YouTube's War on Ad Blockers

at what point do these ads become so annoying and obtrusive that you end up hating the sponsors and it defeats the purpose of injecting these ads in the first place? i cant stop that first ad(s) on firefox. i tried all the advice here and elsewhere. purged my cache, got all the no scrpts, tampermonkies and privacy thingies. nothing works. Ublock is really the only thing that does work, but as i said it cant stop that first ad or two. i guess i have to live with it.

Lanx said:

your extenstions are auto update?

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yes, they auto update. i still havent gotten the Ublock update yet, my version is still from September.

Firefox updated the other day and today i havent seen any ads. i dunno. something happened.

Chukzombi said:

Firefox updated the other day and today i havent seen any ads. i dunno. something happened.

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Firefox is trash and its memory management is so poor on tabs to the degree it mimics a memory leak, but it's still the only reliable go to. Brave didn't last.

sleevedraw said:

All you need is UBO. The more browser extensions you install, the easier it is to fingerprint you, as well. If you want a second level of ad protection beyond UBO, do it at the DNS level with Pihole, Adguard, etc.

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Hopefully the war doesn't escalate to where Pihole is necessary. Several of my friends have already set up Pihole anyway in anticipation.

jayrebb said:

Hopefully the war doesn't escalate to where Pihole is necessary. Several of my friends have already set up Pihole anyway in anticipation.

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Think I'm just going to go this route. Anyone have info on buying/configuring?

Unless something changed Pihole used to be at least partial coverage even if not fully setup. I guess it's true it's not a one-stop shop like UBO is and that disclaimer should be noted.

I don't know what "a long time" is, but this github was still being updated somewhat recently in 2022 and 2023.


I'm still hearing full blockage given proper setup.

jayrebb said:

Unless something changed Pihole used to be at least partial coverage even if not fully setup. I guess it's true it's not a one-stop shop like UBO is and that disclaimer should be noted.

I don't know what "a long time" is, but this github was still being updated somewhat recently in 2022 and 2023.

GitHub - kboghdady/youTube_ads_4_pi-hole: YouTube script to add the new Ads list for Pi-hole

YouTube script to add the new Ads list for Pi-hole - kboghdady/youTube_ads_4_pi-hole

github.com

I'm still hearing full blockage given proper setup.

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Yea, I used to have PiHole running years ago and it was a bit spotty. At that time it did not do anything for things like the Youtube app on the Firestick, Roku, or Shield. Since I was using one of the "high" security lists, I also had to manually whitelist sites that various people in the house wanted to go to (Instagram, various Facebook domains, Pinterest, Etsy, etc.).

Burns said:

Yea, I used to have PiHole running years ago and it was a bit spotty. At that time it did not do anything for things like the Youtube app on the Firestick, Roku, or Shield. Since I was using one of the "high" security lists, I also had to manually whitelist sites that various people in the house wanted to go to (Instagram, various Facebook domains, Pinterest, Etsy, etc.).

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Certainly for now it's best to just bite the bullet with Firefox if you are using YouTube heavily.

jayrebb said:

Certainly for now it's best to just bite the bullet with Firefox if you are using YouTube heavily.

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I forgot what the whole hubub was about, but I switched from Firefox years ago because they did something or other. I think they sold it off to a big corporate interest, maybe. I got Youtube working well enough for me on Vivaldi, plus I like Vivaldi's tools/layout (like the crop and screenshot all in one button tool).

Burns said:

I forgot what the whole hubub was about, but I switched from Firefox years ago because they did something or other. I think they sold it off to a big corporate interest, maybe. I got Youtube working well enough for me on Vivaldi, plus I like Vivaldi's tools/layout (like the crop and screenshot all in one button tool).

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Add Vivaldi to the list of alternatives. A lot have came and went the past few weeks.

Firefox is OK for multi-tabbing but 32 gigs of RAM will hit some problems if you are operating long hours. I've had less issues with 64 gigs whereas before I'd need to restart and reset the browser with CTRL ALT DEL but far fewer incidences lately. Depends on the websites and what you are tabbing.

A 16 gig multi-tabber is going to want to seek other options besides Firefox. Even normal browsing and just several tabs will chew through 50% of that memory when the "leak" hits. The memory management is so poor in Firefox that it mimics an actual memory leak.

Also I did RMA a 5950x that I attribute to Firefox burning through it over a year and a half via it's multi-tabbing problems. CPU useage and temp fluxes all over the place with Firefox.