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Does anyone know of an ad blocker blocker blocker?

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I saw this with firefox and ublock origin installed. Dismissed it and continued not seeing any ads.

    • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      True aha. yt-dlp still works mostly, so I suppose I could just use it to download my subscribed and watch offline. There’s always a way

      • LWD@lemm.ee
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        4 days ago

        With or without cookies?

        I’ve recently been told to sign in when trying to access YouTube videos not just on a VPN, but now at my own residential location

        • Delta_V@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 days ago

          you can add “–cookies-from-browser firefox” or whatever browser you use, to the end of the yt-dlp target

          • LWD@lemm.ee
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            4 days ago

            I’m personally just not that excited about needing a YouTube account to be signed in, in order to view/download videos. I imagine they wouldn’t take too kindly to that if they caught me. My existing account kind of matters, and apparently now you need a phone number to register a new one

            • verdigris@lemmy.ml
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              4 days ago

              Downloading a video is functionally identical to watching the video. I’m not 100% sure they can’t tell, but they certainly shouldn’t care… You’re not circumventing anything by downloading a streamed video, they just obfuscate the download functionality.

              • LWD@lemm.ee
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                4 days ago

                I imagine they might care because advertisements are their source of revenue on that platform, which I believe loses money regardless. They’re also getting increasingly adamant about breaking people’s ad blockers.

                It also appears to me that every combination of functional use requires some form of identification:

                • If you’re logged out, they’re okay with you browsing from an identifiable home IP address.
                • If you’re on a VPN, they’re okay with showing your videos if you log in so they can track your viewing habits.
                • If you’re on a VPN and make a new account, they want your phone number so they can tie your identity to an actual human being.

                It might be a bit paranoid, but these factors combined suggest that Google does not want us to watch videos without providing some form of (inferrable) personal identification. And if Google can’t get what it wants, specifically data and ad revenue, they might be very willing to terminate an account that’s draining their coffers.

      • xzot746@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        Right like poor Google, they’re raking billions and billions from gathering user data and selling it, but line must go up and the “it costs money folks” are too naive to understand what’s really happening.

        You go you naive fool, help Google increase they’re worth. They need all the help they can get, maybe donate, for just the cost of a coffee a day a month can save a multi billion dollar corporation.

  • salvor_hardin@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    I use pipe pipe on android, haven’t had any issues and works great. Freetube on the PC, works great!

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Woot woot, added that to my arsenal.

      Vanced, new pipe, free tube, tubular, pipe pipe, mobile brave, yt-dlp->jellyfin, laptop->HDMI splitter-> capture card +comskip

      The spice will flow.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    You can block element on that pop-up with uBlock Origin, and it starts working again.

    If you can’t click anything, there’s a transparent layer still in the way, so you may need to do a second block element (click anywhere and the entire screen should highlight).

    Weird side effect is that the scroll stops working sometimes, but if you make the video full screen then back it fixes it.

    • brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      for anyone interested:

      the scroll not working is most likely due to the main container in the page (usually the <body> tag but it can be some other element) having the overflow: hidden CSS property assigned to it.

      overflow dictates the behavior of an element that has its content overflow past the parent element’s boundaries.

      the property can have four values:

      • visible, where the overflow is fully visible and allowed to extend past the parent element,
      • scroll, which clips the overflowing content and allows the user to scroll the parent element,
      • hidden, which clips the overflowing content and prevents scrolling, and
      • auto, which works almost identically to scroll

      most sites run a script that assigns this property with the value of hidden to the <body> tag, making the user unable to scroll the page.

      ive seen this behavior the most with sites that blast you with an unavoidable cookie banner which you have to click through to access the page. usually removing the cookie banner element is not enough to freely access the page, and so you have to additionally find which element has its overflow set to hidden and disable that property.

      i reckon youtube’s adblocker popup is doing the same thing, and coincidentally turning off fullscreen also runs a script that makes sure the overflow is set to either scroll or auto

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        It feels strangely vindicating when symptoms that just look like ‘a weird bug’ to my dumb ass actually make sense to folks who know what they’re doing.

        Thanks for the insight!