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Actually, YouTube is cracking down on adblockers.
So while you might not feel the pain now, you will eventually.
They’ve been “cracking down on adblockers” for over a decade
"They" have also been trying to prevent consumers/us from taking ownership of our devices and data for the last 2-decades.
... and, ya know what? It's working.
Nah, if Youtube blocks adblockers then I'll just waste my time elsewhere.
real maybe I'll actually go through the mountains of DVDs and blu rays in our apartment
There's always a workaround..
Firefox + uBlock Origin has worked well for years.
++ SponsorBlock and you got chef's kiss
+1 combo. privacy badger, ublock origin and umatrix for fine tuning. also a youtube specific addon. seems okay
What's a YouTube specific add on?
Are these from reliable sources? I'm always hesitant with extensions as they are given a lot of access and often seem to be from shady sources.
firefox addons. they almost all have a 'not maintained' warning. use at your own risk, as they say
then theres this yt related thing. don't think it does much
Because they don’t put the effort in.
Add a simple “the video isn’t served until the ad’s length has elapsed” and suddenly your only workaround is to spend 30s staring at a black screen.
Better than ads
Deal.
Laughs in
Txt file with favorite channels as input for a yt-dlp download script schedule. Combined with a selfhosted invidious and freetube desktop app for other then favorite videos.
Honestly I am really tired of jumping trough hoops, have to make sure yt-dlp and invidious use a proxy (cloudflare warp) or google will ban your ip for being a bot.
But having to deal with the actual YouTube site or reopening my google account is worse. Its not even (but still also) the ads at this point but pure resentment against big tech.
You got that script handy?
I wont be home till quite a few hours.
But also its general boilerplate enough an ai can help you get you one according to your own preferences.
There are also a number of examples online.
This one looks pretty interesting https://github.com/panchi64/auto-ytdlp
Why not run tubearchivist or something?
The day I have to watch ads is the same day I stop youtube. So far ad blocks seem to work well for now and I'm more than willing to spend hours getting them working if needed.
I feel the pain anytime I look at a video outside of my browser. So if it becomes where I can't find a workaround, then I'll just have to go elsewhere. And there will be other places. There are other places, it's just hard to get people to not go to or be on the big one. Push people hard enough, they'll leave.
When it reaches that point I'll stop watching YouTube. I will never feel the pain they inflict.
The moment I'm unable to watch YouTube ad-free is the moment I never watch YouTube again.
Cracking down just means I don't watch the content, still not getting ads.