Wondering how much of the Lemmy user base wouldn’t use an adblocker. If you do use one what other blocking do you use to circumvent data collection, YouTube and reddit front ends and things alike?
Wondering how much of the Lemmy user base wouldn’t use an adblocker. If you do use one what other blocking do you use to circumvent data collection, YouTube and reddit front ends and things alike?
You then have to play a bit of a cat and mouse game with certain sites that put a lot of effort into detecting ad blockers, and that can be a bit actively annoying.
Can you name one such site? In like a decade I’ve not had to touch my settings one bit to avoid ads. 🤔
YouTube, as of late
I have noticed a lot of people using Chrome seem to have issues with YouTube nowadays, indeed. Firefox users (me) seem unaffected (with uBlock).
Not unaffected, I’m on Firefox with ublock on windows and it was pretty bad for a bit there, and now the videos are… Weird. Like they’ll suddenly stop playing and pretend they’re loading, but the buffer bar is far ahead, or the buffer bar will start stuttering and losing buffer multiple times a second, or the video will skip ahead by 5 seconds randomly, or the video will keep playing but in a frozen frame with audio continuing in the background.
It’s been super frustrating, and piped is slow and the UI is super clunky so I haven’t migrated to it, but the current YouTube experience is just something I’ll have to put up with alongside re-downloading filter lists every now and then. I have been working on a few UI tweaks for piped that hopefully get merged in, but it’s been a rough few weeks IRL and I haven’t gotten around to finishing.
Re: Your YouTube issues: are you based in America? I’m in the EU, might be something regarding that.
Downloading filter lists? This is something people do? I’ve never done that.
I hadn’t considered that, considering your regulations are light years ahead… I’m from Honduras.
Yep, I had never done it before YouTube started its war on adblockers. It’s a 5 second matter, but I do occasionally get blocked entirely for having an adblocker. On some occasions, filter lists hadn’t yet been updated to counter the new blocker, I had to go out and touch grass for a few.
Oh I see, yeah maybe that plays a part then 😊
Ah, right! That dang YouTube 🤌💪
😅 Maybe YouTube just wants what’s best for you. For you to go outside and get some fresh air… then go back in and dump your wallet into theirs. 💸