• Hal-5700X@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you’re using uBlock Origin. Go to “Filter Lists” and Purge All Caches. That may help.

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      I imagine they’ll eventually find a way to prevent us from blocking ads. Twitch TV for example has found some ways to make adblock useless.

      It’s a shame, and it’s really just a side effect of google racing to the bottom of the adspace game. If ads weren’t as cheap as they are today, they wouldn’t be trying to maximize the amount of users who are forced to see advertisements.

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        I suspect ad blocking will always be an arms race. The server can only ask the client to play the ad, and then rely on the client to truthfully report whether it did so.

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          Oh, that’s just brilliant! Instead of being interrupted by intrusive ads, I’m seeing videos of fluffy cats doing adorable and funny stuff all the time.

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          We did but do you think anyone listened 5 years ago?

          This happens again and again because new generations don’t have the experience to see the pattern.

          Microsoft is also fucking evil but they give devs a free editor and all of a sudden they are best friends.

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        Worst case scenario I think I’d just resort to downloading the videos to watch. Live videos is the challenge, but luckily I don’t watch live streams.

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          Bruh, your not gonna believe this, but the ducks at the park are free. if you use one of these, you can download all the ducks you want. I downloaded 9000 ducks so far.

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            To be fair, he was talking about live streams, as in watching people in real-time.

            That can be a fairly different experience, especially since downloaders don’t grab the chat at the moment. Also for unarchived streams, they can only be downloaded if you are aware and able to download at the time that the stream is still active.

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        1 year ago

        They’ll start banning Google accounts, that’ll stop quite alot of people just because of how many users use gmail or drive.

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          I don’t think they’ll resort to that because that would mean getting rid of their own source of income. YouTube may not be getting ad revenue, but they still collect data and that’s where the real value is.

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      I just did the zap element thing on that warning. So far so good, except you can’t scroll down.