Vietnam is passing a new law, going into effect on February 15, that will ban unskippable ads as well as delays before closing banner ads.
What unskippable ads? Havens had ads (or sponsor segments within videos) for a looooong time. Grayjay.app which has sponsor block included.
You guys see ads? I think you’re doing the Internet wrong.
I love how this is smug and offers no advice. Peak substack vibes
uBlock Origin on Firefox or Librewolf works,
or you could make a PiHoleEdit: Looks like PiHole won’t work, still worth setting up for general use though!
Adguard won’t work but uBlock Origin on Librewolf or Firefox works with at least the EasyList subscription (possibly Peter Lowe’s too). You can also use either the built in tracker in Vivaldi (just go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Manage Sources) and enable EasyList/disable the Allow ads from our partners).
Vivaldi also supports MV2 uBlock Origin for now; it will say it’s not supported but Vivaldi is fighting the removal of MV2).
I’ve had a good mix of filters and haven’t gotten the adblock warning for Youtube (knock on wood). It’s been a while since configuring but I think enabling Disable pre-fetching (to prevent any connection for blocked network requests and I’m an advanced user will help out.
I have all the uBlock Filters, EasyList, AdGuard, AdGuard/uBO – URL Tracking Protection, Block Outsider Intrusion into LAN, Online Malicious URL Blocklist, Phishing URL Blocklist
Pihole doesn’t work for YouTube, because they host the ads on the same servers as the videos. Blocking ads would also block videos. And uBlock Origin is a constant game of whack-a-mole, with YouTube constantly trying new ways to evade the ad blocker.
Hell, they’ve even started embedding the ad directly into the same video stream if they think you’re using an ad blocker, so it’s all one contiguous video that runs straight from the ad into the video you wanted to watch. Then they just block you from skipping ahead in the video stream until the ad is done.
So you’re still smug, and offering misleading advice. Peak substack vibes.
I’ve never had Ublock origin fail. Plus, there’s Sponsorblock for blocking in-video ads.
Alternately, you could use an app that does it for you.
Finally, I don’t know what substack is, but you seem like kind of a knob for wanking so hard over a half-assed joke.
uBlock Origin is a constant game of whack-a-mole
No it isn’t. Once in a while it stops working for a few hours, but I can’t remember the last time that happened.
They started embedding the ad directly into the same video stream
That’s false. Twitch does it, YouTube doesn’t. You can use any alternative frontend like Invidious or Grayjay and verify this quite easily.
Unless I’m mistaken, PiHole won’t block Youtube ads because they’re served from the same domain as the videos.
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Install another browser like Librewolf (ublock included) or Brave. That’s it, say good-bye to the ads, and not only in Youtube. In Android use Youtube Revanced. In Android TV (Nvidia shield, google TV, etc) use SmartTube.
And don’t use the “ads-company” browser in the future if you don’t like ads.
or Brave
Uuhhh, yeah, no. Don’t do this. Librewolf – or really any Firefox browser, even with how Mozilla is right now – is going to be a lot better choice than the homophobia-and-crypto Chromium browser.
Unfortunately Firefox is also an ads company now, but still gecko-based browsers are the only good choice rn
I don’t like the direction they’re heading, but Firefox still works just fine with UBlock Origin, Sponsorblock, etc.
Android using waterfox with ublock, no ads on youtube or anywhere else
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uBlock doesn’t come with financial and legal penalties, I’ll take Vietnam’s solution.
I don’t give a shit about all that since, wel, I have ublock.
I would rather everyone benefit and not only people technically competent enough to know about uBlock 🤷♂️
Not to mention the hassle of using youtube on different platforms beside your browser, specially on tv
Well you got a good point there. This is exactly why ads are incredibly evil.
The biggest issue with Youtube is that it has no real competition, at least for traditional long-form content. They have no incentive to improve the user experience.
At best they will code the restrictions in for users in vietnam.
At worst they’ll block it in the region.
It just comes down to what costs more for them. This won’t improve things in other regions.
Not yet anyway, but it might have a ripple effect on other countries doing the same.
Just like EU consumer laws sometimes gets adopted by other countries a few years later.
The EU consumer laws you see get wider adoption tend to have copycat versions show up in other regions, usually too many regions to make it worth splitting the codebase.
GDPR is still basically just EU & California (with it’s specific version that overlaps substantially.) The rest of us are boned.
Apple’s side loading is just EU as far as I know.
I know some things have been widespread like USB-C, but those are few and far between… and I still buy devices with microusb and other dumb connectors because of course people are still selling them in brand new products years after the EU ban.
Apple’s side loading is just EU as far as I know.
Apple’s sideloading is somewhere between a ridiculously off the mark compromise they’ve lobbied for and malicious noncompliance.
Brazil and Japan is adopting the “side loading”, so it is happening, but slowly.
There’s also a few examples of this, that we dont hear about in the media as much, but there’s some food quality and plastic standards that spreads.
I also remember something about airplanes and your rights when flights are delayed and stuff, but I cant recall it specifically.
