LAlapcat·Jan 24, 2024
More information: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock/issues/157
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Friendly Adblock for YouTube: A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome, Opera and Firefox.
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Friendly Adblock for YouTube: A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome, Opera and Firefox.
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10 sourcesNew owner of FadBlock extension added malicious code
8 points · Open discussion> https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
I'm trying out alternatives fadblock seems to work well enough so far, but this is enshitification.
If it comes to it I'll migrate over to using yt-dlp or disregard YT entirely and find somewhere else. I believe others feel similarly. Ads are not acceptable to me.
In YouTube's ban leads to a record number of users uninstalling their ad-blockersIt's definitely pretty tricky to try and even come up with statistics.
ublock was having issues early on, that required a laundry list of things to do to make sure youtube couldn't detect that something was up. I don't know if this has changed or not.
So rather than troubleshoot, what I did was turn it off on yotube, and install https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock, which isn't 100% perfect like the original ublock experience, but has been very durable against google's efforts. That said, fadblock seems to be considering a transition to some sort of paid model eventually, not sure what's going on with that.
Google may or may not believe they were successful in my case, depending on what they are looking for.
In YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockersI currently use fadblock for youtube, which seems more resiliant against googles changes: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
In uBlock Origin 1.53This thing seems to work pretty well: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
Instead of actually blocking the ad elements, it just auto-forwards the videos to the end once loaded. Slightly jankier, but much harder to detect.
In YouTube's ad blocker crackdown is getting harder to dodgeThis all seems over-complicated.
Why not just use fadblock?
https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
It doesn't need to be updated in this cat and mouse game. it just skips the ads in milliseconds and you don't even notice them.
In YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock OriginIf anyone is curious, I found the source code for this:
https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
Seems to do a lot of DOM querying using a setTimeout
if (isAd && skipLock) {
const videoPlayer = document.getElementsByClassName("video-stream")[0];
videoPlayer.muted = true; // videoPlayer.volume = 0;
videoPlayer.currentTime = videoPlayer.duration - 0.1;
videoPlayer.paused && videoPlayer.play()
// CLICK ON THE SKIP AD BTN
document.querySelector(".ytp-ad-skip-button")?.click();
document.querySelector(".ytp-ad-skip-button-modern")?.click();
}
So it looks for the ad player, mutes it, fast forwards it, and automatically clicks on the "skip" button (if available, not all ads are skip-able)
In A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for FirefoxThis seems to be the repository for it: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
In A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Firefox