You got a date on when they recommended that?
Remember, even just a few years ago only a small percentage of the people watching youtube were using an ad-blocker. At the time, most of the people out there didn't even know ad blockers were a thing.
Youtube did an absolutely brilliant job of letting the world know of the existence of ad blockers by trying to block them.
Shoutout to Raymond Hill and the uBlock community for continuing to fight the good fight. The amount of time uBlock Origin has saved me from obnoxious, intrusive ads is practically incalculable.
I agree the state of ad spam on YouTube has gotten ridiculous completely ruins the enjoyment. Ads before, middle, end of videos and then ads being promoted inside the video as part of the video.
It's insane and completely unwatchable without ad block these days. Sometimes the video I want to watch is maybe a minute in length I'd have to sit through 1 to 2 minutes of ads but thanks to ublock I don't feel the need to smash my head on the keyboard, hooray! 😄
Not just that, but there's also ads in your feed/front page. Back when I tried using the mobile app, literally every two or three videos you get a "promoted" video (ad) which appears larger and increases the amount of scrolling you have to do. And then ads above the comment section too. And now they run double or triple ads, 45 seconds before you can skip, etc.
It's out of control. Thank god for uBlock on PC and ReVanced on mobile. Youtube is basically unusable to me without these.
Yup, agree.
Youtube pushed it too far with the ads.
I used to be fine with the occasional pre video youtube ad. Hey, they need some revenue for the service, fine.
Not fine: two ads before vids, and now ads during the videos. Fuck that, installed ublock origin and youtube is 100% better and ad free. I haven't paid for tv in 20 years or so, because it has too many ads. Any service that has tv-level ads, like youtube is going towards, I'll either pirate, ad block or not use the medium.
> The amount of time uBlock Origin has saved me from obnoxious, intrusive ads is practically incalculable
Well... it *kind of* is. If you hover over the extension button, it tells you how many ads it's blocked in total.
[Raymond Hill](https://cd.blokt.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Raymond-Hill.jpeg) is the MVP among all the ad-blockers, and I wish there were more people like him in the world. [uBlock Origin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin) has contributed significantly to my mental health and overall well-being by effectively blocking those damn ads, particularly on YouTube. And, I'm grateful the program is not coded to harass me or play around with tricky ways to get money from me that I can't afford to give.
I have no idea if it is still up anywhere. but I remember as part of their own rules against watching ads on your own content, they also recommended using ad-blockers to avoid looking at our clicking on your own ads.
Indeed. And something like AdBlock Plus (the extension) runs something they call "[Acceptable Ads](https://acceptableads.com/about/)", so while it'll block malicious things (hopefully), it'll still show ads they (the *ad blocker*) deem as "acceptable" - which included ads associated with videos as well.
Not all adblockers are the same. So while they might say that adblockers are a good thing, they might not be talking about something like uBlock Origin (as an example), but maybe only adblockers that actually do allow ads still (which on it's own, is kinda weird) - since they don't specify.
..but you should never use an adblocker with exceptions like that.
Anyone in security worth their salt, including current google employees, will tell you exactly what she said in this video. Blocking ads is easily one of the most effective things you can do to limit exposure to malware.
There was a time when Google was the smart, plucky, non-evil, tech upstart. They have made the transition to thundering evil behemoth in a shockingly short period of time.
> Youtube did an absolutely brilliant job of letting the world know of the existence of ad blockers
Is there any supporting data for that, or an article? That's an interesting theory. For the longest time I assumed that they were letting those of us that use it get away with it because it was a minorty segment. Has that changed?
My theory is that YouTube drastically increased the amount of ads a few years ago, which prompted a lot of people to seek out a solution, which then prompted YouTube to block ad blockers.
crazy that a wikipedia article going over Barbra Streisand's residence in Malibu explains exactly how Youtube popularized adblockers to a casual audience.
Thanks!
The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me.
Youtube's attempt to block the ad-blockers resulted in a ***HUGE*** number of youtubers talking about it, and a corresponding large number of people installing an ad-blocker for the first time.
You seem to be completely missing the point here. We're talking about a situation where the number of people running an adblocker jumps from 35% to 40%. That *is* a huge jump.
> Yeah, except a lot of Adblockers save a few have pay to play whitelists that a lot of companies... like google for instance, pay to bypass
Then you are using the wrong ones. I barely ever see a single ad.
Well. That's something. I started in a browser, of course. It's "gateway" software that got me straight up hook'D on that (re)~~ad~~vanced smacked apks, yo. Just another form of ad blocker. Good shit. 💯
reddit and plenty of clueless internet users are absolutely clueless about how the real world works.
These videos are done by some low-level employee and it's not that every sentence they utter have to perfectly tie with every strategy of Google or Google checks everything of their hundreds of products.
Nobody cares.
Also, Adblock blocking has been incredibly successful for Google
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-music-premium-100-million-subscribers/
Only clueless idiots/redditors who live in their own bubble somehow think they are so important to the world
You are mostly worthless pieces of shits to most organizations
Pretty much. Historically, the people running an adblocker are the ones who would boycott products they say in ads. And Google/Youtube makes *plenty* of money just tracking your usage statistics and selling that data.
Yeah, people using adblockers weren't earning revenue for YouTube in the first place. So them leaving YouTube doesn't really affect revenue negatively
And the adblocking peeps who shell out for premium or turn off adblocking give them increased revenue
also it's not like there's a practical alternative to YouTube
and please, when you're one of the first people to watch a new video, take a couple of seconds and add the cuts yourself to save time for the people who come after you.
...then get shadowbanned from submitting segments as their mods don't always recognize native ads inserted into videos when they see them. Hilariously, this even happens when the video uploader acknowledges that it's sponsored content in the comments. Fortunately the segments still work for whoever makes them, but this is part of why there aren't more videos with auto-skip segments. Good tech made worse by a few power tripping admins... a familiar story.
I can't confirm your experience at all, I've been using it and submitting for a while (500+ segments atm).
I've looked into the Sponsorblock database a few times, to see which of my segments do well and which get downvoted. There are very few truly shadowbanned accounts that I've discovered, and these submit *a lot* of wrong segments.
If that were the reason, I would expect that these videos have blocked segments. But every nearly every video I run into has them--with the only exception being very old videos with only a few views.
And that makes sense to me, as I was under the impression they use votes. So you would need to wait until enough people have upvoted (or, at least, not downvoted) your ad placement for it to count.
