nobody prolly cares but just posting this for the record

[ceagle]

Google and YouTube, either together or apart, have finally succeeded in hosing EACH OTHER'S operability today, simultaneously. ;/

Sure... they gotta get the ads. Sure I click on some ads for 'em. Fine.

But they've figured out how to make sure things don't work (for the most part) if you don't wanna see ads alla time...

- Gradually (it seems) they have been infiltrating the AdBlock stuff... first absorbing AdThwart (the alternative), then killing it. Then they kept updating AdBlock so now it's barely effective any more... at least I can't use it, as of tonight.

- And then Google, LOL, arrgh, they've been slowly implementing the new sign-in sign-out interface at the top right of the page, so that it's not a basic usable link any more... and as of tonight, they completed the task of making it unusable too. :P eeeesh.

I use a Script Blocker in FireFox to keep malware away, and luckily they haven't absorbed and defunctionalized that (and I hope they won't) ... :|

So now, to login/out of Google I've gotta give it temporary script permissions.

And to use YouTube, I've gotta see some of these blecch ads.

Do advertisers ever realize that annoyance can backfire on them? I've boycotted products for years that had ads that were so annoying/pervasive that they deserved it. Goofballs.

bleh.

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p.s. The reason for the title is that I do realize most people might not even notice this stuff happened because they are using the latest stuff and seeing the annoying ads. Hey... if you have a more effective method of getting around these two recent annoynaces, plz plz plz do tell.... Thanx! ^v^

Comments

[expandranon.livejournal.com]

I have Iceweasel, the linux version of Firefox, and there's an addon called Flashblock that stops all flash objects from loading until they're clicked on. That stops the worst advertising offenders, but simple banner ads still load.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

ooo yes, bud! I have that too! (forgot to mention it.. .d'oh!)

I use NoScript and FlashBlock together and have found it is more effective that AdBlock that way.

*hugs*

I should have included in this mini-rant though, that DeviantArt really took the cake a long time ago in becoming the hardest-to-use site with all these protections in place... and so I will just suckitup and go to I.E. when I go over there, and even then... it's like half the images don't load! Gotta do several refreshes before it works.. and then, booop, here come the ads also.

I guess YouTube and Google could learn a few more thoroughly insidious tricks from the deviants over there! eeeesh....

[expandranon.livejournal.com]

DA acts weird for me, too, and it's also constantly reloading itself, and I never quite know what it's up to. I'm not too fond of its interface. Too complicated for my liking, full of features I'll never, ever have a use for, the information and features I want hidden in a haystack.

[whitetail.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I use AdBlock with Firefox, and I'm not having these problems. I was having issues with NoScript and YouTube, but once I uninstalled NoScript, I've had no trouble with Google-related sites at all.

[makovette.livejournal.com]

I am using AdBlock v1.3.3 and it's 100% effective on YouTube.

I just verified this at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZFkXQKCuBc

CYa!
Mako

[atkelar.livejournal.com]

As a user of IE I don't have the choice of using adblock anyway... so I use a custom "hosts" file in my firewall/proxy that redirects known ad-servers to 127.0.0.1 where there is no serever listening and away they go. It works for every really mean ad campaign site that "delivers" ads on behalf of somebody else. Only ads provided by the sites themself show up - which is OK in my book. Oh and I use "prompt" for any active-x content like flash. Sure wish IE had a better ruleset for that stuff but hey: I got used to certain "yes/no/yes" patterns to make sites work that require flash and still not see the ads ;)

[rcoony.livejournal.com]

I'm using Firefox with Adblock Plus and NoScript, and I did not have any trouble at all with Youtube here... Either that, or whatever is not working is something that I've never used or noticed before.

[eagle-bird.livejournal.com]

I don't use anything special for ads, I just have a blacklist of ad domains and use my HOSTS file to redirect them.

[stoda.livejournal.com]

Yep, Adblock & NoScript work very well for me.

If I find something particularly annoying that sneaks past, I ferret out the URL of what served it up, then add that to my hosts file, pointing at ... well, most people would use 127.0.0.1.

[secret-wolver.livejournal.com]

Unless they jump in my face or make noise, I don’t really notice them.

[shurun-marten.livejournal.com]

It's funny you should mention YouTube. For the past day or so i get only the audio but not the video! O.O

[jfd62780.livejournal.com]

Lemme guess: Some videos visually freeze when they begin playing?

Click the pop-out button, they're sure to work then! Also, make sure to view'em fullscreened. AFTER you minimize the ad of course. ;)

[atkelar.livejournal.com]

Have to add here, that as of yesterday my old and treasured YouTube account too has been forced to convert to a Google account... but since I already have an alternate channel with my e-mail address AND there's only one channel per user AND only one e-mail per account... I'm sorta not able to access my account for the time being D:

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

I can never boycott them because they never seem to advertise anything I need or want o.O Oddly enough my brain seems to filter all the ads so I can never seem to remember any conciously anyway.

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

i hate how they forced people to have to have a google account to use youtube now >(