Really interesting read about the history of YouTube adblocking, how the new detection works, how uBO is responding, and how not to block the new popups.

  • millie@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I’ve moved on from trying to block the ads to using a front-end and a macro to do the annoying part for me. It’s been nice. I hadn’t realized how bad youtube’s UI was until seeing a clean one. I definitely recommend using one of the less notable ones, they seem to be faster.

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      That’s also how I often access YT. Libreddit is already selfhosted in the local network (+ wireguard on clients) and I’ll look into hosting something for YT.

      Sadly most people want to keep their recommendations and the UI, so they’ll stay on the official site.

    • dracul104@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Which one do you use? I’ve never heard of them until reading this post but you’ve got me interested.