• Isoprenoid@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    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)
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      1 year ago

      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

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          1 year ago

          I meant ublock origin

          Didn’t know there was a “vanilla” ublock

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        1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

      I’m hearing first time that some of the adblockers require subscription… Like, there’s ublock origin, the one and only god out there, why would you like to go somewhere else, even closed source?

      Edit: damn autocorrect