Ha! Ads be gone!

nospam wrote:
In article , Snit
wrote:

My method has no such delay. I can¹t be the only one who knows about it.
Waiting to see if folks like Gremlin know. Either way I will reveal my
³trick² soon. It is based on something I saw on a YouTube video but I
streamlined it to make it be very quick. Not sure if the same streamlining
works on Linux and Windows but the general method does. Browser
independent.

translated: doesn't exist.


So you have no idea — figured. But Gremlin is just as lost. Which really is
fine — but fun to note given how arrogant you two are.

Hint: it does use common third party software.


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Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks
and ignore the message time and time again.

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 11:39:40 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

I just tried uBlock here on FireFox. It *sort of* blocks the ads that
start many Utube performances.

It starts with an error "An error occurred. Please try again later." A
few seconds later, the performance starts. The error message takes the
place of the ads, and lasts about the same length of time.

Is that an improvement? Perhaps it's a minor one; at least there's no
sound for the error message.

I use my own GM script to block those annoying YouTube's video-based ads.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/32...tube-video-ads

However, YouTube has been very aggresive with its ads recently. It adds two
new kinds of ads: screen ads (still content which covers the whole video
player viewport and lasts for a view seconds), and small popup ads (which
only covers part of the video player viewport). The latter one appears the
least frequent.

I'm still experimenting and gathering info for blocking those new type of
ads. It's a slow progress because it appears randomly, and there's no method
to reliably and consistently make them appear.

On Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:13:52 +0100, Snit wrote:

On Aug 6, 2020 at 2:51:47 PM MST, ""Commander Kinsey""
wrote:

On Thu, 06 Aug 2020 22:36:08 +0100, Snit
wrote:

...

I have some sites set to "Reader Mode" to bypass a bunch of junk. I can do
that on a site by site basis.

What is "reader mode"?

A mode in Safari which gets rid of ads and headers and the like and focuses
just on the content. It *mostly* works. You can apparently get something
similar for Chrome:



https://chrome.google.com/webstore/d...dlmlhblm?hl=en

And looking now I see Firefox has "Reader View" which I suppose is much the
same.

I have never used those solutions though.

Don't you miss out on the fluffy stuff required for the page, like images and
videos and animations and the like?

Inline images generally show. Here, an example of a NYT page:

https://youtu.be/kPqdOdUsZaE

Looks useful, although adblockers might also do that.

P.S. you got some spam in the comments. I reported it.

If I can't get through their blocks quickly, I send them an email with
swearwords in it.

I am sure that is very helpful.

It lets them know they lost a customer.

One not willing to pay.

Seeing an advert is not paying. Only those stupid enough to click the advert
earn them any money.

Ever have any luck getting a site to migrate away from a pay wall?

I can't remember, Adblock might do it. Provide an example.

Snit wrote:
nospam wrote:
In article , Snit
wrote:

My method has no such delay. I can¹t be the only one who knows about it.
Waiting to see if folks like Gremlin know. Either way I will reveal my
³trick² soon. It is based on something I saw on a YouTube video but I
streamlined it to make it be very quick. Not sure if the same streamlining
works on Linux and Windows but the general method does. Browser
independent.

translated: doesn't exist.


So you have no idea — figured. But

Should be BET. Not saying I know for certain. Sorry Gremlin.

Gremlin is just as lost. Which really is
fine — but fun to note given how arrogant you two are.

Hint: it does use common third party software.





--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks
and ignore the message time and time again.

On 8/7/2020 11:51 AM, Snit wrote:
Ken Blake wrote:
On 8/7/2020 9:23 AM, R.Wieser wrote:
Snit,

How about ads on YouTube?

On my Raspberry Pi with Chromium uBlock seems to work well.



I just tried uBlock here on FireFox. It *sort of* blocks the ads that
start many Utube performances.


It starts with an error "An error occurred. Please try again later." A
few seconds later, the performance starts. The error message takes the
place of the ads, and lasts about the same length of time.

Is that an improvement? Perhaps it's a minor one; at least there's no
sound for the error message.



My method has no such delay. I can’t be the only one who knows about it.
Waiting to see if folks like Gremlin know. Either way I will reveal my
“trick� soon. It is based on something I saw on a YouTube video but I
streamlined it to make it be very quick. Not sure if the same streamlining
works on Linux and Windows but the general method does. Browser
independent.



I look forward to your revealing it.


--
Ken

"R.Wieser" wrote

|
| The problem now is that they're designing for phones
| without checking the userAgent to confirm it is a phone.
|
| I'm not sure why you think they should do that.

