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Has YouTube Blocked Your Adblocker Yet??

UPDATE 2It 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!

UPDATESo 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: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/bd0e0c67-f37d-4b82-a5b8-1703542f0af1.jpeg

  • 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.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/e37261ac-cf82-4ecd-9481-bea42029a3a0.png

  • 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.

MiddledAgedGuy ,

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.

MonkCanatella , (edited )

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

paris ,

I believe yt-dlp has sponsorblock integration but I haven’t used it

MonkCanatella ,

I have the script running every five minutes so I get a desktop notification telling me there’s a new video downloaded and by who. It takes some time for the sponsorblock segments to show up

rivalary ,

Mind sharing it?

kionite231 ,

ytfzf

MonkCanatella ,

reddit.com/…/auto_download_latest_youtube_videos_…

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.

rivalary ,

Awesome, thanks!

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

Not yet, just waiting for it.

hellfire103 ,
@hellfire103@sopuli.xyz avatar

*Laughs in PeerTube

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

probably not ublock and for sure not revanced

Hhffggshn ,

I’m still good with revanced

GenBlob ,

Today I started getting ads with no video just audio. I didn’t get the adblocker message yet. Firefox ESR+ublock origin

snowbell ,
@snowbell@beehaw.org avatar

I had this issue but refreshed the page and it has gone away since. I’m guessing that didn’t help for you?

Killing_Spark ,

Works for a few videos and then it shows them again. Seems like the normal YouTube thing where you get ads every few videos

mayo ,

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)

GenBlob ,

I haven’t come across any since yesterday but I’m putting this in just in case

Killing_Spark ,

Yep same, Firefox+ublock origin

riley0 ,

Try adding YT enhancer. I’ve got UBlock Origin and that installed. IDK which one is still blocking ads, but they’re still blocked.

blakeus12 ,
@blakeus12@hexbear.net avatar

welp time to use yewtu.be

Echo71Niner ,

noice

Tayphix ,

Alternatively, piped.video.

gonzoknowsdotcom1 ,

All my subscriptions are on peertube and odysee but no

Venus ,
@Venus@hexbear.net avatar

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 cat-confused because I haven’t seen an ad on the internet in years.

denton ,

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 😭

w00t ,
@w00t@lemmy.ml avatar

Yep, same here. Today I’ve been abruptly reminded how intrusive and obnoxious ads on Youtube are!

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/1b3a68fc-2e41-4662-aa51-a4a97f56a0d5.png

TheCraiggers ,
@TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’ve got so many layers of adblock it’s hard to know which one(s) are responsible for blocking the ads.

DARbarian ,
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

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.

NumbersCanBeFun ,
@NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social avatar

This all sounds like extremely reasonable to me. Fuck the haters.

UndefinedIsNotAFunction ,

Same. Keep up the good work.

DARbarian ,
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

Haha I appreciate y'all! Next stop: Tor City

can ,

Reasonable, yes. Feasible for everyone? Not necessarily. I would like to get at least a pihole going at some point but for now ublock origin and ReVanced have been enough for me.

SomeBoyo ,

Why do you need adblock, when using piped?

Darkassassin07 ,
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca avatar

Because the internet includes more than just youtube…?

DARbarian ,
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

For everything other than Youtube!

reflex ,
@reflex@kbin.social avatar

PiHole+Unbound . . . AirVPN with DNS blocking, mullvad Private DNS . . . Libretube

This is what I pictured reading all that.

DARbarian ,
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

Hahaha yeah I may have went a little berserk there

Very_Bad_Janet ,

Did your coworker know what you were talking about? Also, please explain how AirVPN with DNS blocking works.

DARbarian ,
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

Well they were already talking UBO and PiHoles, so I had faith lol AirVPN has the option to add blocklists to its DNS. Obviously with everything else I don't really need it, but it can't hurt.

TrustingZebra ,

I just use use uBlock Origin.

DARbarian ,
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

I didn't think that could block Youtube ads alone? Like Hulu and Spotify

TrustingZebra ,

Before this new behavior uBlock Origin always blocked YouTube ads.

Risk ,

I mean, it did up until maybe now.

nudnyekscentryk ,
@nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info avatar

still does outside the US

Emanuel ,

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?

DARbarian ,
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

Yeah that's the point. I do use my instance for links when sharing to people, but the main reason I selfhosted was for control and mostly just fun

speq ,

For those who don’t know: VLC also takes a YouTube video address as input (in the menu: Media | Open Network Stream…).

snowbell ,
@snowbell@beehaw.org avatar

Strange, that doesn’t work for me

lemann ,

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

can ,

VLC is so damn good

determinism2 ,

This has not worked for me in a very long time.

Venus ,
@Venus@hexbear.net avatar

Your vlc is probably busted and could use a reinstall. Happened to me once. It still works.

commie ,

i thought maybe this would work for me: nope. it was awesome when it worked but it’s completely broken afaict.

mariah ,

Mpv works just fine for me

meteokr ,
@meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe avatar

You can also pipe yt-dlp into vlc if that suits your fancy.

HumanPerson ,

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.

DARbarian ,
@DARbarian@artemis.camp avatar

I have almost the exact same setup! But please tell me more about this random user agent extension

HumanPerson ,

This is it: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/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.

Drewski ,

Louis Rossman is also on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a

HumanPerson ,

Yay I can quit google completely!!!

theshatterstone54 ,

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)

doggle ,

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.

porkins ,

I don’t get ads. I don’t know why. I have YouTubeTV and get the splash when opening the app to buy Premium, but nonetheless don’t get any ads ever. I’m not looking a gift horse in the mouth and not questioning it.

LoafyLemon ,

Some countries don't allow interruptive ads. Cherish it while you still can!

Faceman2K23 ,
@Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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.

Thorny_Thicket ,

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.

Faceman2K23 ,
@Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Yes indeed, and google get less money. however there are some signs that companies are starting to crack down on that.

briongloid ,
@briongloid@aussie.zone avatar

I use Turkey, it’s around $2.50 per month for the 6-person plan.

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