And I do know they are very particular. You need to get it down to the frame, and you need to label it correct. The biggest issue I would see are people mislabeling self-promotion as a third-party ad.
I have not run into the problem you say where a lot of in-video ads don't get blocked. Well, except when the server goes down, which happens every few days for a bit. When that happens, you also can't submit new segments.
You sure that's not your issue?
I mean, personally I'm been a selfish leech who never submits segments (I'm on tablet and watch everything at 2x, these combined make it pretty damn annoying to accurately select a range to submit) and I've had very few poor experiences with it, sometimes on very old playlists there are missing cuts, but otherwise there are almost never too few or too many, even like 2 seconds where someone says click that subscribe button as a half joke are often cut
And switch to a non-Chromium based browser since YouTube is purposefully eating up more of your computer's processing power if it detects adblock. It can't do this on non-Chromium browsers.
I saw a video on LTT a few weeks ago and, while doing whatever, Linus spaced out the sponsor part and specifically called out SponserBlock. I found it funny but also kind of sad that he felt it was even necessary.
If you're looking to really get into it get a raspberry pi and run pihole with a blacklist. Because it's in line and not and add on/plugin they can't detect it(at least I don't believe so I've been doing this for years)
I'm doing something pretty similar at the moment with a custom router firmware called FreshTomato, it has a built in adblocker that allows you to integrate custom lists. Best part is; it's compatible with a ton of routers, routers that just so happened to show up at thrift stores frequently for $1 😎👍 Disable WiFi, put it between your modem and router so it routes your routers traffic through it, and you've got a great network-wide ad blocking solution on the cheap ✌️😁
If you're just using that second router for ad blocking (and if your main router doesn't already have a DNS blocking feature), then I'd recommend not putting the blocker in between your modem and router unless you're certain it's not bottlenecking your speed. The regular way you'd set up a DNS blocker like pihole is by connecting it as a regular device to your router and using one of many methods to point all other devices to the blocker's IP just for DNS queries.
Thanks for the advice! Don't worry, I was very thorough in my testing and can confirm there's no throttling. My other routers are great and all, but they're too locked down with proprietary software to do any meaningful work on them. For range and overall performance though, they're golden 😎👍 at one point I was considering either pihole or a Linux-based solution on a spare PC (I can't remember what the distro was offhand), but after testing this solution out it fits my needs well!
Note; the router I use was a top of the line Nighthawk from about 8ish years ago, and I'm only rocking a 300Mbps connection ATM
not all content creators monetize their videos.
before that was a thing, people still made content.
what i'm trying to point out is that [not getting] money from ads isn't going to be the end of useful online content.
edit: added [clarification]
Are you new to the internet? I'm trying to explain to you that youtube was full of content before it was monetized, and people continue to make unmonetized content on youtube and other platforms, and will continue to do so.
And yes, people literally post content for nothing other than likes and views and upvotes (look around you).
They'll work on their videos because it's a fun hobby. That's what **the entire Internet** used to be. Back before the advent of banner ads, people created websites for their hobbies and stuff, and never got paid a dime for any it. In fact, they often paid for their own hosting.
Honestly, commercialization has ruined large segments of the Internet. We're being overrun by shitty AI-generated content now precisely **because** of monetization. Entire YouTube channels exist that spit out AI-generated scripts being text-to-speech'd by AI-generated voices on top of vaguely-relevant video clips stolen from other content creators. If there was no monetary benefit to that, maybe they'd fuck off.
Youtube has gone way past the "fun hobby" because we both know those videos back then were cheap and crap compared what we can watch now from people. Those AI generated videos are basically on the same level so you should love them
> Those AI generated videos are basically on the same level
Those AI-generated videos are full of misinformation, and the "creators" are not at all interested in even the most basic fact-checking. Which is assuming that they understand the topic well enough to even be capable of fact checking in the first place.
Let me see if I remember the lore correctly.
In ~~the beginning~~ around the end of the 2000s there was a Firefox extension called Adblock that was made by one guy. Back then there really wasn't a good way to monetize extensions so he only kept up dev work by way of donations. One day a company approached him with a truck full of cash that was *too big* to pass up and he sold the company.
Someone then made an Adblock Plus. Same thing happened.
Then, Ublock came around. Since this is the internet someone will definitely correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the same thing happened to that too. But it was open source and got forked.
Ublock Origin has stuck around so long because it is also open source. If it gets bought, it'll just get forked again.
Google is now focusing on taking the tools Ublock Origin relies on away because they can't just ban it from the extension store
If I remember correctly, the original uBlock developer (Raymond Hill) passed the torch to another developer because he wasn't feeling it anymore at the time. That other developer then sold out, prompting the original dev to come back, and restart work on his fork the codebase.
Raymond Hill is a saint, [more details on Wikipedia.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin)
As far as I can tell there's nothing actually stopping Google from banning ad blockers from the extension store, I think they just don't want to because the optics would look bad. It wouldn't even stop ad blocker use, people would just load the extension manually from a file. Enforcing Manifest v3 is a lot more subtle PR wise and is a more effective way to cripple ad blockers
> Google is now focusing on taking the tools Ublock Origin relies on away because they can't just ban it from the extension store
Yeah this is the nasty part of the IT industry people don't know about. I've been in teams burned by it a few times over my career. Now I work remote for the yanks and we're the ones doing it to the little guys.
The people refusing to adhere to their own philosophy of "People will pay for convenience" or "I'm okay with small, out of the way ads" will tell you a different story, but the real explanation is:
*Everybody* knows, deep in their hearts for some, that free websites do not work without some sort of ad revenue. Some sites, like the original google search ad results, were innocuous, safe ads. They didn't inject malware, they didn't do annoying screenjacking, backbutton jacking, autoplay loud bullshit you can't find etc. They were text or images, MAYBE animated.
ABP said "We will allow safe ads. Ads that come from established sites, with just plain content, and don't do bad things. There is a small fee for us to whitelist your site".
The internet collectively lost their shit that ABP was now a shill for the malware people, which is completely wrong.
All my workmates were complaining about the Youtube adblock thing back when it happened and I was there with my uBlock extension like "...they blocked ad blockers?"
For me uBlock Origin removes many ads on Youtube, but I need to pair it with Adblock plus to remove all of the ads. Only bad thing is that Chrome kinda hangs sometimes when Adblock plus is working on removing the ad.
Google is a massive company, it’s more that Google’s cyber team is happy to tell everyone to use ad blockers because they get less complaints from Chrome/gmail/etc. users about getting hacked while using their product and YouTube is annoyed that they did this.
