uBlock Origin VS YouTube's Anti-Adblock
uBlock Origin VS YouTube's Anti-Adblock
I came across the stickied weekly thread at uBlock Origin's sub-Reddit. WARNING: It's a long and complicated read.
The TL;DR takeaway is thus (especially for those who use Firefox):
- Click the uBlock Origin icon on Firefox's menu bar
- You'll see a three-gear icon at the bottom right. Click this to open the dashboard.
- Click the "Purge all caches" button at the top.
- Click the "Update now" button at the top.
Note: You may have to do this several times per day since YouTube keeps changing their anti-adblock scripts. However, the diligent work, from all the volunteers at uBlock Origin, have been able to keep pace. I haven't seen any ads NOR any anti-adblock warnings in the past 48 hours.
I've still been lucky enough to not be flagged by YouTube, was already using ublock and firefox/ watch YouTube daily
Thank you for keeping on top of this Chris. I'm having a heavy week at work and I've not kept up with what's working and what isn't so your updates have been invaluable.
When I've got some days off I'm probably going to spin up a viewtube or invidious instance on either my home server or VPS and have done with it!
@admin So that's why I kept receiving all these warning screens even though I updated already. Thanks, I will do this multiple times, I guess. Hope it works.
I have been using uBlock for a long time, but since I've pair it with PiHole in my house at least, there have been no ads, even on my TV. I highly recommend people do this for their house by getting a RaspberryPi or an old PC with Linux to sit on their network, it has some setup and learning curve, but once you deploy it, you don't have to fiddle with it, apart from updating it once a month.
Gave up and switched to Freetube.
Omg, they have an arm Linux version. That's going right on my Chromebook tomorrow!
Ive been unsreasonably excited by how Im able to interact with youtube in a way that is more similar to the pre algortihm days.