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1y ago

Has YouTube Blocked Your Adblocker Yet??

strawpoll.com Has YouTube Blocked Your Adblocker Yet?? - Online Poll - StrawPoll.com

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.

336 comments

I've got so many layers of adblock it's hard to know which one(s) are responsible for blocking the ads.
- Same here. Was just explaining to a coworker who was complaining about YT ads that I "just" use PiHole+Unbound for network blocking, AirVPN with DNS blocking, mullvad Private DNS on Android, and then Libretube to view my self-hosted Piped instance. As I said it I realized how ridiculous it's gotten and how deranged I probably sound.
  
  This all sounds like extremely reasonable to me. Fuck the haters.
  
  I just use use uBlock Origin.
  
  PiHole+Unbound . . . AirVPN with DNS blocking, mullvad Private DNS . . . Libretube
  This is what I pictured reading all that.
  
  Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of using Piped having a proxy between you and YouTube? Or are you serving your instance to friends/family so that your queries get mixed together?
  
  Did your coworker know what you were talking about? Also, please explain how AirVPN with DNS blocking works.
  
  Why do you need adblock, when using piped?

The irony of the straw poll site throwing up an anti-adblock banner 🤣
- I have a VPN and I can’t vote.
- That's self selection bias if I've ever seen it

I'm going to start a discussion in the comments here about methods to bypass the message. I will add suggestions here, so leave comments if you find a method!
Methods to bypass Youtube Anti-Adblock:
The easiest method is simply to comply and turn off your adblock extension.
My Method
My method, and the one that will likely work universally is as follows:
Install Extension Enhancer for YouTube™
Downloads: Firefox | Chrome
Go to the extensions settings and ensure that under the Ads Management section, "Block Ads" is turned OFF

Now find the Custom Script box at the very bottom and enter the following script. I did not write this code, it comes from egaudette on GitHub
undefined

(function() { 'use strict'; var clickInterval = setInterval(skipAds, 5); var ytpAdModule; var miniAdd; var skipButton; var currentVideo; function skipAds() { ytpAdModule = document.querySelector('.ytp-ad-module'); skipButton = document.querySelector('button[class*="ad-skip"]'); miniAdd = document.querySelector('.ytp-ad-overlay-container'); if (ytpAdModule !== null && ytpAdModule.innerHTML !== '') { ytpAdModule.style.display = 'none'; } if (skipButton !== null) { skipButton.click(); return; } currentVideo = document.querySelector('video[class*="main-video"]') if (currentVideo !== null && currentVideo.duration <= 5) { currentVideo.muted = true; currentVideo.play(); currentVideo.currentTime = currentVideo.duration; } } })();
Lastly, ensure the "Automatically execute the script when YouTube is loaded in a tab" box is checked, and press Save

I'll add more methods as they are discovered!
- Why would this work when others get blocked? Is it a novel way to block YT ads that's not popular? Because I think YT isn't looking for specific extensions but looking for certain kinds of behavior.
  
  This method lets ads load for half a second but then get skipped instantly. i have not personally found a way to 100% block ads once ive gotten their block page.
- Please note that posting the script has html-encoded && <> and similar characters so you'll have to replace those with the correct ones (or just get the script from GitHub)
- Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! ❤️

I genuinely think that advertising should be illegal at this point. It's a ridiculous concept.
- Based. Absolutely true, there is no good use for advertising.
  
  How do you define "advertising"?
  Is it advertising if a community government makes citizens aware that bus service will be changing?
  Is it advertising to tell people that there's a suicide hotline available if they need help?
  Is it advertising to encourage people to volunteer for a local festival?
  What about telling people that the festival exists using a poster? Is that an ad? Does it depend if the festival is free or non-profit?
  Advertising is just fundamentally about bringing people's attention to something. The spectrum can range from a municipal government "advertising" its monthly meeting so that local people can participate in their local democracy, to spam emails hyping a pump-and-dump cryptocurrency.
  Different people will have different ideas where the cut-off should be. The extreme libertarians will say that nothing should be banned. Others will say that it's ok to ban ads for alcohol and cigarettes but not for makeup or coffee. Even totalitarian states and supposedly communist states where one entity controls all companies have ads. Some of the most striking ads ever made were for Mussolini.
  So, the question really isn't about banning ads, it's just where to draw the line.
- It is a great example of how an industry can survive with only self-reported effectiveness. I remember a freakonomics episode where it was shown that very infrequently do companies get a positive return on marketing spending. It will be very interesting if that industry ever collapses.
  
