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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.

wolfshadowheart ,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

Isn't it just rolling out for Chrome users? Won't Firefox be unaffected?

Honse OP ,

No, im using Librewolf and i am blocked currently.

wolfshadowheart ,
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

Ah I see. It begins I guess :(

WtfEvenIsExistence ,

I recommend downloading every youtube video you enjoyed watching and start reuploading them to peertube (although, I fear that youtube might just file copyright claims against the peertube instance).

QuazarOmega ,

I believe most videos aren’t licensed for unrestricted redistribution, you’re putting yourself and/or your instance owner at risk by uploading content you don’t own.
However I support the general idea, I just don’t know what the best way to share the content safely would be

Flynn_Mandrake ,
@Flynn_Mandrake@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’ve started to just download videos with yt-dlp after grabbing links via Invidious. Using Invidious itself has become somewhat unreliable lately, and this way I don’t have to put up with buffering and can watch in good quality. Cut out the middle men

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

I have to wonder if once the ad blocking gets fully rolled out if yt-dlp will also cease to work?

Flynn_Mandrake ,
@Flynn_Mandrake@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Good question. I’d hope not

ReversalHatchery ,

MPV can directly play yt videos (it uses a built-in copy of yt-dlp afaik), and it’s very configurable. I always watch yt videos with it.

Sometimes it would be useful if it could use a proxy like piped or invidious, but those links don’t work

Flynn_Mandrake ,
@Flynn_Mandrake@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Ooh, I should try that! I already use mpv, so that’d streamline things a bit

ReversalHatchery ,

Consider upping the cache for youtube. By default it is 2 minutes, which is mostly fine, except that if you are speeding through a part with 2x or faster, you may quickly run out of that small cache, because it only loads with the speed of something between 1x and 2x.
And then you may also set up saving the cache to disk instead of RAM, because it may be quite larger. Single config option.
You can make these only apply for youtube videos only with conditional auto profiles. The doc has an example for an automatic youtube profile, it’s perfect.

Flynn_Mandrake ,
@Flynn_Mandrake@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I don’t use the main YouTube website at all anymore. A big reason for this is that I spend a lot of time using a really weak laptop that tends to struggle with the JavaScript-laden abomination that is modern corporate web design. Firefox itself struggles as well, so I primarily use Luakit with Invidious, which runs peachy. I also put together a local html page for my bookmarks that is generated from Yaml using a small C application (which is not optimal, I know, but I’ve been learning C and this was a good opportunity). Whenever something doesn’t work in Luakit, I evade to Palemoon. I also tried watching YouTube via mpv earlier, and it’s great! It runs infinitely better than any web player at max resolution and buffers the whole video. Never going back.

ReversalHatchery ,

I meant too increase the cache for yt videos in mpv :)

But you say it buffers the whole video, so maybe already changed something to do that

But yeah, I agree on your other points. If youtube blocks yt-dlp, mpv and proxies, then I’m done with it.

krimson ,
@krimson@feddit.nl avatar

Do you self host Invidious? I have zero issues with it self hosted.

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.

arrow key

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

refurbishedrefurbisher , (edited )

I haven’t used youtube.com to watch YouTube in years. NewPipe x SponsorBlock (polymorphicshade) on mobile, SmartTubeNext on TV, Invidious, Piped, or FreeTube on desktop.

XYZinferno ,

Hadn’t heard of FreeTube before, thanks for mentioning it!

riley0 ,

Thanks! Freetube works great. Here are directions for importing YT subscriptions. docs.freetubeapp.io/…/importing-subscriptions/

GreenMario ,

Firefox + UBO and ReVanced still working rn.

entropy ,
@entropy@not.alazy.dev avatar

pi-hole means no ads anywhere!

eleqtric-conjurer ,

If your pihole can block YouTube ads please tell me how!

Barky ,

This doesn’t prevent YouTube ads. Source: have a pi-hole

Poggervania ,
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

Actually not true, the way YouTube ads show up is more or less almost impossible for pi-holes to catch. There’s been some successes in the past, but then YouTube ads somehow find another way to circumvent it.

Source: have pi-hole

Chewy7324 ,

Unless the ad is served on the same domain as the video. There’s no way to block the ad through DNS without blocking the video too.

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

unabatedshagie ,
@unabatedshagie@kbin.social avatar

No.

HughJanus ,

Voting over VPN not allowed. Might try Cryptpad or I think Framasoft has a voting platform.

Kbin_space_program , (edited )

Yes. It's hyper super bestest ever effective. There are unfortunately absolutely no way around their rock solid implementation.

sour ,
@sour@kbin.social avatar

does logging out work

elouboub ,
@elouboub@kbin.social avatar

Can't you just open a new private tab or window for every video that you watch?

Kbin_space_program , (edited )

Absolutely you can. There are absolutely no other, easier ways to circumvent it and this is absolutely not a failed attempt at sarcasm at how laughable their malware attempt is.

Even the "endgame" one is laughably easy to circumvent. I'm not giving them any hints though because Fuck Google.

Roundcat ,
@Roundcat@kbin.social avatar

Not yet, and I'm already prepared to use piped if I can't use youtube itself, and hopefully people will start reuploading content to peertube (wink) if yt just becomes inaccessible.

Melody , (edited )

Here’s a rule for uBlock Origin.

Credit: lemmy.one/comment/597479 && original link: lemmy.nz/comment/446556

! Anti-Youtube Anti-Adblocker https://lemmy.one/comment/597479

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

Honse OP ,

This has not worked for me.

NumbersCanBeFun ,
@NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social avatar

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    glad_cat ,

    You can save comments too.

    Teppic ,
    @Teppic@kbin.social avatar

    They are on kbin which doesn't support saving comments (yet).

    NumbersCanBeFun ,
    @NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social avatar

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    quirzle ,
    @quirzle@kbin.social avatar

    Just upvote or boost? Aren't you having to go to your profile to find it either way?

    NumbersCanBeFun ,
    @NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social avatar

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    quirzle ,
    @quirzle@kbin.social avatar

    Looks like you comment more than you boost though.

    PelicanPersuader ,
    @PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org avatar

    Doing the lord’s work. Thank you!

    pdqcp ,

    I feel dumb, do I need to do anything else besides pasting it to my rules > temporary rules > save?

    Grownbravy ,
    @Grownbravy@hexbear.net avatar

    I saw two borked up ads that played audio and no video, refreshed my browser and haven’t seen them since. I also updated my block list and it’s been fine.

    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!

    ContentConsumer9999 ,

    I use a Chrome extension that's been discontinued so probably not.

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