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Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU (eupolicy.social)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

too late, I already use Freetube, I don't even use a Google account anymore to subscribe to channels. It's FOSS and entirely out of the browser as a seperate client so they can't even store cookies. Haven't seen an ad or even a sponsored chapter in weeks now (native feature). Download with one click also! Get wrekt Google.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I used Ublock to block the anti-adblock message, and it worked... so...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It works for me too, until I reach my limit of 3 daily videos, when I cannot watch more videos until the next day, whether ublock or not.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

uBlock Origin tried that briefly. Google maneuvered around it pretty quickly.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I haven’t seen an ad or Adblock notification on YouTube in years. Methods abound.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They are rolling it out in the same iterative way they roll out all their stuff. It's not going to everyone at once. Are you just hearing about this recently? Because it's been tested in larger and larger groups over time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As I understood it, this rolled out to 100% of users a short while ago. Aside from those with unique blocking mechanisms.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

No. They just increased the size of the beta group.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I need to look into this. Gotta try and get away from gmail also.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

check it out. Linux client available, or build from source, since it's entirely free and open source on GitHub. so glad I discovered it (from another lemmy user).