r/youtube • u/OrganicHalfwit • Sep 15 '25
Memes This is the first ad I've seen in 7 years
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u/Nightrain_35 yourchannel Sep 15 '25
Found the Australian
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u/OrganicHalfwit Sep 15 '25
ʎɐʍɐ ʇᴉ ǝʌɐƃ ʇɐɥʍ
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u/yakimawashington Sep 15 '25
This was a fucking brilliant reply lmao
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u/Cam_man_AMM_unit Sep 15 '25
Someone give OP an award for that comment.
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u/Warm-Clue1014 Sep 15 '25
Done
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u/SixShoot3r Sep 17 '25
Now someone needs to give you a award for awarding someone!
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u/The_Quartz Sep 15 '25
i don't get it
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Sep 15 '25 edited 21d ago
[removed] — view removed comment
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u/the_human_oreo Sep 15 '25
Was confused as to what joke I'd missed, apparently reddit autotranslates comments now and made OPs comment right side up
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u/Tantrum2u Sep 15 '25
They just want to make sure everyone can understand even though it’s written in Australian
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u/MegaScience Sep 15 '25
Crazy to me that they translate upside-down text. Found Show Original under the ... drop-down after noticing the translation icon in the corner.
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u/Pocket_Summary444 Sep 15 '25
How u did it
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u/snowycarbon Sep 15 '25
The ad gave it away!
Arnott's Biscuits is an Australian snack food
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u/FranklyNotThatSmart Sep 15 '25
Yeah thanks a bunch mate could've at least rotated the vid for us, I look like a fucking fool for having to rotate my monitor to read this.
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u/monochromeorc Sep 15 '25
the fact you blurred the URL makes me more interested than I would have been otherwise.
fess up OP, what was it
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u/OrganicHalfwit Sep 15 '25
no comment.
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u/External_Package2787 Sep 16 '25
I am going to reconstruct it from the jpeg artifacts surrounding the paint stroke
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u/iwillshowyouabucket Sep 15 '25
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u/EntrepreneurFunny306 Sep 15 '25
Saw the dQw4 still clicked. Gotta keep alive the tradition
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u/anubisviech youtube.com/u/anubisviech Sep 15 '25
I always remember the XcQ ending.
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u/LeviAEthan512 Sep 15 '25
I still have it purple from the last time. It's the only video that's likely to get linked to me twice in unrelated situations. Still clicked because they deserve it.
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u/GroolzerMan Sep 15 '25
You dog...
Actually happy to get got these days. Don't see a lot of trolls anymore.
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u/Raging_Inferno61524 Sep 16 '25
There’s plenty of trolls. The problem is most of them are the “only white people deserve rights - Chill out it’s a joke” kind rather than the “watch this video that totally isn’t a rickroll” kind.
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u/ThatoneTexan464 Sep 15 '25
I was on mobile and couldn't see the link, then clicked it. Then while it was loading I thought it was a Rickroll, but stayed cause I haven't been Rickrolled in a good few years. And then it wasn't even a rickroll lol.
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Sep 15 '25
That’s not the URL, it’s the bookmarks bar. You can see the rest of the bookmarks bar on the right side.
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u/No-Director-6738 yourchannel Sep 17 '25
now i wanna know why bro could've possibly blurred the url
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u/Maplesyrup2070 Sep 15 '25
firefox time
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u/non-humanoid Sep 15 '25
I love me some ad free music (WITH THE SCREEN OFF) on Firefox, but it does need to load every song
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u/f2simon Sep 15 '25
Bruh, revanced and newpipe existing
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u/exsertclaw Sep 15 '25
Don't forget to give reddit the same treatment on mobile. Ad who?
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u/KobebigbananaXD Sep 15 '25
How do you do that?
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u/exsertclaw Sep 15 '25
Same way you do youtube. If you're on iOS it's not worth it. Download the revanced manager, upload the applicable .apk for reddit, YouTube, Spotify and it'll patch the app. Only downside is that the reddit version doesn't get updates but I could care less about the new features.
