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

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If Google kills YouTube adblocking what will you do?

  • I'll stop watching YouTube entirely

    Votes: 873 62.0%
  • I'll start watching the ads again

    Votes: 50 3.5%
  • I'll watch the ads but use YouTube less frequently

    Votes: 364 25.8%
  • I'll pay for YouTube premium like a faggot

    Votes: 122 8.7%

  • Total voters
    1,409
If I recall, some workaround got posted that involved Tampermonkey or some bullshit, but I'm too lazy to mess with that so I just did the next best thing
It was as simple as downloading the Tampermonkey add-on and the script, really no biggie. Doesn't matter really as a couple of days later uBlock on its own did suffice again IIRC. Still a huge "What the fuck?" moment when that three strikes window first appeared on YT, i remember that.
 
Nice strawman. Us actually intelligent people do still look into broken equipment and diagnose it to save money first. Most of the time its a cheap fix you can do yourself

I am sorry that your time is worth so little, that you’d rather spend hours trying to fix a broken ten year old fridge, rather than go out and spend a few hundred dollars on a new one.

May I recommend college/university? That’s an easy pathway onto careers where you can make significantly above minimum wage.
 
Wait, people are here actually arguing against a right to repair (or do whatever the hell you want with) your own hardware? I thought that was just a shill and libertardian position. (shill who does it for free) Next their going to be arguing that legal, criminal even, protections for DRM on your media and hardware are a good thing.
 
A while back I got introduced to ReVanced. It worked great. I could finally turn my screen off and listen to YouTube while doing stuff with it in my pocket. Then it stopped working and I confirmed this with a couple friends. Had to update. This happens a few more times. Get a new phone more recently, decide to try Newpipe and already have Brave for ad free browsing. Newpipe stops working. Start using Brave, it still works. Now I know why Newpipe stopped working.
Revanced had some issues when YouTube first tried blocking adblockers, but it's been working without problem since then, if you want to get back to it.
 
That's what i meant by "starting to work out". Some brands already do things like boot loop after a certain amount of time unconnected and there are patents out now for pushing ads through paused 3rd party content, like games and movies etc.

People won't take notice or care until it's too late once again... as evident by the reaction to my OP here and the thread in general. sigh
Great, another thing to look out for...
Well, in case of the worst outcome where all of them become this pozloaded (and no non-pozloaded alternatives are available at all), there is still the final option - a PC monitor and a TV tuner.
 
I am sorry that your time is worth so little, that you’d rather spend hours trying to fix a broken ten year old fridge, rather than go out and spend a few hundred dollars on a new one
It only take’s several hours if you’re retarded or have zero experience with electronics. If shit’s so fucked that it’s basically totaled then you’ll be able to tell very quickly.
 
Great, another thing to look out for...
Well, in case of the worst outcome where all of them become this pozloaded (and no non-pozloaded alternatives are available at all), there is still the final option - a PC monitor and a TV tuner.

Yeah. Always read up and reviews!

True. Tuners in the TV really aren't necessary in an age where cable companies require boxes and most other media sources have their own options and UIs.

Good help us if and when the computer hardware companies (analysts and investors.. ghouls) realize all the money being "left on the table" too. ugh -_-'
 
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YOU WILL REDEEM THE YOUTUBE PREMIUM SAAR
WE WILL INCREASE THE SUBSCRIPTION FEE BY 800% AND MAKE ALL REGIONAL PRICED COUNTRIES PAY IN DIAMONDS ONCE YOU HAVE NO ADBLOCK
 
Wait, people are here actually arguing against a right to repair (or do whatever the hell you want with) your own hardware? I thought that was just a shill and libertardian position. (shill who does it for free) Next their going to be arguing that legal, criminal even, protections for DRM on your media and hardware are a good thing.
Well you have people defending totally banning DRAWN cunny porn off the internet and it's pretty much a successful manufactured consent by this point. This is meanwhile when Epstein-like elites are everywhere and are likely pushing these laws so power-hungry censors can set invisible lines in any way they want.

