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submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

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[-] Quik@infosec.pub 127 points 8 months ago

Or you update your uBlock Origin blocklists and declare YouTube the war.

[-] Jessvj93@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago
[-] AeroLemming@lemm.ee 26 points 8 months ago

That doesn't work AFAIK. It only works when the ads are served by a 3rd party.

[-] billbasher@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Yep. I tried doing this with Hulu’s self-serving ads and I blocked enough domains that it just quit working

[-] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 14 points 8 months ago

Doesn't work. I have network wide DNS filtering, but that alone doesn't stop YT ads.

If you have a link to a GitHub host file for that, I'd definitely take a peak.

Otherwise, uBlock and *Pipe apps.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago

Try blocking the ads.
You will block the video serving domains as well :)

YT/Google aint that stupid and knows how to bundle both for your convenience.

[-] zerofk@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I never see Vivaldi mentioned in these. Yes, it’s chromium based, but I have not seen a single YouTube ad since they implemented built-in ad block many years ago. Without the need for extensions, plug-ins, or user managed block lists.

[-] jack@monero.town 1 points 8 months ago

Vivaldi is proprietary garbage

[-] _Craton_@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

yeah, ive been using vivaldi and only very recently did i see my player diabled with ubo off but if i disable ubo and put vivaldi's blocking option to just block trackers, that does the trick tho the ad starts with a black screen but the skip button instantly appears under .5 seconds or the video starts

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