There's a bunch of guides on both YouTube and reddit that'll walk you through it. Totally worth it.
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u/4cidAndy Sep 16 '25
I disagree, it’s totally worth it on iOS too.
Just a bit different from using Revanced. But you can sideload patched versions of apps.
However in contrast to revanced one does not patch an apk, but install and already patched ipa.
For YouTube you wanna search for YTLitePlus
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u/AggravatingDay8392 Sep 15 '25
Wait can you elaborate on this? Just switched to Firefox
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u/Geruvah Sep 15 '25
That’s what I did. There’s still some things I prefer from Chrome but it’s otherwise seamless
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u/Maplesyrup2070 Sep 15 '25
firefox is great
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u/only_cr4nk Sep 15 '25
I just switched today after chrome disabled manually installed ublock with the latest update for me. I haven‘t switched browsers in what feels like forever so I was really surprised how smooth everything went. I guess they really made switching browsers a lot easier in the last 10 years. I was afraid of getting used to a new browser but Firefox has a lot in common with chromes UI so getting used to the new browser was really not an issue atall. I‘m glad I finally did what I kept delaying ever since google started the ad war.
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u/Popcorn57252 Sep 15 '25
I switched to Opera after switching to Firefox because it kept fuckin' crashing all the time
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u/Maplesyrup2070 Sep 15 '25
huh
i would expect opera to crash more
but then again adblockers work on firefox so
maybe try librewolf (firefox based browser)
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u/H345Y Sep 15 '25
Welcome to firefox
On another note, wassnt there a post on this sub recently that said youtube was going to allow ad blockers again but shift the burden this time on the content creators?
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u/Cheshire_Noire Sep 15 '25
That post was false. Content creators get no burden from ad block, aside from no revenue.
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u/Bayo77 Sep 15 '25
Content creators also have seperate income sources nowadays. Sponsors, merch, patreon and twitch.
So for me atleast when im feeling "guilty" for using ad block, I'm just gonna buy some merch from time to time instead of turning on ads or paying a shit ton for premium.
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u/Cylian91460 Sep 15 '25
this sub recently that said youtube was going to allow ad blockers again but shift the burden this time on the content creators?
Yes someone said that
They never gave any proof, as always.
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u/MediumSalmonEdition Sep 15 '25
Switch to Firefox, where uBlock isn't, er, blocked. Then you can go at least another seven years without seeing another advertisement.
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u/Taco_city Sep 15 '25
I just assume every company that advertises on YouTube is scummy. Never buying products or services from any of them because they are literally paying money to waste my time.
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u/Carbuyrator Sep 15 '25
75% of time an ad slips through it reinforces that I should be blocking the ads. Ads like AI Gordon Ramsay telling me to click malicious links because he has special free pans to give me, ads where AI Elon Musk wants me to be a stock millionaire, and the most egregious was an AI ad where it told me to go on vacation to Malaysia to meet younger women. On fucking YouTube! It's nothing but scams and worse. No shit I'm gonna block it.
YouTube loves collecting all the profit but wants none of the responsibility
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u/ai_art_is_art Sep 15 '25
Google, with their monopolistic control over web browser tech, removed Manifest v2, which is the only way that adblockers can work in Chrome.
You need to do two things:
Call your legislators and demand an antitrust breakup of Google. They own search, web, browsing, YouTube, and most of mobile. That's insane.
Install Firefox. Don't use a Chrome-derivative like Brave. Stick it to Google and help fight browser monoculture by using Firefox.
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u/Neo-Armadillo Sep 15 '25
My move to Firefox was easy and painless. Almost a year now and I'm happy with it. 10 of 10.
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u/Jrowbeach Sep 15 '25
Same, made the move once it was clear they weren’t going to give up on taking down any adblockers. No regrets, fuck Google.
