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YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users

Mashable reports that users ran into a black screen on YouTube, and that it stayed for about 6 seconds before the video began playing. The reports indicate it affected several browsers including Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi.

Some users joked that they would rather see a black screen than an ad. While that’s certainly a better experience, it does waste precious seconds of our time. A simple workaround for the black screen on YouTube is to just refresh the page, hit F5 as soon as the page starts loading. uBlock Origin’s filters were updated with a patch to resolve the problem, the add-on updates its filters automatically. If you are still experiencing the black screen issue, just open the extension’s dashboard and manually update the filters. This tug-of-war is getting annoying, but it appears to me that Google’s efforts are actively promoting the use of ad blockers, instead of attracting new subscribers.

recapitated ,

Hulu used to work this way with ad blockers back in the day

hal_5700X , (edited )

I’m seeing a lot of comments about Youtube frontends. Don’t get me wrong. They’re nice and all, but we need some alternatives. At this point in time. We have two of them Odysee & Rumble. If you’re tried of Youtube’s bullshit. Alternatives are the way to go.

StarlightDust ,

I think its important to highlight that Odysee and Rumble are both “free speech” platforms that neo-nazis love to use to platform their calls for violence.

rami ,

Here’s a few more in a reddit thread.

I thought Odyssey was just gun nuts? When did the shitters get there?

hal_5700X ,

What does neo-nazi mean to you?

The reason I ask. I see that word get thrown around on social media (twitter) all the time. The way I see that used 99% of the time. Some Left Winger sees a Right Winger say something they don’t like. The Left Winger can’t counter it or they just don’t like that Right Winger said. So the Left Winger calls the Right Winger the worst thing they can think of.

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

I’m actually annoyed that NewPipe stopped working again and Invidious’ download speeds are glacial

gears ,

I’ve been seeing the black screen on Firefox. Still better than an ad, but it would be nice to be gone lol

dgmib ,

I remember a time when ads weren’t crazy intrusive. They weren’t being shoved into every os and app and website.

There wasn’t 20 of them on every page, and advertisers weren’t trying to harvest my data to the point where they knew every last detail of my personal life.

And I didn’t mind having them in order to have “free” content. But they got greedy and now I’ll block them in every chance I get.

Maybe forcing ads into everything isn’t the answer.

Brutticus ,

I went to my banking account page, where I can make transfers and look at my money. My ad blocker had blocked a GIANT ad in the center of the screen.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

If I’m watching YouTube I’m not too worried about my time. The black screen is worth it as long as it directly spites their greedy asses.

cultsuperstar ,

I wonder how this affects people that setup Pi Hole and VPN and all that.

x00z ,
@x00z@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve been enjoying Odysee a lot. It doesn’t have much content but it works great. Hopefully content creators start uploading there as well.

BradleyUffner ,

6 seconds?! GASP

SSJMarx ,

Some users joked that they would rather see a black screen than an ad.

Yeah. The time lost is a shame but the ad is far worse.

A_Random_Idiot ,

if im gonna lose time regardless, i’d rather spend it staring at 6 seconds of black nothingness, than 15 seconds of PragerU talking about how slavery was a boon the black man.

TheObviousSolution ,

I can understand, I would feel better watching a black screen than an ad trying to psychologically manipulate you in a personalized way.

BallsandBayonets ,

When I stream YouTube to my TV, I get 15-30 seconds of unskippable ads with the ability to skip enabling at the 15 or 30 second mark. The full length of the ad is 90+ seconds (according to the timer that never goes down). Would this implementation work similarly? 6 seconds of a silent black screen is fine; 90 or more seconds because the skip button is also missing would be more annoying (or be a nice time for a bathroom break).

polle ,

I recently had to watch YouTube with ads on my tv, because smartube stopped working and needed to wait a day for a new patch.The ads are insane and i stopped watching anything on yt. I can’t imagine anyone consuming content this way.

SlopppyEngineer ,

Those that make peaceful ad-blocking impossible make violent rage quiting inevitable.

DefiantBidet ,

Ever since YouTube started this nonsense I moved to invidious and haven’t looked back

fine_sandy_bottom ,

I have a lot of love for invidious, but I love in fear of yt finding a way to nullify it with some fuckery.

Recently they started blocking ips of VPS providers… so I can’t run an instance on a VPS, it has to be local.

Ullallulloo ,
@Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com avatar

This nonsense is about one step away from affecting Invidious too.

Nindelofocho ,

I tried using invidious but its was super slow and i only ever got 720p max is this fixed?

_Sprite ,
@_Sprite@lemmy.world avatar

the moment I see a damn grammarly ad on freetube I’m dropping $100 on real debrid

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