  Multinational scam artists
  
  Advertising is about creating trends, and catching some impulse buyers. Effectiveness is likely overstated, but on the other hand it's difficult to quantify the effectiveness of a trend. I don't think it's likely to ever collapse, people will always want to believe they can influence others more than they actually can.

For those who don't know: VLC also takes a YouTube video address as input (in the menu: Media | Open Network Stream...).
- VLC is so damn good
- This has not worked for me in a very long time.
  
  Your vlc is probably busted and could use a reinstall. Happened to me once. It still works.
  
  You can also pipe yt-dlp into vlc if that suits your fancy.
  
  Mpv works just fine for me
- Strange, that doesn't work for me
  
  Update your VLC player if you haven't already.
  There is also a way to individually update just the extractor LUA script that VLC uses to play YT videos, but I haven't messed with that in so long I've forgotten how to do it

This is such a better use of their time and dollars versus improving their service to make it more attractive to customers.
If this is the change that really sets them financially straight, then I would say they have a failing business model.
- This is such a better use of their time and dollars versus improving their service to make it more attractive to customers.
  Making their service more attractive to customers is precicesly what they're trying to do.
  It's just that an advertising agency's customers are not the folk who watch, read or hear the ads, it's the folk who pay for the ads.
  
  I am not sure if it will work out like this though. The amount of ads they are forcing down peoples throat is isane. Eventually it will make people consume less videos and with that less ads overall.
- You are not the customer. You are the product.
  
  Yes, but if they destroy their products (aka drive users away) their real customers (ad companies) will pull out.
- If premium cost $5per month I'd pay for it, u use YouTube all the time
  No way in hell it's worth $15 a month though, their pricing is completely brwindead
  
  I agree. It’s around $22 NZD and that is just too steep. They have a slightly cheaper one but you can’t background play with it. I’m sick of being nickel and dimed at every possible opportunity and then hearing about how these companies are making record profits.
  
  Just make a (digital) trip to India and get family of 5 accounts for about 1$ a month per account. This the way I did it.
  
  I won't give a penny to the evil google.
  
  It's $25/mo for family. I hate that I pay for it, but I use music, and I mostly watch YouTube on a streaming device, so I've never been able to use ad blockers. $15 for the fam felt worth it, but $25 has me rethinking. Maybe I can configure YT-DL to get the shows I care about on my Plex
  
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- So you know that the people watching YouTube aren’t really considered “customers” by google in the traditional sense, right?

I'll just stop using YouTube like I've stopped using Reddit.
- I'm ready for that. When being a youtuber started looking like a job I think the site lost something.
  
  That is something you just cannot avoid with a new medium. Eventually there will always be professionalization. It just sucks that youtube now just gives us the same shit over and over instead of making it easy to find new creators, like it used to be.
  
  Yeah, YouTube was better when it was a bunch of amateur cat videos.
  
  I remember one of the early Youtube sensations was this teen chick's vlog that turned out to be a fictional soap opera basically. Because it hadn't occurred to anyone to do that yet.
  This was BACK IN THE DAY, around the same time Boxxy became a sensation, or that one chick who just sat still in front of the camera because the Japanese liked her huge eyes.

Remember when some people said we're nuts thinking Google will try to ban ad blockers with manifest v3? Yeah.
- Google will try everything in their power to stop us from blocking their ads. It's their main source of revenue, you don't have to be a genius to see why they don't like ad blockers
- Wouldn't this show that they failed, if they have to recur to site-based adblocker blocking? Clearly v3 hasn't stopped people from using Firefox, yt-dl, or whatever.
  
  The Gecko Engine (Firefox), holds a user share of 4%. When compared to Chromium's (Google Chrome and its clones) whooping 72% (roughly) user share, it's clear that Firefox has limited relevance to their business strategy.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StatCounter-browser-ww-monthly-202011-202011-bar.png

Youtube's use of A/B testing is very smart in that it's actually nothing about testing user response and all about limiting the number of people they piss off at once with their god awful changes.
The day I can't block ads on the internet is the day I stop using the internet.
- targeted ads have broken the Internet, saturated our subconsciouses, hijacked the attention economy, and continue to erode what's left of our dwindling privacy
  advertisers are the de facto gatekeepers of larger and larger swaths of online content.
  it wasn't always like this. it's gotten so much worse in recent years.
  
  I always knew that funding the internet using ads wasn't sustainable in the long run.
  
