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Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon (www.neowin.net)
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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Youtube is telling me daily that they'll soon disable my youtube because I have an ad blocker. Still waiting for it to actually happen.

[–] sykaster@feddit.nl 36 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I've been using Ublock origin for years and I've never seen a message like that

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

I don't even login so I don't know what they are going to disable.

[–] nichtsowichtig@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

correct me if I'm wrong, but I think ublock origin updates quickly enough to remove these notifications before most users see them

[–] AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It often does, yeah. Not always though. I got one of the adblock warnings last night, and it refused to play the video. I fixed it by heading into ublock settings and manually updating. It always makes me laugh how rapidly the ad-blocker arms war progresses

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’ve been using Ublock origin for years

Same here. I started seeing them this week.

[–] cotlovan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Same. The last time I saw an YouTube ad was around 2015.

[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For your web browser, don’t use Chrome. Use Firefox with uBlock, NoScript, Sponsorblock, and a VPN like Mullvad.

For Smart TV usage, block your TV’s built in “smart functionality” and its access to the internet via MAC address blacklist on your router. Also use SmartTubeNext on a Shield Pro with FLauncher instead of Google’s.

For mobile, use 3rd party YouTube clients on your device like Vanced on Android, and Unwatched on iOS.