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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems (social.treehouse.systems)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The more bullshit like this I read about YouTube the more I despite them. I already use GrayJay on mobile and I'm using ublock Origin + ublock Matrix on Librewolf to control cookie usage on desktop. So far I've been able escape the video player block by clearing cache.

I'm just waiting for the day they "force" me onto another frontend.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

doesnt ublock origin already block youtube's anti adblock?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nope, I still got it after a while

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then your uBlock Origin filters aren't working properly. See this thread for instructions on how to purge and update your filters to block YouTube's ads and YouTube's adblocker blocker.

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

I mean after clearing the cache it disappears. But I've seen the "your video player will be blocked" 3 or 4 times during the past few months maybe.

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

Those 3 or 4 times may have been after Google had updated their anti-adblocking stuff and before uBlock Origin had updated their anti-anti-adblocking stuff.

Also, do you have any other adblockers installed? Does your browser have its own adblocker? Either of those can cause interference with stuff like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Nope, I use Librewolf with uBlock Origin, uMatrix and BitWarden. Nothing else.

But yes, I haven't seen it in quite some time now.

[–] adriaan 3 points 11 months ago

If you get it, purge and update your cache. It still works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It sort of does for me. I used ublock to block the popup and the overlay that prevents you from using the site. Sometimes a video will stop playing for a moment, but it resumes as soon as I hit play.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

im using librewolf too. i keep seeing the adblocker active warning instead of a video, in the video-box on youtube Plays just fine in private window though..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Even after clearing the cache from the ublock filter settings?