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A Novel Approach to Youtube Ads (9to5google.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by atrielienz@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16 and also mutes the ad. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

While some paid ad blockers seem to work, the vast majority of tools don’t seem to do the trick.

What a bunch of FUD. Firefox and uBlock Origin still work on Youtube just fine.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I moved back to Firefox like 5 years ago. But saying the vast majority of tools don't seem to do the trick is a pretty true statement, since that's one browser with one app, and the browser only has a sub 10% market share.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why did you move away from firefox in the first place?

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

For a little while, a long time agoit was Firefox that had gotten slow and bloated, while Chrome was not. Then, things changed again.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah but uBlock Origin still works on Chrome too

[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It amazes me that ublock is still available for crome. Edit:*crome

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago

For crime?

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Part of the reason I am not advocating for or against the extension or the source. People can judge for themselves. I thought it was funny (not a great idea but definitely an interesting implementation). For the record I use both ublock origin and Firefox, and I also run a pihole at home. I'm just putting out there that it exists.