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Ublock no longer blocks youtube ads today (sh.itjust.works)
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The fools at YouTube have been hard at work circumventing adblock to make our lives miserable so they can make 3 more cents per view. Hopefully ublock catches up.

Fuck these people.

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[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

but there’s a breed of engineers that lives for adversarial stuff like this.

I would bet some of those engineers after they finish they work day, they go on to pull an update on Ublock Origin filters so UBo works again.

[–] jonathan@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

I'd imagine they have free YouTube premium.