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Devine Lu Linvega

I'm confused, I'm past the 3 warnings on youtube about watching with an ad blocker, but then nothing happened? I expected not to be able to watch any more videos without going through invidious?

20 Oct 2023 at 13:55 | Open on merveilles.town
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@neauoire I haven't been "warned" just yet....

20 Oct 2023 at 13:59 | Open on social.linux.pizza
cos

@neauoire i was confused about it first, but it did start to block playing videos after a while. Time to find better alternative.

20 Oct 2023 at 13:59 | Open on fosstodon.org
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

@neauoire @vaviurka got that thing and it refused to play anything anymore.

I wondered why I wasn't getting it and the difference was adding "Fanboy's Annoyance List" to uBlock origin.

They'll "fix" that eventually and ultimately probably put everyones content behind a paywall, at which point people go on Peertube or some such, but grieve for all the old content being lost (and rejoice at no more shorts).

So start downloading the youtubes while you can.

20 Oct 2023 at 14:01 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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@neauoire Got the warnings and after that it just blocked the player for me. Don't feel like disabling ad-blocker and don't want to do any funky business to bypass it. I'm completely fine by just not watching YouTube anymore.

20 Oct 2023 at 14:02 | Open on discuss.systems
o ifrit

@neauoire I think it just a test, is not for all the accounts.

20 Oct 2023 at 14:02 | Open on masto.ai
radioactive isosoph

@neauoire ublock origin team is on the top of their game rn

regardless i just signed out of youtube, prevents mindless brainrot + doesn't care about adblock then — incase i do need to look at something on that godforesaken website

20 Oct 2023 at 14:56 | Open on merveilles.town
Devine Lu Linvega

@zvava I mostly use youtube to watch music videos, I'm not sure how much brain rot it gives me, but are you saying that being signed out works with ad blockers and only when you're signed in that you get these warnings?

20 Oct 2023 at 14:57 | Open on merveilles.town
radioactive isosoph

@neauoire i had 2 videos left to watch, turned off adblock, and when i turned it back on it blocked playback — but never got any warning in incognito windows or signed out

for me i have 100+ subscriptions and years of watch history accumulated which is the bane of productivity, so it's nice to finally have a reason to ditch the platform and algorithm

20 Oct 2023 at 15:02 | Open on merveilles.town
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@neauoire creating a more user-friendly video internet is incredibly hard because youtube has a death grip on it. when they create hostility (like this) it's quite sad because there's such a low chance of a healthier platform breaking through that they have no repercussions at all

20 Oct 2023 at 20:06 | Open on urbanists.social
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