Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16 and also mutes the ad. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.

  • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    In before Ads are recorded at 1/16th the speed in order to play at the correct speed with one of those extensions.

    • @atrielienz@lemmy.worldOP
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      I don’t know how much anyone’s subconscious is picking up in 2 seconds. Remember back in the day when people used to tell you they could study while sleeping by listening to a recording of a lecture? That didn’t really work either.

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    Between uBlock and Sponsor Block I’ve had absolutely no interruption in service and it’s the exact same experience that I’ve had for years

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    Yeah, no. I’m not willing to even have the ad for any amount of time. IMO ads should be banned, and before anyone reaponds, no i don’t give a shit about the consequences of a change that substancial

    • @atrielienz@lemmy.worldOP
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      Then this isn’t for you. That’s fine. Adblockers like ublock origin still work. So do newpipe, piped and other front end services. Firefox and other non-chromium based browsers etc. Do what you want with your devices.

    • @0xD@infosec.pub
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      i don’t give a shit about the consequences of a change that substancial

      Aaaah, the very sign of a simple mind.

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        (abolitionists circa 1800) IMO slavery should be banned, and before anyone responds, no I don’t give a shit about the consequences of a change that substantial.

        Some things are simple and don’t require a nuanced take. I’m not saying ads are anywhere near as important as slavery but the consequences are smaller too. Thinking something is an unmitigated negative and should be got rid of regardless of consequences is a legitimate position.

        • @wavebeam@lemmy.world
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          How would getting rid of ads work? Like logistically? Is a fancy box for your product an ad? Is eye-level placement of a product on a shelf an ad? Is the make and model branding in a vehicle an ad?

          I would love to see less ads, or no ads, I’ve done all I can to remove them from my life entirely, but the magic wish kind of removal of them seems… impossible

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            It would work the way the internet worked before google and facebook monetised monitoring everyone to sell ads, people who want a website paying to host it, and if they are a company charge for whatever they are selling.

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    What the fuck is wrong with this shit article?

    The crackdown on ad blockers has been quite effective

    No, it hasn’t. What’s up with the doublespeak?

    While some paid ad blockers seem to work, the vast majority of tools don’t seem to do the trick.

    Patently false. uBlock hasn’t had a single hickup.

    Fuck whoever wrote this garbage.

    • @yamanii@lemmy.world
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      They all pretend ublock origin don’t exist, they only talk about the old stupid for profit AdBlock that let’s “good ads” through.

    • pachrist
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      I don’t know. I bet it has been pretty effective, but I also don’t think I’d trust any data I’d see from Google.

      But, their goal isn’t to get you or me to watch ads. Hell will freeze over before I spend 30s watching an ad for a video that’s barely double that. Their goal is to target the people we’ve installed ad blockers for: friends, parents, siblings, in-laws.

      I’m not going to watch ads, and I sure as hell am not going to click on anything, but my mother in law does now. My mom does too. They now feel like an ad blocker is “too much hassle,” so Google won that fight. I don’t know if new people are installing, updating, or changing ad blockers enough to offset right now.

      • gian
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        I’m not going to watch ads, and I sure as hell am not going to click on anything, but my mother in law does now. My mom does too. They now feel like an ad blocker is “too much hassle,” so Google won that fight.

        Google won until the next round when, to make even more money for the shareholders, they will put so many ads in a video that also your mother and mother in law will return to use an adblocker. Or leave YT entirely

    • @Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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      I watched two hours of Rocky & Bullwinkle uninterrupted the other day thanks to FireFox and uBlock Origin

    • @Moneo@lemmy.world
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      Anyone else getting the “you will be blocked after 3 videos” yet? Haven’t seen anyone talk about it but I saw it for the first time yesterday.

      • 👁️👄👁️
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        Not if your uBlock origin is up to date, sometimes you have to clear the cache so the filters update to bypass that

      • @NaoPb@eviltoast.org
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        This may require a refresh of your blocking lists and/or a making sure ublock is updated to most recent versions.

        I know it’s explained in the subreddit for ublock origin and I think people reposted it sonewhere on lenmy too, but I can’t remember where exactly.

        Anyway, after doing that it works perfectly. No more of those screens. Best of luck.

