General > General Technical Chat
YouTube runs experiment addressing users with ad blocker
Ian.M:
uBlock sold out back in 2019:
--- Code: ---https://web.archive.org/web/20191130155329/https://ublock.org/blog/ublock-incorporates-acceptable-ads/
--- End code ---
(this forum breaks Wayback Machine links).
Many users dropped it right then.
uBlock Origin is a fork, pre-sellout, maintained by a small team led by the original developer, who punch far above their weight in the continuous war against adblocker detection and contravention scripts.
peter-h:
It was uBlock Origin which I have.
wilfred:
--- Quote from: peter-h on November 06, 2023, 10:34:31 pm ---It was uBlock Origin which I have.
--- End quote ---
I have Ublock Origin and it is working for me. I'm new to it and I posted a link a few days ago to a website that displays a test to validate it. Just click that link and it will tell you right away if you're current.
I had to do a few other things in Edge/Win10 to get it to work but really easy never-the-less.
Basically disable tracking prevention (in Edge) for Youtube.com by right clicking the lock next to the URL, Disabling other adblockers I had before and purging the filters in UBO and refreshing them. The latter may be needed from time-to-time but I've only ben using UBO less than a week.
thm_w:
I doubt anyone here is actually using ublock, we are using ublock origin and just call it "ublock". I guess that does cause confusion.
Anyway, please read Karels link above before commenting on why something will or won't work...
peter-h:
Yes; cleared cache etc, updated it, and it is running again.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version