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[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 218 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Some solutions:

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 118 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Ya know, I've seen a lot of posts regarding Elon Musk spam in this community, and calls to "ban" them, yet every week we get gloom and doom posts like this when some new subset of the world starts seeing this shit. I'd really like to see a pinned message about the fix, which is...

  1. Install Firefox or a derivative, and add the uBlock Origin extension.

If you visit YouTube and see the pop-up, the page isn't loading the video content, or it just seems to be acting strange, do the following:

  1. Click on the uBlock Origin brown shield in your extensions.
  2. Click the three little gears icon to enter the settings.
  3. Make sure you're in the Filter lists section from the top and click the Purge all caches button below it.
  4. Click the Update now button.
  5. Wait until the filter update completes.
  6. Refresh the tab(s) that YouTube is in.
  7. Press play.

I literally have no other installed add-ons for ad blocking, anymore. Only uBlock Origin. Any time I see the message or YouTube starts acting up, I just repeat those 7 steps above for any YouTube tab that was already open, and viola, the video plays. It has simplified so many issues for me and reduced the number of adblock extensions I need to run.

I definitely plan on donating this holiday season to their team, probably the biggest share of the pie between the FOSS apps I enjoy and appreciate. Should uBlock Origin ever fail, I'll just stop going to YouTube.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Weird. One way or another, they're gonna get my money!! How dare they make a great tool for free, and accept nothing for their time and contributions!! The nerve of some devs, I tell ya! /s

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[–] Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Intrusive and sneaky ads like the ones on YouTube should be heavily regulated if not illegal.

Edit: especially ads louder than the average content volume, repetitive jingles designed to get stuck in your head, billboards, and ads thrown in the middle of the video you’re watching

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

"Loud" is unfortunately hard to quantify. There's a lot of psychoacoustics that mean that the number of decidels really doesn't tell you what's loud and what's not.

This is a great demo of how sounds can appear extremely loud without actually being physically very loud: https://youtu.be/tONF9OSUOSw?t=7m16s

Anyway the point is that it's hard to make rules about this kind of thing, because sound is subjective and there are ways to circumvent any restrictions you make.

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[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 99 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Ublock Origin on firefox still work for me no filter

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[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 91 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It isn't blocking my uBlock Origin on Firefox.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, all Google accomplished with this bullshit was finally getting me to switch from Chrome to Firefox as my main browser on desktop.

[–] Alchemy@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Pretty much, also encouraged me to download uBlock, and now I see how many items it blocks from pages like YouTube. Spoiler: It’s a lot.

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[–] joelthelion@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Never seen that banner or an ad. I guess it's just a matter of time though 😕

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago (10 children)

uBlock Origin is reliably blocking the blocker blocker for me at this time, though a few popups got through a couple weeks ago.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Same, uBlock in Firefox is doing it 100% for me. Haven't even seen a youtube ad or a complaint that I should stop blocking ads.

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[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago
[–] noxy@yiffit.net 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, they most certainly are not.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shhhhh. Don't tell anyone the way.

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[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish I could donate to ublock origin so badly. I never even saw the popup.

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 1 year ago

They make some interesting points, though.

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[–] Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I get there's a heap of people on here who've somehow never seen these new anti-popup measures before, but they're definitely becoming more prevalent.

I switched to uBlock and purged the caches and it seems to have fixed the issue (for now anyway)

At some point I'll have to find a more permanent solution like switching browsers but right now things are working

[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

a more permanent solution would be using an alternative front end like piped. there are a lot of public instances available

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[–] sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No change for me, youtube sure is trying but ublock origin keeps fighting the good fight

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[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 51 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Fully, you say?

$ yt-dlp -f 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEEZBmUYTM
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEEZBmUYTM
[youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading webpage
[youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading 1 format(s): 22
[download] Destination: Noiselund - Are You There? [WFEEZBmUYTM].mp4
[download] 100% of   12.82MiB in 00:00:04 at 2.99MiB/s

Oh, guess not.

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[–] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Nooo. YouTube thinks it's fully blocking ad blockers. In reality nothing's changed.

[–] Centaur@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

EU based Firefox + uBlock Origin user here. All very good :)

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[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did someone forget to purge their uBlock caches?

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Takes five seconds.

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No problems here whatsoever, I don't know what everybody is talking about. Remember to donate some bucks to your favorite open source adblock (or piping app), thank you.

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[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (14 children)

This was annoying me in browsers so i did a bit of reading and found out that not only can I remove their ad block blocker in browser, but my TVs also support ad free YouTube. Thanks Google! Couldn't have done it without you.

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[–] Codandchips@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

UK Firefox user here.... All good

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It made an attempt for sure, a cute one at that 🤣

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was just using Chrome with ublock origin at work and didn't see jack shit.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... yes. I know because you've told me 25 times in the last week.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope. FF with UBO still works perfectly.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

The ReVanced app still works just fine.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't get it, I use a variety of browsers and apps, with or without VPN. I even scrape channel RSS from the same IP and have never seen this.

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[–] Never_Sm1le@lemdro.id 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me still haven't seen that shit, but my cousin does. Weird

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[–] MrAlpharius@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Firefox nightly working lime a charm. I would rather download any video I want to see than using the shitty native app.

Three one minute adds was enough for me.

[–] notExactlyI20@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This will definetly be a shot in the foot for Google, the beginning of YouTube's downfall

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[–] ryan_@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I’m self hosting an invidious instance and not once have I noticed any interruptions. 10/10 just use a public invidious instance and be done with it

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