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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1036 points deryilz | 1 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.288s | source
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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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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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thaumasiotes ◴[13 Jul 25 02:45 UTC] No.44547084[source]▶
YouTube recently started showing ads through uBO in Firefox.
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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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1. gpvos ◴[13 Jul 25 15:27 UTC] No.44551087[source]▶
Ubuntu.