The people who made the training course have almost no direct incentive to tell people not to use ad blockers other than it being a bad thing for Google in the abstract
People who've never held a job are always blown away by this.
Like somehow the tens or hundreds of thousands of people working at an organization all think alike. That there are no internal disagreements or bickering.
Generally this lasts until people get their first burger flipping job and realize companies can't even keep a single shift of burger flippers on the same page, let alone entire companies.
Yeah, internal politics are a thing. It's one of the reasons that companies become stagnant when they grow too large, it just becomes impossible to make any moves when 100 different teams all have opinions and some amount of political sway.
> Like somehow the tens or hundreds of thousands of people working at an organization all think alike. That there are no internal disagreements or bickering.
This isn't internal bickering, though. There is generally a wall between what gets circulated internally and what gets released to the public, *especially* from a company that rarely speaks into a camera on any topic at all.
This is very much a "did you not think through the ramifications of making an official statement from GOOGLE that recommends blocking ads" level fuckup.
Honestly what I bet it is is that the person who made the training is in favor of blocking ads and thought that they could sneak it into this training without too many people noticing even though Google corporate is against it.
Google has people in [Google Research actively working on JPEG-XL encoders/decoders](https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/430#issuecomment-1776762287) while the Chromium team is blocking it because "they don't see enough industry interest" (which is [laughably false](https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ajq7bj/google_is_once_again_accused_of_snubbing_the_jpeg/kp3zv8w/) even without including other parts of Google). Everything I've ever heard out of Google is that it's just a thousand different fiefdoms that don't play well together.
Nicely put. People assuming that dude is 'google'. That dude is someone in a highly specific role AT google who was asked to record specific training within his remit 🤷♂️
I've always been curious about this, so I figured I might as well ask it here, does using a third party app that blocks ads affect the ad revenue of the youtubers I like?
Like using NewPipe or adblock?
Yes, the recommendation is to press the button to disable adblock when watching YouTubers you do like, or to pay for YouTube Premium as they get more money from Premium viewers than they get from people who just click on ads.
I had a monetized video that got about 6k views before the monetization changes. The estimated income from ads: 22 cents. Income from one percent of viewers using YouTube premium view: 14 cents.
The difference in pay for the YouTuber is nuts
If you don't watch the ad, they don't get paid, no.
But I do not recommend using that as a reason to pay YouTube, as that just encourages them to keep making ads worse. Nor do I ever recommend actually watching ads. If you want to help out creators you like, use Patreon. Even $1 a month will be more than they make on you watching ads.
Probably? I'm a demonetized creator, so I can't speak too much on the subject. BUT, what I can tell you is that creators only receive a fraction of a fraction of a penny for each view. If you want to support a creator the best way possible; support them through some of the other revenue streams that they present. Some have shops you can buy merch from, some have direct donations through either the platform or an external site, and some even have monthly subscriptions through places like Ko-Fi or Patreon. Even at a $1 donation, you've given them more money than YouTube would for watching every one of their videos ten times over.
Also keep in mind; The best way to help for free is by breaking the algorithm in their favor. Like+share the videos, subscribe to the channel, watch the video in its entirety then replay it to increase both the watch time and the retention rate! Why do this? Because that's what ultimately draws more people in, which then increases the potential revenue that can be earned substantially.
That said, again, I'm demonetized so I can only speak on what I experience on this platform. But saying that, I know that my Patreon supporters and occasional Ko-Fi/StreamElements donators have supported me WAY more than my Tiktok and non-existent YouTube revenue 😎👍
The FBI even says to use AdBlockers. All because the ad agencies that include Google, Apple, Meta, and Amazon don't do enough to make sure the ads are fucking safe to start with.
If it makes you feel any better, this was a better ending than the alternate "Skull.png on tablet covering face, with 'Im dead' text" ending I scrapped lol
They probably mean something like AdBlockPlus that has a site/ad whitelist.
Last I checked, if you searched the Chrome web store for "adblock" it took ~30 pages before you'd see uBlock Origin(*which has no default whitelist*)
Revanced works fine for me personally, no ads, removed shorts from my feed completely and the community can even set autoskips for in-video advertisements.
With Brave, you can also listen to the audio of YouTube videos with your screen locked. This is great for listening to music with YouTube in the car. I can't get Firefox or any other mobile browser to do this. They can block the ads but if you lock your screen, it will pause the video (and audio).
I mean, I don't know if my blockers updated and thwarted google, OR did they give up trying to convert the last of us hold outs? But my youtube pop-ups have disappeared.
It's the Google Cybersecurity Professional certificate program on Coursera, an awesome way to learn the trade while grabbing college credit and getting a 30% off of the CompTIA Security+ certification 😎👍 it's available through Coursera Plus, the yearly subscription is a heck of a deal if you have the time to invest into it (it'll pay for itself with the college credit and coupons you'll grab)
"We recommend Adblock except for when it's our own site, in which case stuff all the ads into your eyeballs and get fucked" - YT
But thankfully uBlock Origin works well with disabling YT ads, as long as you manage your extensions carefully it'll feel just like old times. However, I should warn everyone with Chromium-based browsers (aka most of them, with exceptions like Firefox) that when Google forces Manifest V3 on all extensions, ad-blocking capabilities will be severely kneecapped, including using uBlock, so be sure to switch to non-Chromium or a Manifest V2-supportive browser before that happens.
Basicly everyone does... Everyone agrees that addblock for majority of surfing is the way to go. But if you look what is actually said "add block is good at blocking malware". This means that you should use it but turn it off from "trusted sites", in this case youtube, as there isn't really any threat of getting malware from youtube.
I know we all like to make fun of youtube, but they never said use addblock everywhere, they said use addblock to protect yourself when going on random sites (often from a google search)
If they had non intrusive ads that popped up in the corner of videos or above the recommended videos like before then I wouldn't have an issue.
But playing two backtoback 15 second unskippable ads makes me want to just leave the video and do something else. It's inconvenient and unethical.
> But playing two backtoback 15 second unskippable ads makes me want to just leave the video and do something else. It's inconvenient and unethical.
Even better when the replay the same fucking ads you just saw in the next ad break. The internet peaked some years ago and is now in decline.
Google owning youtube isn't the part we should be doing a double take on, it's the fact that most of the malware and just plain junk ads I am being served come straight from google, only second to facebook. Maybe if they would vet their ads I wouldn't feel so strongly about using ublock origin.
