youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos : technology

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

To be fair it is how they make their money.

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

Am getting the all ads(but skipable) on brave too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For some reason, I got this popup but I didnt care which then blocked my player but I tried several different adblockers simultaneously which made the ads not play but there was a black screen for 5 seconds or so when the ad should've played but then I installed adguard, which after that no matter what I did on youtube, didn't get any ad anywhere or the popup, with the ad blockers on or off .

Using Vivialdi btw

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Happened to me a the other day, so i used piped instead, yesterday my muscle memory got me back to YouTube and everything was back to normal

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 year ago

My buddy reported that he started getting blocked using uBlock starting today.

I've never had any of the problems, but I have some caveats that may be helpful:

I live in Korea
I use brave browser with no uBlock as it's unnecessary
I also use NextDNS at the router level.

#3 seems to be of no consequence as I tried using vanilla Chrome and ads played while randomly testing videos

That leads me to believe #2 or #1 is preventing ads.

I didn't disable NextDNS since it failed at #3, and I haven't tried VPNing into a U.S. endpoint out of laziness.

Either #1, or #2 is preventing ads ... I'm inclined to believe it is #2, Brave browser, that is successfully blocking ads; even without VPN, with NextDNS, I was still getting ads in vanilla Chrome.

I think there is something in Brave browser that is currently overlooked.

I hope it helps someone

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