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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.

twena ,

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.

mah ,
@mah@hexbear.net avatar

true

twena ,

glad i’m not the only one

JelloBrains ,
@JelloBrains@kbin.social avatar

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.

twena ,

I will definitely try this. Thank you really

aaaaaaadjsf ,
@aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net avatar

I use YouTube revanced, and after a quick update a few weeks ago it’s working fine again

Pinkletits ,

I too have been using Revanced but I’m not experienced with updating third party apps. How is it done?

starelfsc2 ,

reddit.com/…/revanced_manager_guide_for_dummies/ basically just follow this and uninstall any old versions of microg or revanced if you have problems.

aaaaaaadjsf ,
@aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net avatar

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.

tombuben ,

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.

Chef_Boyardee ,

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.

blaine ,

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.

snowbell ,
@snowbell@beehaw.org avatar

I don’t like YouTube Music

Flynn_Mandrake ,
@Flynn_Mandrake@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Sure there is addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/sponsorblock/

DaGeek247 ,
@DaGeek247@kbin.social avatar

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.

Thorny_Thicket ,

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.

nudnyekscentryk ,
@nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info avatar

someone previously marked all breaks inbetween numbers in this 3h video as intermissions. though now I see they’ve been removed and there’s merely one highlight in there

PipedLinkBot ,

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/watch?v=NHEaYbDWyQE

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

bamboo ,

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.

WtfEvenIsExistence ,

Wait till they start assigning pricing based on your payment info’s location.

Lobo6780 ,

I buy it in turkey

ninpnin ,

if there was an extention that could skip the sponsor segments inside the videos themselves I’d use it in a heartbeat.

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nudnyekscentryk ,
@nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info avatar

SponsorBlocks does that but it either requires non-webkit Firefox or Revanced, which means you can’t get it any way on iOS

randint ,

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.

Thisfox ,

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.

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!

janguv ,

Here’s hoping YouTube Revanced on Android and Adguard on desktop continues to work, eh…

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Firefox has zero issues with adblock on Desktop. On mobile I prefer Newpipe, but hey. Anything goes.

hunt4peas ,

REX is working fine with the SponsorBlock enabled.

janguv ,

Forgive my ignorance – what’s REX?

hunt4peas ,

Revanced Extended.

Lt_Cdr_Data ,

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

Based_and_Cool ,

Revanced stopped working for me last week. I may reinstall incase I was running an old patch.

EuphoricPenguin22 ,
@EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life avatar

Patching a newer version of the Youtube app resolved the issues with playback I was having.

janguv ,

Yeah likely cause is something outdated. All working fine on my end

Echo71Niner ,

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.

Sanrasxz ,
@Sanrasxz@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

This is quite concerning. Hopefully the adblocker extension devs are able to bypass this. I expect a cat and mouse game eventually.

ToxicWaste ,

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…

1993_toyota_camry ,
@1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org avatar

Worst case of this solution is you might have to wait before watching your video. It wouldn’t be unreasonable for google to refuse to send you the video until $ad_duration has elapsed.

Still beats watching ads though. I could queue up a bunch in a “watch later” playlist and have a program get them all ready for me.

327 ,

AdNauseam is a browser extension that uses the same idea to obfuscate tracking. I never used it myself, but it seems like a good alternative to blocking ads.

mineapple , (edited )

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.

Echo71Niner ,

unlock origins customisable block lists? You can combine at least 3 blockers with that

I’ll look into it.

ChaoticNeutralCzech , (edited )

filterlists.com - list of auto-updating filters, makes it very easy to add one. Make sure to use one with a good rating.

Yeah, do it. uBlock is great in terms of performance so you will feel how much faster browsing is after uninstalling the other add-ons. You can also block known scams or websites known by pirates to be unsafe. It can also block cookie popups (but I don’t care about cookies might be better at this).

I also suggest Redirector, which lets you can set up custom redirects such as


<span style="color:#323232;">Pattern name:  YT Shorts in normal player
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Example URL:   https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ExmplVid-ID → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExmplVid-ID
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Match pattern: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/*
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Redirect to:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1
</span>

It is very powerful and can also replace multiple extensions. For example, it can percent-decode URLs, which enables me to prefix a URL with ar[space] in the address bar and redirect me to the archived version of that site. Just add https://web.aarchive.org/web/*/%s as a bookmark with keyword ar. (This trick is useful for making custom “search engines”, which would often require yet another extension.) However, this trick is not enough alone because it goes to https://web.aarchive.org/web/*/example.com%2Fpage and Archive.org needs a decoded URL. So notice that I used the nonsense address web.aarchive.org which Redirector will detect and correct using this rule:


