• @enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      They are slowly rolling it out; the reports have been trickling in for the past few weeks. Last I heard was firefox users getting hit. Apparently not even uBlock is immune.

          • 187_Invitation [he/him]
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            242 years ago

            I’m kind of worried this will burn the devs out. Not sure how much work this would be for all of them. Sounds pretty stressful though.

            • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]
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              122 years ago

              Have done similar projects and can confirm. It’s not mentally sustainable.

              It’s worth noting that it’s not exactly the uBlock devs who are updating the filter lists. The people who make the filter lists are pretty separate. Then lots of adblock extensions use those same lists.

              • 187_Invitation [he/him]
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                42 years ago

                Ah that makes sense then for the update list setting they give you. Either way I hope you have less stressful projects now!

                • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]
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                  22 years ago

                  The filter list people do generally accept donations btw. If you go through the uBlock Origin list configuration, you can find links to the homepages about some of the lists. If they accept donations, I’m sure there’ll be a prominent link.

                  I imagine this is pretty thankless work, so if adblock has been valuable to you, you may wish to research donating.

                  Disclaimer that I am not socially or financially associated with any mainstream internet ad blockers or filter lists.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        62 years ago

        I got it in ublock but used the block element feature to block it. Now I can’t scroll down to comments or see the recommended vids but videos play fine.

        • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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          22 years ago

          Considering that suggested videos are all just repeats of videos you already watched and the comments are always ass I see this as an absolute win

    • I use ublock and FF across 4 devices and got a warning on one computer over the weekend.

      if they get aggressive with it, it’ll just reduce my YT usage. like if I really want to watch something, I’ll open up a crap little chromium browser that does nothing but watch youtube videos. assuming ublock and FF don’t find a way around this.