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I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Custoslibera@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social 41 points 11 months ago

I haven't noticed any slowdowns with Firefox and Ublock Origin.

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

And if it does slow down, I'm downloading the whole video before watching it.

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

My next plan will probably be switching to my Linux computer, then just downloading the video. That sucks for me though b/c I enjoy a live show I subscribe to.

Ads, on a live show I pay to watch, WTF? I keep the chat open in Chrome but leave the video muted and laugh at how far behind the video becomes after ads start popping up.

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Next January, I'm gonna figure out gaming on Ubuntu so I can get ahead of support ending for Windows 10.

I'll probably run that copy of Windows in a VM JUST so I can use Excel. I use Excel at home for lots of stuff, particularly my personal budget, which has this really big macro I wrote from scratch that I really don't want to give up. I've had the same copy of Office 2010 for >10 years now. It's where Office peaked.

I'm choosing Ubuntu because of familiarity. I've been using it on old laptops since 12.10.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Proton GE edition should get your games going. Works for me so far!

[-] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 14 points 11 months ago

You're lucky. I run FF and uBlock and get the pause sometimes. Still better than using YT without uBlock, though.

[-] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago

I take a 2min pause of silence over 30 seconds of ads any day.

[-] LostXOR@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

I've noticed YT seems to be loading a bit slower than normal, but it still takes less than a few seconds so I don't really mind.

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I got a popup "Adblockers are not allowed on YouTube" on Firefox running both Ublock Origin and Adblock, not signed in two days ago. I don't know what to do with that information.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

In the UBlock plugin settings, click update cache. On mobile so CBA to give better instructions, but it will fix it

[-] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I had a moment of mild panic two days ago when purging and updating the cache didn't work. It turns out I got caught by it in the short interval after Youtube deployed the new attack but before the blocklist maintainers deployed a countermeasure, and it worked when I tried again an hour or so later. (Using Freetube instead of a browser worked in the meantime, BTW.)

[-] kzhe@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

Bad idea, won't help. Above commenter says they have adblock enabled alongside uBO- that needs to be fixed first. Adblock is tripping YouTube, not uBO

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

thx

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

I thought you weren't supposed to use uBO with Adblock?

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

This may be true but I have not seen it before. Do you have a source?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I don't have a source either, but I can confirm having heard the same advice.

In general, even if uBO has been updated to avoid Youtube's adblocker-detection, if you're running multiple adblockers it's possible the popup is triggering because it detects the other one.

More to the point, (a) you shouldn't need another adblock alongside uBlock Origin anyway, and (b) pretty much every ad-blocker other than uBO has sold out and been compromised, including Adblock, so using it is a bad idea to begin with.