<span style="color:#323232;">Pattern name:  archive percent-decoder
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Example URL:   https://web.aarchive.org/web/*/example.com%2Fpage → https://web.archive.org/web/*/example.com/page
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Regex pattern: https://web.aarchive.org/web/*/(.*)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Redirect to:   https://web.archive.org/web/*/$1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Process match: URL Decode
</span>
PipedLinkBot ,

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/shorts/ExmplVid-ID

piped.video/watch?v=ExmplVid-ID

piped.video/shorts/

piped.video/watch?v=

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

Yes, you can also add a Redirector rule that redirects you to Piped.

Admin ,

I don’t care about cookies has been bought out by Avast, use I still don’t care about cookies

count0 ,
@count0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Regarding cookie pop-ups, there’s a little known gem: consentomatic.au.dk

mineapple ,

Problem with that is, idcac accepts the cookies, ublock blocks the banner and thus you havent given consent and no cookies should be placed. Note that some websites might collect data regardless but there’s nothing much to do about it. ¯_ (ツ) _/¯

CampRefugeeCounselor ,

Unlock or UBlock?

mineapple ,

UBlock Origin is the name of the extension. My autocorrect messed it up ^^

DrQuint ,

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

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.

roon ,
@roon@lemmy.ml avatar

I didn’t get this banner yet maybe because I’m using ublock origin

SlippyCliff76 ,

You either aren’t part of the “small” test groups or you aren’t logged in.

stebo02 ,
@stebo02@sopuli.xyz avatar

should I vote if I’m not in the US?

theshatterstone54 ,

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.

HappyFrog ,

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.

theshatterstone54 ,

Fair enough. The thing is, do I vote for the near-anarchists, that, save for the anarchism, align with my principles? Do I vote for the party that is further away from my ideological beliefs, but doesn’t have the anarchism, and is a bit larger? Or do I vote for the main opposition, which is even further from me ideologically (and doesn’t seem to have much of a clear vision)?

jarfil ,

That sounds like a question about how much you oppose anarchy. Any change, involves some loss of established order, so if the Overton window tells us something, is that “anarchist parties” are just the ones trying to push it stronger. Actual anarchists, wouldn’t try to be part of a government in the first place.

theshatterstone54 ,

Okay, but then we still have the problem of FPTP. If I’m in a Labour dominated constituency and I vote LibDem, my vote wouldn’t matter cuz Labour will win anyways. And if I live in a Greens Stronghold and I vote Greens, my vote wouldn’t really matter, as they would have won with or without my vote. The way I see it, your vote can only make a difference in a constituency where there is no clear winner, and it’s everybody’s game.

Please correct me if I’m wrong in my assessment of the situation.

jarfil , (edited )

Then you want to fight FPTP and vote pruning by constituency, to make your vote matter.

You could vote blank, or a poop emoji to show your disconformity, but organizing or supporting a protest to reform the voting system might be more effective.

If we counted all those who don’t vote because it “doesn’t change anything”, those who vote blank or null, and those who vote knowing their vote will still get thrown away… it could actually make a majority.

Thisfox ,

Still odd to think of countries where voting is optional. It’s compulsory here, adn the only people who can afford to not vote are the rich…

stebo02 ,
@stebo02@sopuli.xyz avatar

i meant on the poll lol

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

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    PipedLinkBot ,

    Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/watch?v=_gbDAvK42yA&amp;

    Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

    I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

    ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

    I’m in the UK, and I’m not so sure if any party deserves my vote.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gbDAvK42yA&amp;t=216 / Obligatory Piped link

    PipedLinkBot ,

    Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/watch?v=_gbDAvK42yA&amp;

    Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

    I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

    ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

    Aaaaah man, I literally added the link so you wouldn’t show up. Also your timestamp doesn’t work.

    theshatterstone54 ,

    Thanks, I will keep that in mind.

    hellfire103 ,
    @hellfire103@sopuli.xyz avatar

    *Laughs in PeerTube

    blakeus12 ,
    @blakeus12@hexbear.net avatar

    welp time to use yewtu.be

    Echo71Niner ,

    noice

    Tayphix ,

    Alternatively, piped.video.

    FeelThePower ,
    @FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    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.

    lemmyvore ,

    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.

    FeelThePower ,
    @FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    look up rehike for youtube if you are curious. It works for me and many people.

    Platform27 , (edited )

    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.

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