It used to be common courtesy and competent design
to make sure pages look right in different browsers. My
own pages use one version for non-IE and then a special
version for IE because 1) older IE doesn't recognize :hover
for CSS and 2) IE lays things out slightly differently from
other browsers. So the idea is to make the functionality and
display work in all browsers, with no script if possible. And
I make sure it actually works in both IE and FF. (If it works
in FF it should look the same in Chrome.)

I don't make a phone version because 1) they can read
my pages if they need to and 2) someone on a phone
is just bopping around. That's fine if they just want to
check Facebook, but with my site, if they're actually interested,
they'll want to come back later to see it on a computer.

If people want to cater to phones they can check the UA
and then if necessary do their lazy-load images, their 24px
text, their triple line spacing, and so on. But since that's
not a good design for desktop they should really have
different versions.

| My stance is that they
| shouldn't check the userAgent /ever/. If they do they succumb to
| "optimalisations" specifically for a certain browser and version thereof,
| trying to create WYSIWYG instead of HTML (that auto-flows to make the best
| of whatever width is available).
|
Customizing for agents doesn't mean set window widths.
It just means making sure your pages actually look right and
work properly on different devices and browsers.

|
| P.s.
| You are aware of the ETag entry in the HTTP header ? Its property is
just
| begging to be used as a cookie replacement (it gets set by the server, and
| send by the client on every usage of the resource - to check if the
resource
| has changed (read: cache busting) ).
|
I haven't paid much attention to it, frankly. But the
Secret Agent extension I use spoofs it.

"Ken Blake" wrote

| On my Raspberry Pi with Chromium uBlock seems to work well.
|
| I just tried uBlock here on FireFox. It *sort of* blocks the ads that
| start many Utube performances.

| It starts with an error "An error occurred. Please try again later." A
| few seconds later, the performance starts. The error message takes the
| place of the ads, and lasts about the same length of time.
|

I get that, too, on Raspberry Pi 4 with FF. I didn't
realize it was uBlock doing it. On Windows I just use
youtube-dl. I've meant to set that up on the Pi
but it would be a lot of trouble.

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 17:34:19 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote:

"R.Wieser" wrote

|
| The problem now is that they're designing for phones
| without checking the userAgent to confirm it is a phone.
|
| I'm not sure why you think they should do that.

It used to be common courtesy and competent design
to make sure pages look right in different browsers. My
own pages use one version for non-IE and then a special
version for IE because 1) older IE doesn't recognize :hover
for CSS and 2) IE lays things out slightly differently from
other browsers. So the idea is to make the functionality and
display work in all browsers, with no script if possible. And
I make sure it actually works in both IE and FF. (If it works
in FF it should look the same in Chrome.)

There used to be a site you could enter an URL and get an
image of what your webpage looked like in various browsers/versions of
browsers with/without javascript, flash and java enabled.
I remember the service got slower and slower(as browsers
became "faster and faster" LOL), so they ended up limiting the number
of entries per day/IP.
I thought it was "browsershots point org", but that no longer
works( I block most google tracking with my hosts file).
Can't remember the URL and search engines don't help at all.
Can you remember it?
TIA
[]'s
--
Don't be evil - Google 2004
We have a new policy - Google 2012

In article , Ken Blake
wrote:

On 8/7/2020 11:51 AM, Snit wrote:
My method has no such delay. I can¹t be the only one who knows about it.
Waiting to see if folks like Gremlin know. Either way I will reveal my
³trick² soon. It is based on something I saw on a YouTube video but I
streamlined it to make it be very quick. Not sure if the same streamlining
works on Linux and Windows but the general method does. Browser
independent.


I look forward to your revealing it.

you will be waiting a long time.

In article , Snit
wrote:

My method has no such delay. I can1t be the only one who knows about it.
Waiting to see if folks like Gremlin know. Either way I will reveal my
3trick2 soon. It is based on something I saw on a YouTube video but I
streamlined it to make it be very quick. Not sure if the same streamlining
works on Linux and Windows but the general method does. Browser
independent.

translated: doesn't exist.


So you have no idea

you're playing your usual games and trolling.

if you knew, you would have offered help.

‹ figured. But Gremlin is just as lost. Which really is
fine ‹ but fun to note given how arrogant you two are.

get off your high horse.

neither of us are lost and you know it.

while i can't speak for gremlin, i can safely say i know far more about
blocking youtube ads than you do.

Hint: it does use common third party software.

'it' means a single solution, which means you're already behind the
curve, and 'common third party software' is meaningless.

you ain't fooling anyone.

On Aug 7, 2020 at 2:33:14 PM MST, "Ken Blake" wrote:

On 8/7/2020 11:51 AM, Snit wrote:
Ken Blake wrote:
On 8/7/2020 9:23 AM, R.Wieser wrote:
Snit,

How about ads on YouTube?

On my Raspberry Pi with Chromium uBlock seems to work well.



