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bye bye youtube (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

Ublock origin still works fine on twitch

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 15 points 5 months ago

I've never had a problem with uBlock Origin until today. I know it's serious when they've broken through it.

[-] CindyTheSkull@hexbear.net 18 points 5 months ago

A few months ago ublock origin wasn't working for a subset of users (that youtube was using to test features that would break ublock origin for everyone). Ublock had to do make changes to counter youtubes efforts. They did so successfully and became an even more robust ad blocker than before. If they had not, we all would have been seeing ads break through months back.

My point is that it is an arms race and so far ublock (and other ad blockers, though ublock consistently proves the best) has been able to keep ahead for the most part. I don't know for sure if this is the moment when youtube starts to pull in front, obviously I hope not. But even if they do, that doesn't mean ublock will be permanently broken. Even if ads got through for you today, it doesn't necessarily mean they will tomorrow. We'll see.

[-] Hexagons@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh yeah? I should probably check it out again then. It most certainly didn't work several years ago when I quit twitch (Ublock origin is still the adblocker I use) (I don't remember exactly when I stopped using twitch, time is a fuck)

Edit: oh you seem to be correct! I just went on twitch for the first time in years, and, uh, no ads? That actually might be pretty bad for me. Because I will watch streams all day if I'm not stopped from doing so somehow. Well, damn, but also, it's objectively good, so I'm torn

Edit again: oh wait no, just saw an ad, and I'm unwilling to figure out exactly why or what I could do to mitigate it, since twitch is bad for me anyway. Ah well, no twitch for me, it's ok!