Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?

    • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      FWIW, with Firefox on Linux with pihole on my network and ublock origin, some component (or the mix) of those things seems to have meant that so far I have yet to experience a single one of the things Google has been doing since the adblock wars began again. I just checked now to see if there was any delay, and there is not.

      I haven’t seen a single popup, nor a single warning, no slowdowns, and no ads. I installed freetube in preparation for getting screwed, and although I like it, ad-wise and speed-wise it’s no different than hitting youtube directly.

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 months ago

        “Checked to see if there was any delay” is not entirely a good argument when I have post history of going through the JS.

        That 5000ms wait is still in there; if I had to guess, your Pihole is preventing any real issue there.

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          10 months ago

          OK. I’m not claiming google isn’t trying. I’m claiming it doesn’t matter, and this is a solvable problem for end users. Most others in this thread are saying just FF and ublock does it, so I probably have overkill going on.

          I only know this is happening with Youtube recently because of seeing other people talk about it.