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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)

submitted 10 months ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago

Yeah, all Google accomplished with this bullshit was finally getting me to switch from Chrome to Firefox as my main browser on desktop.

[-] Alchemy@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Pretty much, also encouraged me to download uBlock, and now I see how many items it blocks from pages like YouTube. Spoiler: It’s a lot.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Right?

I have two tabs open...one is a site that is overtly and actively promoting products to me, with literal links to retailers where I can buy the stuff they're promoting...the other is YouTube.

The promotional site's uBlock counter is at 4.

YouTube's is at...139.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

Leave that YouTube tab open open for a day and see how many thousands of items uBlock has blocked.

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

I see absolutely insane numbers on Google docs, 10000+ blocked. My total per year is now over 5 million. A lot more intense than a few years ago, where it took multiple years to reach 3 million.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Holy shit, I have multiple tabs open and have only been using Firefox as my default browser for about ~~1.5~~ 3-months (August 9th). Each YouTube tab has over 10k blocks and lifetime blocks since installation is over 4.1 million!

Edit: found the document I made in Obsidian to plan my move from Brave to Firefox and the created data is August 9th.

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Wow I haven't even looked for all time blocks! I'll have to look...

[-] sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Yup, I left youtube up on my laptop all day today and this is ublocks total. It's fucking crazy that some people don't bother with adblockers

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