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submitted 11 months ago by PonyOfWar@pawb.social to c/technology@beehaw.org

That would explain why I didn't have any problems with Youtube and uBlock Origin.

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 76 points 11 months ago

Normies still be using anything other than ublock :( when will they learn

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Anyone and Everyone with the slightest of computer knowledge but paid shills are plugging ublock origin everywhere and anywhere they can , and yet people still choose other garbages. You'd think that maybe they'll see that tiny 'sponsored' text on top of the search result when looking for an adblock and go " why an adblock would advertise itself on search engines? this reeks of garbage, data siphoning bullshit adblock " but no, they even go as far as to defend it. I can't even bother with these people anymore.

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 21 points 11 months ago

Adblock Plus was the only decent adblocker available for Internet Explorer 11 a couple of years ago. Only reason I used it.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 20 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure you know what a couple is. Also, arguing with IE of all browsers is not going to make a strong case either.

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

Point at the case, because mine was an affirmation that it wasn't good as I reluctantly used it.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

I miss when people trusted nerds instead of corporations. Applies to a variety of fields.

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think part of the problem is that we refer to these as "ad blockers" so AdBlock is the first one people find when they look.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah we should start calling them ublockers

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 points 11 months ago

No ublock for Safari, which, yeah, is Apple’s fault for being dicks, but it still sucks.

[-] Plume@beehaw.org 43 points 11 months ago
[-] Newtra@pawb.social 39 points 11 months ago

The funny thing is that YouTube's code is already so laggy that we all believed this without a second thought.

[-] BurningRiver@beehaw.org 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just stay off YouTube for a fucking month. Or even a week. If the traffic plummets, then we win. Why’s it so hard to understand this?

Hell, make it one day where nobody uses YouTube.

[-] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

If the traffic plummets, YouTube wins. Serving content to ad-blocking users only costs them money. They don't want those users.

[-] plastictoast@venera.social 2 points 11 months ago

@BurningRiver @PonyOfWar

Was understood that Beehaw is the nice corner of the fediwebz?

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 months ago

Is swearing itself inherently not nice? Shit…

[-] BurningRiver@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

I wasn't swearing at anyone. Was my reply wrong? The only way tech companies tech take notice is if people don’t use their services when they’re unhappy with it.

[-] pup_atlas@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

That would be a dream come true for Youtube. Think about how that would affect them financially, they would be serving significantly less load, but they would still rake in all those Youtube premium subscriptions. It would effectively be campaigning to remove the users who aren’t monetized from the platform.

[-] Tugboater203@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

I'm getting a 1m33s video saying the content isn't available. FF for Android and Ublock Origin

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 11 months ago

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:

Click here to see the summaryTurning off the ad blocker immediately improves loading performance, with the white line on YouTube's progress bar showing significantly more buffering runway.

Users report that the ad-block detection causes strange issues, like "lag" that makes full screen or comments not work or Chrome being unable to load other webpages while YouTube is open.

The company previously has been showing pop-up messages saying ad blockers violate YouTube terms of service.

But the slowdowns may be a big accident from ad blockers altering YouTube's code: Adblock Plus has published a bug report covering "performance issues" introduced by version 3.22 and says things should be fixed in version 3.22.1. uBlock Origin developer Raymond Hill says the issue is limited to AdBlock Plus and its spinoffs and that blaming YouTube is "an incorrect diagnosis."

The straightforward thing would be to show more of these pop-ups and not send people on a wild goose chase after fake technical issues.

This post was updated on January 15 at 4:20 pm ET with Adblock Plus' bug report information and developer Raymond Hill's statement.


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[-] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

If employing an adblocker is “altering YouTube’s code” then opening the wrapper on a Snicker’s bar is “altering Snicker’s product.” The code runs on my device, I get to say how and when and whyfor. It’s akin to receiving something in the mail… I now own that copy and can do with it what I wish pursuant to all relevant laws.

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 points 11 months ago
[-] MoonlitSanguine@lemmy.one 2 points 11 months ago

I'm getting the same issues but with Firefox + uBlockOrigin

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