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

[Evil Peter Griffin]

This isn't feature worthy.

Did you change your mind?

 

[Koomala Sharrtis]

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.

The source is that there is no technical difficulty to overcome adblocking methods for them. You don't have to be that autistic to understand this. They could basically incorporate the ads as if they were a part of the video, and you'd need very energy demanding methods to overcome that.

They can't do it easily for many reasons, but not technical ones.

 

[Escalating Violence]

This isn't feature worthy.

No u.

 

[Two Dollars]

If all adblockers fail you could always just VPN to Russia. They won't advertise there as long as Putler is President, and if they block all YouTube access in Russia then Russian libs could argue they are helping the invasion by preventing people from accessing the truth about Ukraine.

It's either don't serve the ads or the Kremlin, Google.

I recently found out there are a few countries that don’t have YouTube ads. I set my VPN to Albania and haven’t gotten an ad since.

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

This isn't feature worthy.

arguably one of the more important features in recent memory. you are gay.

 

[Geraldine]

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

Exactly. It's an arms race -- YouTube versus their entire user base.
YouTube will not exactly lose, because the race never ends and they still manage to make money.
But they will never have what they want except briefly.

 

[Sprate Header]

This isn't feature worthy.

FUCK YOU BITCH FUCK YOU BITCH

 

[TheArtilleryman]

I may be a minority on this but sometimes I like to disable ad block and set my VPN to some more obscure country and see what shit they're being shoveled.

Anyway I'm ditching jewtube too if ad block dies completely. It barely feels worth visiting nowadays even with adblock.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

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.

 

[Neil]

This isn't feature worthy.

YOU'RE not feature worthy!!! BITCH!!!

 

[Axiom.]

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.

 

[TheHarbinger]

So is yt-dl not even able to download 720p anymore? Because it's defaulting to 360p now?

 

[PetiteFeet]

@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.

Time to start our own recipe collection over in the poorfag thread.

 

[${Sandy}]

This isn't feature worthy.

Retard

 

[Jones McCann]

This isn't feature worthy.

I agree, just pay JewTube it's pittance or go to another platform and advocate for that. You're still giving them a lot by simply using their platform, even with an adblocker. They're using all your data to sell to marketers and government agencies, training machine learning to impersonate you and astroturf public platforms. They're building vast graphs and networks about every aspect of your life; family, friends, associates, phone calls, text messages, work history, medical history, purchases, genealogy, sexual habits, gps location, facial/fingerprint/voice biometrics, gas mileage, penis size. I couldn't give less of a fuck about $15 month compared to all that.

 

[Dan of Steel]

I have no opinion on this, just coming in to press D to dab on @Sam Losco's Wife 's grave.

 

[Blacked2AutisticBoogaloo]

This isn't feature worthy.

SAM LOSCO’S WIFE. SAM LOSCO’S WAIIIIIIFE! SAM LOSCO’S DICKSUCKER IS MORE LIKE IT.

 

[Spergichu]

If you're using any sort of Smart TV function instead of just running an HDMI cable from your computer, it's time to stop.

>he doesn't use a raspberry as a smart tv box and media server in the year of our lord 2024
ngmi

 

[Bioniclelover]

This isn't feature worthy.

Don't worry, I still love you (no homo)

 

[There She Glows]

"Sponsorblock" for firefox/chrome will work for the sponsor segments. There's a community very dedicated to maintaining the sponsor filtering (not going to work for a phone or other devices unfortunately) Its one of the honored few to get a donation from me because it is just that good to never hear about another VPN or mobile bitcoin mining game again.

Sponsorblock works just fine on my phone using the android Firefox browser.