Tell HN: YouTube beat uBlock Origin on Firefox When I go on YouTube, all I get is a blank page with a functioning hamburger icon, search box, and 4 placeholder icons. When I click on the hamburger icon and go to home, videos appear on the feed. When I click on a video I get ads as if I didn't have uBlock Origin enabled. Looks like others are facing the same issue.[0] [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1679jmx/is_anyone_else_not_able_to_load_youtube_with/ |
Everyone has an idea of what they'd do, but nobody can agree on one. So, I guess the easy defaults are ads+premium, or a completely walled garden?
Proof: YT Premium costs $14/mo. now. Would anyone say there's been a 40% improvement in the quality of the product?
If you have logged into Amazon prime recently you can see bars and bars and bars of "rent or buy or subscribe" content, to the point I hate even looking at the site.
I'm paying for Amazon prime, what happened to simply "free to me" listings based on the fact I'm paying for the subscription?
But YT is such fn garbage, I cant even put on a channel I subscribe to and have it just play the vids in that channel.
Instead it feeds me random shit not related to the channel or search.
I hate it.
It's garbage.
You have to install the .apk manually or from f-droid, but they work like a charm.
Never forget you can fall back to yt-dlp and mpv/vlc locally if the website stops working.
Stealing from Google is ethical. Keep it up.
Just keep in mind that you also steal from the content creator... which might be a bit lower on the ethical scale.
Since YouTube ultimately can't win with their current strategy, it's difficult to understand why they're bothering. Everybody running uBlock Origin clearly wants to block their ads, it's trivial to update filter lists to block them again, and those people (like me) will never, ever, pay YouTube so long as we can get the content without doing so. All they're doing is annoying people to no particular benefit.
Instead they should work out some way to do what I said earlier. But they haven't. Because they can't? Sure seems that way.
https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1679jmx/is_anyone_...
What about all the deleted or demonetized channels in the last 4 years? What about the increase of blocked-censured information ? Have we forgotten that, although they all (GAFA & more) were seducingly sold to the people, they are tools for mass control ?
Maybe this issue with YT ads... will bring attention to freedom of speech's erosion.
just my grain of salt.
If anyone knows, please link to it!
https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/163cy47/youtu...
I had this issue and updating filter lists worked for me:
> Make sure uBO is running at latest versions (1.51.0+), then force update all your filter lists (click uBO icon > Dashboard button > Filter lists pane > Purge all caches > Update now)
How can I notify someone to take a look at it?
This company is off the rails, they need to hard fire all the MBA-type idiots making their products shittier in misguided attempts at services revenue generation. When was the last time anyone had a good experience using this garbage?
I can't play certain youtube videos on Microsoft Edge; to confirm, I used inprivate mode with NO extensions enabled (not even adblock of any kind)...the webpage loads, I can hear the audio but the accompanying video does not show.
It's only certain videos and shorts, I can can click ten random videos and 8 will play normally, but two will have audio but no video.
(This is only on Edge; haven't seen this on chrome or firefox yet)
Not sure if they are testing something related to breaking adblock or something else, but something fishy is going on.
I solved it by manually updating all the filters.
Maybe that will get hit soon.
They simply do not what their profitability price point is. And they never will, as they're not independent of Google.