It's a contest of endurance between the uBlock devs/open source community and Google. There is nothing they can do to fully prevent us from blocking the ad on our end, but they can make us keep changing how we block it over and over - I suspect this will continue until enough people give up on ublock and just buy YT Premium that Google chalks it up to a win and stops for a while.
Have done similar projects and can confirm. It's not mentally sustainable.
It's worth noting that it's not exactly the uBlock devs who are updating the filter lists. The people who make the filter lists are pretty separate. Then lots of adblock extensions use those same lists.
The filter list people do generally accept donations btw. If you go through the uBlock Origin list configuration, you can find links to the homepages about some of the lists. If they accept donations, I’m sure there’ll be a prominent link.
I imagine this is pretty thankless work, so if adblock has been valuable to you, you may wish to research donating.
Disclaimer that I am not socially or financially associated with any mainstream internet ad blockers or filter lists.
You just have to keep updating it unfortunately. It's messing up my custom filter blocks which is annoying
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/178yasm/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_16_2023/
It's a contest of endurance between the uBlock devs/open source community and Google. There is nothing they can do to fully prevent us from blocking the ad on our end, but they can make us keep changing how we block it over and over - I suspect this will continue until enough people give up on ublock and just buy YT Premium that Google chalks it up to a win and stops for a while.
I'm kind of worried this will burn the devs out. Not sure how much work this would be for all of them. Sounds pretty stressful though.
Have done similar projects and can confirm. It's not mentally sustainable.
It's worth noting that it's not exactly the uBlock devs who are updating the filter lists. The people who make the filter lists are pretty separate. Then lots of adblock extensions use those same lists.
Ah that makes sense then for the update list setting they give you. Either way I hope you have less stressful projects now!
The filter list people do generally accept donations btw. If you go through the uBlock Origin list configuration, you can find links to the homepages about some of the lists. If they accept donations, I’m sure there’ll be a prominent link.
I imagine this is pretty thankless work, so if adblock has been valuable to you, you may wish to research donating.
Disclaimer that I am not socially or financially associated with any mainstream internet ad blockers or filter lists.
Oh awesome I had no idea. I’ll definitely do that they deserve it big time.