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Oh I just "remove element permanently" on U-Block origin.
Make sure to remove the invisible element too that covers the whole screen. They tried that to prevent ya from just opening the video anyway.
To deactivate the scrollblock, if you experience it,just go full screen once and go back out. Which can be easily automated via a macro or literally just pressing the F key twice.
YouTube's attempts at blocking Adblockers are pathetic
- This was my gut reaction as well, but dont do this, the makers of uBlock Origin warn against it! https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube/detection-faq/
  Can't I just hide the pop-up with uBO's Picker?
  No. Cosmetic filters don't stop the message - they just temporarily hide it from view. The anti-adblock script will continue to run in the background and will eventually block you from watching videos. Please don't use, share or recommend using any of those filters and don't report any issues when using them.
- YouTube’s attempts at blocking Adblockers are pathetic
  I've long maintained that the majority of programmers working for Alphabet/Google/YouTube spent more time learning how to get the job than how to do the job well. There is a lot more to coding than "Cracking the Coding Interview."
  It's not about building cool things over there. Is has not been that way for a long time. They just want the money and reputation.
  
  I don't know. If I were a webdev at Google I would probably be against this nonsense as much as we are here. So I'd implement the most half assed 'blocking' of ad blockers possible knowing that the moron product manager who requested it won't be able to tell.
  
  I partially disagree, the average developer at google is very competent, yet, their work pipelines must be so long and complex that such talent gets somewhat diluted
- I'm not going to faff with all that until gray jay stops working
  
  You know what, valid. I'm just listing the solution I used. I'll make sure to check out Grayjay too.
  This is the also the reason why Google is guaranteed to fail in their efforts. If one way to bypass their crap fails, 3 others will be developed swiftly <3
- btw as a general rule, you can prevent scrollblock by just doing
  ##body:style(overflow:auto !important)
- I get the feeling that they aren't trying particularly hard.
  
  It might be a cost benefit thing. They probably could hire a team to perfect it and be on hand round the clock playing whack a mole with every workaround that gets found, but the half measure might catch the masses and be enough to not warrant spending the extra to do that.
- Is it really that easy? Why did they even bother?
  They've known about ad blockers for well over decade now and their "solution" can be bypassed with inspect-element. Nice.
  
  It is, in fact, not that easy. It works to hide the warning, but once you reache the stage where they block videos, it won't help you.
  The better option is to block all scripts on YouTube and only whitelist the 2 or 3 that are necessary to watch videos.
  
  It hasn't really mattered enough for them to spend any engineering time on it before. Zero interest rates are over, though, and money actually kind of means something now. This is just the first move in a chain of many.
  A warning for anyone relying on stuff like adblockers for YouTube - it's not that hard for Google to figure out that we're doing it, simply query for which users have zero ad impressions. Google also has a certain tendency to permaban Google accounts in violation of their policies and then ignoring all appeals. If you rely on Google accounts for email, photos and the like, this might be the time to plan contingencies.
  Personally I've started using Piped instead. The lack of recommendations is a bit of a bummer, but in all honesty it was kind of like the switch from Reddit to Lemmy - just had to wean myself off the digital sugar pills.
- Pihole has still been working reliably as well
  
  Not for me 🤔 I am running PiHole and the adblock thing still shows up. Which blocklists are you using?
  
  I've never had pihole block YouTube ads. I don't think it's capable of that.
  
  How does this work? I've been considering using a Raspberry Pi for Pihole, but I've been discouraged as it wouldn't work for YouTube anyways. How I understand it is that Pihole is DNS, which just blocks certain domains. Since Youtube ads and videos are indistinguishable from a networking POV, it won't be able to block them. Am I wrong? Is there something I have misunderstood?
- Sssst 😇
- They aren't trying right now because they're running tests. I'm assuming they're testing what does and doesn't work. They probably wanted us to find workarounds so they could patch them when they decide to actually roll out the anti-adblock feature.

uBlock Origin has got to be the best extension out there right now. Saving me so much time
- uBlock Origin and Sponsorblock saving days of my lifetime and DarkReader saving my eyes.
  Life is good

So one thing I've started getting worried about is whether youtube/google will eventually block/delete youtube/google accounts who use adblockers.
I don't really care about my youtube account but I have several gmail accounts and losing those would be awful.
I assume they won't ever go that far, but just the possibility is scary.
 
So is there an easy way to migrate all your stuff to some other email service and what are some good ones?
- Not an "easy" way, but what I've been doing is simply whenever I handle an email in the account I want to switch from, I use that particular situation to change the email in the settings of the account of whatever I'm handling in that moment.
  That way it doesn't become an overwhelming task, and if you are consistent with it and do it each time you handle an email, slowly but surely you will have switched completely.
  
  Proton is probably the slickest, most feature-rich and solid email service. They have a suite... Mail, VPN, Calendar, etc. I pay like $50 yearly for it, which gives a lot of extra settings. But even in the free account there is a "convert from Gmail" option that downloads all of your Gmail emails into your proton account. It's the easiest way to degoogle. Plus, all proton-to-proton email is automatically PGP encrypted, even if you use custom domains. You can easily setup auto PGP for other external services that offer it too, so emails are seamlessly encrypted between them.
  This short guide gets you up and running with Proton Mail if you are transferring your files from Gmail. You can seamlessly move the emails, attachments, calendars, and contacts you have stored in your Gmail account to Proton Mail and Proton Calendar
  https://proton.me/support/switch-from-gmail-to-proton
- I've been worried about the same. I'm slowly moving my email and all accounts over my own domain name which for now is forwarded onto the same Gmail. Seems like an extra hop but if they block me then all I have to do is point my email somewhere else
  
