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FreeTube's 0.24.1 Beta update fixes issues with not loading videos from feed or channel pages (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by unknowablenight@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

Great news! The newest FreeTube update, which came out today, fixed the issues of videos not loading.

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[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here is an extension you might be interested in if you want to be mischievous.

https://adnauseam.io/

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, I appreciate the tip. I've actually come across AdNauseam in the past, and it baffled me because it seemed to solve little to none of the problems with ads. It...

still uses up my bandwidth because it loads all ads.
still exposes me to malvertising campaigns (the ads aren't sandboxed, after all, but all ad-related scripting is executed on my machine).
will still provide anyone rolling out ads with revenue (because ad clicked = money for them)
may still be used to profile me - after all, no idiot clicks on all the ads, which makes AdNauseam users stick out like a sore thumb.

The way I see it, blocking ads is the only way to obscure (not obfuscate) your true interests, improve security and starve any advertiser of revenue, thus disincentivising advertising by attacking its economic foundation.

I'm happy to be corrected on any of the above points; I just couldn't and still can't see what advantages AdNauseam has over conventional adblocking.

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 1 points 22 hours ago

Usually people who buy ads pay for clicks on those ads.

So, the idea is to register a click on the ad, which makes the business pay the ad agency it's commission, but not actually visit or look at their website, which is the whole point of buying an ad.

If businesses see that paying ad agencies brings little to no actual customers, they stop buying ads. ~~One can only hope.~~

They also have a paper addressing many of your concerns.
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1873/IWPE17_paper_23.pdf

That said, I don't use it myself, mostly because of bandwidth and processing cost reasons. I also don't care about it that much. Ads suck, but I barely see any of them due to my browsing habits.