0x48piraj/fadblock
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Friendly Adblock for YouTube: A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome, Opera and Firefox.
10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2023-10-27 · latest 2024-01-24
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More information: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock/issues/157
comment by lapcat · 2024-01-24 · in New owner of FadBlock extension added malicious code -
> https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock I'm trying out alternatives fadblock seems to work well enough so far, but this is enshitification. If it comes to it I'll migrate over to using yt-dlp or disregard YT entirely and find somewhere…
comment by nannal · 2023-11-09 · in YouTube's ban leads to a record number of users uninstalling their ad-blockers -
…has changed or not. So rather than troubleshoot, what I did was turn it off on yotube, and install https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock , which isn't 100% perfect like the original ublock experience, but has been very durable against…
comment by Modified3019 · 2023-11-04 · in YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers -
I currently use fadblock for youtube, which seems more resiliant against googles changes: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
comment by Modified3019 · 2023-11-01 · in uBlock Origin 1.53 -
This thing seems to work pretty well: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock Instead of actually blocking the ad elements, it just auto-forwards the videos to the end once loaded. Slightly jankier, but much harder to detect.
comment by malermeister · 2023-11-01 · in YouTube's ad blocker crackdown is getting harder to dodge -
This all seems over-complicated. Why not just use fadblock? https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock It doesn't need to be updated in this cat and mouse game. it just skips the ads in milliseconds and you don't even notice them.
comment by SirMaster · 2023-10-29 · in YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin -
https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
comment by aestetix · 2023-10-27 · in YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock -
If anyone is curious, I found the source code for this: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock Seems to do a lot of DOM querying using a setTimeout if (isAd && skipLock) { const videoPlayer = document.getElementsByClassName("video-stream")[0…
comment by flanbiscuit · 2023-10-27 · in A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Firefox -
This seems to be the repository for it: https://github.com/0x48piraj/fadblock
comment by dewey · 2023-10-27 · in A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Firefox