• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
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    I’m waiting to see Youtube block me using Vivaldi w/uBlock Origin on Linux so far. It hasn’t happened, am I accidentally doing something awesome to evade their traps so far?

    Vivaldi’s Chrome-based, so I would presume the same tricks to detect uBlock Origin on Chrome itself would work, or is Vivaldi doing something sneaky?

    I have no problem jumping to Firefox the moment they do it – I just haven’t had an issue yet. I should add I’m in Canada, perhaps that is a factor.

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      11 months ago

      In-built adblockers aren’t going to be affected by MV3 anyway. They are not extensions, thus Google is powerless there.

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        That’s cool, but YouTube detects Vivaldi’s built in adblocker, so it’s kinda irrelevant if it’s affected by extension policies.

        To use YT in Vivaldi, you have to properly configure uBlock Origin (avoid extra filters that interfere with YT) and disable the builtin adblock for YT. And given that Vivaldi relies on Chrome Extension Store for its extensions, there will still be some friction to getting Mv2 extensions after Google pulls the plug on them.

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          OP has literally said that YT didn’t block them/didnt show any ads while using Vivaldi… As far I’m concerned, I couldn’t care less. I don’t use YT at all.

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            Yeah, OP literally said that they weren’t blocked when using Vivaldi with uBlock Origin, you were the first one to mention the builtin adblock (which is detected by YouTube).

            Again: to use YT, you have to disable the builtin adblock and use only uBO. That’s in line with OPs statement.

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              Oh I hadn’t thought of how I’d installed Vivaldi. I always just choose the basic install – no Vivaldi mail, ad-block, etc. Just their core browser. Then I install uBlock Origin on top of that. And, so far, I’ve never hit the new Youtube adblock-block.

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      It hasn’t happened, am I accidentally doing something awesome to evade their traps so far?

      Probably A/B testing.

      I’m using Adblock Plus on Edge and have the same experience like you. No reaction from Youtube yet to my adblocker.

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      Firefox with uBlock Origin on Windows. Nothing so far.

      I guess they only want to fuck their own customers so far?