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CosmicCraftsman , (edited )
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While using Ublock, change your user agent to chrome. Never seen the warning again.

Edit: I use Firefox.

barnaclebutt ,

Does this work? Can anybody verify it?

RQG ,
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Worked for me as well. I changed to windows 10 chrome and it went away for now. Using Firefox with ublock origin on Linux.

Azzu ,

Ah yes, the reason for our user agent hell :D

GnomeKat ,
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I saw those messages, turned my ad block off for a few days… turned it back on and messages didn’t come back…

Kedly ,

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

shiroininja ,

So im running pihole with ublock on Firefox in Linux. I’ve yet to see this warning. Any reason?

qaz OP ,

I’m not using pihole myself and just rely on uBlock Origin. I should probably set it up sometime.

shiroininja ,

It’s surprisingly easy

Mudkipology ,
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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.

Speculater ,
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I was told the other day that pihole doesn’t block YouTube ads because they’re served from the same server?

Jayemecee ,

From my experience it’s different servers, but it might depend on your location. It’s the twitch ads that come from the same server as the video stream. Those are harder to block.

Queuewho ,

If you use a YouTube app then yes, the ads don’t seem to be able to be blocked. Browser based YouTube ads still seem to be able to be blocked by pihole

CO_Chewie ,

Pi Hole for me blocked some YT ads but not all. YMMV based on the block list you use. I didn’t get very aggressive but still killed most page ads.

elDalvini ,

I have the exact same setup and also didn’t get the warning yet. Maybe pihole stops the AdBlock detection?

shiroininja ,

That would be cool. I mean maybe they use telemetry to determine if you’re using an adblocker and the pihole blocks that?

RickyRigatoni ,
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Youtube is using scripts on the webpage that detect in-browser adblockers only.

Gingernate ,

Same setup, also have not seen the popup

Ragdoll_X ,
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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”

shiroininja ,

Ah, my pihole regularly blocks those. I have over a million domains on my adlist

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Ditto, except Win10. Never see warnings.

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