YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

Re:YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeti... by thomastjeffery on Saturday November 11, 2017 @02:54AM (#15675411)

Unfortunately, decent adblock on Android requires root, which most can't have, and most of those who can would still need to unlock the bootloader, flash recovery, flash supersu, install fdroid, and install adblock. That leaves us with a very small subset of users that can use adblock.

This problem is exasperated by the fact that phones/tablets are particularly well-suited to, and popular with, young children. Children like to carry things around.

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Re:YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeti... by bigbugbag on Sunday November 12, 2017 @04:58PM (#15682850)

I have no idea what you are talking about.

I have installed a ublock origins on a few dozens of android devices of all kind and it always works like a charm.

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Re:YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeti... by anonymousab on Saturday November 11, 2017 @11:37AM (#15676970)

uBlock Origin seems to work fine on Android Firefox.

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Re:YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeti... by thomastjeffery on Sunday November 12, 2017 @10:07PM (#15683957)

I forgot about that. You can, in fact, use firefox with adblock on android, so long as adblock is distributed with the app itself.

Unfortunately though, it does not work globally.

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Re:YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeti... by chatmasta on Saturday November 11, 2017 @05:30AM (#15675762)

You can setup a DNS proxy with the android sdk (no root), I thought.

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