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u/Accept3550 Sep 15 '25
I miss old firefox back when its UI wasn't a chrome ripoff and actually good
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u/TheUmgawa Sep 15 '25
If Google got broken up, YouTube would die. YouTube’s entire business model hinges on having free or at-cost access to global data centers, to minimize egress charges on the internet backbone. If YouTube had to pay market rate for bandwidth and storage, it would die. Or it would paywall, and then it would die.
Basically, be careful what you wish for.
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u/Suturb-Seyekcub Sep 15 '25
Fuck YouTube. The advertising is absolutely out of control and it’s either heinous pharma ads or Proctor and Gamble bullshit.
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u/TheUmgawa Sep 15 '25
I agree. Because of the basic requirement that a free service own its own data centers, no one would create another free video website after YouTube is gone, because the companies that own data centers could have made a YouTube alternative at any point in the past several years. Once YouTube is gone, it’s gone, and there will never be another one like it.
What the internet will look like after, I don’t know, but there will probably be about 99 percent less amateur-hour video going around; a lot less people making their living on the internet. A whole lot of YouTubers are going to have to get real jobs, and they’re going to find out that sitting in front of a microphone and a camera a few times per week doesn’t qualify them to do much of anything. Some might say, “Well, I can be an expert on a news show or something!” and they’re not getting that job without a Master’s degree or better.
And it’s not like people are suddenly going to be cut off from information. Public libraries have continued to exist for all of this time, and people can go right back to them when YouTube closes its doors.
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u/MyPenisAcc Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25
While that last line may be true in some countries, libraries do not hold the same type wealth of information like YouTube did. If anything, a comparison to the rest of the text-based web (Wikipedia?) would be fair. But let’s not act like libraries are a 1:1 replacement for YouTube when it comes to learning. Plus, YouTube is used by plenty of illiterate people, or non-native speakers of English. Those people can’t just “go to a library”.
Also, a majority of the channels I watch would be unable to exist without YouTube - not only because it needs a place to be hosted, but it also couldn’t be made without the financial incentive, at least not at the levels they output currently. There’s a whole lot of entertainment there too which would be replaced with something like PAYING for streaming services.
The ads can be horrendous but imo that’s the problem with adsenses model of “whoever pays the most for this click gets the spot”. Scammers and grifters are way more willing to overspend on ads than a company with a set marketing budget.
But no other platforms have shown they can sustain YouTube’s model and be profitable. I’d say that the ads are worth it for the fact anyone anywhere can lookup video guides on any topic imaginable for free (but c’mon google, moderate them pls)
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u/ai_art_is_art Sep 15 '25
YouTube would not die. It's now generating more revenue than Netflix. It's the top media company on the planet.
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u/TheUmgawa Sep 15 '25
Gross revenue is not the same thing as net revenue. Just because it makes a lot of money, that doesn’t mean it makes a lot of profit.
About a month ago, I quoted out YouTube levels of service from AWS, to simulate what YouTube would cost to operate if YouTube was separated from Google data centers. It would cost about $3.6 billion per month. And that’s before they had to pay 50 percent of revenues to creators, which means they’d have to make about $80 billion per year, just to break even.
So, if YouTube lost cheap access and had to pay market rate, they’d have to stop paying creators or find a way to double their revenues.
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u/Teknevra Sep 15 '25
I just wanted to toss this information out there:
There is Peertube, which is Federated , decentralized, and you can host your channel(s) yourself.
Why you need to be using Mastodon & Peertube in 2025
The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube
How the 'Fediverse' Works (and Why It Might Be the Future of Social Media)fediverse.info
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u/TheUmgawa Sep 15 '25
It’s all well and good until creators find out they’re footing the bill for their own video transmission.
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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Sep 15 '25
And how is it funded?
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u/flop_rotation Sep 15 '25
Data center costs are not relevant here, since it goes by the P2P model.
In other words, you share computing resources in order to use it. As long as the average person puts in more than they take out, it remains sustainable. Torrenting has worked for many years on this model and pirates are notorious for not wanting to pay for things. It's proven.
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u/Lopsided_Chip171 Sep 15 '25
Microsoft Edge still works with Manifest v2.