  It's only going to get worse.
  Shoving more ads in people's faces just desensitizes them to it so you can keep adding even more ads into the mix.
  "You were okay with 2 ads, why not 3?"
  "You were okay with 3 ads, why not 5?"
  Repeat until the end of time, or until the masses stop being dumbasses and work together to topple the ruling class.
  P.S. I have no respect for anyone in the advertising industry. They are all scum worth less than the gum under my shoe.
  
  Advertising is poison.
  The entire concept is intolerable, and it breaks whole industries. We've ruined televisions - not the medium of television, the physical rectangle in your living room - for the sake of cramming ads into the menus. They can show ads over your home movies. Paying for content to avoid ads is impossible because they just add ads. The siren song of slightly more money must not be ignored!
- yeah this, youtube inb particular is entirely unusable without an adblocker

Here's a rule for uBlock Origin.
Credit: https://lemmy.one/comment/597479 && original link: https://lemmy.nz/comment/446556
! Anti-Youtube Anti-Adblocker https://lemmy.one/comment/597479
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
- This has not worked for me.
- I feel dumb, do I need to do anything else besides pasting it to my rules temporary rules save?
- Doing the lord's work. Thank you!

I haven't used youtube.com to watch YouTube in years. NewPipe x SponsorBlock (polymorphicshade) on mobile, SmartTubeNext on TV, Invidious, Piped, or FreeTube on desktop.
- Hadn't heard of FreeTube before, thanks for mentioning it!
- Thanks! Freetube works great. Here are directions for importing YT subscriptions. https://docs.freetubeapp.io/usage/importing-subscriptions/

The irony of this poll blocking access from users with a VPN.
- Yep, I can't vote because I have a VPN.
- No problems with Mozilla VPN
- Huh.. Worked for me

What happens to me now with Firefox and ublock origin is if i leave a video paused in the background for a long time and then it unloads it and then I click it to continue watching so it loads back up, then it plays an ad. I was legit like
because I haven't seen an ad on the internet in years.
- Same! I was taken aback and offended all at once then refreshed to get rid of the ad which thankfully still works... But for how long more is the question 😭
- Yep, same here. Today I've been abruptly reminded how intrusive and obnoxious ads on Youtube are!

There's constant fixes for it btw from the ublockorigin team now! :D

I've started to just download videos with yt-dlp after grabbing links via Invidious. Using Invidious itself has become somewhat unreliable lately, and this way I don't have to put up with buffering and can watch in good quality. Cut out the middle men
- I have to wonder if once the ad blocking gets fully rolled out if yt-dlp will also cease to work?
  
  Good question. I'd hope not
- MPV can directly play yt videos (it uses a built-in copy of yt-dlp afaik), and it's very configurable. I always watch yt videos with it.
  Sometimes it would be useful if it could use a proxy like piped or invidious, but those links don't work
  
  Ooh, I should try that! I already use mpv, so that'd streamline things a bit
- Do you self host Invidious? I have zero issues with it self hosted.

I got it once on Chrome. Haven't used Chrome for YT since. No trouble with FF and UBlock Origin.
- Damn, I just recently switched to Ungoogled Chromium, just for YouTube (still use Firefox for everything else.) I did this for HDR and RTX Video Super Resolution, since Firefox supports neither. Looks like I'm going to have to live without now.
  
  No trouble for me using Yandex and AdGuard AdBlocker, either, fwiw.

Just a tip for those of you that do cave to pressure and go with the paid premium option. or already have one but dont want to pay for more accounts or a family account.
You can set up channels or brand accounts as sub-accounts on a premium subscription and they will act like separate accounts with the advantages of premium, so if you have a large family and don't want to pay for the full family subscription (which only has 5 slots anyway) you can set up a few sub-accounts that each get their own subscriptions, recommendations, settings and all have the premium features.
So if you want to make a premium account for a parent or child, you can do that with one single subscription if you can take the caveat of them being brand accounts rather than fully their own thing.
This works on things like Android TV or Google TV, but you need to log into the main account then switch to a sub account in the app, however, there is no authentication to switch between channel accounts this way, so it's really only useable for families only. I use this at home to run 4 separate nvidia shield youtube apps with their own subscriptions and recommendations on one single premium payment.
I expect they will change how that works in the future to remove the loophole, probably by charging for channel accounts or having it locked behind some kind of overpriced professional usage tier, but for now, it might be a good option for some.
- Many people have also said if you set your location to for example India when signing up for premium you'll get it basically for free compared to what it'll cost in europe and it'll keep working even if your location is elsewhere from there on.
  
