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submitted 19 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Are you running Ublock on Chrome or Firefox? It works significantly better on Firefox. I've never seen an ad get through it.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

or more accurately: google has made it impossible to make a useful tracker and ad blocker for chrome

[–] nforminvasion@lemmy.world -2 points 11 hours ago

Also Brave just straight up blocks ads by default across the browser. And it's a damn good one too