Pray for Grayjay and ReVanced.
Sauce: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24131338/youtube-ad-blocker-crackdown-mobile-apps
Sauce: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24131338/youtube-ad-blocker-crackdown-mobile-apps
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After YouTubes war with AdBlockers YouTube decides to go after 3rd Party YouTube Apps.
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Anyone who cares enough can easily still use uBlock and ReVanced. I don't see this cat and mouse game ending anytime soon.
uBlock seems to work perfectly fine, there were time it had to force filter update twice per day but that was at the beginning.
ReVanced is a tad tricky to keep up to date at all times (manual updates are required every once in a while) but for me, uBlock on Firefox has been flawless the entire time on desktop.
It seems to be the case, yeah.
Who’s In the Know: The Privacy Pulse Report | Ghostery
Ghostery research finds that industry insiders are significantly more likely to use adblockers and be more skeptical of their online safety, underscoring concerns about the current severity of user tracking
I already had Premium...does having uBlock origin still cause it to stutter like crazy?
AB working great on Chrome, but yeah, it's kind of a pain to keep up with ReVanced from time to time. Hopefully it never dies, as I can't imagine ever going back to normal YouTube.
Streisand PremiumIt seems to be the case, yeah.
Who’s In the Know: The Privacy Pulse Report | Ghostery
Ghostery research finds that industry insiders are significantly more likely to use adblockers and be more skeptical of their online safety, underscoring concerns about the current severity of user trackingwww.ghostery.com
Can't say. That might depend on the browser you're using. I've never seen it on Firefox. The only thing I ever noticed was in the beginning when Youtube was pushing error messages.
Haven't noticed any problems. There was a time months ago that popup would show up. Got no issues now with ublock on Firefox
I think considering it a war doesn't give YouTube / Google enough credit, or at least gives the incorrect impression that they are trying to stop people blocking ads but are failing to do so. I'm sure they are detecting people using ad blockers perfectly accurately, ublock can't solve that. They are choosing not to punish those people because in their experiments it didn't pan out for them. The challenge for them isn't technical it's cultural. How do you stop people from using ad blockers without getting a bunch of negative sentiment and perhaps even losing your audience, that kind of thing.
I really had no problem during the heaviest skirmishing beyond having to make sure my ublock was updated a couple of times. It's been months since there was any issue at all.
Personally, I think it's a war, but then I also think our whole socioeconomic system is a class war anyway, so I am inclined towards seeing it like that.
Are they even trying to get people to tolerate ads or win people over culturally though? It seems clear they are trying to make ads so terrible that you are forced to subscribe. Because if they were serious, they wouldn't have turned the site into an ad hellscape with only two options out of it: blocking ads or premium. They also aren't making premium very attractive for various reasons, including upping the price beyond a full Netflix sub and bundling Music. There are so many more things they could do to make ads more palatable for people who can tolerate them, and making premium better value for those who can't.
Personally, I think it's a war, but then I also think our whole socioeconomic system is a class war anyway, so I am inclined towards seeing it like that.
Until I can swipe up and down on a full screen player to change volume and brightness settings, among other gestures Revanced has that the native app stupidly lacks, they can continue to play the dance game with me.
This is what made me sign up for premium. I don't watch Youtube on a desktop PC ever, but I do watch it on tablet and on the living room TV.
I truly hate that i'm paying for no ads, but it is impossible to go back to the ads.
You can use Smarttube if you have Android:
uBlock for browsers, smarttube for firesticks and revanced for tablets/phones still working great for me. Every so often revanced needs some tinkering and reinstalling when youtube try to nerf it, but the devs are always well on top of things.
It was inevitable with stuff like Revanced being advertised all over the internet by multiple people as soon as the topic of ads on YouTube comes up.
I wouldn't be surprised if that one ends up being Youtube's main target due to this
I wouldn't be surprised if that one ends up being Youtube's main target due to this
Same here. It's worth it for me, it's my most used streaming service.
Apple TV, sadly. No good solution for that yet.You can use Smarttube if you have Android:
This seems like something that will actively drive people away from Chrome (and potential Chromium-based browsers their hands are tied).
As with most things in tech, a game of never ending cat and mouse.
Whatever YouTube does, some adblocker will find a way around it. Whilst that continues going on, some users will eventually get so tired that they'll go for Premium, much like you did.
Either to get out from under the bombardment of ads or to support their favourite creators.
Modified YouTube clients are *very* easy to block or degrade on Android if Google really wants to. It's a lot easier than detecting browser as blocking. And far, far, far harder to get around without root (and Google can trivially detect root on modern hardware).
They could start by not making the ads so ridiculously frequent. I didn't mind having ads on mobile until videos became slathered with them and I would see unskippable ads that's longer than the short form videos I would watch.
All they had to do 20 years ago was stopping online ads to be massive malware vectors and autoplaying Flash nightmares that weighted 100x the content you were trying to see and hijacked the whole window. Now that well is poisoned and there's a whole generation of people that don't want to see an ad ever again and will install adblockers in all their familys' PCs too since that alone can cut tech support time to almost zero because the malware part never stopped, good luck with that.
Apps are a little bit of a PITA to keep updated for me right now.
Web browser youtube with uBlock origin is zero ads.
It cannot be overstated how badly ad services fucked everything up for themselves.
I've been using the Vinegar Safari extension on iOS for ages but it's been pretty flakey the past two weeks. That being said, I have a couple of RSS/read later apps and YouTube clips load up perfectly fine in there, ad-free.
Ublock works perfectly so far. The last time I had to manually update the lists was 2-3 months ago or so.
The site, much like the Internet at large these days, is a completely unusable mess in its default state. They can keep trying to fight revanced but the only thing they'll achieve should they actually win is I'll just stop using their crappy site all together.
What are the advantages of revanced YouTube if you already have premium? Any new material you themes?
I have Premium and I use it because you can customize the YT app to actually be much better on tablets.
I feel like they just kinda lost the war to adblockers - I'm admittedly not the heaviest user of YouTube but I never at any point even had to turn off my adblocker to watch YouTube since the crackdown began.
uBlock just continues to work fine.
uBlock just continues to work fine.