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Also dunno why but I haven't noticed anything abnormal when I am using Ublock. But anyways if they ever get to that as well (they could had been manipulated legislators to make ad-blocking apps equal to piracy if their Indian tech-priests cannot suffice and by that point people should be moving to Steemit or Bitchute or make their own altertube if they still can.
 
I'm just gonna do what I always do for as long as I can: use whatever means I have to active listen to or watch content I like without ads while downloading said content I like for my offline data hoarding hobby and shelve it into one of my media drives. And in the case of YouTube stuff, gradually reupload it to an archival site just to be sure.
 
I’m just against some bullshit communist laws that dictate how corporations can make their phones.

Some of you weirdos act like there isn’t a free market
It's incredible how retarded libertarians and their type are. When corporations get power superior to the government and decide to just implement bullshit that is worse for you they become the communists. Just because it's not literally named government doesn't mean it can't have the same effects, or even fucking worse.

Isn't half or more of the US retarded or prone to lots of shitty diseases because of asbestos and a lot of other shit the government had to wrestle corporations out of using? Corporations shouldn't have free reign the same way the government shouldn't have free reign, because it's not about the form of organization, it's the power it has.

Do you forget what the farms had to deal with because one tranny retard sad about his tiny dick started a spergfest and managed to convince the CEO of Cloudflare to cut us off? How the fuck is it acceptable to you to have more power than the government while still saying it's "better than being communist"?

That's not to say that the government should be all powerful, the point is specifically since the government should not have too much power over you, then if another entity has even more power then isn't that entity even more dangerous than the fucking government?

"No, because it has a different name. You can tell I am smart because I am on the side of the corporations"
 
You using a Star Wars meme is appropriate here, because it's easier for us to understand why this simple thing goes over your head. Reverse-engineering something like uBlock Origin is trivial for a single experienced web developer even when he has no access to the server side of things. Google, obviously, controls the servers, and with data they have from that even a retard like you would be able to correctly determine the algorithm the extension uses to circumvent ads.
1) The core point is the question if open source is a disadvantage in this fight, which I believe is a valid one, because while closed source may take time to reverse engineer which may or may not be trivial depending on the implementation, it certainly is some non-zero, possibly irrelevant amount harder, which is a point worth at least considered, instead of rolling over and giving up
2) He's the one who said 100 engineers, not me
3) "reverse engineering something like uBlock origin" well buddy it's open source right now you don't even have to do that
4) It's a bit cucked to instantly claim that there's no POSSIBLE solution that would at the very least waste some of their resources trying to work around it every update, so nobody should even try

Some effort to overcome it is greater than zero effort. The "good point" was an invitation to consider if open source is a downside, or if some closed source solution would be enough to justify no longer being open source. You could have just said "I don't believe it is, I think the advantages would be negligible", but instead you decided to throw a tantrum, because you are an illiterate nigger
 
First one was a no-name chinaware one that simply did not work. I have tried it on two Android phones without headphone jacks. The Samsung one popped up with a message that it wasn't compatible, and the Google one just didn't acknowledge it.
ignorance issue. there are two types of adapters. some phones had 3.5mm passthrough over usb-c and didn't (for retarded reasons) support usb dacs. and if you use a 3.5mm passthrough cable on a newer phone without an internal dac at all obviously it won't work. there have always been options for every phone without a 'jack to get 'jacked up in either case.
feel free to buy a higher quality cable. I use a very nice KZ braided doohickey I got from aliexpress for my regular listening, and the cheapest splitter cable I could get on amazon for my car. Because it's a car. who cares about audio quality in a car?
But that's the thing. The same connector that's handling, what, 25A of power is also handling the easily interfered with audio cable, that expects 0.25A... oh sure that can't possibly go wrong. You either have to sacrifice charging speed to have decent audio or have a lot of that power leak out as line noise to the headphones.
that's really not how line interference works. nor is it how the usb-c power delivery spec works (you can't shove 25 amps through wires this thin...) in any case I did a-b testing because I previously used an LG v20, and I loved it, and I, like you people, was ignorant to how little it actually matters. and I found that the noise floor is higher on the external usb dacs compared to my previous phone... but only on my most sensitive earbuds (kz zs10 pro). I'd rate the usb dac noise as identical to line noise when I plug them into my laptop. Or my steam deck. and it's worst of all when I use my desktop. the lg v20 has the best dac that I own, it seems. but, on my regular listening earbuds with higher impedance (beyerdynamic sovl byrd) there is no line noise audible under any circumstances with any of these devices, and I had no idea it existed until I got them (which is after getting a pixel 7a). Would I take a modern, upgraded version of the lg v20 with 5g and oled etc...? yes, of course. but a little line noise that isn't even audible on the earbuds that I normally use isn't worth sacrificing the speed of everything else I do on my phone...

