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Has YouTube Blocked Your Adblocker Yet?? (strawpoll.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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UPDATE 2 It seems that starting today, uBlock Origin is working to combat this Youtube Block. Mine started working again! Lets all thank the devs of UBO for fighting this fight!

UPDATE So as new info comes out, I'll be posting it here. It seems as if this Rollout Has Several Parts.

Part 1

You get a popup message over top of your video, blocking the screen:

This is the first sign. If you see this popup AND are logged into a YouTube account, your account has been selected.
At this stage you can likely close or block these messages with an adblocker.

Part 2

This message will change, indicating that you have 3 remaining videos to watch without ads.

Will insert photo once one has been found

At this stage your adblocker will imminently stop working in 3 videos time.
Personally using Firefox + uBlock Origin and tweaking filters and updates does not even fix it.

Part 3

None of the video loads now, everything looks blank.

At this stage you must tred new ground to avoid ads. I have posted methods in the comments. If you want to bypass this end page, read down there.

End of Update

YouTube has started rolling out anti-adblock to users inside the United States, which means that they are preparing to roll this out to the entire country. Personally, I have been blocked already. I want to gauge how common this occurrence is.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Ublock Origin still works for me

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Not from US but my uBlock has a problem with YouTube since yesterday. It blocks the ad video but the sound of it is still audible.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I followed this from Ublock's Reddit page, it's working for now.

Current anti-adblock status: Latest fixed (ID: 462a8d5d)*

Please, remember these 3 steps:

Force update all your filter lists (click uBO icon > ⚙ Dashboard button > Filter lists pane > 🕘 Purge all caches > 🔃 Update now)
Turn off all other extensions AND browser's built-in blockers
Remove all your current custom filters AND custom filter lists that you have enabled / added manually (Adguard lists...)
It might be quicker to make a backup of your config and restore to defaults before proceeding to step 1.

Fixing anti-adblock can cause ads slipped. If you see any ads slipped, please report back the EXACT URL and your country when accessing the URL so volunteers are able to investigate.

The filter lists can be updated multiple times a day, so please always do step 1 before reporting.

About the ID above, it's the ID of YouTube's script that's used for anti-adblock, you can monitor it via this link: https://pastefy.app/G1Txv5su/raw (top to bottom is oldest to latest). It means that the current fix is matched with the script with corresponding ID.

If the latest ID (the last line) does not match the current one written above, it means YT has updated the new one and it might cause anti-adblock again. If it matches and you still get anti-adblock, kindly check the 3 steps above. Thank you.

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[–] MonkCanatella 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

I have a script I used to auto download new stuff from my subscriptions using yt-dlp. I never watch videos on youtube anymore because it's just garbage, buffering all the time or just straight up not playing content. The only thing I miss is sponsor block but I don't care that much

here's instructions on setting the script up if you're interested

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I use YouTube revanced, and after a quick update a few weeks ago it's working fine again

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Mine is not blocked yet. I am definitely worried about this though. I am in East Asia.

Wonder how much YouTube is going to squeeze out of this ad blocker blocking.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Freaking ironic that I get an ad on strawpoll stopping me from seeing the results.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Here's hoping YouTube Revanced on Android and Adguard on desktop continues to work, eh...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Tbh, at this point there's no reason in them disabling ad blockers. If you haven't gotten used to this insane amount of ads by experiencing the slow, uphill creep, having to go from seeing no ads to suddenly this, is impossible. I couldn't watch youtube videos in the current state of ads, so I'd just have one less vice.

I had already stopped once, when youtube vanced went offline (until i found revanced) and I will do it again

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

Firefox has zero issues with adblock on Desktop. On mobile I prefer Newpipe, but hey. Anything goes.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I didn't get this banner yet maybe because I'm using ublock origin

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

should I vote if I'm not in the US?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (10 children)

If you have a good party to vote for. I'm in the UK, and I'm not so sure if any party deserves my vote.

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

They are rolling this out in stages to users worldwide, It happened to me 3 weeks ago, on Brave, Firefox, and on Chrome. I had to junk Brave, update firefox, flush out my extensions (remove them) and reinstall, and now I run 6 different ad blocking and tracking extensions and its back working again. You should also know that Adblocker Ultimate are also involved and working on blocking their extension from working so they can sell premium app, which is now an app that runs on your computer, not an extension anymore.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

6 adblockers?! Have you looked into uBlock origins customisable block lists? You can combine at least 3 blockers with that. Additionally you could add custom block lists.

Edit: clarifications and spelling errors.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is quite concerning. Hopefully the adblocker extension devs are able to bypass this. I expect a cat and mouse game eventually.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It will be a cat and mouse game, which YouTube will loose in the long run. Don't remember the name, but there is a very clever solution: They download all the ads so YT thinks you are watching. However, ads are never shown to you. This is extremely hard to detect and it muddies the data collection of Google since you watch and click everything.

IMO: This is a net loss for YT/Google. Their collection of data looses value. And advertisers wont be willing to pay the same amount for clicks, since a registered click is not necessary someone who watched and the targetting got worse...

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

welp time to use yewtu.be

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

*Laughs in PeerTube

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Until today I haven’t seen an ad on YT, for years. Then I searched for a video, clicked, and got an ad. Clicked off the video, restarted the browser (also updated uBlock’s filters), and that fixed it.

Edit: I wrote this and got another ad. No video, just the audio.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I load the old 2014-2017 layout locally from my C drive as my localhost and proxy it to load when i type in youtube dot com. avoids ads, increases performance, and looks better as a layout all in one.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Firefox + UBO and ReVanced still working rn.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Firefox and ublock as usual, still good

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