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YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 3 months ago by ForgottenFlux to c/technology

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Mashable reports that users ran into a black screen on YouTube, and that it stayed for about 6 seconds before the video began playing. The reports indicate it affected several browsers including Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi.

Some users joked that they would rather see a black screen than an ad. While that's certainly a better experience, it does waste precious seconds of our time. A simple workaround for the black screen on YouTube is to just refresh the page, hit F5 as soon as the page starts loading. uBlock Origin's filters were updated with a patch to resolve the problem, the add-on updates its filters automatically. If you are still experiencing the black screen issue, just open the extension's dashboard and manually update the filters. This tug-of-war is getting annoying, but it appears to me that Google's efforts are actively promoting the use of ad blockers, instead of attracting new subscribers.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Lemmy is also a "free speech" platform. Yet, we're all still here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Neo-Nazis use Lemmy as a platform for their calls to violence?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I know they use Mastodon to do it. Truth Social runs on the Mastodon software.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure the fediverse is VERY left-leaning lmao

[–] Plopp 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is. Which makes it even weirder that black people have a horrible experience on Fedi with loads of racist harassment.

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

Horseshoe theory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, which is why [email protected] exists.

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

This right here is the community that made the lemmy developers themselves write code to specifically censor this community.

[–] asdfasdfasdf 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There's a big difference between a protocol (what you refer to as Lemmy is actually a protocol called ActivityPub) and a centralized organization (Odyssee). Many / most Lemmy instances will ban Nazi posts, many also defederating from instances which allow them. However, the fact that it's a protocol means it's still free speech. This is IMO a very good system to have, and emulates real world free speech dynamics.

Odyssee, however, allowing Nazi stuff is not okay since they are not a protocol. They're the equivalent of a Lemmy instance. Lots of people are against Hexbear, for example, myself included.

[–] x00z 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Odysee is a platform built upon LBRY, a protocol for content distribution. So your statement is incorrect.