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Has YouTube Blocked Your Adblocker Yet?? (strawpoll.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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UPDATE 2 It seems that starting today, uBlock Origin is working to combat this Youtube Block. Mine started working again! Lets all thank the devs of UBO for fighting this fight!

UPDATE So as new info comes out, I'll be posting it here. It seems as if this Rollout Has Several Parts.

Part 1

You get a popup message over top of your video, blocking the screen:

This is the first sign. If you see this popup AND are logged into a YouTube account, your account has been selected.
At this stage you can likely close or block these messages with an adblocker.

Part 2

This message will change, indicating that you have 3 remaining videos to watch without ads.

Will insert photo once one has been found

At this stage your adblocker will imminently stop working in 3 videos time.
Personally using Firefox + uBlock Origin and tweaking filters and updates does not even fix it.

Part 3

None of the video loads now, everything looks blank.

At this stage you must tred new ground to avoid ads. I have posted methods in the comments. If you want to bypass this end page, read down there.

End of Update

YouTube has started rolling out anti-adblock to users inside the United States, which means that they are preparing to roll this out to the entire country. Personally, I have been blocked already. I want to gauge how common this occurrence is.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Very good. It will be nice to be off YouTube completely.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

well, I will stop to use YouTube, and that will solve 2 problems

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Ublock Origin still works for me

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not from US but my uBlock has a problem with YouTube since yesterday. It blocks the ad video but the sound of it is still audible.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I followed this from Ublock's Reddit page, it's working for now.

Current anti-adblock status: Latest fixed (ID: 462a8d5d)*

Please, remember these 3 steps:

Force update all your filter lists (click uBO icon > ⚙ Dashboard button > Filter lists pane > 🕘 Purge all caches > 🔃 Update now)
Turn off all other extensions AND browser's built-in blockers
Remove all your current custom filters AND custom filter lists that you have enabled / added manually (Adguard lists...)
It might be quicker to make a backup of your config and restore to defaults before proceeding to step 1.

Fixing anti-adblock can cause ads slipped. If you see any ads slipped, please report back the EXACT URL and your country when accessing the URL so volunteers are able to investigate.

The filter lists can be updated multiple times a day, so please always do step 1 before reporting.

About the ID above, it's the ID of YouTube's script that's used for anti-adblock, you can monitor it via this link: https://pastefy.app/G1Txv5su/raw (top to bottom is oldest to latest). It means that the current fix is matched with the script with corresponding ID.

If the latest ID (the last line) does not match the current one written above, it means YT has updated the new one and it might cause anti-adblock again. If it matches and you still get anti-adblock, kindly check the 3 steps above. Thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't know because I use firefox. Fuck google.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (32 children)

Sad thing is that this will affect even Firefox + uBlock

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use YouTube revanced, and after a quick update a few weeks ago it's working fine again

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I have a script I used to auto download new stuff from my subscriptions using yt-dlp. I never watch videos on youtube anymore because it's just garbage, buffering all the time or just straight up not playing content. The only thing I miss is sponsor block but I don't care that much

here's instructions on setting the script up if you're interested

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Here's hoping YouTube Revanced on Android and Adguard on desktop continues to work, eh...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tbh, at this point there's no reason in them disabling ad blockers. If you haven't gotten used to this insane amount of ads by experiencing the slow, uphill creep, having to go from seeing no ads to suddenly this, is impossible. I couldn't watch youtube videos in the current state of ads, so I'd just have one less vice.

I had already stopped once, when youtube vanced went offline (until i found revanced) and I will do it again

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Firefox has zero issues with adblock on Desktop. On mobile I prefer Newpipe, but hey. Anything goes.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mine is not blocked yet. I am definitely worried about this though. I am in East Asia.

Wonder how much YouTube is going to squeeze out of this ad blocker blocking.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Freaking ironic that I get an ad on strawpoll stopping me from seeing the results.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't get this banner yet maybe because I'm using ublock origin

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I feel like we can ignore this and it'll mostly be a non-issue. Hopefully I don't have to eat those words later.

YouTube can detect common current adblocking methods, and use this to hinder you now, prompting to comply with them. If you do, they win. You pay for no ads or you have an exception in your adblocker.

As another comment mentioned, it's a cat and mouse game. Adblockers will get ahead of it. So just wait it out.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

should I vote if I'm not in the US?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (13 children)

If you have a good party to vote for. I'm in the UK, and I'm not so sure if any party deserves my vote.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They are rolling this out in stages to users worldwide, It happened to me 3 weeks ago, on Brave, Firefox, and on Chrome. I had to junk Brave, update firefox, flush out my extensions (remove them) and reinstall, and now I run 6 different ad blocking and tracking extensions and its back working again. You should also know that Adblocker Ultimate are also involved and working on blocking their extension from working so they can sell premium app, which is now an app that runs on your computer, not an extension anymore.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

6 adblockers?! Have you looked into uBlock origins customisable block lists? You can combine at least 3 blockers with that. Additionally you could add custom block lists.

Edit: clarifications and spelling errors.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

I pay for premium.

I spend like 20x time on YouTube compared to other premium streaming services, knowing the money at least partially goes to the creators and that it's usually a much larger source of revenue than the midroll ads (and the fact I spend like 40% of my watch time on an iPad) makes it pretty worth it to me. Other than that I use uBlock on medium/high, but if there was an extention that could skip the sponsor segments inside the videos themselves I'd use it in a heartbeat.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Until today I haven’t seen an ad on YT, for years. Then I searched for a video, clicked, and got an ad. Clicked off the video, restarted the browser (also updated uBlock’s filters), and that fixed it.

Edit: I wrote this and got another ad. No video, just the audio.

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