I'm using Firefox but is it not possible to block ads in chrome too?
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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It won't be possible in the future. It should be happening soonish if I'm remembering correctly. There's a change to how add-ons will be allowed to work in chrome.
Not when they roll out manifest v3
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Why? This is weird. Why not enforce a full 30 second delay or some length corresponding to the length of the ad? That would be a sure way to make people who can't circumvent the block turn off the ad blocker. That or they'd just do something other than watch youtube, which is also possible I suppose.
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It was happening for several days with me but it seems to be fixed now
How many of you use YouTube on the actual website, and not just an embedded video on another site?
I use YouTube for me subscription feed and for the video recommendations. I redirect every watch page to Invidious tho.
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Little do these companies know that poor people know how to be patient and older people remember the days of free ad supported internet dialup via cds, so this is not new and people will continue where business models fail.
Maybe changing your user agent just let's you reroll whether you are in the group of users that are used for testing the increased loading time
Nope, still too easy to get around.