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YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Mashable reports that users ran into a black screen on YouTube, and that it stayed for about 6 seconds before the video began playing. The reports indicate it affected several browsers including Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi.

Some users joked that they would rather see a black screen than an ad. While that's certainly a better experience, it does waste precious seconds of our time. A simple workaround for the black screen on YouTube is to just refresh the page, hit F5 as soon as the page starts loading. uBlock Origin's filters were updated with a patch to resolve the problem, the add-on updates its filters automatically. If you are still experiencing the black screen issue, just open the extension's dashboard and manually update the filters. This tug-of-war is getting annoying, but it appears to me that Google's efforts are actively promoting the use of ad blockers, instead of attracting new subscribers.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My mom (mid 70s) says "Oh I don't mind the commercials. It gives me a break to go pee."

And when I say "or you could just get a dvr, and pause for as long as you want, any time you want."

Her response was "Yeah....but who wants to do all that???"

Um......boomers are weird.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy users typically vastly overestimate the amount of hassle people are willing to put up with to deal with technology.

It's why we have so many Linux evangelicals.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Granted I agree with the overall spirit of your reply, I don't agree with it in terms of hitting the pause button on a remote. She's had VCRs before. And DVD players. She knows how this works. Hitting the pause button and hitting the play button has to be THE easiest form of technology I can think of.

But for Linux? Yeah. The platform has been around something like 30 years, and STILL only has 4% of the overall userbase, despite the fact that only the rich can afford a Mac, and Windows is so trouble ridden these days, that it's actively like living in the book 1984. Yet, nobody is switching to Linux, because it's Linux.

But if you try to point out the problems that average people have with Linux, you get told "Then YOU create your own fork. It's open source!"

Like, c'mon. I don't even know how to USE Linux. You think I know how to program???

Because overall, I think Linux COULD BE superior to windows.....if it were easy to figure out what the hell I'm doing. I tried to unmute my speakers. On windows, down in the task bar is a speaker icon. Right click it and get some options, or double click it and get a slider bar.

Took me 3 days to figure out how to get audio. I should not need to go into terminal and mess around with 30 paragraphs of copy/paste/troubleshoot to figure out why my speakers aren't getting audio. This is just one example, but I'm sure SOMEONE is going to chime in, and tell me that I'm wrong, and that Linux is the best, and I'm an idiot.

Ok, I'm an idiot. Sure. Guess what. So are 80% of the userbase. Linux has 4% of the userbase. The reason it's so small is because Linux doesn't cater to the idiot. You got people a month ago before Biden dropped out of the race who were undecided voters. Its not like either of the choices are some unknown. I would venture to guess that 1 month ago trump and Biden were two of the most well known people on earth. Their policies and what they stand for are and were well documented. There were still undecided voters.

Those are the people Linux needs to cater to. The people who forget how to tie their shoes. The people who don't have a thought running through their heads, and then get distracted by a butterfly.

I've used an Android phone for 10+ years at this point. Android is written in Linux. Android doesn't have this problem. Any idiot can use Android. I would venture to say that 100% of Android users have no idea what Terminal is. If you asked them to use terminal, they'd say "Terminal? Are you dying?"

So, I see Linux as this potentially great thing.....that's utterly useless because it's developed by elitists who hold the mentality that if they had to suffer, so should all of you. Problem is, instead of advancing Linux, they're just holding it back from what should be a much bigger userbase. Just so they can say "Ha ha, I know how to use it. It's easy for me! Now YOU learn."

Not taking into account that people like me will still keep using a Windows 7 PC that's not been updated in about a decade. And I genuinely don't know if the firewall is even on. Or even how I'd access that.