Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?

  • Zuberi 👀
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    66 months ago

    Not true. The implicit wait of 5000 milliseconds is hard-coded to non-chrome browsers.

    • @Grain9325@lemmy.ml
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      26 months ago

      That’s a separate issue. The bugs on AdBlock And AdBlock Plus extensions affect not only YouTube but other websites as well (as said by uBO dev). This isn’t on google but the extensions themselves.

      • Zuberi 👀
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        36 months ago

        Any non-chrome browser will experience a 5 second delay (IF they have an adblocker)

        • be_excellent_to_each_other
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          6 months ago

          FWIW, with Firefox on Linux with pihole on my network and ublock origin, some component (or the mix) of those things seems to have meant that so far I have yet to experience a single one of the things Google has been doing since the adblock wars began again. I just checked now to see if there was any delay, and there is not.

          I haven’t seen a single popup, nor a single warning, no slowdowns, and no ads. I installed freetube in preparation for getting screwed, and although I like it, ad-wise and speed-wise it’s no different than hitting youtube directly.

          ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

          • Zuberi 👀
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            26 months ago

            “Checked to see if there was any delay” is not entirely a good argument when I have post history of going through the JS.

            That 5000ms wait is still in there; if I had to guess, your Pihole is preventing any real issue there.

            • be_excellent_to_each_other
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              56 months ago

              OK. I’m not claiming google isn’t trying. I’m claiming it doesn’t matter, and this is a solvable problem for end users. Most others in this thread are saying just FF and ublock does it, so I probably have overkill going on.

              I only know this is happening with Youtube recently because of seeing other people talk about it.

              • Mario_Dies.wav
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                36 months ago

                Same here. uBO + Firefox

                If there’s been a delay, it’s not been noticeable to me