      • @0x2d@lemmy.ml
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        I haven’t seen it, but I usually use Invidious on my computer because of YouTube’s buggy, slow design

    • @PlantJam@lemmy.world
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      And ublock origin continues to work, thankfully. Disappointing to see the article failed to mention it.

      • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        Obscurity is an advantage in an arms war like this. The more popular a workaround gets, the more effort will be put into defeating it. You know it works, it doesn’t need to become popular to validate that.

          • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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            Firefox is still sitting at under 5% of users and it’s the Firefox flavour of uBlock origin that I’m seeing people say still works at blocking YouTube ads (plus it sounds like Google is shutting them out of Chrome, though we’ll see what happens to the browsers based on forks of chromium). It’s a massive number of people in absolute terms, but tiny relative to the number of users who don’t use FF + uBo.

              • @EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                I believe they’re referring to the upcoming Manifest V3 changes. My understanding is that currently uBlock uses the old Manifest V2 that they’re ending support for once V3 gets pushed. I believe there is a V3 version of uBlock but because of the limitations in V3 it’s not as effective at blocking ads.

    • Victor
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      That’s strange. You’d think that because Google isn’t going to remove in-video ads, that would be the sole purpose of creating ad blockers, to remove them. Not for the purpose of making Google remove them from their business model altogether lol. That’s clearly not going to happen.

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          Very surprising to hear this, I would never think that would be a viable endeavor to begin with. But fair enough. Honorable of them!

          From my personal perspective though, I’m spending zero time in any effort towards blocking ads. Installed uBlock years ago and I haven’t done anything since. 😌 They’ve done all the effort for me.

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              Exactly what I mean. I’m very grateful.

              Very reasonable reasons, by the way.

    • @atrielienz@lemmy.worldOP
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      I use ublock origin. Haven’t had any serious problems so far. I don’t think Google will be successful for any long period of time with their anti-adblock vendetta because people live to ruin them.

    • NutWrench
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      Same here. If I’m watching a biography about Nathaniel Hawthorne, then why would I want to see an ad where someone is twerking their ass in my face?

      • credit crazy
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        Ya know the “it’s for targeted ads” is total bullshit. Where the fuck are the targeted ads YouTube. These data collectors are creeps. Simple as that.

      • OpenSourceDeezNuts
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        A year or so I turned off targeted ads from Google. I very quickly noticed an increase in ads with anime tiddies.

        I guess Google sees a correlation between people who worry about privacy, and people who are likely to click on anime tiddies…

    • @atrielienz@lemmy.worldOP
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      Some people have to use it for work. Including me, although I don’t have this problem because I don’t use it for YouTube.

      • @governorkeagan@lemdro.id
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        I’ve been A/B testing Chrome and Firefox at work since we’ve had it drilled into us that we absolutely have to use Chrome. I haven’t had a single issue with Firefox, even with internal web apps. Your mileage may vary though.

        • Chaotic Entropy
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          They’re probably not making the infrastructure decisions around which browser they get to use.

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            True. Having said that in the majority of workplaces you can still download another browser if you wanted. If Firefox works just as well as chrome, why not use it.

            • @atrielienz@lemmy.worldOP
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              For me specifically (though I don’t use it for YouTube) the work apps I’m required to use are codes for a chromium browser and the IT department doesn’t want us downloading anything to the work units. So I either have to use edge or chrome (both of which are provided). If the work apps don’t work with one we’re instructed to switch to the other and so on. When I was in the military we were told to use Internet explorer and a lot of websites made for the military didn’t work without it. This is a legitimate thing.

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                I completely understand you. My previous company had an incredibly strict IT policy, they blocked all downloads on their devices so you’d need an administrator to download anything for you.

                I’ve heard of stories with internet explorer. I know a lot of web apps built for labs only work on Internet Explorer, they just never update them to work with anything else.

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    It’s cool and all but it’s still that annoying break when you are trying to enjoy a video or learn something.

    This will take you out of the flow also.

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      My ff got hit by the blanket ‘no fire fox’ issue. Now even with no mods youtube won’t work at all.

      Downloaded free tube. Keep thinking to make some kinda macro to auto switch to it when I search in ff search bar.