Did YouTube finally kill adblocking apps like SmartTube? - Tons of unusual 403 / forbidden errors

[7.62x38mmR]

i got brave like one or two years ago because i was getting tired of chrome being shit with updates. everyday i thank god for being massively autistic and switching to a different browser with integrated adblock

 

[augment]

Smart TV was always a cattle rearing endgame. A tool to enact even bigger control measures upon the world populace. I'm glad I still have the option to not connect a tv to the internet.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

That's okay, Google owns YouTube. What are you, a socialist?

Yes.

Nationalize Youtube. I'm not even joking.

 

[ForTheHoard]

Accessing the YouTube desktop site from the Brave mobile app has always worked perfectly for me. I never get ads and it let's me listen while my screen is locked.

Sometimes auto-play breaks, but I can't remember the last time an ad slipped through.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

I just hope that YouTube Music will be unaffected by all of this, as it has been up to this point. Also I hope that Transvribe will continue to work so I can quickly get the important information from a video without watching that slop. At this point I barely even use YouTube proper, and when I do, I'm using it to find a clip from a show/movie or trying to find some info on something tech related.

As far as using it for entertainment purposes, YouTube has long gone down the shitter and there are better options available, both free and paid. Nosey and Tubi's on demand service are ad free if you're using uBlock Origin, with the latter functioning essentially as a free Netflix, and the former being great for if you just want background noise from old daytime TV like Maury and Springer. Last I checked, Prime Video was also still ad-free if you're using uBlock. The ultra cheap paid TV service Philo has a really good DVR that lets you keep stuff for a year and skip commercials. Additionally, it has a fair amount of stuff on demand that is supported by commercials but can be fast forwarded through if you use the Video Speed Controller browser extension with its speed set to 16X during those segments.

 

[AN/ALR56]

I would wait 10 minutes until some autist (affectionate) figures out how to get rid of them again.

People forget google can't handle even small projects anymore and keeps killing them because they either fired or retired all the engineers and programmers from the beginning that were actually talented and replaced them with retarded pajeets with no skills or trannies who can't work more than 4 hours a day without freaking out.

Pajeets from a bureaucratic mess can't win against collectivized autism.

 

[Dr. Matthew C. Harris]

No matter what happens I will continue to inform every potential microphone I come across that I hate advertisers and their sordid industry makes me horde money away from their inhuman claws.

When 3 letter agencies tell you it's bad for you, you'd better actually listen. Because the only time 3 letter agencies will take the moral high ground on anything is when it directly threatens national security.

Advertisements engage your brain on a more primal level than you'd think. "Emotional ads are more likely to be remembered." Of course, for they prey on your subconscious. Especially with how the internet is currently a Wild West in terms of pertinent legislation, I avoid those like a quite literal mind poison. Unethical ads for spending money you don't need, even gambling ads are everywhere - which is why the BMJ thread has a huge disclaimer at the top of the page to stop you from being influenced by his scummy sponsor, Stake.

 

[TiggerNits]

Still is as of 12:11 MST.

I will say this on the AD issue. The COMMERCIALS of yesteryear are fucking dead. I still remember a funny Aflack ad from 20 years ago when i was fucking 3. Why? It was actually a good commercial. I can't tell you a single thing about a Youtube ad, other than they all suck donkey dick. They have gotten fucking lazy and deserve death. They can't even be bothered to SELL me their own product.

So it's worse than that. I spent time writing ad copy after I took a job working with a media company 2 years ago and every time you make a good script, they reject it and demand you make it fit a template built solely on demographic data that's over 3 years old and heavily compromised by the area they chose to do the study.

Case in point, of you want to advertise to mother'sof children under 12 in an area with less than 150k people, they base it off of Atalanta suburbs, no matter where you are in the county. Single males with a bachelor's degree and no children and under 45? That data set comes out of Seattle.

When you try to tailor a message to a specific area, you'll have some idiot 2o something chick with a degree in advertising out of a diploma mill screech about how it won't work because the data on hand doesn't agree.

This just one of the many reasons why letting women in the workplace at a level higher than getting coffee has been a disaster for the Western economy. Women simply can't think outside of their own frame of reference and will try to get you fired for having ideas and experiences outside of their own.

 

[Something Awful]

I'm sorry to bring it to you, but you are utterly deluded if you believe they would have any technical problems actually shutting down every single adblocking method completely. They can do it at the push of the button. All this is is just testing the waters and softening the blow with a step-by-step approach.

Source: your ass? Google has been doing everything it can to destroy its usability to eke out a few more shekels of profit. If they easily could shut down all adblocking methods, they would do it.