  Yes indeed, and google get less money. however there are some signs that companies are starting to crack down on that.
  
  I use Turkey, it's around $2.50 per month for the 6-person plan.

Same. If I really need the website, I now use https://yewtu.be
- Or https:/piped.video
  
  piped has been giving me more issues recently, I think Google's fighting them?

I wonder if the people having this issue are using chrome. On FF it has never been an issue for me.
- Not there in Edge as well.
- I had this issue using Firefox. But updating the block lists has fixed it for now.
  
  Interesting.

Today I started getting ads with no video just audio. I didn't get the adblocker message yet. Firefox ESR+ublock origin
- This came up on reddit and one of the members suggested adding the following filter. I don't know if it works but may as well. (ublock > settings > my filters)
  youtube.com,youtubekids.com,youtube-nocookie.com##+js(json-prune, playerResponse.adPlacements playerResponse.playerAds playerResponse.adSlots adPlacements playerAds adSlots, adPlacements.[].adPlacementRenderer.renderer.instreamVideoAdRenderer)
  
  I haven't come across any since yesterday but I'm putting this in just in case
- Yep same, Firefox+ublock origin
- Try adding YT enhancer. I've got UBlock Origin and that installed. IDK which one is still blocking ads, but they're still blocked.
- I had this issue but refreshed the page and it has gone away since. I'm guessing that didn't help for you?
  
  Works for a few videos and then it shows them again. Seems like the normal YouTube thing where you get ads every few videos

It'll be a shame if I have to ditch YouTube. There's only 2 or 3 channels I would even consider paying for and they don't have Patreon or anything. I'm less than interested in giving Google a cut.

Does NewPipe count as an adblocker? Not yet but I fear its days are numbered.
- Newpipe is accessing the videos straight from the backend. There is no chance to splice any ads into, unless youtube were to modify the source material, and that's highly inconvenient. And then we'd just use sponsorblock anyway.
  They tried to change the code to access the raw video material many times over, but unless they encrypt it and enforce decryption via keys uniquely embedded in the official youtube app while somehow finding a way to prevent a disassembly to use their keys in unofficial apps, I don't see that happening.
  
  They don't need to splice ads in, they could just render NewPipe inoperable. I'm sure it would be fairly trivial to detect which page loads are from NewPipe.
- NewPipe+=1;

YouTube algorithm has been garbage for months now. There's literally no good content.
- The site has plenty of good content, just no way to find it.
  
  Some youtuber link other channels with similar topic/content. I found few new channels that way.

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

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

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.
- 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.
  
  I will definitely try this. Thank you really
- true
  
  glad i'm not the only one

Ublock Origin still works for me

I wouldn't know because I use firefox. Fuck google.
- Sad thing is that this will affect even Firefox + uBlock
  
  How's that? They're just gonna block YouTube? Way to kill their own service.

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
- Mind sharing it?
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/11ualom/auto_download_latest_youtube_videos_from_your/
  I'll make an updated lemmy post as well but for now it's an old reddit post of mine. There's also some great alternatives that I think are easier to set up if you don't mind managing a separate subscriptions list - I made this script specifically because none of the options I'd seen were able to take your subscriptions from youtube and check them.
  May be worth trying to set up with one of the alternative youtube frontends that have been popping up so you can use those accounts. I think it depends on if yt-dlp allows it as that's what's doing all the work here.
  
  ytfzf

I use YouTube revanced, and after a quick update a few weeks ago it's working fine again
- I too have been using Revanced but I'm not experienced with updating third party apps. How is it done?
  
  The same way you install revanced, you basically have to reinstall it with an updated APK and patches. At least that's how I did it.
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revanced_manager_guide_for_dummies/ basically just follow this and uninstall any old versions of microg or revanced if you have problems.

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.
- I recommend trying something like AdNauseum or similar. I get the idea they haven't reached us yet, only people reporting this are in the US so far.

Here's hoping YouTube Revanced on Android and Adguard on desktop continues to work, eh...
- 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
- Firefox has zero issues with adblock on Desktop. On mobile I prefer Newpipe, but hey. Anything goes.
- Revanced stopped working for me last week. I may reinstall incase I was running an old patch.
  
  Patching a newer version of the Youtube app resolved the issues with playback I was having.
  
  Yeah likely cause is something outdated. All working fine on my end
- REX is working fine with the SponsorBlock enabled.
  
  Forgive my ignorance – what's REX?

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

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.