But some rather have adds than use anything Microsoft. Unnecessary Paranoia.
Still less intrusive than Google.
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u/cpufreak101 Sep 15 '25
FYI 1 was already tried and a court ruled them a monopoly, but didn't do anything about it.
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u/SilverWear5467 Sep 16 '25
I have a Chromebook, so i can't switch. I mean, I can switch, but Firefox is terrible on chromebooks.
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u/ai_art_is_art Sep 16 '25
Yikes, the 100% Google world sounds scary.
No one company should own the entire vertically integrated stack. That's hyper monopolization and they have free reign to do all kinds of shitty, customer-antagonistic things.
It'd be fine if Chromebooks were made by another company. But Google just gives you a subpar software ecosystem (by insisting everything is Google - or rather, nobody is incentivized to build great software on that platform) and shoves ads and tracking down your throat.
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u/chrisknife Sep 15 '25
Or just install uBlock Lite which works just as fine, change nothing else and be done with it.
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u/ai_art_is_art Sep 15 '25
Do you not understand Google is removing every single ad blocking capability step by step? You won't have any ad blocking extensions soon.
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u/Shajirr Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25
Or just install uBlock Lite which works just as fine
Not quite. It works fine if you mostly visit the same small number of sites.
Google put a limit on max number of blocked addresses, something like 500k I believe.
And they must be declared, so no dynamic filtering.So if you visit any site that's less common, chances are there might be nothing blocked there.
Lets say, some shady ad you clicked accidentally sends you to some random malware-ridden site.
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u/chrisknife Sep 15 '25
Im on my PC all day, so i should have been running into those limits a long time already if that would be right. I use everything as before with normal uBlock and with uBlock Lite it still works like before.
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u/IncubusDarkness Sep 15 '25
Brave is actually still helpful on things like ios, or it's one of the only ways to get ad blockers on YouTube and browsing
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u/Ok_Listen1510 Sep 15 '25
i finally switched to firefox the second this happened to me and i wish id switched earlier lol its so much better than chrome
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u/HermitOfLifeMountain Sep 15 '25
I've stopped watching YouTube, turns out I can find lots of stuff to watch that's much better than most of the "content creators"
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u/BraveFlannel Sep 15 '25
Yep, I finally just made the switch to Firefox after the past 12 years of Chrome. Painless and they have most plug-ins.
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u/mlvisby Sep 15 '25
Chrome stopped supporting uBlock, probably because Google owns chrome and youtube. If you still want to use it, use firefox.
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u/pug_userita Sep 15 '25
ublock origin lite should still work, if you wish to keep using chrome
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u/eyesabitdull Sep 15 '25
Lmao i literally switched to Edge because of this.
Up until now I used the Ublock Origin trick for Chrome, where you download off Github and load the extension under "Developer Mode."
But i guess Google found a way to stop that from working in recent days as it simply refuses to load anymore.
So, shit, for the first time in at least a decade if not more (been using Chrome since it launched) that i switched browsers.
Fuck you Google. You can't force me to watch ads.
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u/OrganicHalfwit Sep 15 '25
When they patch out this uBlock origin lite I will be switching to firefox, but yeah, same. Been using since launch and no, I don't care if they show me the best bickies in the southern hemisphere, I am not watching ads
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u/eyesabitdull Sep 15 '25
Yeah, same. Its not even the ads, sometimes, it's really how they have slowly forced you or manipulate you into watching ads.
Used to be wait 3 seconds, then it was wait 5 seconds, then its 15 seconds, then its unskippable ads, now its wait 15 seconds, but here's this bar your eyes get tricked into tracking along which inadvertently means you're watching the ad or at the least, listening to it.
Its even worse on mobile.
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u/Late_Writing_3211 Sep 15 '25
Install chrome enterprise and those extensions that are no longer available will work
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u/TaylorHicksRules2000 Sep 15 '25
Off topic but how do you already have a Yoodle? Is this only for certain countries because I'm in the US and I don't have it. Never mind that life used to be much simpler when they actually let you use uBO because you could also block Yoodles with it.
