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[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 115 points 2 years ago (2 children)

His argument is:

  1. A lot of people were using poor adblockers.
  2. Youtube can block the bad ones but struggles with the good ones.
  3. People switch to the better adblockers (some of which require a subscription)
[–] Imalostmerchant@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

Which is why you always finish your antibiotics

[–] criticon@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wonder how true that is for the average user

My father disabled ublock because it didn't let him use YouTube. I sent hima tutorial on how to update the list and purge the cache but it was too much work for him

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Consider using VNC and simply doing the work for him. I find I just do not have the time to coach them through a document and I just do all this stuff for my parents instead. Life's too short to explain where the any key is.

I was annoyed when I got the popup, so I stopped using vanilla yt and started using invidious or freetube. Since then ubo updated a couple times. I used vanilla yt the past couple days for hours of educational vids, and got no antiadblock messages. It wasn't until I saw this post that I realized that ubo autofixed itself. Ask your father to reinstall ubo on ff and see if it fixes it. Also, I don't ever log on to yt, so maybe that plays a factor.

[–] oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

same here. it's the real reason i don't set it up for people, they need to be able to at least maintain it. My mother can't get the update working either until i did it step by step with her and she practiced it several time.