youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos
youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos
youtube getting more aggressive.. i've got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up
My family watches several Youtube channels on the main HTPC. It had Chrome for them to use, as that is what the kids and my wife are familiar with from school/ work. Then this BS started. I use Firefox on my personal PC and have yet to have a problem.
So I dumped Chrome off of the HTPC.
It would be amusing if Chrome lost a ton of market share to Firefox and other browsers.
Ublock Origin Settings - Clear Cache - Update - Refresh Youtube
I see nothing wrong with Google wanting to make money on YouTube, and I actually own YouTube Premium myself.
But they should really fix YouTube experience, if you don't use subscriptions box, your main page will be filled with click-baity low-effort videos and that really sucks. There are also other issues as well.
I just clear the YT sites' cookies, relog in and it disappears. I use AdNauseam and uBlock Origin and still got this.
If they weren't so intrusive with the garbage ads (I hate publicity, over 95% of it is condescending and/or lies), I wouldn't mind seeing an ad in the beggining, or even also an additional in the middle of a long video, but getting two unskippable ads in the beggining and one every 5 mins or less is abusive. So fuck you Google.
Going to install a local instance of Piped or Invidious.
This pop up, did more to curb my youtube addiction than any other app.
While uBlock Origin does the trick and has for a every long time, I just installed FreeTube and I am quite happy with it. It is also much better at keeping track at what I have watched, and I can even mark videos as watch (which I cannot over at YouTube).
What's realistically the closest to YouTube today? Like Lemmy, small acorns need bigger communities 😁 Slow, but it'll happen. It's also not a bad thing to have people used to switching platforms every x amount of years. That aside, does a VPN work, or Newpipe?
I'm in EU, not getting any ads yet on Firefox or Newpipe.
Haven't seen them yet. Old uBlock, Russia, Linux. They haven't put ads in videos since 03.2022 for obvious reasons, so there's an unique rule created for us.
Maybe it's something of use for you all, to curcumvent it. Not via VPN tho, probs, as our local feed is a digital cancer. Opening it from a new PC is like nothing else.
For those on Android, workaround might be Rossman's new app (the guy fixing Apple PCs). Promise seem kinda alternative NewPipe app but with platforms (e.g.YouTubes) algoritms, following creators across different platform and possibility to log in to your accounts.
It has opensource plugins capabilities so if it gets popular it might keep growing and living from comunity support as well.
I'm not affiliated with that. I'm also yet the app. This is not add. AFAIK app is not monetized at this point.
I wrote a basic script with chatgpt which downloads the latest videos from a list of channels kept in a text files, straight to jellyfin.
Still testing, but seems to be working fine so far.
The day youtube blocks adblock for me they will be removed from my bookmarks to never return.
But we’l see if it actually happens because while Netflix has been nagging. I have continued to be able to share an account so far.
Open the extension settings, purge the filter lists and then update them all. I was getting warnings and I did this, and I haven't had any further warnings.
Search for "quick fix" in the filters tab and update that. You have to do it atleast twice a day to keep up with YouTube updating their end but that's the only thing that's working for me. That and disabling all other adblockers including Firefox's.
Vinegar app for Safari on iOS/iPadOS/MacOS has a very clever feature that’s called “switch to ad skipping”. It basically deceives YouTube by telling it you watched the ads and the videos load perfectly.
Also, UBlock Origin on Firefox’s been doing an excellent job at removing ads from YouTube.
Updating filter lists always does the trick for me.
Man I hate YouTube so much by this point, and had even before this anti adblock thing due to their mobile apps never working properly on any of my devices, mobile website basically made the clunkiest experience possible (to force people into using the app?) and desktop site being just so damn heavy. Would totally completely move to federated alternatives if not the 20 years of YT exclusive content that won't ever be reuploaded elsewhere. It's not even like a social network or a forum where you minutely talk to someone about something, get a response and then forget forever, it sadly grew a lot bigger than that
Fuck YouTube
Just saw the "will be blocked after 3 videos" for the first time" (I was only seeing the generic warning so far). Updated filters and it went away.
I recently stumbled upon this post; seems like filing a complaint to said entity is something you can do if you're in the EU. I haven't done so yet, but I plan to. The fella over there has even provided the text he's sent. If what is said is true and it's indeed illegal for YouTube to show such prompts (and if that entity receives enough complaints), they might be forced to withdraw them (unless they're using some legal loophole already).
That too. There's. New dystopian Rayman universe show on Netflix rn.
don't know why nobody mentioned this but opening each video in new private tab works just fine
Revanced still works, not using it is just silly.
Same story, different day.
😃 - “I blocked ads”
🙁 - “I don’t have ads”
what idiots watch Youtube whilst being logged in?
Just use newpipe or freetube
Am getting the all ads(but skipable) on brave too
I found I could visaully block the pop up and use keyboard controls to still play a video. It did break navigating the page though because while I couldn't see it popup it was still there.
Brave luckily do not have those problems. Edit: to be more precise, yesterday this appeared, and then recordings stopped, but only with a refreshing returned to normal, today this did not appear and the recordings work normaly.
Happened to me a the other day, so i used piped instead, yesterday my muscle memory got me back to YouTube and everything was back to normal
I had this too, only thing that worked was clearing cookies and site data of YouTube, then logging in again. Another browser on the same account with the same uBlock settings worked the whole time, so I guess it's "device" bound not account bound. Since the cookie purge I don't even get the AdBlock warnings anymore.
I’m able to play videos on my Samsung S9 with Firefox running with ublock. I never got a message.
For some reason, I got this popup but I didnt care which then blocked my player but I tried several different adblockers simultaneously which made the ads not play but there was a black screen for 5 seconds or so when the ad should've played but then I installed adguard, which after that no matter what I did on youtube, didn't get any ad anywhere or the popup, with the ad blockers on or off .
Using Vivialdi btw
My buddy reported that he started getting blocked using uBlock starting today.
I've never had any of the problems, but I have some caveats that may be helpful:
- I live in Korea
- I use brave browser with no uBlock as it's unnecessary
- I also use NextDNS at the router level.
#3 seems to be of no consequence as I tried using vanilla Chrome and ads played while randomly testing videos
That leads me to believe #2 or #1 is preventing ads.
I didn't disable NextDNS since it failed at #3, and I haven't tried VPNing into a U.S. endpoint out of laziness.
Either #1, or #2 is preventing ads ... I'm inclined to believe it is #2, Brave browser, that is successfully blocking ads; even without VPN, with NextDNS, I was still getting ads in vanilla Chrome.
I think there is something in Brave browser that is currently overlooked.
I hope it helps someone