Clever workaround speeds YouTube ads up instead of blocking them [Video]
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A super clever workaround for YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers sees YouTube ads sped up dramatically instead of blocking them.

Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16 and also mutes the ad. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.

  • Gabu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    791·
    1 year ago

    What the fuck is wrong with this shit article?

    The crackdown on ad blockers has been quite effective

    No, it hasn’t. What’s up with the doublespeak?

    While some paid ad blockers seem to work, the vast majority of tools don’t seem to do the trick.

    Patently false. uBlock hasn’t had a single hickup.

    Fuck whoever wrote this garbage.

    • pachrist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know. I bet it has been pretty effective, but I also don’t think I’d trust any data I’d see from Google.

      But, their goal isn’t to get you or me to watch ads. Hell will freeze over before I spend 30s watching an ad for a video that’s barely double that. Their goal is to target the people we’ve installed ad blockers for: friends, parents, siblings, in-laws.

      I’m not going to watch ads, and I sure as hell am not going to click on anything, but my mother in law does now. My mom does too. They now feel like an ad blocker is “too much hassle,” so Google won that fight. I don’t know if new people are installing, updating, or changing ad blockers enough to offset right now.

      • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m not going to watch ads, and I sure as hell am not going to click on anything, but my mother in law does now. My mom does too. They now feel like an ad blocker is “too much hassle,” so Google won that fight.

        Google won until the next round when, to make even more money for the shareholders, they will put so many ads in a video that also your mother and mother in law will return to use an adblocker. Or leave YT entirely

    • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      They all pretend ublock origin don’t exist, they only talk about the old stupid for profit AdBlock that let’s “good ads” through.