 

[soulgains]

The faggots that thought this would work should kill themselves. The average nigger watching critikal or Hasan Piker doesn't even have an ad-blocker. They're targeting a minority that doesn't impact their bottom line. Fucking with your userbase like this never ends well.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

I said this before - we used to have these:

They did not, in fact, have a method to identify whether any given frame was a "commercial" or "content". That's the problem with a [theoretically perfect] stream injection. There will be nothing to identify it apart from an interpretation of the actual content being delivered. When commercial skip VCRs worked - if they did at all, they were far from perfect - they relied on the fade-to-black between the show and commercials to identify them, or other signal differences between typical broadcast shows and commercials, which were not 100% consistent across all circumstances. They didn't have technology back then that we don't have now. I've never been hit with ad injections so far, I don't know if anyone has documented their behavior yet - but if it's implemented in a perfectly seamless manner, there's going to be more at play than simple scene detection. Modern 'tubers have sudden scene switches and volume changes and jump cuts out the wazoo all the time. You're going to need A-B testing to compare the differences in content in multiple copies of the video, or a neural net that can reliably-enough identify ad injections into normal content. But, there may be more to it than that. There may be other signals that can be detected, in order to audit views or clicks or whatever - something like the info button that sometimes pops up in the right-top of videos, that youtubers can use to link references or whatever.

nobody said it would, nerd. the retards responding in this thread saying they're unaffected on [X] browser with [X] addon figured they'd vomit out a quick post before reading the first two sentences of the OP.

browsers aren't affected (yet) - it's apps on smart tv's.

Apparently niggernerds still need to be reminded, looking at the last ten pages.

 

[Da Grim Reaper]

The ads I get aren't that fun, interesting, or related to anything I want to buy. I'm getting the most batshit insane scams with AI generated voices from famous people like Elon Musk, for example. The domains look like something that would give my computer AIDS. Think of something like "elonmuskcryptogiveaway.fun" or "georgefloydfurryroleplay.site". YouTube is accepting anything these days and it's disheartening because they no longer care about children or old people being scammed.
Fortunately, the "Picture-in-Picture" glitch still works, it makes YouTube think I'm still watching ads. I'm not watching ads, and I'm not using adblock either, so they can't do anything about it.

 

[Null]

This isn't feature worthy.

I disagree

 

[New & Improved Username]

I was hoping Smart Tube would defeat them. If not, I'll open on Brave and cast to tv if that still works.

 

[Day of the Cope]

The streisand effect goes strong with adblocker war nowadays. Maybe it's part of what has youtube doubling and tripling down so aggressively.

There's also a better term for this: The Cobra Effect.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

This isn't feature worthy.

okay this is funny josh

 

[Dr. Matthew C. Harris]

I'm sorry to bring it to you, but you are utterly deluded if you believe they would have any technical problems actually shutting down every single adblocking method completely. They can do it at the push of the button. All this is is just testing the waters and softening the blow with a step-by-step approach.

Adblocker use is even backed by the feds. Google just takes money from anyone and everyone like a washed up whore, so they allow the sleaziest Chinese-Indian-Russian data harvesting and scam ads on their platform, no questions asked. It'll be a cold day in hell when TPTB allow them to keep doing that without any sort of check on their power. If it does happen in your country then despair because your politicians have sold you out completely, and it's a free for all for your scalp between Western billionaires and Eastern govts.

 

[Burd Turglar]

@TooManyKittens your post was too long to quote but on top of all your grievances about reputable tech sites and what not, you forgot one of the worst...fucking recipes. Without an ad blocker 90% of recipe sites are almost unusable because of all the built in shit video ads and banners.

This doesn't have anything to do with advertising but also fuck the 9 pages of why you like making mediocre potato salad, nobody cares about your fucking family and how much they like mustard or what the fuck ever.

 

[Day of the Cope]

The ads I get aren't that fun, interesting, or related to anything I want to buy. I'm getting the most batshit insane scams with AI generated voices from famous people like Elon Musk, for example. The domains look like something that would give my computer AIDS. Think of something like "elonmuskcryptogiveaway.fun" or "georgefloydfurryroleplay.site". YouTube is accepting anything these days and it's disheartening because they no longer care about children or old people being scammed.
Fortunately, the "Picture-in-Picture" glitch still works, it makes YouTube think I'm still watching ads. I'm not watching ads, and I'm not using adblock either, so they can't do anything about it.

Youtube literally does not seem to care about bots spamming links to CSAM laden Discord servers. The fuck do they care about granny losing her pension to crypto instead of losing it to scratch tickets and one-armed bandits.

 

[Devious Dave]

This isn't feature worthy.

You just made the biggest mistake of your kiwifarms career kid .....