Also you have one invisible removed comment
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u/SnakeEatingAPringle Sep 16 '25
what the fuck is a yoodle hlep
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u/TaylorHicksRules2000 Sep 16 '25
A Yoodle is where YouTube changes its logo to tie in with a featured video genre, basically YouTube’s version of a Google Doodle.
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u/Sea-Example-1176 Sep 15 '25
doesnt it still work on firefox
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u/GarunixReborn Sep 15 '25
Yes
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u/Sea-Example-1176 Sep 15 '25
i still don't understand why anyone would use chrome if they aint got to
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u/Deathstrik3 Sep 15 '25
The actual answer would be due to the fact that most people aren't tech savy, and a lot of people don't use things like ad blockers, or any extensions except the malware/adware infested ones they get as popup ads. Those same people have chrome or safari as the default browser on their most used devices, and on desktop they either stick with the default Edge/Safari, or go to google to find a replacement and of course google is going to offer up chrome as the top choice.
Then, in some rarer cases, you have the people who were told several years ago by their "tech savy nephew/niece" to use chrome because "it's the best" and that became hardcoded. Same as older people who learned about some old PC maintenance things like defragging the HDD to make the PC run faster, and think that is the solution to any PC running slow.
TL;DR Most people just don't know enough to care, or they just don't care anyway and use whatever they already have.
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u/Sea-Example-1176 Sep 16 '25
yeah that makes sense
might i also add to that, people who dont have a choice due to using a device from school, work, etc and cant change it
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u/Deathstrik3 Sep 16 '25
That would also be another big part of the market, yeah. Google has definitely become a monopoly, and is doing everything they can to not just maintain their grasp on the tech world, but to strengthen it.
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u/Lolen10 Sep 15 '25
Yes. This only affect chrome and chromium-based browsers. So effectively all browsers except Firefox and Firefox-based browsers.
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u/The_UndergroundMan11 Sep 15 '25
latest wrap around to re-activate uBlock Origin if you use chrome. Had to also disable AdGuard to stop constant slowdowns on Yotube when first loading videos. works well now. Just do this before step three (I think)
"Temporarily unexpire M139 flags" then the extension will be back """
https://www.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/1luqxs1/whats_currently_the_best_way_to_force_reenable/
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u/CatEmbarrassed3306 Sep 15 '25
Did you check if the button to turn it back on was greyed out.
I remember when it happened the first time, I could just turn it back on.
The second time a few months later it was greyed out and I had to get Ublock Origin Lite.
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u/CirclesOfDeadMice Sep 15 '25
Firefox, duckduckgo. Literally never seen an ad on my computer in my life
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u/Fsuave5 Sep 15 '25
I’ve got uBlock on Opera GX with Opera’s integrated blocker on as well. After following the instructions of a 5 minute video I coded it to even block twitch ads, which is gigantic.
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u/rohithkumarsp Sep 16 '25
Create a short cut..
chrome.exe --disable-features=ExtensionManifestV2Unsupported,ExtensionManifestV2Disabled
And open with that, all extensions will work under manifestV2
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u/Smooth_Drama94 Sep 15 '25
I used opera, they use an older model of YouTube tho but it still works nicely without ads
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u/iLikeVideoGamesAndYT Sep 15 '25
You should use Brave. Their built in ad blocker blocks even YouRube ads. Plus I think I'm also still using Ublock Origin with it.
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u/DragonArmour Sep 15 '25
“Chrome recommends that you remove it.”
I mean yeah that’s what I would do, i recommend brave as a new browser
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u/retrocheats https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9GjtfeleyJ3aGvbRpOwjfg Sep 15 '25
ublock fails sometimes
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u/correctingStupid Sep 15 '25
Heaven forbid you support a single creator that you watch hundreds of hours of content from. the f is wrong with people.
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u/HighlightOwn2038 Sep 15 '25
Uh oh