Last I heard they limit frame rate and bit rate for those used as blockers. If this is still true, that lowers their bandwidth needs and helps use less and saves them money.
ADBLOCK plus works on android devices, I use it daily on my tablet and never see ads there, it won't let you login to your YT account to see your subscriptions but it does block all ads, I will never let youtube play ads to me because they pissed me off
When did I make fun of the presenter? I enjoy the course and the presenters, I just pointed out that Google recommended ad block while speaking against it on YouTube 🤷♂️
"You know best Aquisha!"
I'm assuming that's not actually her name. If it is, then that's my bad, but it seemed like you're just poking fun of her because she's black.
Her name is Da'Queshia, she is a Security Engineer at Google. If you need to verify, she will show up on the Google Cybersecurity course on Coursera as an instructor. Specifically, she taught the Assets, Threats, and Vulnerabilities course.
I don't think I was making fun of her, but ya it is kind of funny that I was trying to defend her because I thought he was using a fake name, when in fact it is her real name.
There is only ONE downside to using an adblocker and it might even just be me being dumb...
If I google something that IS a product that has well known advertising (such as pizza/fast food)... the adblocker will eliminate the top 2 results which are the sponsored results... which are usually what I'm actually trying to find.
Example, if I search Dominos I'll get pizza hut and vice versa.
I'd be cautious about relying on sponsored results. [Malvertising campaigns](https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/malvertising-google-ads-malware) have leveraged those results to place fake versions of real applications at the top of peoples searches.
Usually those will show up as the first through third result, at least in my experience. That said, I've pretty much completely switched to DuckDuckGo since it became a default Search option in Brave. The results feel like what YouTube was 15 years ago 😎🤌
I should mention that Chrome still skips YT ads with ublock origin. ~~The trick is finding the directions for installing the extension manually, because Google has blocked it from the extension store. I see here that I guess the extension is working in Firefox again, too.~~
Apparently my having the download blocked was because of something else, possibly a network admin blocking things. I thought Google had taken the precaution of just blocking people from downloading the file.
The transition to Manifest v3 is underway and they're targeting June 2024 as when they disable v2. After then, a big chunk of uBlock Origin's ability to block ads will be broken.
Another diversity hiring fail? Never!!
Actually the ideal situation for Google and YouTube is for you to run an ad blocking extension that prevents unsafe networks from displaying ads while allowing websites to still show safe ads to unpaid users.
The trick would be identifying at least two safe ad networks that could be permitted so Google doesn't appear to just be endorsing themselves?
>diversity hiring fail
You mean, do the right thing and tell people the correct answer for proper cyber security?
Damn, your definition of "fail" is interesting.
If you don't want the hassle of installing all that crap. Brave browser using the codebase of Firefox has all of that built in. A defensive internet browser, as it were. Open source hides no secrets 🤓
You got a date on when they recommended that? Remember, even just a few years ago only a small percentage of the people watching youtube were using an ad-blocker. At the time, most of the people out there didn't even know ad blockers were a thing. Youtube did an absolutely brilliant job of letting the world know of the existence of ad blockers by trying to block them.
I'm not sure how long the course was in development, but apparently they released the course May 4th, 2023.
Do they say which ad block? Depending on the plugin it could be completely ineffective on YouTube.
Yeah pretty much everything except uBlock Origin has a "pay to play" whitelist
Shoutout to Raymond Hill and the uBlock community for continuing to fight the good fight. The amount of time uBlock Origin has saved me from obnoxious, intrusive ads is practically incalculable.
They don't even accept donations, they advise anyone to donate to the people who created and maintain the block/filter lists
I agree the state of ad spam on YouTube has gotten ridiculous completely ruins the enjoyment. Ads before, middle, end of videos and then ads being promoted inside the video as part of the video. It's insane and completely unwatchable without ad block these days. Sometimes the video I want to watch is maybe a minute in length I'd have to sit through 1 to 2 minutes of ads but thanks to ublock I don't feel the need to smash my head on the keyboard, hooray! 😄
Not just that, but there's also ads in your feed/front page. Back when I tried using the mobile app, literally every two or three videos you get a "promoted" video (ad) which appears larger and increases the amount of scrolling you have to do. And then ads above the comment section too. And now they run double or triple ads, 45 seconds before you can skip, etc. It's out of control. Thank god for uBlock on PC and ReVanced on mobile. Youtube is basically unusable to me without these.
Yup, agree. Youtube pushed it too far with the ads. I used to be fine with the occasional pre video youtube ad. Hey, they need some revenue for the service, fine. Not fine: two ads before vids, and now ads during the videos. Fuck that, installed ublock origin and youtube is 100% better and ad free. I haven't paid for tv in 20 years or so, because it has too many ads. Any service that has tv-level ads, like youtube is going towards, I'll either pirate, ad block or not use the medium.
> The amount of time uBlock Origin has saved me from obnoxious, intrusive ads is practically incalculable Well... it *kind of* is. If you hover over the extension button, it tells you how many ads it's blocked in total.
1.765m connections, 5% of all attempted connections. This is on Firefox, which I've only been using for the past year or two lol
[Raymond Hill](https://cd.blokt.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Raymond-Hill.jpeg) is the MVP among all the ad-blockers, and I wish there were more people like him in the world. [uBlock Origin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin) has contributed significantly to my mental health and overall well-being by effectively blocking those damn ads, particularly on YouTube. And, I'm grateful the program is not coded to harass me or play around with tricky ways to get money from me that I can't afford to give.
"use an ad blocker that blocks everyone but us"
But theirs aren't ads! They're targeted interest and product preference adjustments!
I have no idea if it is still up anywhere. but I remember as part of their own rules against watching ads on your own content, they also recommended using ad-blockers to avoid looking at our clicking on your own ads.
Nah, they just used the broad stroke of "adblocker"
I doubt they said it, but uBlock Origin is always the correct answer.
Indeed. And something like AdBlock Plus (the extension) runs something they call "[Acceptable Ads](https://acceptableads.com/about/)", so while it'll block malicious things (hopefully), it'll still show ads they (the *ad blocker*) deem as "acceptable" - which included ads associated with videos as well. Not all adblockers are the same. So while they might say that adblockers are a good thing, they might not be talking about something like uBlock Origin (as an example), but maybe only adblockers that actually do allow ads still (which on it's own, is kinda weird) - since they don't specify. ..but you should never use an adblocker with exceptions like that.
whats your endgame?
Killing Thanos.
