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  • uBlock Origin on Firefox with default settings and filterlists still works successfully on Youtube.

    • 2 months

      Raymond Hill is the absolut GOAT

      “No way around it” always ends the same After 2 days uBlock just works.

      Taking no donations, just maintaining out of pure spite

      Love to see it

      • 2 months

        I’m still waiting for them to just to implement Wildvine. It has to happen at some point.

        • 2 months

          Yes, I wonder why they hadn’t done it yet, except for paid movies.

          • 2 months

            Yeah, they probably already have the tooling in place. Maybe the power (heat + work) cost to encode a Mr. Beast video hurts the profit too much.

            Maybe they’re afraid of putting widevine at the working end of the likes of ublock origin and brave. iIIRC some of the WV keys are in the wild, they just keep em close to the action not to make them rotate them out.

    • 2 months

      Works on my machine fails to account for A/B testing. Everytime someone says something’s not working, they also mean it’s not working on my machine/account.

      • uBlock origin is the same code on mine or yours machine. It does not need a graphics card, nor uses some particular instuctions of the CPU.
        On Firefox Stable on Flathub at the time of writing, with default settings and default lists, it will work as expected on Youtube.

        • 2 months

          Google does not always provide the same Youtube code/challenges to you and me. That’s what A/B testing is about.

          • Is uBlock Origin working for you specifically, enabling it alone with no other add-on?

    • 2 months

      Yep. Still working on mine. I also use windows 10. Dunno if that matters or not.

    • Stopped working for me last weekend if i’m logged in. Youtube deploy this kind of things in waves usually.

    • Mine isn’t working flawlessly with this exact set up, but it’s just forcing me to refresh the page every time I load a new video. Still no ads.

        • Nope, just uBlock. If I disable uBlock before loading the page everything works fine as well, so I’m pretty sure it’s uBlock.

          But I’m on Linux (openSuse Tumbleweed) and have had some interesting “distro specific” bugs in recent months, so I’m chalking it up to “my OS + Firefox” and not “uBlock”

          • I am also on openSUSE Tumbleweed, but using Flatpak Firefox.
            Perhaps you can try disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox to see if it chinges anyting.

            • I’ll give it a shot. I don’t use flatpaks, but I think I’ve already disabled hardware acceleration for a previous issue? I’ll report back once I’ve checked/tried it out.

            • Reporting back, you were absolutely correct. Hardware acceleration was turned back on, and turning it off fixed the problem.