Youtube stopped working for me today when using uBlock Origin in Firefox or Vivaldi with anti-ad enabled. : aboringdystopia

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

As soon as YT started blocking blockers, I created a new Firefox profile with only Bitwarden (just need that everywhere) and uBlock Origin ONLY. Using that has never failed me once this whole time.

When I forget to access YT through my special profile (and therefore only utilize those two plugins) I do see errors. I assume this is due to either uMatrix, AdNauseum or some combination of the two.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

oh no, anyway now you have more time to watch stuff that people put actual talent into like movies and tv shows and documentaries (this is a jab at youtube in general and not this specific video)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Theres plenty of high quality content on youtube though. You gotta wade through wall to wall youtube cringe to find it, but once you got a list of good subs, that problem disappears. The idea that youtube is solely garbage low effort content is so outdated

[+] [email protected] -34 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Try Brave browser. It work

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[+] [email protected] -36 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Am I the only one that pays for YouTube Premium? I get not wanting to pay for things. I don't feel bad for Google here, but I also don't understand what people expect. The government happily subsidizes Musk to litter outerspace. Maybe the government should be subsidizing YouTube?

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[+] [email protected] -41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

I can't help but laugh with this post in this sub.

Paying for media content is somehow dystopian 🤣

OHHHH GOD NO! YT WON'T LET ME FREELOAD CONTENT, I'M BEING ACCOSTED!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

At the same time they are enforcing the ban on adblocks they are creating solutions for sponsor blocks to skip the ads that actually bring some money to youtube creators.

Funny how the paying for media content works, you can pay youtube but not the creator of that content, the creator himself gets next to nothing if the youtube algorithm doesn't favour the content. Not a boring dystopia at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You’re minimizing the abuse. Used to be fine with ads when it was 1-2 max but then it got abusive and greedy. Someone who yells at you once or twice may just be angry, upset, or so on. Someone who yells at you constantly is abusive

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't honestly believe you just equated more ads on TV to abuse.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gaslighting is another way people justify abuse

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

I don't think that term means what you think it means.

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[+] [email protected] -44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Switch over to Brave browser. Its native adblock works better than uBlock anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I was getting a "this video is private, log in to watch it" banner on everything yesterday with Brave. The videos still played but I wonder if it's related to OPs issue.

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[+] [email protected] -46 points 1 month ago (5 children)

So you neither pay with money nor by watching ads for a very expensive to maintain service, but you won't leave it be either.

I know I'm making myself Unpopular here, but what is it that you're bringing to the table? Currently you cost YouTube money because streaming video is really expensive. You block out all the ads so every creator is cut off monetization too. This is not a publicly funded library (yet).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Your words are poopoo

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A Boring Dystopia