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[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As well as uBlock Origin, Sponsorblock and BlockTube.

[–] aaron_griffin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I believe YouTube is going to start detecting ad blockers, and there will be an arms race

[–] Lukeson@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

heard its on chromium based browsers. just hope it does not come to Firefox.

[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen it happen on Brave browser yet. We'll see how long that holds up.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is that YouTube will become incompatible with firefox?

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Not hard to disguise the browser you're using. I use Mullvad (Firefox fork) and it will show up as Chrome on the host side.

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

One that they'll never win

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not worried about ad blockers, ytdlp is my sine qua non, figured they'd have blocked that years ago.

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a while, it was getting blocked regularly and a new update would come out that fixed it. Repeat.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let's be honest, they never took it seriously at all.

They could push a patch for encrypted streams to chrome and even firefox, basically you need a google account to watch videos, wouldn't be optimal but they could get away with it.

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ytdl has login parameters. It would still get cracked.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Hulu with ads displays no ads when watching in a browser with uBlock origin. I don't know if this is down to lazy design by Hulu or not but it's another data point

[–] dtxer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly I can't find Sponsorblock and BlockTube in the Firefox addon store (Android).

[–] ajay@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to use a custom add-on collection and Firefox Beta because Mozilla restricts which add-ons you can use

github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock/wiki/Android

[–] Nomadic@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For this ridiculousness alone I quit Firefox. They absolutely do not care about their users. They also have been pushing a lot of shady things, like running experiments and tracking by default. And ff for Android still doesn't have printing, 5 years after requesting to add it BACK

[–] pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'm curious to know what's your usecase for BlockTube