I had to watch youtube on my Roku for the first time in probably 2 years (instead of a PC). I was figuring it was going to be ad hell. Not bad at all. 2 minutes in an hour. And the last one was for edibles.
I think it more likely that they did very little in the last couple weeks was because it was the Christmas/New Years holiday season.
Or they are just cycling who’s in the crosshairs. I haven’t had any intrusions since the initial hoo-ha blew over.
I don’t think so. More likely they converted some, a win, some paid a BIG win!, and many the rest were leaving the google platform, beefing up ad blocker defenses- a loss. So they took a pause for now to count their money and bide their time till the next version of browser standards are implemented which will castrate many of the ad-blocking methods, as they prepare for the second round.
I just got the warning again this morning on my Chromebook. You’d think they’d leave Chromebook users alone, since we’re already so invested in their universe.
I turned off uBlock and reported it as an issue and it seems to be working again, with uBlock turned on.
I tried installing Brave as an Android app and got very weird results – blank screens after the video started, hangups. Then, I tried installing Brave in the built-in Linux environment on the Chromebook. It seemed to install fine, but there’s no sound. So, I tried Firefox in that environment and also no sound. There’s something weird with sound on Chromeos Linux that I haven’t been able to solve yet.
I haven’t heard of this, but it sounds like BS. You have any details on this?
Yep, bullshit. Firefox will gain a lot of users mid year.
Brave is claiming they will also be able to continue to block ads using their internal blocker, but they are less specific about third-party extensions.
I really have to get sound working in Linux on my Chromebook. If ad blockers stop working in Chrome, I’m done with it.
This is new (to me).
I am using Firefox with uBlock Origin. It has worked great at blocking YouTube ads.
But, today, while the ads are still blocked, YouTube keeps pausing over and over and over and over again. If I click somewhere on the timeline of the video it plays instantly but, a few seconds later, goes into the pause/buffering mode.
So, maybe my internet is glitchy. Nope. YouTube plays with no problem if I embed the URL into something like Slack. No ads there, plays with no problem.
I need to test more but this has me worried.
Just now I discovered that Chrome seems to have removed my uBlock. anyone else seeing that? I’m trying to figure out just where it went, but youtube sure has ads in my face right now
OK, I had to reinstall uBlock and now youtube is behaving itself without demanding I shut down my adblocker or giving ads. For now.
If they’d done that instead of the popups, they might have gained more ground. Just spreading a story to the effect ‘Due to technical limitations, user experience of playback quality and performance may be improved by disabling your ad blocker’ would, I think, have caused less of a sensation than popups telling people off for using ad blockers.
I can’t believe how scamy some of the ads are. An electric heater that can heat a room from 55 to 75 in 2 minutes using “hardly any electricity”. Really YouTube… This is your new money making scheme?
And here it is again (12 minutes). No solution, just recognizing it is happening.
At my work, the ads play but immediately jump to the end. Anyone know how they are able to do that?
That one really grinds my gears. Electric heaters pretty much can’t be less than 100% efficient, just because every other electric machine, when it’s being inefficient, is being a heater. Heat is where the loss happens. If you set out to create heat, there is no loss.
I mean, also, because amateur engineer secretly upturned the whole industry is such a meme at this point.
Sponsor Block.
Works really well, but relies on people to tell it where the beginning and end of the ads/promos are. So, it works as long as those tags are in place, but really new (or not as popular) videos won’t always be tagged yet.
What I’ve wanted to see with something like this is for it to skip the ads (as it already does), but play them in a muted pop under window. That way I don’t have to watch them, but the youtuber still gets the credited for it.
The heater nonsense is just a symptom of the massive failure of education in basic science.
It’s become quite acceptable to say “oh, I don’t need to understand that science and math stuff”.