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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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[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Commenting so I can do this later. Thanks OP 😁🍻

[–] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Teppic@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

They are on kbin which doesn't support saving comments (yet).

[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe on lemmy but not on kBin as far as I’m aware. If anyone knows how to this I’m game.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just upvote or boost? Aren't you having to go to your profile to find it either way?

[–] NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you looked at my vote history you would see why that doesn’t work for me 😅

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like you comment more than you boost though.