1y ago

Finally got the anti-ablock message on youtube rule

No funni imige here sorry

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Just update ublock origins sources. Go to the dashboard, filter lists, click "purge all caches" and then "update now."

i still haven’t gotten it on firefox + ublock origin. nothing special, it just seems like it’s never going to appear. i feel like i’m the only one
- Youtube is known for AB testing and regional rollout. I was fine on firefox + ubo until i wasn’t anymore. Until ubo kills it for good, a daily manual filter update fixes it.
- Are you not logged in? I get the message but not in a private window
  
  I just logged out because I only use gmail as email and I use thunderbird for that on desktop. Much easier than resorting to a private window.
  
  i'm logged in.
- I got it yesterday on Firefox and ublock origin. I was kinda shocked to be honest

Me too. My clever trick failed.
- There are other clever tricks. Ive tested this one working literaly today:
  https://github.com/TheRealJoelmatic/RemoveAdblockThing
  Install tampermonkey extension, which lets you install user scripts. Links are on the page. Install the user script that de-fucks youtube on that page. Counterintuitivly, whitelist YouTube in ublock origin. Make sure you arent running anything else that also adblocks, like "enhancer for YouTube." If so, disable their adblock too.
  Install firefox for best results. Not for this, just in general.
  
  be careful with weird workarounds like this because as ublock finds ways to hide itself better you'll only make yourself stand out and be a lot more detectable. and as you throw workaround on workaround they'll eventually start conflicting in weird ways which will break things either subtly or very blatantly (which will result in you installing more weird workarounds to try to fix all this which will only make it worse)
  the best fix is really to:
  switch to latest firefox
  keep ublock origin and it's filterlists updated
  do not stack any other blockers (including enhancer for youtube or privacy extensions or whatever)
  the only exception i'd recommend is https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardExtra which is specially designed to not conflict with ad blockers like uBO, but even then don't use it if things are working fine without it
  
  regularly clean up the weird workarounds you installed
  or just don't install them and wait for ubo to do it's thing considering you'll probably forget about this step
  
  It amazes me the amount of effort people will put into not watching ads on an ad-supported platform.

I occasionally get it on Firefox with ublock- usually I just have to update uBlock and it goes away for a while. Eventually they'll give up, I'm sure.
- I also use Firefox and clearing the cache made it shut up lol

I’ve generally had good luck with requesting the mobile version of the site and that doesn’t show the blocker.

Use the windows phone user agent solution. There's no anti adblock and the site loads much faster with it too

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