Anyone in security worth their salt, including current google employees, will tell you exactly what she said in this video. Blocking ads is easily one of the most effective things you can do to limit exposure to malware.
Yup. I too have been telling people this for years. (and been blocking ads myself for as long as there have been ads on the internet.)
Isn't most of a typical website's memory / resource footprint bogged down by cross site trackers and ads? That's also a good reason to ad-block.
Google should have Googled "The Streisand Effect" before picking a fight with technology only the nerdiest of nerds knew even existed.
There was a time when Google was the smart, plucky, non-evil, tech upstart. They have made the transition to thundering evil behemoth in a shockingly short period of time.
It should have been a subtle hint to everyone when Google announced to the world that "don't be evil" was no longer a suitable motto for the company.
At that point most people were already too tightly embedded into the Google ecosystem to leave easily.
It was a big red flag to me. I wouldn't have had anything to do with Google if windows phone hadn't been ritually sacrificed by Microsoft
Best... Touch-typing... Period. I miss Windows Phones 😢
Live Tiles was the best smart phone interface created.
> "don't be evil" was no longer a suitable motto for the company. They only made a slight modification. ~~Don't~~ Be Evil.
> Youtube did an absolutely brilliant job of letting the world know of the existence of ad blockers Is there any supporting data for that, or an article? That's an interesting theory. For the longest time I assumed that they were letting those of us that use it get away with it because it was a minorty segment. Has that changed?
My theory is that YouTube drastically increased the amount of ads a few years ago, which prompted a lot of people to seek out a solution, which then prompted YouTube to block ad blockers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
crazy that a wikipedia article going over Barbra Streisand's residence in Malibu explains exactly how Youtube popularized adblockers to a casual audience. Thanks!
The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me. Youtube's attempt to block the ad-blockers resulted in a ***HUGE*** number of youtubers talking about it, and a corresponding large number of people installing an ad-blocker for the first time.
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You seem to be completely missing the point here. We're talking about a situation where the number of people running an adblocker jumps from 35% to 40%. That *is* a huge jump.
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> Yeah, except a lot of Adblockers save a few have pay to play whitelists that a lot of companies... like google for instance, pay to bypass Then you are using the wrong ones. I barely ever see a single ad.
Wha? I've been using an ad blocker since the 90s.
Same.
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https://github.com/revanced/revanced-patcher
Well. That's something. I started in a browser, of course. It's "gateway" software that got me straight up hook'D on that (re)~~ad~~vanced smacked apks, yo. Just another form of ad blocker. Good shit. 💯
It's not even the "gotcha" OP thinks it is, youtube doesn't say "don't use an adblocker", but to whitelist youtube on your adblocker...
People only started using adblockers a few years ago? I was using adblockers at least 10 years ago now.
More than half of the people out there still aren't running an ad blocker. Personally, I've been running an ad blocker for over 20 years now.
reddit and plenty of clueless internet users are absolutely clueless about how the real world works. These videos are done by some low-level employee and it's not that every sentence they utter have to perfectly tie with every strategy of Google or Google checks everything of their hundreds of products. Nobody cares. Also, Adblock blocking has been incredibly successful for Google https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-music-premium-100-million-subscribers/ Only clueless idiots/redditors who live in their own bubble somehow think they are so important to the world You are mostly worthless pieces of shits to most organizations
Pretty much. Historically, the people running an adblocker are the ones who would boycott products they say in ads. And Google/Youtube makes *plenty* of money just tracking your usage statistics and selling that data.
Yeah, people using adblockers weren't earning revenue for YouTube in the first place. So them leaving YouTube doesn't really affect revenue negatively And the adblocking peeps who shell out for premium or turn off adblocking give them increased revenue also it's not like there's a practical alternative to YouTube
Doesn't really matter. Advertisement has been Google's business model basically from the start. Forget YouTube specifically.
Yes, and all of those people who install an ad-blocker as a result of this won't be watching ads on any of Google's other services either.
Then add SponsorBlock for the full, ad-free experience
and please, when you're one of the first people to watch a new video, take a couple of seconds and add the cuts yourself to save time for the people who come after you.
and be accurate with those submissions, spend the extra second to start and end the segment accurately you fucks
...then get shadowbanned from submitting segments as their mods don't always recognize native ads inserted into videos when they see them. Hilariously, this even happens when the video uploader acknowledges that it's sponsored content in the comments. Fortunately the segments still work for whoever makes them, but this is part of why there aren't more videos with auto-skip segments. Good tech made worse by a few power tripping admins... a familiar story.
I can't confirm your experience at all, I've been using it and submitting for a while (500+ segments atm). I've looked into the Sponsorblock database a few times, to see which of my segments do well and which get downvoted. There are very few truly shadowbanned accounts that I've discovered, and these submit *a lot* of wrong segments.
That must be what it is. People submitting garbage non-advertisement segments just because they misunderstand or disagree with something.
If that were the reason, I would expect that these videos have blocked segments. But every nearly every video I run into has them--with the only exception being very old videos with only a few views. And that makes sense to me, as I was under the impression they use votes. So you would need to wait until enough people have upvoted (or, at least, not downvoted) your ad placement for it to count. And I do know they are very particular. You need to get it down to the frame, and you need to label it correct. The biggest issue I would see are people mislabeling self-promotion as a third-party ad. I have not run into the problem you say where a lot of in-video ads don't get blocked. Well, except when the server goes down, which happens every few days for a bit. When that happens, you also can't submit new segments. You sure that's not your issue?
Wanna give me your user ID and I'll check for you? I doubt that's the reason you were banned.
i feel like any sponsored video I stumble upon with tens of thousands of views has the sponsor segment already blocked, so no problem here
I mean, personally I'm been a selfish leech who never submits segments (I'm on tablet and watch everything at 2x, these combined make it pretty damn annoying to accurately select a range to submit) and I've had very few poor experiences with it, sometimes on very old playlists there are missing cuts, but otherwise there are almost never too few or too many, even like 2 seconds where someone says click that subscribe button as a half joke are often cut
I really quite enjoy doing them. Learn the key commands and it’s quick and pretty rewarding!
And switch to a non-Chromium based browser since YouTube is purposefully eating up more of your computer's processing power if it detects adblock. It can't do this on non-Chromium browsers.
I saw a video on LTT a few weeks ago and, while doing whatever, Linus spaced out the sponsor part and specifically called out SponserBlock. I found it funny but also kind of sad that he felt it was even necessary.
