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Ublock origin + firefox is no longer working for blocking ads on youtube? (lemmy.world)

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My wife and I have noticed that all our computers today have been showing quite a few ads on youtube. We have ublock on just about every device and Firefox on a majority of them. Anyone else having the same issue?

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[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Cool to know. I was playing an audio version read along for students on my school computer (our district uses ublock) and it decided today they needed to hear some product placement in the middle of a tense reading of button button.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

IMO any time you're playing something for an audience, you ought to use yt-dlp to download it first, check it to make sure nothing is wrong, and play back that local copy. Not only do you ensure there's no fuckery with ads etc., you also don't get screwed if the Internet connection goes down.

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