This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
"I've found a workaround"
Workaround (according to article): "First of all, YouTube Premium"
The actual workaround (according to article): "Two words: uBlock Origin. Yes, I know that Google has blocked it from its Chrome Extension store, but there is still a way to get uBlock Origin on Chrome"
Seems like they are being paid by Google. Actual workaround should be to drop Chrome.
Stop using Adblock Plus and start using Firefox with uBlock Origin.
If you’re on iOS, swallow your pride and install Brave and just turn off the crypto features. You’ll thank me later.
I mean, Firefox + uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock makes YouTube usable without giving Google more money
To my knowledge, sponsors do not give money to Google, just to the creator. So SponsorBlock isn't needed.
But I have to admit that some sponsored segments can be obnoxious as hell, so I can understand why one would use it.
When I'm using sponsorblock, I sometimes just stop watching if I see a long sponsor section, regardless. If the poster has like 20% of their video used to talk about shilling something, then they're probably not someone I trust.
The workaround: Switch from Adblock Plus to uBlock Origin.
ABP has had random issues that break it often for years now. It's crap.
ABP has also been owned and run by a shady investment firm for the past decade.
Wasn't adblock plus bought by some ad agency? I thought they were long gone...
I don't know about that but they do have a program where advertisers can pay them in exchange for their ads being allowed past the block.
The workaround
Quit using YouTube directly and proxy your request through an Invidious instance.
Your requests are mixed in with everyone else’s, ad’s are blocked and most importantly only 1 machine touches YouTube directly and that’s the server hosting Invidious.
Imagine using Adblock/Adblock plus in 2025.
People still use Ad Block Plus? Didn't it start allowing sponsored ads like 10 or 15 years ago?
Hence the part "nobody noticed" in the headline
Tom’s Hardware, Ad Block Plus, paying for YouTube Premium as a “work around”?
Guys this content was by boomers for boomers
Indeed. Tom’s Hardware for me has for long been one of the most useless tech news sites, mostly just dumb clickbaity ad articles in disguise.
If they would know anything about anything or done some actual research they would point to Firefox with a few relevant extensions that keep YouTube’s fuckery in check. Or the alternative mobile apps. Or stuff like Invidious. But guess they are too mainstream and thus afraid to upset Google in any way.
Is this a sponsored article? Bc buying yt premium doesn't seem like a workaround to me.
I hate when they say paying the premium is a "solution". It's worse. That's why nobody is doing it.
I actually have a Premium subscription, but it's kinda half assed journalism to suggest that as a solution.
That said though, there is one ad blocker that still works. Two words: uBlock Origin. Yes, I know that Google has blocked it from its Chrome Extension store, but there is still a way to get uBlock Origin on Chrome that our how-to extraordinaire Kaycee has detailed.
Or..... You could just ditch Chrome altogether!
I don't know why people are so fixated on using Chrome. It's a crippled browser made by an evil company that is actively looking to screw the user at every turn.
I switched to Firefox when Google essentially killed uBlock Origin on their browser. At first I ran into some problems with some sites not rendering correctly. But it seems like that's become much less of an issue with later updates. And the best thing is that there are some phenomenal extensions for blocking ads - like a fully-fledged uBlock Origin to name just one. I don't even see sponsor promotions in YT videos now.
And if you don't want to deal with Mozilla directly you can use Waterfox instead.
All this dancing around and jumping through hoops to get uBlock Origin working on Chrome is kind of absurd. Just ditch Chrome (and all Blink-based browsers) altogether where you can (I get that corporate environments are often off the table for this).
Collectively we should be sending a message to Google whenever we can that we are done with their browser bullshit.
"If your adblock doesn't work, a workaround is to pay for YouTube Premium"
AW NO I HADN'T FUCKING THOUGHT OF THAT
The internet hasn't noticed yet
Says article on the internet shared with others on the internet and linked to from many internet places.
Article titles are fucking garbage. At least it didn't pul the "Here's why" bullshit.
Damn sure was clickbaity. No ads? Buy YT Premium they say.
Whoopee. Saved you a click.
I stopped using ABP years ago and switched to uBlock Origin. That and some *Monkey scripts.
Bah, This is just an add for a YouTube premium subscription
Article wasted my time. I want it back moe90.
FreeTube with an ipv6 rotator and Invidious will make sure you never have to deal with this.
"Adblock Plus" Me: WHAT YEAR IS THIS?
