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YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers(9to5google.com)

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redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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Blocking adblockers apparently doesn’t work well enough so google resorts to various forms of gaslighting (delayed video playback, api randomly returning wrong video, and now skipping video straight to the end).

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Howdy@lemmy.zip
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Had the random API one the other day. Was nuts. Also the 5 second delay for Firefox too when it was a thing.

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geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de
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I get that 5sec delay for the official YouTube app weirdly enough

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Owljfien@lemm.ee
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I thought I was going insane with the wrong video thing. I have premium but also an ad blocker because the entire internet is a cancerous cesspit without one, so I wonder if I get hit with anti ad blocking measures or I was just tripping?

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Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.works
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Use Youtube frontends. Here is Privacy Guides’ page about Youtube frontends. All of Youtube’s BS will disappear.

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fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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I think “all of youtubes bs will disappear” is a stretch. I don’t know the whole state of play but I know invidious has had some instability lately.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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It’s not mentioned there because it doesn’t meet the OSI definition, but Grayjay is a source-available Android app that pulls videos from various services (e.g. Nabula, Odysee, PeerTube, etc). I’m hopeful it’ll become properly open source at some point.

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AstronautOlympian@lemdro.id
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Oh no!

uBlock Origin updates

Anyway…

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KneeTitts@lemmy.world
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More and more Im trusting the fact that ublock origin will correct these issues in short order. Youtube must really hate those guys…

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BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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Youtube must really hate those guys…

Makes you wonder how long it will take, before Raymond Hill plummets to his death from a basement window.

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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More anticipating him getting sued out of existence Media Matters style, by vexatious filing in the Fifth Circuit.

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aceshigh@lemmy.world
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They have been really good at it over the last few months.

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Why9@lemmy.world
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While the developer doesn’t accept donations, they do encourage donating to the people maintaining the block lists. I’ve contributed in the past and would happily keep doing so.

It would be a shame if the devs maintaining the block lists stop doing what they’re doing because it’s not sustainable enough for them.

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0x0@programming.dev
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Firefox with uBO, haven’t seen an add or ran into any issues in ages, both windows and linux.

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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Shhhhhhhh…don’t let the mainstream know…once EVERYBODY is doing it, they’ll fix it.

Wait. This is Lemmy. Pretty sure there’s like 8 people here…

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thimantha@lemmy.world
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Exactly 8 upvotes to your comment… Let’s leave it that way.

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Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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He’s at 39 now… Which of you hasn’t voted with your 5th account yet??

Edit: oh nm it was me. There was only a 12.5% chance it would be me but lady luck didn’t smile on me.

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DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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And Arch, BTW.

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lost_faith@lemmy.ca
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Sometimes I need to refresh the page for the video to play but otherwise no issues, ff+ubo ftw

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Ænima@lemm.ee
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Exactly, this! uBlock Origins will block upwards of thousands of ads/trackers/whatever from YouTube. After it hits about 50k+, it’ll start to act strangely. At that point I just refresh the video and it all goes away. I think this happens when YouTube changes something cached in the browser, which was originally not blocked by uBO, even when uBO might have been updated to block the new stuff. I have uBO on auto-update for this reason. Whenever I notice shit not working, F5 FTW!

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Frellwit@lemmy.world
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Sounds like a bug in the filters used by Adblock and Adblock Plus. Afaik uBO or Adguard aren’t affected.

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viking@infosec.pub
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Can confirm, no issues with uBO and Smart Tube Next on my TV.

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