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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by kolanos on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:05PM (#43324552)
In my testing, UBO Lite is not working as well on YouTube. It blocks the ad, but you still have to skip it. Original UBO didn't require this.
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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by jay_kyburz on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:51PM (#43325194)
Yea but, I think its a bit misplaced to be angry at Google for this. Surely its the content creators that place the ads in their content to blame for this.

I don't understand why they ads are not spliced into the stream. It would be undetectable by extensions at all.

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by Yeul on Monday March 10, 2025 @05:11PM (#43326154)
Because ads are auctioned in nanoseconds. This isn't the newspaper were everyone saw the same as which was vetted by the editors. You are seeing different ads than your neighbour. Everything is automated to cost as little money as possible.
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