>Imagine valuing your time so little you waste it trying to block instead of just abstaining or using premium.
I mean it takes ~15 seconds to update uBlock Origin's filter scripts any time there's an update to bypass YouTube. Based on my current salary that's under 50 cents worth of my time. Also I've actually had zero adblock warnings on Firefox so far, my wife had issues on Opera and uBO wasn't updated yet and I spent a minute getting Firefox set up for her so I guess that was about $1-$2 of my time.
>I mean it takes ~15 seconds to update uBlock Origin's filter scripts any time there's an update to bypass YouTube. Based on my current salary that's under 50 cents worth of my time.
It takes me precisely 0 seconds to update uBO's scripts. It's all done automatically; am I the only one here that doesn't spend any time at all blocking ads? I installed uBO ages ago, I've spent a couple minutes going through the options and enabling almost everything useful to me (annoyance lists, etc.), and that was it. It doesn't take any effort on my part to block ads on YouTube or anywhere else now that it's set up.
Also, I've also have zero adblock warnings so far, on FF/Linux, FFNightly/Android, and SmartTubeNext.
Setting up a YouTube Premium account and managing the payment details would honestly take me far more time than it does for me to block ads.
I could be wrong, but I interpreted gp as criticizing those who make the solutions available/easy, not those who use the solutions. The former are "trying to block" which takes time -- the latter simply block which is closer to immediate. And then there's us discussing the whole thing, which shows that sometimes the pleasure is in the journey, not the destination.
Well the creator of uBlock Origin probably rakes in a few hundred thousand in donations and other revenue annually, so it's probably well worth their time too.
But yeah, arguing about it all online has always been the most fun part.
The people who make the solutions are probably doing it because they enjoy it, just like many OSS projects. It's just like ages ago when crackers spent tons of time reverse-engineering games to defeat copy protection: it was a challenge for them, and they enjoyed sharing the results with their communities.
I mean it takes ~15 seconds to update uBlock Origin's filter scripts any time there's an update to bypass YouTube. Based on my current salary that's under 50 cents worth of my time. Also I've actually had zero adblock warnings on Firefox so far, my wife had issues on Opera and uBO wasn't updated yet and I spent a minute getting Firefox set up for her so I guess that was about $1-$2 of my time.