I could tolerate ONE ad per video, at the beginning, but 3 or 4 ads in a less than ten minute video? Fuck that.
You see YouTube is a American company and in America every thing is extreme you ether have a lot of ads or no ads you can have a extremely massive car or a cat that’s soo small it doesn’t exist
I could only tolerate ElectroBoom-style “This video is sponsored by oscilloscope company” ads.
Don’t forget the gold confetti
That’s the thing.
You’re already proud to lower your standards, why not lower them further?
I really care about your opinion. It’s very important to me.
Something tells me you only care about ideas that don’t criticize you.
Buh bye.
Hey man, it’s your time and money.
Spend it how you want to.
The whole reason is to either make it so annoying that you switch to their paid service or get as many ad dollars into the shortest amount of time possible either way. This is just greed to squeeze as much out of the consumer before they break us.
Don’t the content creators choose where to place ads?
I have no idea.
They’re going to randomize all vars and function names, mark my words.
Yup. Ad blockers work on pattern matching rules. Countering them might take some work but it’s not impossible - make the URLs that do the bad shit indistinguishable from the ones that make the video works and likewise html elements. Randomise everything, make the paths to things unpredictable. I’m sure YouTube could even merge the ads into the content stream so they are unavoidable.
“I’m sure YouTube could even merge the ads into the content stream so they are unavoidable.”
Who is going to tell him?
Of course they are, for example when targeting HTML elements you generally need to target text not vars or function names.
At the end there will always be some way since to the user the text should be similar or the UI should be similar… So there will be always a way… But yeah it can get more complex.
The only exception is the case they implement the web integrity thing at browser level or equivalent.
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The point being that if one can find the domain through which they push said script/the script itself, they can disable it (I use NoScript).
I had this code saved and had suggested it to others before but now I didn’t take my own advice and had been struggling with those pop-ups for the past few days. I hope this solves it.
EDIT: Doesn’t work. Still got the popup despite having all other extensions disabled and uBlock on default settings
Can’t this just be a filter subscription or whatever in ublock origin?
I mean I’m pretty sure it is, I’m only using ublock and have no problems.
Rad! Thank you!
In human terms, what is that code saying? Never mind, it’s in the source link
There’s a popup that YouTube has started showing these days that tells you “AdBlockers are illegal. Stop using them” or something to that effect. This blocks that popup from appearing.
Somehow I still haven’t seen that message despite also using uBlock and Firefox. Perhaps I’m just further down the line and Google will eventually come for me too, but I wonder if my DuckDuckGo and Privacy Badger extensions may also have something to do with it.
Well, that’s pretty dumb and ruins my good times. Glad people are cracking down on it
I keep getting that pop-up, I have had ublock installed for years. I haven’t done anything special to unlock and just refresh the page and it goes away.
and the code doesnt work, cause the thing just appeared while im trying to listen to music with my gf
Got to try disabling all other addons/blockers. Some interfere or trigger the ad blocker detection.
I followed those instructions to the letter aswell as cleared all the cookies and I’m still getting the popup. I first came up with this code more than 3 months ago so it’s probably outdated by now.
i never use normal youtube otherwise and i shouldnt have to play detective for this to work
You shouldn’t, and you don’t have to. So enjoy the ads :)
Lmao!
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Some of the sports streaming sites have done this too. Any ideas if this will work there ?
YouTube filtering is fairly unique to YouTube since they serve ads so aggressively so it’s unlikely to help on other sites.
