Posted on 04/02/2024 11:24:12 AM PDT by ducttape45
I turn off the adblocker for Youtube, but I am still blocked. I do not know why.
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I have that, and that’s always been good in the past. Not so much the past several days.
This is pretty much what I do. Watch on Edge without being signed in and pull up on Firefox for commenting and checking for new videos on subscribed channels. I started doing this months ago when I got a message stating I had to stop using an ad blocker.
I’ve been using ublockorigin for months now. Works great to block YT ads. If it stops working be sure to update it.
What “product” of YouTube’s do you mean? YT doesn’t make all those videos. The people who post videos can pay for the right to post them, but YouTube has gotten so GREEDY that it’s actually a burden waiting for the adds to play before watching the desired content.
Whenever I try to watch a video from a link posted here on FreeRepublic, I have to sit thru one, and frequently TWO commercials of at least two minutes each in duration before I can see the subject I went there to watch.
It’s extremely frustrating and irritating. RIDICULOUS…
Try updating it.
Actually, the business model is that YT has STOLEN lots of music. And then they collect ad revenue from listeners. How is that okay under the “personal use” exemption?
This is a consequence of Supreme Court ruling on sharing videos from way back during the VCR days.
They could not have foreseen YT and internet sharing.
The SCOTUS occasionally has to CHANGE the law. Like they did with the Wayfair decision on Sales Taxes.
Does Texas Gator understand?
I was told there’s a browser called Onion that is pretty much unregulated. Has anyone used it?
I have posted more than 1000 long videos to Rumble. Total views$ 2!
Except Father Fish
Hit refresh.
FreeTube. You can send all your subscriptions over free tube. Anytime you’re on YouTube and you add another subscription, it automatically adds it to free tube.
My exact configuration. I am a light UTube user so haven't been blocked but some with same configuration have.
So many comments that say.. Use Brave, or Use DuckDuckGo, or Use some other blocker...
The thread is NOT about blocking ads, it is about you being blocked by UTube.
it is my understanding that the Brave developers are usually the quickest to respond to YouTube changes.
Brave is really good about that. Also, Brave's incognito mode is actually private, unlike Google Chrome.
Two easy ways to fix this. Use the Brave browser. You can use your favorite adblocker with it.
Or use the adblocker ublockorigin extension in Firefox.
Their money goes to leftist stuff. Why would I support that?
I hate to disagree with everyone here but YouTube is a business, not a public service. They make money by their adds. If you do not want to watch their adds, then do not watch YouTube.
Yes, my Brave browser with an ad blocker built into it was crashing each time I tried to link to Youtube. I had to switch back to Firefox for any Youtube link.
I was using Windows 7 so I didn’t have all the benefits of a newer Brave browser. So I’m on Windows 10 now, with the latest Brave, to see if that makes a difference.
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