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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 day ago (11 children)

i use ublock origin

reddit still good for something: Filter Lists-->uBlock filters-->uncheck the "ublock filters - quickfixes" box and then reload the page.

this worked for me

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup, I use ublock origin and have never had issues on YT.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They do random testing. I've received one of these a couple of times with unlock as well. Google/yt has not fully committed.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hope they don't commit. But if they do, I guess that'll be the end of YT for me...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sometimes I have to use YouTube rawdog for work and it's unusable, if I want to skip forward in the video to reach the solution to my problem I get an add every time I click the timeline.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you need it for work, why don't you have YouTube premium?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I don't speak for the person you are asking, but for me the reason is that google is evil, and huge. They don't need my money, and I wouldn't pay them for any reason.

I expect that if the workplace officially needed to use YouTube, then that workplace would be paying for that subscription. But if its just that sometimes someone wants to include video from YouTube in a presentation or something - then probably not.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 8 hours ago

The way they worded it, it sounded like dealing with YouTube was their job, like maybe managing a company's YT account. So yeah, I totally expect a company to pay for YT premium. I'm certainly not suggesting they do it, unless they're a freelancer or something.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah you and a lot of people. There's a couple articles about it but essentially there's some talk of pushback.

And personally for me there are alternatives that people could use. While not a lot of people are on it, peertube is a viable alternative. I've watched a couple of small creators on it and it ha good performance. Just a very small audience.

Makertube is one of my favorites.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Awesome.

The day FireFox and UBlock Origin stop working with eachother completely. Might be the day I just uninstall all of my browsers and use my PC more personally than before.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I didn't screencap it but today on YT I was given a modal that said I was using an adblocker (ublock) and I have three more videos before they require premium. I changed VPN locations and stopped getting the message.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Only one of my three computers was having this problem, but this solution worked for me as well. Thanks for sharing it here!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fuck reddit, this solution did not work for me. All YouTube videos stop buffering after 59 seconds. Only fixes i have found is with either making a custom userscript or disabling ublock from working on YouTube by whitelisting the entire domain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Or you could download freetube and be done with it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yea this is also what I had to do to get things moving again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I just gave it 15 minutes and they started working again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Rip chrome. It just killed ublock for me yesterday

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Huh, I was able to just close the pop-up and play the video as normal.

[–] ramius345 1 points 1 day ago

Yep, used the reddit solution.

[–] Mushroomm 1 points 1 day ago

I find the adblock yt prompt only shows now when I try to open two tabs of YouTube. Second tab has this message but the first plays fine. I think ublock probably deployed a half fix already