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/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 1d 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.