The worst-case endgame is, you can send the videos, but they’ll never reach my eyeballs. Send those frames to /dev/null and store the video stream where I can watch it as often as I like.
I’ve heard others say that many people are uninstalling ad blockers.
I guess its just how you interpret the data
I’d disable mine on YouTube for the sake of ripping all the videos I want overnight, then consuming them at my leisure later on.
Basically what I’m doing already, just with an extra step.
What’s often left out is people are uninstalling terrible ad blockers and installing better ones. The terrible ones allow certain ads (from advertisers who pay to get through) or even inject their own ads.
Some disinformative articles are trying to use that to claim that because people are uninstalling [insert bad scammy adblocker name] that people are uninstalling adblockers altogether.
Laughs in revanced
Stopped working for me for some reason. Had to switch to Firefox mobile site
Remove it and use the patch manager to reinstall, make sure to use the recommended APK. It just requires manually updating sometimes, basically.
Tried that already, nothing worked. I even tried manually updating the patch manager, it still wont load the homepage. I’ve been using Firefox with ublock n it’s clunkier than revanced but I get all the benefits I actually care abt like the pop up video n adfree.
It’s an assymetric cat-and-mouse game.
YouTube does it for revenue and has to spend money to enhance their anti-adblock system, while there is an army of volunteers online who will gladly defeat these enhancements for free with an impact on a massive scale.
I’m thankful for the volunteers but goodwill is not gonna last forever. Especially easy to burnout on goodwill when casual users goes apeshit on devs whenever things don’t work. The system is stacked against volunteers.