I didn't get this banner yet maybe because I'm using ublock origin
- You either aren't part of the "small" test groups or you aren't logged in.

should I vote if I'm not in the US?
- 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.
  
  i meant on the poll lol
  
  You should always vote, if only to not let the worst party get power. Your enemies would rather you didn't vote than vote for their enemy.
  
  I’m in the UK, and I’m not so sure if any party deserves my vote.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gbDAvK42yA&t=216 / Obligatory Piped link

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.
- 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.
  
  Unlock or UBlock?
  
  unlock origins customisable block lists? You can combine at least 3 blockers with that
  I'll look into it.
- This is quite concerning. Hopefully the adblocker extension devs are able to bypass this. I expect a cat and mouse game eventually.
  
  It will be a cat and mouse game, which YouTube will loose in the long run. Don't remember the name, but there is a very clever solution: They download all the ads so YT thinks you are watching. However, ads are never shown to you. This is extremely hard to detect and it muddies the data collection of Google since you watch and click everything.
  IMO: This is a net loss for YT/Google. Their collection of data looses value. And advertisers wont be willing to pay the same amount for clicks, since a registered click is not necessary someone who watched and the targetting got worse...

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.
- if there was an extention that could skip the sponsor segments inside the videos themselves I’d use it in a heartbeat.
  sponsorblock does that. it's crowd sourced, so it doesn't always work with the small channel newest videos, but it's very good at what it does considering.
  
  It's quite amazing how well sponsorblock works really. I spend a shit ton of time on youtube and I almost never have to mark those sections of the video myself because someone else did it already.
- Sure there is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
- If you have access to a VPN you can also buy premium for a much smaller price in another region. I bought a year for 16 USD via India.
- I buy it in turkey
- It's a no-brainer. You get a music service at the same price as everyone else. They just add on ad-free YouTube. I don't get why so many people hate the idea of it.
  
  I've had Google Play Music (and YouTube Premium as a freebie) since it launched at $7.99 per month. Folks like me who were grandfathered in at that price just got an increase to $13.99, which forced me to cancel. I can't afford restaurants or takeout anymore with inflation as bad as it is, and I guess I can't afford YouTube either.
  
  I don't like YouTube Music
- SponsorBlocks does that but it either requires non-webkit Firefox or Revanced, which means you can't get it any way on iOS
- if there was an extention that could skip the sponsor segments inside the videos themselves I’d use it in a heartbeat.
  arrow key

welp time to use yewtu.be
- Alternatively, piped.video.
- noice

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.

*Laughs in PeerTube

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.
- I sincerely doubt the 2017 API still works today. Apps like NewPipe have to update every month to keep up with it, and old YouTube mobile app versions don't work anymore.
  
  look up rehike for youtube if you are curious. It works for me and many people.

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.
- 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.
  You had me until here. If you want to monetize online video content or get widespread appeal, YouTube is pretty much the viable choice atm, save for Twitch which only works if you're a streamer or Nebula, which even then it alone doesn't suffice and is very specific. If you plan on trying to "make it big" using PeerTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc. alone, your aspirations may as well be dead on arrival.
  Not losing sleep over the money content creators lose over you using adblock is fine, I personally don't put too much importance on it myself. But to call them all dumbasses or stupid cunts is just unreasonable, given the lack of a proper, popular alternative for most of them to do what they do.
  
  I don't agree with the name calling, but many content creators have already set a website, with some outside revenue sources like Patreon, selling merchandise, or other stuff.
  They can't leave the most popular platform, but they can set up alternatives for when it stops being the most popular, and in the meantime also target people who are leaving it already.
- Talk about exactly what you did to bypass it!

Firefox and ublock as usual, still good

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
- FreeTube is available on Windows as well.
  
  Thanks for the recommendation. Just downloaded (just in case) and I've gotta say, I might like this enough to switch out even if they don't mess with my browser player.

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.

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.

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.
- Louis Rossman is also on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a
  
  Yay I can quit google completely!!!!
  
  YES! One of the creators I can keep on watching when I quit (by the end of the week probably, or when they kill off newpipe)
- I have almost the exact same setup! But please tell me more about this random user agent extension
  
  This is it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random_user_agent/
  It breaks some sites but is very configurable and you will probably be able to get it to work. I believe it is GPL but it may be Mozilla license.

I'll quit YouTube before I watch ads.

All my subscriptions are on peertube and odysee but no

Not yet, and I'm already prepared to use piped if I can't use youtube itself, and hopefully people will start reuploading content to peertube (wink) if yt just becomes inaccessible.

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