SponsorBlock built in which is the true star of the show.
I used to be radically anti ad blockers back in the early 2000s, with the attitude that ads are how the money is made to make the website you're reading and you should respect that, and if ads became really bad you should just vote with your clicks and not go to that website.
Exactly this. uBlock has not failed me at all since all this started, never once did I see the screen saying for me to stop using an adblocker
The ad blockers are definitely winnning though cos I haven't seen an ad or warning in months.
Check out Yattee above.
I thought pihole stopped working now. They made some sort of change i remember reading about that it really doesn't work anymore.
I tried Yattee and it was worse than useless. Wasted a good hour trying to make it show something, but nothing I did worked.
PiHole does not block YouTube ads.
Most of advertising is about keeping something in your mind, rather than introducing you to something new. Not that that's any better.
Of course but that friction has been completely removed. I doubt it moved the needle too much but any boost is good for Google obviously.
I don't have access to an Apple TV so I can't help much except send you this guide on reddit (redlib). If it's not useful to you then just ignore me :)
This is precisely why I will never be convinced to stop using adblockers. Companies involved with Internet advertising made their bed, and the same shitty practices continue to this day.
Every so often when the SponsorBlock server goes down I'm reminded how obnoxious YouTube is without it.
Yes. I did not seek out my first adblocker as a child because I didn't want to be advertised Cheetos. Those ads were spamming my screen with new pages, stealing my cursor, and trapping me in an Infinite Tsukuyomi when I tried to press back out of their webpage. I have waged war against them ever since.
I still have memories of ads literally installing viruses, switching your default browser and homepage, and of course you could not search for anti-malware on said browser. As a teenager I didn't have much choice, I had to redo a complete Windows installation for a clean state.
Browser notifications is the new browser toolbar issue of this age. People keep clicking to accept notifications on sites without paying to attention to what they are clicking and it then adds site notifications and that's where they are trying to scare people with virus popups now. Deal with every day at work.
Go in to: uBlock Origin settings > Filter Lists and make sure all the filters under built-in are checked. Also click "update now" at the top. Double check if "auto-update" checkbox is on.
I only speak for myself here. There's so many reasons that you may want to block ads. Mine is more political in nature alongside the obvious: Ads suck.
As one of the people in charge of cybersecurity in the company I work for, I disagree completely with this affirmation: Ads are, by far, the biggest risk factor we deal with in stopping malware from infecting our machines, and that's because no matter how big those ad networks are they're simply not doing a good enough job in screening the ads they're showing, and what's worse, some "enterprising" actors are beginning to exploit vulnerabilities unchecked because in many cases the ads are simply pushed out into the webpage without sanity checks.
