Fully blocking only if you aren’t using uBlock Origin, which you just have to update the filters on.
Complete waste of effort.
Alphabet needs to be broken up.
This effort I don’t believe was targeting people like most of what you would find here.
This ad-block ban, was mostly targeted at people who didn’t know what an ad-blocker was and didn’t want to have to deal with having to get banned.
If Alphabet(google) is actually serious about blocking ad-blockers, I would be surprised. Mostly because Microsoft has had more experience with this, also has billions, and even they quit.
Fully blocking only if you aren’t using uBlock Origin
Not even that, I use Adblock Plus and have no trouble accessing Youtube and watching videos. Didn’t even need to update any filters, it just keeps working as-is.
It’s doing it on ublock origin again; are there updates * since Saturday?
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At points they’ve updated multiple times per day.
Until they start banning accounts for violating the tos. Then people with 20 years of emails are going to be lost without them.
That will absolutely include government accounts.
Google would get instagibbed.
Ublock origin on firefox. Never forced an update, never did any fiddling with block lists. Never got a single warning or notification, still works perfectly. Huh.
Could just be luck of the draw. I’m using the same setup and sometimes I get it, sometimes I don’t
I’m also using ublock on Firefox, I had plenty of notifications over the past two weeks, I have even an Invidious redirect set up, though admittedly ublock is winning RIGHT NOW.
I was told to install it fresh and turn off any updates, that seems to work
I got the popup all the time for a few weeks with Firefox and uBlock Origin. As a YouTube Premium subscriber. The paid service. The whole reason they were pushing back on ad blockers to begin with.
Fuck these guys, I let the subscription lapse.
It’s all good just make sure you have an up-to-date ublock-based extension: https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/
As of writing this Adblock Plus isn’t working with Youtube but no reason you should be using that over ublock origin anyways.
I have Ad Guard installed and still use UBlock Origin for its features.
I’m still waiting for Google to ban uBlock Origin from the Chrome addon store.
All the more reason to switch to Firefox!
The two worst things that ever happened to YouTube were monetized content and Google buying it. It hasn’t even been very fun to browse YouTube since like 2010.
Remember YouTube before people started doing ad-like thumbnails, and radio voices?
Like …the top channels were normal people.
Someone like FRED was on top at one point. Which is insane looking back on it. All it took was running around being obnoxious with a high pitched voice to be the largest channel on YouTube back then.
I miss that so much!
According to the developer of Wipr, from what I understand Youtube is using A/B testing for their "ad blocker blocker” and that the dev is working on adapting the app for Youtube latest efforts.
In the meantime, I just stopped going to Youtube. I find I now have a lot of time to read.
I wouldn’t mind if Youtube placed and ad. But when a video has 4-5 ads that awkwardly break up the flow of the video I just don’t have the patience.
i just kept pushing the x in the top right corner for a few weeks, then it gave me the 3-2-1 countdown, and then finally it blocked me from viewing any more videos until i disabled my ad blocker. i disabled uBlock origin, refreshed, re-enabled it again. no more ads since i did that.
around the world
fully blocking ad blockers
One of those two has to be false, because I’m still not seeing any anti-adblocker measures on my end.
Silence, Marsian scum, we finally got you.
Only time I every encountered the popup was when I used orion with its built in adblocker. And even then I gat one warning (no metion of 3 strike policy). Only change now is the added a 3 second timer to the dismiss button.
Edit: Ublock origen and firefox as usual no issue
Firefox with uBlock Origin and a Pi-Hole on my home network. When I started getting the “you’re using an adblocker” popups I used uBO to select and block those, also. That was maybe two weeks ago.
On my work laptop (which is unfortunately remotely managed), Chrome with uBO and a pick-and-blocked filter for the same popup. I still have my background noise for working.
I also have a Piped install that does a pretty nice job as a front-end.
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So fully blocking ad blockers other than the most popular one? I guess we should be glad they weren’t this bad at programming 18 years ago when they launched Youtube…
I’m not using the most popular one (I use Adblock Plus, which iirc most people hate) and I can also freely use Youtube with it turned on. So it’s not about ublock.
I don’t hate ABP, it used to be the main one everyone used, including me. Problem is it stopped working well at some point so we all switched to uBlock Origin. I’m glad ABP is working well again, but I’ll keep recommending uBlock Origin as long as it keeps working.
hmmm hadnt noticed. must be a you problem. heh
PEBKAC
I have seen it just once so far. However, this isn’t the end. YouTube is rolling this out gradually - perhaps to avoid a massive backlash. I’m sure that even uBO won’t be good enough soon.
i was being cheeky, but seriously, ive moved on from youtube. i dont need the content that bad, and i am comfortable drawing a line in the sand. so it does not matter what they do it does not affect me.
No it’s not.
I mean, maybe it’s trying, I don’t know, but I’m not even trying to keep ublock origin up to date (maybe it updates itself in the background?) and I haven’t noticed any difference (or ads) other than the normal progressive enshittification of both platform and channels, and I’m pretty certain I live in the world… EDIT: And before anyone asks, I am logged in, I mostly use YouTube through the subscriptions page, so being logged in doesn’t seem to be causing any problems for me either.
Still not getting any ads in Vivaldi
Next step: only available on chrome
Anti-trust suit in 3…2…1…
“Best I can do is a small fine. Also, the fine is tax deductible.” - Federal Government, 2023.
Normally I’d be on the same page, but the Biden admin has genuinely made the biggest antitrust moves in the last 30 years.
the biggest antitrust moves in the last 30 years.
That’s a pretty low bar to clear
At least someone’s actually bothering.
