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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] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I load the old 2014-2017 layout locally from my C drive as my localhost and proxy it to load when i type in youtube dot com. avoids ads, increases performance, and looks better as a layout all in one.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

*Laughs in PeerTube

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Firefox and ublock as usual, still good

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Firefox + UBO and ReVanced still working rn.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is google that stupid that this will not bring on an onslaught of abuse to circumvent their false god status of the internet? I have already been "part 3'd" and completely bypassed it.

They get jackshit from me now at all. At least before they may have made some revenue from me for viewing the videos, now I am a ghost. No money for anyone. (and in case you are gonna say - I dont care content makers are losing, they are all dumbarses, and if they are supporting yt still and not posting elsewhere, then they are just stupid cunts. The only reason google is doing this is to make more money off of the people who make content, but not upset their already unstable revenue income. If the content providers get antsy and leave, YT loses.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I saw two borked up ads that played audio and no video, refreshed my browser and haven't seen them since. I also updated my block list and it's been fine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If you are on Linux you can just use freetube. Maybe it’s also available on windows but that’s something I don’t know

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I only watch Rossmann’s channel anymore so I will probably just quit if they block mine. I use uBlock Origin + Librewolf + VPN + pihole + a random user agent extension. When I set my VPN to USA it still doesn’t say anything.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I have been having this problem 2 days ago, but I have started using NoScript in combination with UBlock Origin yesterday and i didn't see any ads after that.

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