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Firefox@Lemmy.ml : Has anyone else never had an single issue with YouTube on Firefox with adblockers? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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YouTube has worked fine for me using Firefox with Ublock Origin, with no lag, notifications telling me to turn off ad blocking, or any of the other issues users have reported here.

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nope, never.

There will be issues with SponsorBlock in the future, though. Instead of adding the advertisements on client side, they will be added directly into the video stream on server side, messing up all timestamps.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But advertisement needs to be properly marked by law so users know that what they are seeing is somekind of ads, so I guess we should be able to detect and work around it somehow, even if it's cutting audio and making the screen black eventually.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

The thing is, you need multiple timings or "complex" calculations depending on placement of the ad or if the user has premium or not. All timestamps after the first slipstreamed ad will be off by the duration of the ad.

I wonder how this will be handled with creator-set timestamps in the video description. Those also will be off. Maybe SponsorBlock can hook into this somehow. Classic adblockers won't block those ads, though.