agreement, at any time, and still watch videos with an adblocker I just can't be a signed in member when you do.
Edited by Graveworm on Tuesday 6th February 13:55
Graveworm said:
It's different because as being a member of Youtube I agreed not to use adblockers. They don't do anything to counter adblockers, for people not signed in, who may not have agreed to do so. I guess it is moralsing because to my view of morals - if I, or anyone, agrees to do something then they should try their best to do it - or a lot of what is fundamental falls apart. This is usually more important if what I agree to not easy or it's only my conscience that is enforcing it. Especially as, in this case, I could withdraw from the agreement, at any time, and still watch videos with an adblocker I just can't be a signed in member when you do.
You pretty much said the same in the Goodwood ticket sales thread. Do you really follow every T&C in life??
ecsrobin said:
Graveworm said:
It's different because as being a member of Youtube I agreed not to use adblockers. They don't do anything to counter adblockers, for people not signed in, who may not have agreed to do so. I guess it is moralsing because to my view of morals - if I, or anyone, agrees to do something then they should try their best to do it - or a lot of what is fundamental falls apart. This is usually more important if what I agree to not easy or it's only my conscience that is enforcing it. Especially as, in this case, I could withdraw from the agreement, at any time, and still watch videos with an adblocker I just can't be a signed in member when you do.
You pretty much said the same in the Goodwood ticket sales thread. Do you really follow every T&C in life??
Edited by r3g on Tuesday 6th February 14:51
ecsrobin said:
You pretty much said the same in the Goodwood ticket sales thread.
Do you really follow every T&C in life??
Yes if I am aware of it and agreed to it and I would be uncomfortable trying to justify it just because it's annoying to have to stick to what I agreed. Requiring what they agreed to provide and expecting to be able to hold them to that; whist simultaneously having no intention of keeping up my end, does seem wrong to me. Do you really follow every T&C in life??
This is not some blanket unfair catch all, to buy food, utilities or other essentials. This and Goodwood are 1st world issues with opt in membership that I can leave at any time, if I don't like the T&Cs. ad free youtube and motorsport are hardly essentials.
As an aside. There were a spate of kidnappings, of Chinese illegals in the 90's and 2000s, by the smuggling gags on arrival. One of the things that baffled the authorities is that all the kidnappers wanted from them, was to agree to pay additional fees before they were released. Not pay the money just agree to pay. They nearly all refused to and were often beaten and tortured - because they wouldn't give their word if they were not going to keep it even to a criminal gang under duress.
I, naturally, don't think something given under such duress should be in any way binding. However it's sad that illegal immigrants who have arrived in containers are more concerned with keeping their word to those who trafficked them, than some their agreements in exchange for watching videos without adverts, if it proves troublesome.
Edited by Graveworm on Tuesday 6th February 14:27
r3g said:
He's a massive bore. Does this is in every thread, desperate for someone to give him a pat on the head for his virtue-signalling and order-following awesomeness. If I had to bet, I'd bet on him being a cop and some other position of authority. He's definitely got all the traits. jUsT fOlLoW tEh rUleS !!11
I know a few coppers even they’re not that weird! 
Biker's Nemesis said:
I have disabled Adblock plus and installed Privacy Protector Adblocker, Memory usage had risen to 1.6 GB.
Memory usage is now down to 218 MB, Success.
Ad block > top right of the screen is a cog > Advanced > next to each filter is a cog > update now.Memory usage is now down to 218 MB, Success.
If the filters are out of date, it can cause problems and slow the whole thing down.
392mb on this one.
Edited by Shadow R1 on Saturday 10th February 19:40
Monkeylegend said:
Derek Smith said:
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CorradoTDI said:
Brave browser - blocks everything.
This^^^^Guess the Brave team patched it.
No issues since.
Brave has blocked and saved me all this time and data since then as well, just on my main PC, not including my phone.
I get the odd website that misbehaves and means I have to turn off the blocker briefly (say 1 in 50). I do think twice about continuing to use said website if they are tracking me that aggressively though.
I thought I would just pop in to offer a bit of a new idea for those marginally technically inclined.....
https://invidious.io/
It can be downloaded and run as a docker image. It is just an alternative front end for Youtube that drops the ads and is privacy respecting It uses proper API requests and uses Youtube as the backend.
Also, quite usefully, it actually allows you to download the files to various video and audio formats. If you know what Docker is it is a 10 minute job to get it up and running and lots of extra functionality over the standard client.
Hope it helps.
https://invidious.io/
It can be downloaded and run as a docker image. It is just an alternative front end for Youtube that drops the ads and is privacy respecting It uses proper API requests and uses Youtube as the backend.
Also, quite usefully, it actually allows you to download the files to various video and audio formats. If you know what Docker is it is a 10 minute job to get it up and running and lots of extra functionality over the standard client.
Hope it helps.
I've never had an issue with ads as I've used both UBO and ABP. however lately chrome's felt slow. yesterday youtube videos wouldn't load properly to the point that it kept bumping video quality down to 480p. I disabled UBO and everything worked fine, pages loaded up faster/snappy.
just wish I could get a good ad blocker for twitch.
just wish I could get a good ad blocker for twitch.
ambuletz said:
I've never had an issue with ads as I've used both UBO and ABP. however lately chrome's felt slow. yesterday youtube videos wouldn't load properly to the point that it kept bumping video quality down to 480p. I disabled UBO and everything worked fine, pages loaded up faster/snappy.
just wish I could get a good ad blocker for twitch.
You can, Adblock for Twitch1.0.2 (for chrome), it is a bit hit and miss, you will not see any adds but sometimes it shows a blocking screen and streams can pause a few seconds whilst it does it thing, so not perfect.just wish I could get a good ad blocker for twitch.
I-A said:
Hi All,
What is the latest extension set up for Chrome?
Currently I have Adblock, Privacy Badger, Tamper Monkey and uBlock - all of which no longer work on Youtube!
Anybody else faced this issue overnight?
Thank you
Maybe remove them all and add them back one by one or just one at a time to see what works? I have just uBlock out of your list and it works fine on chrome.What is the latest extension set up for Chrome?
Currently I have Adblock, Privacy Badger, Tamper Monkey and uBlock - all of which no longer work on Youtube!
Anybody else faced this issue overnight?
Thank you
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