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    Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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    1036 points deryilz | 15 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 1.544s | source | bottom
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    breve ◴[12 Jul 25 21:51 UTC] No.44545498[source]▶
    The best bypass is to use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:

    https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

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    1. Aperocky ◴[12 Jul 25 23:51 UTC] No.44546244[source]▶
    Never realized anything was happening as I was on Firefox, until I saw ads as my wife was browsing youtube despite installing ublock for her years ago.
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    2. thaumasiotes ◴[13 Jul 25 02:45 UTC] No.44547084[source]▶
    YouTube recently started showing ads through uBO in Firefox.
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    3. djrj477dhsnv ◴[13 Jul 25 03:10 UTC] No.44547171[source]▶
    On what platform? I've been using Firefox and uBO on Linux and Android for over a decade and never seen a YouTube ad.
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    4. stubish ◴[13 Jul 25 04:04 UTC] No.44547394{3}[source]▶
    They do staged rollouts, maybe a-b testing. It seems to generally be region based rather than platform.
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    5. aspenmayer ◴[13 Jul 25 06:07 UTC] No.44547906{4}[source]▶
    You might need to check that you are using all appropriate blocklists as well. The subreddit usually has a sticky/pinned post for YouTube related issues as this has been a slow moving target for about a year now.
    6. thaumasiotes ◴[13 Jul 25 06:12 UTC] No.44547932{3}[source]▶
    I'm on Windows 10.
    7. madaxe_again ◴[13 Jul 25 12:43 UTC] No.44550016[source]▶
    My wife was pissed when I installed an adblocker for her - turns out she likes the ads.
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    8. abbadadda ◴[13 Jul 25 14:36 UTC] No.44550749[source]▶
    “Heavy sigh.”
    9. gpvos ◴[13 Jul 25 15:27 UTC] No.44551087{3}[source]▶
    Ubuntu.
    10. TechDebtDevin ◴[13 Jul 25 15:34 UTC] No.44551147[source]▶
    There was a podcast I was listening to this week, and they were discussing the purpose of marketing emails, and they came to the conclusion that they're for women who actually open all of them lol. It was half sarcasm and pretty funny, not trying to by misogynist or something
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    11. yonatan8070 ◴[13 Jul 25 16:35 UTC] No.44551590[source]▶
    I recently saw my GF's inbox, it's full of marketing emails, and when I told her she can unsubscribe or block them, she said she likes them as well.
    12. weberer ◴[13 Jul 25 17:09 UTC] No.44551859{3}[source]▶
    Do you have other extensions? For example, I can see that uMatrix is also blocking all requests to doubleclick.net
    13. nashashmi ◴[13 Jul 25 18:04 UTC] No.44552217{3}[source]▶
    Yes, they do open them all with so much eagerness it makes me wonder how they are able to manage so many emails. But eagerness and window shopping is their calling.
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    14. flkenosad ◴[13 Jul 25 19:01 UTC] No.44552613{4}[source]▶
    Massive generalization but sure lol
    15. Aperocky ◴[14 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44561855[source]▶
    I've not seen the ads at least not yet.

    There was a few times when Youtube try to top me from viewing because I was blocking the ads.