Ad blocking in Melbourne

Feel like I should at least mention this: if you ever see a post circulating about y23.tech I let that domain expire due to money trouble (my apologies), the site you want for an ad free youtube (and other site!) downloader is y232.live

You can check out the Y232 tag on this blog for more info.

Some additions since this seems to be getting some traction:

Private videos/playlists cannot be downloaded atm (and not for the foreseeable future) because those require you to log in and I do not want to handle credentials for security reasons

You can host it yourself! The repos are here:

Lastly if you have any problems feel free to add an issue on the repo for the ui or the api depending on what exactly the issue is (I may have to move the issue but you will be notified if so) or just message me directly

i swear to fucking god

i would rather kiss a 12 gauge shotgun than watch another unskippable bass boosted SHEIN ad with the worst music i've ever heard in my life.

how do i get rid of this dumb fucking pop-up? or is it because i'm using opera for these videos and they dickride google on the tip? bc i have my shit on with vivaldi and have no issues...was regretting the switch, but now opera can keep shoving youtube's fist up their fucking ass for all i care.

in light of the intensifying war between adblock and youtube, here are the settings I use on NoScript for an ad free experience.

so, this is infuriating

does anybody have any upgraded filters for ublock, to get around this fucking thing? adding the above to my filters isn't working

edit: for some reason i can't register to piped; like i click the button and nothing happens

Welp youtube is fucking me over again with the anti ad block. Ublock is slipping rn and idk how long it will be until an update. For some reason logging out of my account fixes the problem for now, but tbh im just about ready to stop using youtube. I can literally do anything else thats more productive. So yeah fuck youtube i hope they get slapped with a class action for this.

jesus fucking christ ive had this adblocker for not even a week

Today is a tragic day. After 3 years of me using adblock so I could watch YouTube videos without being constantly interrupted, I've had to disable it because YouTube are a bunch of fucking cowards that blocked my adblock. I will not submit and I found a way to bypass it by disabling it then enabling it again but it won't be long before YouTube learns my tactics.

YouTube: you are a coward. Have you ever stopped to consider WHY people use adblocks? Have you given it even just a little thought? No, of course not.

At least I have an excuse to make that really violent and bloody game about killing ads and YouTube itself now.

Was talking to my grandmother about TV and such and she mentioned that she hardly ever watches her favorite shows when they first come out. Instead, she records them on her VCR and then watches them some other time so she can fast forward through all the ads. Now that’s ad blocking before ad blockers were even a thing.

It is simply apart of human nature to detest advertisements and do everything in our power to make sure we can remove them from our lives for free, no matter our age or demographic.

anyone else having a problem with their firefox ad blockers no longer working on youtube? it started giving me a "stop using adblock uwu" message last week and now it's blocking videos lol

IF YOUTUBE IS SHOWING THAT ANNOYING ADBLOCK IS BANNED HERE POPUP

Switch to Firefox, get ublockorigin

Purge cache on the extension, and update

reload youtube

Blockda 5 doesn’t appear to exist for iPhones. Any advice?

Use NextDNS. Per the app's description, you also need to create a (free) online account, set up adblocking on it, then connect that to your app:

You can set your configuration ID from your NextDNS account in the Settings to bring your blocking policy to your phone and get Analytics and Logs about your traffic.

If you do not have a NextDNS account yet, you can create one for free at https://nextdns.io.

I may have made other posts about it as well, search my blog for "iphone"

i am so upset with youtube rn...like bitch you have billons of dollars right? then why are you so upset ABOUT ME USING AD BLOCK?!?!

like even restricting me to two videos on desktop thats some bull. its not gonna make me stop using ad block like it's gonna make me stop using YouTube dip shits.

Was using YouTube with the Brave browser that has built in ad blocks and of course now YouTube has realized it and is trying to get me to allow ads or buy premium

Not fucking likely YouTube

What's a good free ad blocker that YouTube doesn't yell at you for?

If it tries to boot me off Brave.

Hey, wanna remove the weird One Piece clown from the side of your tumblr feed forever? It's super easy!

1. First, download uBlock Origin for Firefox or Chrome

2. Then right-click on Captain Buggy and select "block element"

3. Click on the "create" button when the pop-up appears.

That's it, you're done!

You might have to refresh the site cache (CTRL+F5 for Firefox/PC - idk about Chrome or Mac) to make sure it clears, but it should work nicely.

I think youtube almost killed my laptop's wifi card. I run Ublock Origin on Firefox because I have limited data each month and used to lose a lot of data to ads, and I was getting 30 second unskippable ads every minute. I was doing just fine until recently in the last month when my internet connection kept cutting itself off. A bunch of experiments led me to realize it was my laptop's wireless connection, and now I either have to keep running troubleshooter or reset my network connection and restart my computer- this is every day, mind you.

I got fed up and decided to start watching YouTube on my ps4 because I want to watch things besides looney tunes reruns, and it works fine. Except now I'm being bombarded with upwards of 30 to 60 seconds of unskippable ads- it's changed from last time too, so its not just "ad 1 of 2," it's a solid 30 second timer that just plays ads until they finally let you skip.

Meanwhile, while this is going on, guess what? My laptop doesn't lose internet connection at all now that I'm not watching YouTube videos on it.

Conclusion: youtube's selfish, self absorbed war on adblock was killing my laptop. I've ordered a new wifi adapter anyway for like $15 after shipping abd taxes, so they're not winning against me. But still, they're fucking lucky I'm broke or I would sue their asses.

Anyway, to any youtube big wigs that might happen to read this: go fuck yourselves. For every ad I see on your platform, I make a mental list of businesses not to support. I'm not paying you losers any money for services that used to be free within MY lifetime, and you earn enough money from Google as it is. I'm not financially supporting you jerks that keep chasing off content creators or outright being hostile to them while allowing your outdated and poorly programmed content flagging system to flag every video they put up. Get the hell over yourselves and behave like actual human beings, and make a SENSIBLE ad system that does not waste my data, does not interrupt my video, does not waste my time, and most importantly DOES NOT FUCKING TRY TO KILL MY COMPUTER, or go fuck yourselves. I refuse to pay you a single penny, because you'll just make it more expensive and hide more previously free features behind a paywall or force me to watch ads anyway. I do not exist to consume fucking ads, I am stubborn and vengeful as hell, I will not lose to you pathetic corporate pieces of shit.

And guess what? Ad blockers are legal and recommended by experts and even the FBI (Google it, it's because cyber criminals use ads as a way to scam people! Wow! Who would have thought those fake Mr Beast ads telling you to "click here for $1000" were harmful!)

You will lose your war with ad blockers one day and we'll all dance happily when it happens.