  I'm trying out Purely Mail. Unlimited email addresses across unlimited custom domains.
  I have a cool setup where I have setup an email account at service@service.mydomain.tld, but it's setup as a catchall for *@service.mydomain.tld (and allows gmail-style tagging). This means I can fill out service forms by inventing addresses on the fly like LemonadeStand+Signup@service.mydomain.tld and the email shows up in one unified inbox, the subject line will include [LemonadeStand], and the message will have the flag 'Signup'.
- Good point. I guess I'll slowly get ready for the dreaded migration away from Gmail.
- I have a channel which I wouldn't want to lose. it is a concern
- Use a dedicated account for YouTube. How will they remove your emails if they're on a separate account?
  I use a YouTube channel account, which might be good enough. I've had one in the past banned and the rest of my Google account was left alone.
  (I was only just getting into creating programs that communicate with online services and I hammered their API. My program didn't have any checks and balances to ensure it wouldn't go over it or to throttle back when the API endpoint attempts tell it to calm down. It only happened once but that was good enough to get it banned)
- No way that's happening

This was the final straw that pushed me to using stuff like piped and libretube exclusively.
I watched an interesting video about the cobra effect and think at least in my case, its relevant
- Yeah I jumped ship to piped too because of this. I also discovered it allows me to circumvent region locks without even firing up my VPN which is a nice bonus
  
  How to make this work? I want to watch videos from a channel that makes them available only for UK, I want to watch it in India.

I'm using the windows phone user agent solution. It loads the old version of YouTube and is much faster besides the lack of anti adblock
- YouTube devs: "Wow, Windows Phone still has a sizeable userbase"
  YouTube viewers:
  
  Hey Jim, when did Microsoft start releasing Windows phones with 27" screens?

I started using ytp-dl and mpv after receiving those adblock warnings. My life is now 420% better because I stopped reading Youtube comments as a side-effect. Also, mpv is 5 billion times better player than any web browser media player can ever be.
- You sound like Senku from Dr. Stone. I've been trying to find an extension that opens videos in any player not just mpv
  
  10 billion percent better
- Why do you consider not reading comments an improvement? Just asking because I'm curious.
  
  The comments are the best part
  
  I prefer to knowingly commit mental suicide, like by coming here.
  
  The vast majority of YouTube comments are incredibly dumb. I hope the reason is that it's mostly kids.
- The only thing worse than youtube video comments are youtube short comments. Not even reddit can match that level of unrepentant nazism.
- i installed karamel and now my comments are from reddit posts that discuss the video i'm watching. i find that to be really helpful.
  
  What's that?
- or you could use a piped instance.
  
  If their self install instructions were worth a shit I might agree with you.
- I want my life to be 69% better. Did you follow a good guide? Do you recall which guide it was?
  
  The best guide there is. My brain.

While using Ublock, change your user agent to chrome. Never seen the warning again.
Edit: I use Firefox.
- Does this work? Can anybody verify it?
  
  Worked for me as well. I changed to windows 10 chrome and it went away for now. Using Firefox with ublock origin on Linux.
- Ah yes, the reason for our user agent hell :D

UO devs deserve diamond medals. And everyone who contributes too.

i no longer get that warning. now the screen remains black and time is 00:00... but purge always works.

So im running pihole with ublock on Firefox in Linux. I’ve yet to see this warning. Any reason?
- As long as you're using just the pihole YouTube shouldn't be able to detect it. The playback blocker is based on detecting common ad blocker extensions in your web browser.
  
  I was told the other day that pihole doesn't block YouTube ads because they're served from the same server?
- Ditto, except Win10. Never see warnings.
- Same setup, also have not seen the popup
- I'm not using pihole myself and just rely on uBlock Origin. I should probably set it up sometime.
  
  It’s surprisingly easy
- Youtube is using scripts on the webpage that detect in-browser adblockers only.
- I have the exact same setup and also didn't get the warning yet. Maybe pihole stops the AdBlock detection?
  
  That would be cool. I mean maybe they use telemetry to determine if you’re using an adblocker and the pihole blocks that?
- Also haven't seen any ads all this time but not because of pihole. I'm guessing it's because I also have DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials and Privacy Badger installed as they block requests from "googleads.g.doubleclick.net"
  
  Ah, my pihole regularly blocks those. I have over a million domains on my adlist

I'm still using uBlock Origin to block ads everywhere, but I no longer use YouTube directly, instead I go through Invidious or Piped.

Just had to do this to my wife's computer for the first time. Mine hasn't needed it just yet.

I saw those messages, turned my ad block off for a few days... turned it back on and messages didn't come back..
- For me it actually straight up blocks the video from playing until I refresh UBlock Origin. Today the a couple youtube webpages wouldn't even load until I did. Doesnt matter, refreshing UBlock Origin still fixes it

I don't like to be preachy but thank God for memes I can share this knowledge with people. P.S.- I'm sumwa ova sainees mahselv

It's been working again for me but does anyone else have a really weird bug where youtube just starts refreshing several times throughout any given video?
- Update: seems Enhancer for Youtube was doing that.
  
  Did you know you can edit comments?

I've gotten the warning, but I just close the window and watch the video. Is that how it's supposed to work? Because, if so, it's only a minor annoyance.
- Soon it will make you wait a bit seconds before the X appears
  
  And after that it appears in the video window and is unable to be closed.
  
  And then later it won't appear
- This is just the first step, the more you click that X the more annoying they make it until eventually you can't close it or watch anything at all.
  
  Then I'll just watch stuff on Invidious.

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Can't I just hide the pop-up with uBO's Picker?