submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
 

Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16 and also mutes the ad. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

While some paid ad blockers seem to work, the vast majority of tools don’t seem to do the trick.

What a bunch of FUD. Firefox and uBlock Origin still work on Youtube just fine.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Part of the reason I am not advocating for or against the extension or the source. People can judge for themselves. I thought it was funny (not a great idea but definitely an interesting implementation). For the record I use both ublock origin and Firefox, and I also run a pihole at home. I'm just putting out there that it exists.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    I moved back to Firefox like 5 years ago. But saying the vast majority of tools don't seem to do the trick is a pretty true statement, since that's one browser with one app, and the browser only has a sub 10% market share.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    uBlock Origin is still working just fine for me.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Everyone's hating on this approach but I think it's nice that we have other options. I'm sure Ublock is going to come out on top of this cat and mouse game YouTube is playing with them, but if YouTube manages to temporarily disable Ublock I'll look into this solution. Thanks!

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Google will give up eventually. They're definitely burning more money than they would gain from winning the battle

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I do not believe that is the case. Youtube ads are an insanely profitable business. I suspect throwing a couple dozen of FTEs on blocking ad blockers would be <1% of current revenue.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I don't doubt they make tonnes of revenue from ads however you have to remember how small the share of adblocker users are. So the extra money from fighting the adblock user base is a clear gamble. Especially as those types of users are the ones who are more likely to avoid YouTube completely if they can't bypass ads.

    Someone in Google would have done the research because it's not a simple case of war profit = adblockusers * ad revenue per user

    I strongly believe they'll stop once they hit a certain threshold/target of "reduction of adblock users". They won't go on like this forever.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    They're definitely burning more money than they would gain from winning the battle

    Maybe at the moment, but I suspect part of the motivation for this is that they are trying to prevent another "adpocalypse" type boycott from their advertisers.

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