FaceDeer,
@FaceDeer@kbin.social avatar

Misleading. Ad blocker installations also rose. This isn't people leaving adblocking, this is people changing to better ones.

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

The ad blockers in question were AdGuard and Ghostery, acc. to the article.
uBlock Origin is still working fine for me. And NewPipe in the cell phone.

tias,

Ghostery isn’t even an ad blocker, it’s just to prevent tracking.

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

Ghostery does work as an ad blocker too, and advertises (eh) itself as such.

Plus, for corporate nowadays, tracking and advertisement are two steps of the same process.

tias,

Oh OK my bad, that was news to me. I stopped using it a couple of years ago when Firefox got the functionality built in, and it wasn’t advertised as an ad blocker back then.

Ebennz,

Yes, they uninstall and then install an adblocker that works. Click bait.

scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

Yeah for a while I used Adblock plus and ublock. With this adblock plus was just tripping youtube so it was an immediate uninstall. Stupid article is stupid

DarkThoughts,

Why would you use two adblockers at the same time? That's just bound to cause problems. And that doesn't even go into the whole adblock plus drama.

scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

I mean, I just did? Used both for 5 years like that and only had a problem now

MagicShel,

It’s not crazy. There are multiple blacklists that largely but not completely overlap. Sometimes program A works best on site B and program Y works on site Z. Or at least historically this has been the case.

Obviously a new game is afoot.

AndrasKrigare,

Yeah, who’s gonna say “Oh, I’m not blocking ads on YouTube, better take the time to make sure I see ads everywhere else as well.”

cmnybo,

Yeah, probably lots of people uninstalling ghostery and adguard so they can install ublock origin.

NotBadAndYou,

uBlock Origin has kept their filters up-to-date for me. Still no ads, and no blocks from YouTube, since day 1. I did disable my other privacy extensions like Privacy Badger and Ghostery on YouTube to stay on their “good” side however.

walden,

I recently had to disable ad blocking within Enhancer for YouTube, but uBlock Origin took over and it works great so far.

DarkThoughts,

Does that fix it? I disabled the whole addon because it interfered with the anti adblock measures. Unfortunately many features of it are pretty broken at this point and the author even removed it from the Firefox addon page.

walden,

Oh really? Yeah it worked for me.

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