[wisethrowaway]

It's been terrible in the last year.

uBlock is not detecting Youtube ads,

Twitter is blocking anonymous navigation

And the examples of OP are all too accurate (Business Insider, Bloomberg, Forbes, Medium, virtually any platform).

[ratww]

I'm honestly liking it.

When Youtube started showing ads for me I just stopped binge-watching videos on the site, and started using YouTube-dl and watching everything offline.

I added those paywall sites to my hosts file block, I just don't care anymore. I already block everything from Facebook/Instagram, and I'm about to do the same with Twitter. My whole family and friend circle only really use WhatsApp/Telegram anyway, so it doesn't matter.

Those things reduced my screen time a lot and I honestly find it healthy.

[wisethrowaway]

Some websites go past the point of no return (for me Twitter, Reddit, I don't bother anymore)

But some websites were usable and now I am frustrated (in Bloomberg, newspapers the reader mode used to work but not anymore). Medium, Towardsdatascience have nice ML articles now often behind registration wall.

[mod50ack]

uBO and sponsorblock work for me. Have you updated your lists? On my phone I use NewPipe+SB. I use privacy redirect to go to nitter.

[rchaud]

I think he means the ad thumbnails, not the in-video ads themselves. Ublock hasn't been able to hide them for a while now.

[asddubs]

what ad thumbnails? I haven't been getting any ads of any kind, I don't think

[wisethrowaway]

I find the in-video ads annoying and now they circumvent uBlock.

Current strategy is to turn down the volume and scroll down to the comments / look away for 10 seconds.

Ads are very irritating

[asddubs]

check out sponsorblock, it's a crowdfunded database of in-video ad timestamps to skip over them:

https://sponsor.ajay.app/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...

[SubiculumCode]

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