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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world
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this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
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Yeah, all Google accomplished with this bullshit was finally getting me to switch from Chrome to Firefox as my main browser on desktop.
Pretty much, also encouraged me to download uBlock, and now I see how many items it blocks from pages like YouTube. Spoiler: It’s a lot.
Right?
I have two tabs open...one is a site that is overtly and actively promoting products to me, with literal links to retailers where I can buy the stuff they're promoting...the other is YouTube.
The promotional site's uBlock counter is at 4.
YouTube's is at...139.
Leave that YouTube tab open open for a day and see how many thousands of items uBlock has blocked.
I see absolutely insane numbers on Google docs, 10000+ blocked. My total per year is now over 5 million. A lot more intense than a few years ago, where it took multiple years to reach 3 million.
Holy shit, I have multiple tabs open and have only been using Firefox as my default browser for about ~~1.5~~ 3-months (August 9th). Each YouTube tab has over 10k blocks and lifetime blocks since installation is over 4.1 million!
Edit: found the document I made in Obsidian to plan my move from Brave to Firefox and the created data is August 9th.
Wow I haven't even looked for all time blocks! I'll have to look...
Yup, I left youtube up on my laptop all day today and this is ublocks total. It's fucking crazy that some people don't bother with adblockers