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A Novel Approach to Youtube Ads (9to5google.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by atrielienz to c/technology
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Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16 and also mutes the ad. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.

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[–] Buddahriffic 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obscurity is an advantage in an arms war like this. The more popular a workaround gets, the more effort will be put into defeating it. You know it works, it doesn't need to become popular to validate that.

[–] Gabu 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uBlock is already massive, what are you on about?

[–] Buddahriffic 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox is still sitting at under 5% of users and it's the Firefox flavour of uBlock origin that I'm seeing people say still works at blocking YouTube ads (plus it sounds like Google is shutting them out of Chrome, though we'll see what happens to the browsers based on forks of chromium). It's a massive number of people in absolute terms, but tiny relative to the number of users who don't use FF + uBo.

[–] Gabu 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uBlock still works just fine on YouTube ads from Chrome.

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

I believe they're referring to the upcoming Manifest V3 changes. My understanding is that currently uBlock uses the old Manifest V2 that they're ending support for once V3 gets pushed. I believe there is a V3 version of uBlock but because of the limitations in V3 it's not as effective at blocking ads.