Comment by Aperocky

Comment by Aperocky 2 days ago

13 replies

Never realized anything was happening as I was on Firefox, until I saw ads as my wife was browsing youtube despite installing ublock for her years ago.

madaxe_again a day ago

My wife was pissed when I installed an adblocker for her - turns out she likes the ads.

  • yonatan8070 a day ago

    I recently saw my GF's inbox, it's full of marketing emails, and when I told her she can unsubscribe or block them, she said she likes them as well.

  • TechDebtDevin a day ago

    There was a podcast I was listening to this week, and they were discussing the purpose of marketing emails, and they came to the conclusion that they're for women who actually open all of them lol. It was half sarcasm and pretty funny, not trying to by misogynist or something

    • nashashmi 21 hours ago

      Yes, they do open them all with so much eagerness it makes me wonder how they are able to manage so many emails. But eagerness and window shopping is their calling.

thaumasiotes 2 days ago

YouTube recently started showing ads through uBO in Firefox.

  • djrj477dhsnv 2 days ago

    On what platform? I've been using Firefox and uBO on Linux and Android for over a decade and never seen a YouTube ad.

    • stubish a day ago

      They do staged rollouts, maybe a-b testing. It seems to generally be region based rather than platform.

      • aspenmayer a day ago

        You might need to check that you are using all appropriate blocklists as well. The subreddit usually has a sticky/pinned post for YouTube related issues as this has been a slow moving target for about a year now.

    • weberer a day ago

      Do you have other extensions? For example, I can see that uMatrix is also blocking all requests to doubleclick.net