• hiddengoat@kbin.social
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    Fully blocking only if you aren’t using uBlock Origin, which you just have to update the filters on.

    Complete waste of effort.

    Alphabet needs to be broken up.

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      Fully blocking only if you aren’t using uBlock Origin

      Not even that, I use Adblock Plus and have no trouble accessing Youtube and watching videos. Didn’t even need to update any filters, it just keeps working as-is.

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      This effort I don’t believe was targeting people like most of what you would find here.

      This ad-block ban, was mostly targeted at people who didn’t know what an ad-blocker was and didn’t want to have to deal with having to get banned.

      If Alphabet(google) is actually serious about blocking ad-blockers, I would be surprised. Mostly because Microsoft has had more experience with this, also has billions, and even they quit.

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        IF? Are you paying attention to what’s going on with Chrome?

        Google is introducing a bullshit system that will ultimately let them control what the browser can and can’t display.
        They are working to eliminate ad blockers entirely.

        Their entire fucking goal is to lock down YOUR FUCKING BROWSER so they can send you any ads they want, at any time they want, without them even having to be served through a website. They also want to push their “security” bullshit so that if you’re using a non-Chrome browser you get excluded from the internet.

        And right now the overwhelming majority of browsers are Chrome based.

        The EU will likely not let this happen, but the US has no balls when it comes to carving up shitbags these days.

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      It’s doing it on ublock origin again; are there updates * since Saturday?

      • corrected autocorrect
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      Don’t know, not using ublock origin. I use enhancer for YouTube on Firefox, and still not seeing any pop up.

      Tho I have it set to allow ads for subscribed channels. Tho the setting seems bugged as a feature where most video ads get blocked, but some of them still run sometimes at the start of the video. The square adds on the side aren’t blocked either, but they are not a hindrance.

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        “I have my ad blocker set to not block ads and Google isn’t complaining about me blocking ads.”

        rilly.

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      Until they start banning accounts for violating the tos. Then people with 20 years of emails are going to be lost without them.