Can’t wait until Google flips them on globally for all users

24 points

I’m willing to pay a monthly subscription to help keep uBO fully functional. If I pay a subscription to a service like youtube to remove ads then I am only ad free on youtube. Whereas uBO blocks ads on everything.

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Regardless whatever we’d be willing to pay, there’s no way for uBO to effectively route the collected funds out to all publishers (also I guarantee there’s gonna be a fight of “views on my site are worth more than theirs”), and so the cat and mouse game will continue forever.

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I do not want my money to go to paying off publishers. I want my money going to support well funded and continuous development of a product that defeats their current business model. I hate being tracked and sold. I want the entire system to die.

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7 points

Then you should stop using YouTube.

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that’s wicked, pay for something, just to not pay someone else

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I may not be smartest tool in the shed, but couldn’t they collect funds on one shared account, and manage those funds after voting or other type of deciding power in the organization?

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I have no problems since I switched to Firefox

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It seems to be happening to people regardless of the browser they’re using. Google’s currently only testing the new measures on random accounts

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Oh thanks for the info. Fuck Google

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Here’s hoping uBO manages to stay on top of the adblock arms race after this shit gets rolled out to everyone 🤞

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I use Firefox for desktop and PipePipe on mobile, no issues yet, when I do no more Youtube because fuck ads. This is why I datahoard as my meager datastorage allows.

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Freetube is still working for me, I recommend give it a try :)

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Free tube hasn’t been updated since November of 2022. The nightly branch is getting the updates. So if you’re running into issues with free tube you might want to go to nightly, but it’s a pain to get, you need to be logged in to GitHub to get it.

I wish FreeTube updated the releases is more often. I’m often running into API errors, it’s a little annoying

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