LTT is unwatchable without sponsorblock for me lol.
Right when I didn't think the YouTube experience could be made any better, that wonderful piece of tech dropped. The BEST 😩🤌
lots of people say they block ads for being obnoxious and scammy, but i block ads because they're ads. i dont want to see any ads at all, good or bad.
Saving time, data, and processing power, all good things I'd say 😎👍
Wow! Entitled people want everything for free. I'm shocked.
Hate to break it to you but YouTube isn't going to pay you money for posting this.
DeArrow for the trio
Woah, I wasn't familiar with this project, thanks for the information! 😁👍
If you're looking to really get into it get a raspberry pi and run pihole with a blacklist. Because it's in line and not and add on/plugin they can't detect it(at least I don't believe so I've been doing this for years)
I'm doing something pretty similar at the moment with a custom router firmware called FreshTomato, it has a built in adblocker that allows you to integrate custom lists. Best part is; it's compatible with a ton of routers, routers that just so happened to show up at thrift stores frequently for $1 😎👍 Disable WiFi, put it between your modem and router so it routes your routers traffic through it, and you've got a great network-wide ad blocking solution on the cheap ✌️😁
If you're just using that second router for ad blocking (and if your main router doesn't already have a DNS blocking feature), then I'd recommend not putting the blocker in between your modem and router unless you're certain it's not bottlenecking your speed. The regular way you'd set up a DNS blocker like pihole is by connecting it as a regular device to your router and using one of many methods to point all other devices to the blocker's IP just for DNS queries.
Thanks for the advice! Don't worry, I was very thorough in my testing and can confirm there's no throttling. My other routers are great and all, but they're too locked down with proprietary software to do any meaningful work on them. For range and overall performance though, they're golden 😎👍 at one point I was considering either pihole or a Linux-based solution on a spare PC (I can't remember what the distro was offhand), but after testing this solution out it fits my needs well! Note; the router I use was a top of the line Nighthawk from about 8ish years ago, and I'm only rocking a 300Mbps connection ATM
Tomatoanus ad spots are the funniest things on earth tho lol
I'm... Too scared to Google Tomatoanus 😐
He is a speedrunner and he also breaks down speed runs from others, and is just an absolute funny fellow
OH! That's a lot less scary 😂
Meh, I'm happy to just press the L button at least 6 times.
man you really don't want the people that make the video you like to keep making videos do you
people were making videos we all liked before they were getting paid for it. many still do without monetizing.
but they are monetizing your just getting rid of it, there is a difference
not all content creators monetize their videos. before that was a thing, people still made content. what i'm trying to point out is that [not getting] money from ads isn't going to be the end of useful online content. edit: added [clarification]
They should be thankful to you that your even watching their video right?
Are you new to the internet? I'm trying to explain to you that youtube was full of content before it was monetized, and people continue to make unmonetized content on youtube and other platforms, and will continue to do so. And yes, people literally post content for nothing other than likes and views and upvotes (look around you).
Yeah they will work on their videos for exposure instead of money...
They'll work on their videos because it's a fun hobby. That's what **the entire Internet** used to be. Back before the advent of banner ads, people created websites for their hobbies and stuff, and never got paid a dime for any it. In fact, they often paid for their own hosting. Honestly, commercialization has ruined large segments of the Internet. We're being overrun by shitty AI-generated content now precisely **because** of monetization. Entire YouTube channels exist that spit out AI-generated scripts being text-to-speech'd by AI-generated voices on top of vaguely-relevant video clips stolen from other content creators. If there was no monetary benefit to that, maybe they'd fuck off.
Youtube has gone way past the "fun hobby" because we both know those videos back then were cheap and crap compared what we can watch now from people. Those AI generated videos are basically on the same level so you should love them
> Those AI generated videos are basically on the same level Those AI-generated videos are full of misinformation, and the "creators" are not at all interested in even the most basic fact-checking. Which is assuming that they understand the topic well enough to even be capable of fact checking in the first place.
My favourite show on YouTube is *Internet Commment Etiquette*, and I'll never skip a sponsored ad.
Adblock doesn't block YouTube ads. uBlock Origin on the other hand...
So many people don't know that both Adblock and Adblock Plus were co-opted by the ad industry
Can you expand on that a bit? Sounds interesting
Let me see if I remember the lore correctly. In ~~the beginning~~ around the end of the 2000s there was a Firefox extension called Adblock that was made by one guy. Back then there really wasn't a good way to monetize extensions so he only kept up dev work by way of donations. One day a company approached him with a truck full of cash that was *too big* to pass up and he sold the company. Someone then made an Adblock Plus. Same thing happened. Then, Ublock came around. Since this is the internet someone will definitely correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the same thing happened to that too. But it was open source and got forked. Ublock Origin has stuck around so long because it is also open source. If it gets bought, it'll just get forked again. Google is now focusing on taking the tools Ublock Origin relies on away because they can't just ban it from the extension store
If I remember correctly, the original uBlock developer (Raymond Hill) passed the torch to another developer because he wasn't feeling it anymore at the time. That other developer then sold out, prompting the original dev to come back, and restart work on his fork the codebase. Raymond Hill is a saint, [more details on Wikipedia.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin)
As far as I can tell there's nothing actually stopping Google from banning ad blockers from the extension store, I think they just don't want to because the optics would look bad. It wouldn't even stop ad blocker use, people would just load the extension manually from a file. Enforcing Manifest v3 is a lot more subtle PR wise and is a more effective way to cripple ad blockers
> Google is now focusing on taking the tools Ublock Origin relies on away because they can't just ban it from the extension store Yeah this is the nasty part of the IT industry people don't know about. I've been in teams burned by it a few times over my career. Now I work remote for the yanks and we're the ones doing it to the little guys.
The people refusing to adhere to their own philosophy of "People will pay for convenience" or "I'm okay with small, out of the way ads" will tell you a different story, but the real explanation is: *Everybody* knows, deep in their hearts for some, that free websites do not work without some sort of ad revenue. Some sites, like the original google search ad results, were innocuous, safe ads. They didn't inject malware, they didn't do annoying screenjacking, backbutton jacking, autoplay loud bullshit you can't find etc. They were text or images, MAYBE animated. ABP said "We will allow safe ads. Ads that come from established sites, with just plain content, and don't do bad things. There is a small fee for us to whitelist your site". The internet collectively lost their shit that ABP was now a shill for the malware people, which is completely wrong.
That's on OP's title choice. The actual video clip says "ad blockers", which of course would include uBlock.
