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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube's dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there's an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

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

Serious question: what is the best add blocker right now? I've been using ublock origin, but it doesn't seem to be working that well these days.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

uBlock-Origin on Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Counterpoint... Invidious...

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

I throw all my links into piped if I'm on desktop, no need to have an additional sponsorblock or RYD extension that way

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

ublock origin by far. Just refresh the filter list every now and then.

[–] Mathmango 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be absolutely sure no one gets this wrong - uBlock Origin is what you want. Not just uBlock.

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

To be even absolutelier sure no one gets this wrong - use uBlock Origin on Firefox (or one of it's forked versions) because every other Browser runs chromium under it's hood which heavily restricts ad blocking abilities

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

Add no-script to the mix and you are golden. On mobile I use adguard to filter ads from pretty much every single app and website. As soon as I can figure out a couple of things bothering me with FF mobile I'll be moving over to it with extensions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pls consider editing and making it unlock origin. They are different and someone who won't know better will get the wrong one :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Done. Thanks for lmk

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

I apologize for my strongopinion but I believe yours is misguided or similar. Ublock origin is objectively the best ad blocker , they are an extremely talented team, dedicated and have been for a long long time.

The enemy is getting stronger, not the defense not working well.

[–] Slagathor 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks!

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

Hell yeah brother

[–] sunbytes 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently you need to clear the plugin's cache semi-regularly.

As sometimes it won't update itself as fast.

[–] Slagathor 2 points 1 year ago

That makes sense. Thanks for the advice!

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

Vinegar + SponsorBlock on iOS/iPadOS/MacOS.

[–] affiliate 4 points 1 year ago

thank you for recommending vinegar, it is incredible