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

[Squishie PP]

The most likely outcome might be Google forcing users to sign in before being able to view any videos...which might slowly open the way for competing platforms. I am not optimistic about a viable alternative to YouTube rising anytime soon in terms of its userbase, but YouTube has been rubbing a lot of people the wrong way for years in terms of how it treats both its users and creators.

As an aside, you would never know that the US has anything like antitrust laws on the books anymore with how selectively they are enforced as all of these tech companies have erected such huge barriers to entry for competing services.

All of the US politicians (and I suspect many other around the world) have absolutely horrible security practices, so using backdoors in the OS on their devices to collect kompromat on them would be trivial. The justice system itself is completely compromised, and has been for a long time.

 

[Bindo]

Youtube appears to have kicked things up a notch today, starting ~4pm, EDT. My Firefox/uBlock Origin combo had been working flawlessly since the push in July, now I'm getting an ad that attempts to pre-roll, but is stopped from playing by uBlock. Refreshing the page just loads another stopped ad, hitting the "next" button and then the back button to return to the video that I want to watch gets rid of the ad.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Youtube appears to have kicked things up a notch today, starting ~4pm, EDT.

election soon

 

[whatever I feel like]

Youtube appears to have kicked things up a notch today, starting ~4pm, EDT. My Firefox/uBlock Origin combo had been working flawlessly since the push in July, now I'm getting an ad that attempts to pre-roll, but is stopped from playing by uBlock. Refreshing the page just loads another stopped ad, hitting the "next" button and then the back button to return to the video that I want to watch gets rid of the ad.

Next and then back works even with no adblocker. I do it at work.

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

Anyone here use stacher or anything else to download videos to mp3 and have a thumbnail, just spent the whole day updating my playlist