Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?

        • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf
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          10 months ago

          So often I see people asking questions and I know that if they were using Firefox and uBlock, they wouldn’t have the problems they’re having

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          10 months ago

          Working at a college its always shocking finding out a lot of the youth don’t know ad blocking at least. Volunteering after my shift to help with tutoring or other help they will try to show me a youtube video even on their personal laptop. Every start of a semester its something that leaves me shaking my head.

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            10 months ago

            I don’t really like the term “echo chamber,” but that sort of thing makes me realize I’m really in one. Nearly everyone I interact with online just takes things like adblocking and basic internet hygiene for granted, but every so often I encounter someone who reminds me that there are a lot of people who don’t know the first thing about such things.

            I remember one time this kid asked me, “What’s Chromium? I have this app called ‘Chromium’ but I don’t know what it’s for,” so I went into a lengthy explanation about how it’s an internet browser, and how Chrome is based on Chromium but that Chromium without Google exists, whereupon they showed me their laptop, and it was severely infected with some obvious malware that put a search bar on their desktop titled “Chromium.”

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            10 months ago

            Using Firefox and uBlock Origin, and following uBlock’s instructions re: resetting and updating. Getting timeouts and popups from YT regardless.

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              10 months ago

              Hmmm, I’m not seeing these problems at all. It’s probably worth reporting

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              10 months ago

              Make sure you’re not using other ad blockers/privacy tools in addition to uBlock Origin.

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              10 months ago

              I’m sorry to hear that because I had similar problem but clearing cookies & cached web content option ended up working for me. Hope you find something that work because it was awful to experience ads after so long. I track stuff I subscribe to with TubeSync but still like to search for new topics & the ads were annoying.

    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Idk, I don’t use ublock but ever since this last wave of allegations of throttling adblock users I’ve been getting videos just refusing to load any of the beginning of the vid after the first couple seconds. It’ll play the last 3/4ths though.

      I don’t remember the exact name of my adblock but it’s not ublock origin