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Ad blocker uninstall rises due to YouTube ban(samrome58.substack.com)

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FaceDeer@kbin.social
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Misleading. Ad blocker installations also rose. This isn’t people leaving adblocking, this is people changing to better ones.

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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Yeah, probably lots of people uninstalling ghostery and adguard so they can install ublock origin.

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NightOwl@lemmy.one
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I uninstalled chrome. Stopped logging into YouTube. And moved to freetube on desktop. Newpipe on Android.

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DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org
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It will be another dark day on the internet if Youtube finally blocks out the last adblockers.

As a small channel owner, there’s no other viable place to share my hobby content. Up until six months ago, I could count on Reddit for 150-200 views, now it is 15-20. If Youtube finally goes full enshitted, there go the rest of my viewers and I may as well just give up making stuff.

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Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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The ad blockers in question were AdGuard and Ghostery, acc. to the article.
uBlock Origin is still working fine for me. And NewPipe in the cell phone.

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EmperorMudBug@lemm.ee
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Where do you get NewPipe and is it good

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Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip
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It’s on F-Droid. I personally haven’t used it in a long time because you couldn’t sign in to your account. Not sure if that’s changed. I’m currently using revanced which is great.

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Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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As the other poster said, it’s on F-Droid. It’s mostly a Youtube frontend, although it accesses SoundCloud and PeerTube too. And more importantly, it doesn’t download advertisements from YT, so you don’t even need an ad blocker when using it.

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tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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Ghostery isn’t even an ad blocker, it’s just to prevent tracking.

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Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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Ghostery does work as an ad blocker too, and advertises (eh) itself as such.

Plus, for corporate nowadays, tracking and advertisement are two steps of the same process.

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tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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Oh OK my bad, that was news to me. I stopped using it a couple of years ago when Firefox got the functionality built in, and it wasn’t advertised as an ad blocker back then.

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