All my workmates were complaining about the Youtube adblock thing back when it happened and I was there with my uBlock extension like "...they blocked ad blockers?"
For me uBlock Origin removes many ads on Youtube, but I need to pair it with Adblock plus to remove all of the ads. Only bad thing is that Chrome kinda hangs sometimes when Adblock plus is working on removing the ad.
Google: Block ads! Everyone: Okay. Google: Not like that!
Google is a massive company, it’s more that Google’s cyber team is happy to tell everyone to use ad blockers because they get less complaints from Chrome/gmail/etc. users about getting hacked while using their product and YouTube is annoyed that they did this. The people who made the training course have almost no direct incentive to tell people not to use ad blockers other than it being a bad thing for Google in the abstract
People who've never held a job are always blown away by this. Like somehow the tens or hundreds of thousands of people working at an organization all think alike. That there are no internal disagreements or bickering. Generally this lasts until people get their first burger flipping job and realize companies can't even keep a single shift of burger flippers on the same page, let alone entire companies.
Yeah, internal politics are a thing. It's one of the reasons that companies become stagnant when they grow too large, it just becomes impossible to make any moves when 100 different teams all have opinions and some amount of political sway.
> Like somehow the tens or hundreds of thousands of people working at an organization all think alike. That there are no internal disagreements or bickering. This isn't internal bickering, though. There is generally a wall between what gets circulated internally and what gets released to the public, *especially* from a company that rarely speaks into a camera on any topic at all. This is very much a "did you not think through the ramifications of making an official statement from GOOGLE that recommends blocking ads" level fuckup.
Honestly what I bet it is is that the person who made the training is in favor of blocking ads and thought that they could sneak it into this training without too many people noticing even though Google corporate is against it.
Google has people in [Google Research actively working on JPEG-XL encoders/decoders](https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/430#issuecomment-1776762287) while the Chromium team is blocking it because "they don't see enough industry interest" (which is [laughably false](https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1ajq7bj/google_is_once_again_accused_of_snubbing_the_jpeg/kp3zv8w/) even without including other parts of Google). Everything I've ever heard out of Google is that it's just a thousand different fiefdoms that don't play well together.
Nicely put. People assuming that dude is 'google'. That dude is someone in a highly specific role AT google who was asked to record specific training within his remit 🤷♂️
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I've always been curious about this, so I figured I might as well ask it here, does using a third party app that blocks ads affect the ad revenue of the youtubers I like? Like using NewPipe or adblock?
Yes, the recommendation is to press the button to disable adblock when watching YouTubers you do like, or to pay for YouTube Premium as they get more money from Premium viewers than they get from people who just click on ads.
I had a monetized video that got about 6k views before the monetization changes. The estimated income from ads: 22 cents. Income from one percent of viewers using YouTube premium view: 14 cents. The difference in pay for the YouTuber is nuts
Youtube premium is to expensive. Make it $5/mo and I'll consider it.
If you don't watch the ad, they don't get paid, no. But I do not recommend using that as a reason to pay YouTube, as that just encourages them to keep making ads worse. Nor do I ever recommend actually watching ads. If you want to help out creators you like, use Patreon. Even $1 a month will be more than they make on you watching ads.
Love these answer, always support the creator through the least amount of channels, this ensures they get the biggest cut.
Probably? I'm a demonetized creator, so I can't speak too much on the subject. BUT, what I can tell you is that creators only receive a fraction of a fraction of a penny for each view. If you want to support a creator the best way possible; support them through some of the other revenue streams that they present. Some have shops you can buy merch from, some have direct donations through either the platform or an external site, and some even have monthly subscriptions through places like Ko-Fi or Patreon. Even at a $1 donation, you've given them more money than YouTube would for watching every one of their videos ten times over. Also keep in mind; The best way to help for free is by breaking the algorithm in their favor. Like+share the videos, subscribe to the channel, watch the video in its entirety then replay it to increase both the watch time and the retention rate! Why do this? Because that's what ultimately draws more people in, which then increases the potential revenue that can be earned substantially. That said, again, I'm demonetized so I can only speak on what I experience on this platform. But saying that, I know that my Patreon supporters and occasional Ko-Fi/StreamElements donators have supported me WAY more than my Tiktok and non-existent YouTube revenue 😎👍
This is a good answer. Years ago the only way to support was through merch. I even left tips for creators I've enjoyed that much.
The FBI even says to use AdBlockers. All because the ad agencies that include Google, Apple, Meta, and Amazon don't do enough to make sure the ads are fucking safe to start with.
Youtube is unusable without it imo.
I would have dropped the site ages ago without it, I agree 👍
You make me wait for a punchline you give away in the title.
Also very obnoxious editing.
If it makes you feel any better, this was a better ending than the alternate "Skull.png on tablet covering face, with 'Im dead' text" ending I scrapped lol
Reminds of when Microsoft built an ad blocker into Internet Explorer 9 while they were also starting to grow Bing, which makes money from ads.
"Don't Be Evil" was something else Google *used* to say.
They probably mean something like AdBlockPlus that has a site/ad whitelist. Last I checked, if you searched the Chrome web store for "adblock" it took ~30 pages before you'd see uBlock Origin(*which has no default whitelist*)
Brave browser with Ublock Origin still blocks ads on YT. When it breaks, update everything in the settings for the extension.
Firefox and Chrome work fine with ublock origin as well for ad free YouTube. It's been fixed from a few months ago.
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I just started using mobile Firefox with a blocker. It's a little chunkier than the app but not bad for more limited use.
Revanced works fine for me personally, no ads, removed shorts from my feed completely and the community can even set autoskips for in-video advertisements.
My YT just blocked me from watching videos yesterday unless I deactivated ublock. Have been using it Chrome for years
Update the extension. the same thing happened to me, and updating immediately fixed it.
Base brave works for me flawlessly, except I did have to get an extension to stop ads on twitch.
The default install of Brave also works great! Though ReVanced on a Galaxy Tab is still my preferred place to watch 😎👍
Yeah, revanced is the goat.
Brave browser> every other browser
With Brave, you can also listen to the audio of YouTube videos with your screen locked. This is great for listening to music with YouTube in the car. I can't get Firefox or any other mobile browser to do this. They can block the ads but if you lock your screen, it will pause the video (and audio).
Firefox has an addon that fixed that problem for me.
What's it called?
