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EmbarrassedHelp 2 days ago

The other answer is that the people creating these ads have the resources to continuously try and bypass filters/moderation.

zakki 2 days ago | parent [-]

If there is filters/moderation.

SwellJoe 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

There are, but only for using IP of large corporations. If you put 12 seconds of a major label song in your video review of an album, that video belongs to the major label now.

UltraSane 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It is really interesting how YouTube can detect short snippets of movies and songs but there are many full audiobooks illegally uploaded for years.

joshspankit a day ago | parent [-]

Movie and music studios are far more litigious

gowld 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a lot easier to automatically detect a match to 1 specific thing than detect a match to a completely novel thing that offends sensibilities in a similar way to other things.

ben_w 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

There are basically always filters of some kind, though not necessarily the ones we want. The bigger the target that filter represents, the more effort is spent breaking it.

michaelt 2 days ago | parent [-]

The filter you want is named 'uBlock Origin' :)

phatfish 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Indeed, and the Revanced apk customisation on Android, and SmartTube on Google TV.

I've not seen an ad from Youtube for probably 10+ years on my devices (since whenever Vanced made the apk customisations popular).

happymellon 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don't need Revanced as I already have uBlock Origin.

inigyou a day ago | parent [-]

For YouTube on a desktop OS you also want Sponsorblock. On a mobile OS, you want Revanced/Morphe as it integrates Sponsorblock into the app.

LargoLasskhyfv a day ago | parent [-]

> For YouTube on a desktop OS you also want Sponsorblock.

No. I don't. uBO suffices. Maybe with some additional rules and lists which aren't in its default setup.

Maybe it also depends on the sort of content one watches, but I tried, and it did nothing for me, except one extension more running. Which I tend to try to minimize.

inigyou a day ago | parent [-]

Did it block sponsors?

LargoLasskhyfv a day ago | parent [-]

That's the thing. I rarely watch, just listening to music doodling in a background tab.

I think I remember some sponsored crap in 'der8auer' or something like 'linus tech tips' eons ago, but I don't watch them anymore.

So I can't really tell, but for my use case it seems redundant.

I also remember having imported uBo-lists from somewhere, allegedly enabling sponsor-blocking somehow. But that was another install. I don't have these anymore, ATM.

inigyou 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Sponsorblock can also skip non-music intros to music videos.

inigyou a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Didn't Revanced get replaced by Morphe?

ben_w a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How is me installing that going to help prevent Facebook hosting unlawful adverts?

I barely visit the FB feed these days, about half of those visits being a notification that turns out to be someone's birthday.

Unlike FB themselves for the content they host, I find it easy to avoid them without needing the help of a filter, because on the rare occasion when I find myself being sucked into scrolling down the feed, this almost always stops within 3 items because that's how quickly I find the first utterly irrelevant item owing to how Facebook keeps trying to suggest (and advertise) nonsense.

The filter I want to see in the world is the legislative kind, the "Meta delenda est" style. This is of course *not* what Facebook would want: spammers want to break FB's filters, and FB would try to get past legislative filters. I count FB as a spammer trying to put ads into every third message you try to exchange with your friends.

cute_boi 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Without ublock origin internet is so dirty.