but this really all distracts from the original lie that you need to buy bluetooth earbuds. you simply do not. there is no perceptible difference in audio quality with average phone dacs and average earbuds compared to usb dacs.
 
ignorance issue. there are two types of adapters. some phones had 3.5mm passthrough over usb-c and didn't (for retarded reasons) support usb dacs. and if you use a 3.5mm passthrough cable on a newer phone without an internal dac at all obviously it won't work. there have always been options for every phone without a 'jack to get 'jacked up in either case.
None of that is apparent on any packaging or online store description. I am no longer 15 with all the time in the world to read up on the ins and outs of specific hardware bullshit that will become obsolete knowledge in a few years, like having to learn about master/slave jumpers on IDE hard drives. That also doesn't address how my second adapter launched Google Assistant every time it was plugged in, on both phones, for whatever reason. Also doesn't address how they're thin gauge pieces of shit that are required no matter what headphones you buy.

It is a headphone adapter that I ran on two flagship phones. I wouldn't expect both of them to fail on a dodgy $4 adapter and have it be the phone's fault.

feel free to buy a higher quality cable.
You said they are two dollars. They are not. Then you went on to say that, lol.

The only one that worked well was the $10 Apple one, and Apple's should be higher quality, but it's not. I am not going to spend real money on a headphone adapter. I would rather keep an MP3 player that uses disposable batteries in my car.

I use a very nice KZ braided doohickey I got from aliexpress for my regular listening, and the cheapest splitter cable I could get on amazon for my car.
Ordering dodgy shit like that is exactly how I wound up with the first adapter that didn't work at all.

Because it's a car. who cares about audio quality in a car?
It's digital audio. Improving your audio quality would involve replacing your car's speakers and audio hardware, not your connection.

Also, start your sentences with capital letters. You type like a tranny.
 
disposable batteries
this is the same mentality that fuels buying multiple $2 adapters that break instead of one $10 adapter w/ five minutes of research into the brand that lasts a lifetime :tomgirl:

it provides less noise to those sensitive little buds than any other device-integrated dac i have on hand (sans lg v20) btw
 
Adblockers are still working on my end, both in Brave and Ublock origin on Firefox. However, if they finally kill adblocking for YouTube, that will be my final straw. I already use the site way less than I used to, I can live without it.
 
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this is the same mentality that fuels buying multiple $2 adapters that break instead of one $10 adapter w/ five minutes of research into the brand that lasts a lifetime :tomgirl:
I want one with disposable batteries because lithium ions don't do too well in a hot car, and I'm not gonna cart an MP3 player in and out of my home.

(sans lg v20)
Congrats on your Undertale phone.
 
I am sorry that your time is worth so little, that you’d rather spend hours trying to fix a broken ten year old fridge, rather than go out and spend a few hundred dollars on a new one.
Unless six is part of "a few", than no.
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May I recommend college/university? That’s an easy pathway onto careers where you can make significantly above minimum wage.
Bro doesn't even know trades exist.
 
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