I just tried uBlock here on FireFox. It *sort of* blocks the ads that
start many Utube performances.


It starts with an error "An error occurred. Please try again later." A
few seconds later, the performance starts. The error message takes the
place of the ads, and lasts about the same length of time.

Is that an improvement? Perhaps it's a minor one; at least there's no
sound for the error message.



My method has no such delay. I can’t be the only one who knows about it.
Waiting to see if folks like Gremlin know. Either way I will reveal my
“trick� soon. It is based on something I saw on a YouTube video but I
streamlined it to make it be very quick. Not sure if the same streamlining
works on Linux and Windows but the general method does. Browser
independent.

I look forward to your revealing it.

Here is the full trick: https://youtu.be/fbD3nkR1OWk

Don't know if YouTube will allow the video to remain... we shall see.



--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot
use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow
superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

"Shadow" wrote

| I thought it was "browsershots point org", but that no longer
| works( I block most google tracking with my hosts file).
| Can't remember the URL and search engines don't help at all.
| Can you remember it?

I've never heard of that. I just test locally as I'm coding.
It's not much help to test it after it's already online.

On Aug 7, 2020 at 4:52:46 PM MST, "nospam" wrote:

In article , Snit
wrote:

My method has no such delay. I can1t be the only one who knows about it.
Waiting to see if folks like Gremlin know. Either way I will reveal my
3trick2 soon. It is based on something I saw on a YouTube video but I
streamlined it to make it be very quick. Not sure if the same streamlining
works on Linux and Windows but the general method does. Browser
independent.

translated: doesn't exist.


So you have no idea

you're playing your usual games and trolling.

I responded to your idiotic trolling where you made the false claim about my
solution not existing.

In short: you do not know how. So what? There are things we all do not know.
No reason for you to get so ****y all the time.



if you knew, you would have offered help.

‹ figured. But Gremlin is just as lost. Which really is
fine ‹ but fun to note given how arrogant you two are.

get off your high horse.

neither of us are lost and you know it.

Yet you just denied something that is EASY to do could not be done.



while i can't speak for gremlin, i can safely say i know far more about
blocking youtube ads than you do.

Yet you could not show or describe a method. LOL!



Hint: it does use common third party software.

'it' means a single solution, which means you're already behind the
curve, and 'common third party software' is meaningless.

you ain't fooling anyone.

Unlike you, I do not seek to fool anyone. I just have fun watching you and
Gremlin dig holes with your arrogance and ignorance.

I do want to be clear: just because you are ignorant about SOME things does
not mean you are about ALL things. But you clearly were ignorant here... just
as you were ignorant when you cried about my noting how Apple is making it
harder to run Windows on Macs as they move away from Intel.

--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot
use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow
superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On Aug 7, 2020 at 4:52:44 PM MST, "nospam" wrote:

In article , Ken Blake
wrote:

On 8/7/2020 11:51 AM, Snit wrote:
My method has no such delay. I can¹t be the only one who knows about it.
Waiting to see if folks like Gremlin know. Either way I will reveal my
³trick² soon. It is based on something I saw on a YouTube video but I
streamlined it to make it be very quick. Not sure if the same streamlining
works on Linux and Windows but the general method does. Browser
independent.


I look forward to your revealing it.

you will be waiting a long time.


Why? It has already been posted... why wait at all?

Your comment is, of course, absurdly wrong. But I was hoping Gremlin would
jump in to humiliate himself as much as you did.

--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot
use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow
superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On 8/7/2020 4:53 PM, Snit wrote:
On Aug 7, 2020 at 2:33:14 PM MST, "Ken Blake" wrote:

On 8/7/2020 11:51 AM, Snit wrote:
Ken Blake wrote:
On 8/7/2020 9:23 AM, R.Wieser wrote:
Snit,

How about ads on YouTube?

On my Raspberry Pi with Chromium uBlock seems to work well.



I just tried uBlock here on FireFox. It *sort of* blocks the ads that
start many Utube performances.


It starts with an error "An error occurred. Please try again later." A
few seconds later, the performance starts. The error message takes the
place of the ads, and lasts about the same length of time.

Is that an improvement? Perhaps it's a minor one; at least there's no
sound for the error message.



My method has no such delay. I can’t be the only one who knows about it.
Waiting to see if folks like Gremlin know. Either way I will reveal my
“trick� soon. It is based on something I saw on a YouTube video but I
streamlined it to make it be very quick. Not sure if the same streamlining
works on Linux and Windows but the general method does. Browser
independent.

I look forward to your revealing it.

Here is the full trick: https://youtu.be/fbD3nkR1OWk

Don't know if YouTube will allow the video to remain... we shall see.


Thanks very much. No time now. I'll look at it tomorrow.

Ken


--
Ken