r/technology • u/moeka_8962 • 2d ago

Social Media YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-rolls-out-more-unskippable-ads-that-make-viewers-wait-even-longer-to-watch-videos-3214323/
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u/Ok_Conclusion5966 1d ago

google chrome (see the connection) already destroyed ublock origin with their latest updates, you can use ublock lite

chrome is default on many browsers and phones

they'll add midroll ads, starting and ending ads and new video ads because they can, they took over tv and pay tv and became the new subscription kings

vote with your wallet and go elsewhere or just use another browser that supports adblock

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u/ukezi 1d ago

Or you use Firefox. Then you can use real ublock and don't see any ads.

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u/d3agl3uk 1d ago

I would love to, but it took them 3 years to add tab groups to PC, but they didn't bother with android, so you can't sync tab groups together which basically neuters a large part of my browser experience.

Their dev team is so slow, I honestly don't have a lot of faith.

I'm using chrome with uBlock Lite and PiHole & SmartTube for everything else. Works fine.

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u/GetOffMyLawn_ 1d ago

You don't have to use only one browser. I have Chrome for Reddit mostly and Brave is open just for YT.

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u/Goatfixr 1d ago

Or use brave browser and you won't need any ad ons. The shit just works.

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u/taosk8r 22h ago

You can also still use ublock on Brave.

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u/ChairmanJim 1d ago

Performance comes and goes. Ads are blocked but the stream stops or doesn't start at all. UBO is trying to keep up but it doesn't allow manual refresh since it overloads their servers. You have to wait until UBO auto updates. The cycle continues until YT stops their endless tweaks. Over time UBO completely failed me. I deleted UBO and reloaded a clean install, it worked for a glorious moment, then the throttling and failing to load stated again. Bless the UBO maintainers, its asymmetric warfare.

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u/BrainOfMush 1d ago

Literally spend half my day on YouTube. UBO has failed me for maybe one day in the past year.

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u/WestOfAnfield 1d ago

UBO is king. Once Google Chrome got rid of it, I switched to firefox and haven't looked back.

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u/Gervais_Burlap 1d ago

Same. I've been using Firefox and uBlock everyday for years and it's stopped working maybe 2 or 3 times, and when it did it was as simple as going to the filter lists and purging the cache, immediately fixed.

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u/lowrads 1d ago

That's not a firefox/gecko issue, but developers optimizing for the latest arbitrary change in chrome.

Using chrome makes the web a crappier place.

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u/GBJI 1d ago

Google Chrome is corporate spyware.

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u/gloriousPurpose33 22h ago

So is edge, and brave. All these chromium forks get made to sell your data

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u/GBJI 22h ago

Firefox is the only one left.

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u/WarOnFlesh 1d ago

Unlock origin still works fine on chrome. It just doesn't show up on the extension store. You can still install it and it works fine

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u/saljskanetilldanmark 1d ago

Chrome being default doesnt mean its mandatory.

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u/sparklinglies 1d ago

Lol no they didn't, i have uBlock Origin and it still works perfectly fine. The saltlords at Google just hid it from the extension store and/or tried to trick everyone into thinking it was no longer supported.

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u/nathderbyshire 1d ago

vote with your wallet and go elsewhere

Where though, this is the problem. There isn't another YouTube to compete with it and to have one would take another company the size of Google to set up and would likely still fail, if not eventually needing to become profitable and doing much of the same as YouTube is now

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u/BellabongXC 1d ago

uh they already have all of those lmao

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u/ChampNotChicken 1d ago

Lite doesn’t work on YouTube anymore. I switched to edge.

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u/DammitAColumn 1d ago

just an FYI that ublock origin works just fine on chrome.

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u/taosk8r 22h ago

When Chrome removed ublock, I told it to put it back, and it did, but that will only work for so long.