YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers
YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers
Video playback resumes to normal when ad blockers are disabled
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I had completely forgotten about their war on adblockers. Haven't had to play with uBlock for months.
Did you have to mess around with it at some point?
I've been Firefox with uBlock Origin for a couple years and haven't ever messed around with the settings other than turning it off for a few select websites. Haven't had any of the issues other people reported with youtube.
At the very beginning I had to switch from ABP to uBO. I actually used ABP specifically because I wanted to allow through some non-obtrusive ads, because I think it's morally right to let companies make a profit if they're not being overly obnoxious about it, and ABP's Acceptable Ads policy is great for that. Unfortunately ABP was slower to implement something to avoid YouTube's fuckery, so I switched to uBO. Google has shot themselves in the foot because now instead of a small number of ads getting through, none do.
UBO has options to limit how much is blocked, although I haven't played around with how granular the options are.
There are a few websites that I have UBO disabled because they have always had unobtrusive ads.
At the very beginning of their crackdown I remember I had to update shit a few times to get rid of that 'no adblocker' screen but yeah...its been months now and youtube is perfectly normal.
I would have said the same if loading any youtube page didn’t take literally like 15 seconds
I just loaded up a video instantly with Firefox + uBlock Origin.