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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is there anything new in this post that I’m missing?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I don't think so.

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

Nope. This has been going on for months already. Nothing new here. There's atleast three different kinds of pop-ups for adblock users and the same solution works for all of them.

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

which is? besides not using YouTube?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Disable all other adblockers, disable enhanced tracking protection for youtube.com in Firefox (shield icon in addres bar), remove your custom adblocking rules and update uBlock Origin manually atleast twice a day; settings > filter list > quick fixes > click the clock icon > click update. Alternatively you can also just purge catches and update all filters but that takes longer is is not necessary

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been sitting pretty with both uBlock Origin and uMatrix stopping both the ads and the delay from YouTube. Not sure what exactly is doing which, but it's been working for me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah it might not matter but for people having issues with these pop-ups, that's the most likely culpript

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

right, thank you but I think I will stick with invidious for a while, that's easier

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a strange post in general. Someone's substack, written in some generic faux-journalist style, with one source for the main claim ("a Redditor"), who isn't linked to. Don't know why it's being shared here.

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

It’s a substack post. At this point, my quality expectation is

  1. Wordpress - Probably someone who really cares about what they write about
  2. Substack - Either low effort spam like this that gets upvoted for some reason or someone pushing their agenda, hard
  3. Medium - Either spam, wrong, dumb, or too simple. Literally never worth reading.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My understanding of the three platforms, too. Interesting how similar people congregate in platforms.