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Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by hengheng on Saturday July 12, 2025 @05:04PM (#44545152)
You didn't really mention what aggravated you.
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Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by crinkly on Saturday July 12, 2025 @05:07PM (#44545173)
Initially the increase in frequency of the advertising on Android youtube app. Followed by uBlock being broken in Chrome. Followed by uBlock being tarpitted in Firefox. Followed by FreeTube client getting 403 IP forbidden requests and DRM content shovelled down which could not be rendered.

They just did everything to make sure I watched the ads and burn all my bandwidth, which can be somewhat limited and expensive as I travel a lot.

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Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by myko on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:03PM (#44545950)
Did you consider YouTube Premium? It works really well and no ads. Seems like a pittance for the service YouTube provides
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Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by jklas2hjdsdk on Sunday July 13, 2025 @12:43AM (#44547581)
$180 dollars annually is a pittance to you? So please enlighten us...? You could certainly change a persons life with that. It is not a trivial sum, so please do not insult poorer members of this community.
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Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update by crinkly on Sunday July 13, 2025 @09:30AM (#44550334)
The value is the content not the delivery mechanism.
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