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It's all good just make sure you have an up-to-date ublock-based extension: https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/
As of writing this Adblock Plus isn't working with Youtube but no reason you should be using that over ublock origin anyways.
I have Ad Guard installed and still use UBlock Origin for its features.
I'm still waiting for Google to ban uBlock Origin from the Chrome addon store.
So fully blocking ad blockers other than the most popular one? I guess we should be glad they weren't this bad at programming 18 years ago when they launched Youtube...
hmmm hadnt noticed. must be a you problem. heh
PEBKAC
I have seen it just once so far. However, this isn't the end. YouTube is rolling this out gradually - perhaps to avoid a massive backlash. I'm sure that even uBO won't be good enough soon.
i was being cheeky, but seriously, ive moved on from youtube. i dont need the content that bad, and i am comfortable drawing a line in the sand. so it does not matter what they do it does not affect me.
I got the popup all the time for a few weeks with Firefox and uBlock Origin. As a YouTube Premium subscriber. The paid service. The whole reason they were pushing back on ad blockers to begin with.
Fuck these guys, I let the subscription lapse.
The two worst things that ever happened to YouTube were monetized content and Google buying it. It hasn't even been very fun to browse YouTube since like 2010.
Remember YouTube before people started doing ad-like thumbnails, and radio voices?
Like ...the top channels were normal people.
I miss that so much!
Someone like FRED was on top at one point. Which is insane looking back on it. All it took was running around being obnoxious with a high pitched voice to be the largest channel on YouTube back then.
Use DeArrow and/or ignore the ""algorithm"" fed feeds.
Piped is good for that, too.
Very true. In germany we had "Ytitty", a group of young guys doing music parodies and comedy stuff. They went more and more professional and less funny, not realizing thats not how comedy works.
LOL
So kind of Google, always putting out new fun challenges to encourage people to get their hands dirty with hacking their crap :)
Lol, Microsoft played that game so long and just give up and just get paid by pressure/bundle sale to the business. Let's see how long Google can keep up with the milking game.
i just kept pushing the x in the top right corner for a few weeks, then it gave me the 3-2-1 countdown, and then finally it blocked me from viewing any more videos until i disabled my ad blocker. i disabled uBlock origin, refreshed, re-enabled it again. no more ads since i did that.
Firefox with uBlock Origin and a Pi-Hole on my home network. When I started getting the "you're using an adblocker" popups I used uBO to select and block those, also. That was maybe two weeks ago.
On my work laptop (which is unfortunately remotely managed), Chrome with uBO and a pick-and-blocked filter for the same popup. I still have my background noise for working.
I also have a Piped install that does a pretty nice job as a front-end.
Next step: only available on chrome
Anti-trust suit in 3...2...1...
"Best I can do is a small fine. Also, the fine is tax deductible." - Federal Government, 2023.
Normally I'd be on the same page, but the Biden admin has genuinely made the biggest antitrust moves in the last 30 years.
Not exactly a high bar. I'd like to see some of these moves go somewhere, but I don't have high hopes.
the biggest antitrust moves in the last 30 years.
That's a pretty low bar to clear
At least someone's actually bothering.
Biggest moves in which direction? They let MS buy Activision...
Still works fine here (Switzerland) with Vivaldi's built-in ad blocker and Pi-Hole.
According to the developer of Wipr, from what I understand Youtube is using A/B testing for their "ad blocker blocker” and that the dev is working on adapting the app for Youtube latest efforts.
In the meantime, I just stopped going to Youtube. I find I now have a lot of time to read.
I wouldn’t mind if Youtube placed and ad. But when a video has 4-5 ads that awkwardly break up the flow of the video I just don’t have the patience.
Not in Incognito mode it isn't.
Still not getting any ads in Vivaldi