Firefox and uBlock origin results in infinite YouTube ads

by Ahmedb on 6/11/2024, 8:24 AM with 12 comments

A lot of people on reddit are reporting strange behavior when using Firefox and uBlock origin on Youtube like infinite back to back ads and failure to play videos.

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1atwzem/comment/l82adtm/

  • by shzhdbi09gv8ioi on 6/11/2024, 8:48 AM

    I want to take this opportunity to pitch FreeTube, a open source youtube player that features:

      - Ad blocking
  - SponsorBlock
  - Subscriptions without account
  - Latest videos from your subscriptions
  - Use YouTube without Google tracking you using cookies and JavaScript
  - and more
    making youtube a usable thing again

    https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

  • by petercooper on 6/11/2024, 11:13 AM

    Video transcoding at scale seems such a "solved problem" nowadays, I'm surprised YouTube hasn't moved to baking ads into the main video stream directly when they're served to non-Premium users - they control the player so could still let people skip them after certain time periods, etc. Maybe the revenue lost to extra compute needed doesn't balance out yet.

  • by anbardoi on 6/11/2024, 11:53 AM

    Use FreeTube

  • by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on 6/11/2024, 9:25 AM

    One word: invidious

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