Oddly enough, I keep seeing people reporting that Youtube is blocked for them if they use ad blockers, or that they are now seeing ads regardless, but… it still works fine for me, using ublock origin on Firefox
I also have auto update on both firefox and ublock origin (firefox macos) and if I am sleepless and pulling up youtube around 1am-4am youtube seems to push updates around then and I’ll see the skip ad button or the yellow ad timer bar with no video or sound. It appears that, as predicted by some in a previous thread about this topic, that there is an arms race between the ublock and youtube devs
the powerful devs at ublock maintain their struggle
It’s not a “solution” in the long term, but just throwing it out there…
Some countries, mostly non-western ones, have limited ads or no ads at all. Or it just isn’t profitable so companies don’t bother. Poland has some limitations (from my understanding) which limits ads. But even better than that, Russia and Ukraine (and some others) have zero ads on Twitch. I have never experimented with YouTube because (hot tip two sandwiched in here) if you VPN to another country that has a favorable exchange rate (Argentina, Turkey, etc.) you can sign up that way and get YouTube premium or whatever it’s called for like $1/month. I’m unsure if this is still possible. I did it like two years ago and I still get charged only (it varies with exchange) like $1.10USD /month BUT the VPN method probably works. You just gotta find the domain they serve ads from. Like twitch uses some ttvnw.net domain, so you just proxy that over to Russian and blammo no ads but the video portion still loads at normal speeds because that part isn’t proxied.
Someday I assume they’ll finally fuck all these methods and that’s the day fun begins. We’re gonna be doing some homeserver shit (unless someone wants to pay the costs to host it externally… plus having google in your ass). Doing something like nearly-live buffering the videos, having a video parse out ads if they’re in there, and then we watch a slightly delayed video feed.
I will go to great lengths to never watch a fucking ad.
Twitch won’t play ads if you’re using it through a browser and have a VPN turned on, doesn’t need to be a different country.
Are you sure about that? I admit to not having sat there and tested it or anything, but I’m somewhat sure I’ve received ads while VPNing to like Mexico and stuff while I was testing countries for ads.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
still works for me, just update the ublock lists when it starts to fail, takes like 30 seconds
I use ublock origins with firefox. it works fine.
