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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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[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This. When YouTube finally succeeds in making it impossible for anyone to use their website without watching ads, they probably still won't succeed in preventing people from downloading for offline viewing. When this happens I'm going to invest in making scripts that autodownload stuff ahead of time and I'll only watch whatever videos are in my home network.

Im not watching their brainwash bullshit ass propaganda. I'll find other stuff to do for entertainment before I give in to ads.

[–] Steak@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck ads. I put in a decent amount of effort to make sure I see exactly 0 seconds of ads per day. So far going strong.