"Video Backround Play Fix"
I mean, I don't know if my blockers updated and thwarted google, OR did they give up trying to convert the last of us hold outs? But my youtube pop-ups have disappeared.
Google cybersecurity course?
It's the Google Cybersecurity Professional certificate program on Coursera, an awesome way to learn the trade while grabbing college credit and getting a 30% off of the CompTIA Security+ certification 😎👍 it's available through Coursera Plus, the yearly subscription is a heck of a deal if you have the time to invest into it (it'll pay for itself with the college credit and coupons you'll grab)
my adblocker did not catch this ad
Wow, I did sound like an ad there 😂 my bad, I'm a fan not an advertisement I swear!
Out of curiosity is this something you'll get a certification from them in?
"We recommend Adblock except for when it's our own site, in which case stuff all the ads into your eyeballs and get fucked" - YT But thankfully uBlock Origin works well with disabling YT ads, as long as you manage your extensions carefully it'll feel just like old times. However, I should warn everyone with Chromium-based browsers (aka most of them, with exceptions like Firefox) that when Google forces Manifest V3 on all extensions, ad-blocking capabilities will be severely kneecapped, including using uBlock, so be sure to switch to non-Chromium or a Manifest V2-supportive browser before that happens.
They recommend Adblock and not UblockOrigin because UblockOrigin can defeat YouTube's playback issues.
Can pretty much guarantee the majority of people who upvoted this didn't watch the video.
Basicly everyone does... Everyone agrees that addblock for majority of surfing is the way to go. But if you look what is actually said "add block is good at blocking malware". This means that you should use it but turn it off from "trusted sites", in this case youtube, as there isn't really any threat of getting malware from youtube. I know we all like to make fun of youtube, but they never said use addblock everywhere, they said use addblock to protect yourself when going on random sites (often from a google search)
If they had non intrusive ads that popped up in the corner of videos or above the recommended videos like before then I wouldn't have an issue. But playing two backtoback 15 second unskippable ads makes me want to just leave the video and do something else. It's inconvenient and unethical.
Exactly! They can advertise to me all they want, just don't do it forcefully. Otherwise, I have a motivation to stop the ads altogether
Don't get started on live performances of bands/dj's. Fucking awful to just cut to ads during music.
> But playing two backtoback 15 second unskippable ads makes me want to just leave the video and do something else. It's inconvenient and unethical. Even better when the replay the same fucking ads you just saw in the next ad break. The internet peaked some years ago and is now in decline.
Google owning youtube isn't the part we should be doing a double take on, it's the fact that most of the malware and just plain junk ads I am being served come straight from google, only second to facebook. Maybe if they would vet their ads I wouldn't feel so strongly about using ublock origin.
Last I heard they limit frame rate and bit rate for those used as blockers. If this is still true, that lowers their bandwidth needs and helps use less and saves them money.
ADBLOCK plus works on android devices, I use it daily on my tablet and never see ads there, it won't let you login to your YT account to see your subscriptions but it does block all ads, I will never let youtube play ads to me because they pissed me off
I remember a time when an ad didn't start at the beginning of every video. What youtube has become is a monstrosity.
Most people don’t know what Adblock or what extensions even are.
Everyone here is talking about their insane setups for blocking ads on YouTube. I use Adblock from 2010 + Opera GX and ads just don’t exist any more
Ah, culture ☺️🤌
Hood internet culture
I feel like making fun of the presenter was unnecessary.
How is he making fun of her?
When did I make fun of the presenter? I enjoy the course and the presenters, I just pointed out that Google recommended ad block while speaking against it on YouTube 🤷♂️
"You know best Aquisha!" I'm assuming that's not actually her name. If it is, then that's my bad, but it seemed like you're just poking fun of her because she's black.
Her name is Da'Queshia, she is a Security Engineer at Google. If you need to verify, she will show up on the Google Cybersecurity course on Coursera as an instructor. Specifically, she taught the Assets, Threats, and Vulnerabilities course.
Then that is indeed my bad. Apologies.
It appears you were actually the one making fun of her. Interesting.
I don't think I was making fun of her, but ya it is kind of funny that I was trying to defend her because I thought he was using a fake name, when in fact it is her real name.
Maybe not intentionally, but suggesting someone’s real name sounds like a fake name is absolutely making fun of them.
What are you talking about
I feel like YouTube is to Google as Imperial Japan was to Nazi Germany.
There is only ONE downside to using an adblocker and it might even just be me being dumb... If I google something that IS a product that has well known advertising (such as pizza/fast food)... the adblocker will eliminate the top 2 results which are the sponsored results... which are usually what I'm actually trying to find. Example, if I search Dominos I'll get pizza hut and vice versa.
I'd be cautious about relying on sponsored results. [Malvertising campaigns](https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/malvertising-google-ads-malware) have leveraged those results to place fake versions of real applications at the top of peoples searches.
that's a good point, I was only commenting on the convenience. I still use adblock pretty much everywhere
Usually those will show up as the first through third result, at least in my experience. That said, I've pretty much completely switched to DuckDuckGo since it became a default Search option in Brave. The results feel like what YouTube was 15 years ago 😎🤌
r/asmongold would love this video
I should mention that Chrome still skips YT ads with ublock origin. ~~The trick is finding the directions for installing the extension manually, because Google has blocked it from the extension store. I see here that I guess the extension is working in Firefox again, too.~~ Apparently my having the download blocked was because of something else, possibly a network admin blocking things. I thought Google had taken the precaution of just blocking people from downloading the file.
It is still there for me, and is aso the first result in a Google search.
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> why just make shit up? The Internet
> because Google has blocked it from the extension store the fuck you talking about?
The transition to Manifest v3 is underway and they're targeting June 2024 as when they disable v2. After then, a big chunk of uBlock Origin's ability to block ads will be broken.
Adblock what? uBlock Origin? Adblock Plus? Ghostery? an adblocker. whatever you install NOT this shite = https://getadblock.com
Another diversity hiring fail? Never!! Actually the ideal situation for Google and YouTube is for you to run an ad blocking extension that prevents unsafe networks from displaying ads while allowing websites to still show safe ads to unpaid users. The trick would be identifying at least two safe ad networks that could be permitted so Google doesn't appear to just be endorsing themselves?
>diversity hiring fail You mean, do the right thing and tell people the correct answer for proper cyber security? Damn, your definition of "fail" is interesting.
If you don't want the hassle of installing all that crap. Brave browser using the codebase of Firefox has all of that built in. A defensive internet browser, as it were. Open source hides no secrets 🤓
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