Ublock origin on firefox. Never forced an update, never did any fiddling with block lists. Never got a single warning or notification, still works perfectly. Huh.
I’m also using ublock on Firefox, I had plenty of notifications over the past two weeks, I have even an Invidious redirect set up, though admittedly ublock is winning RIGHT NOW.
I was told to install it fresh and turn off any updates, that seems to work
I’m in the same boat whether on Windows, macOS, Linux or Android. But my sister, in the same household, also using uBO on FF, has been getting the message constantly
I get them every now and then, but refreshing the page fixes it every time. I’m not logged in to a Google account and my browser is set to clear cookies for all but a few domains on restart, so maybe that’s contributing? Don’t restart often though.
My sister found that it outright blocks her. She is signed in.
^But she also found that the player loads a split second before the message so if you full screen the player before the message you’re good and can keep on watching away with no ads…^
I did get the splash notification about adblockers a few times ago on a linux garuda system with firefox and ublock, but after popping up on two videos it was gone.
Ditto, but had to manually update a few times. You need to boost your YouTube addiction!
around the world
fully blocking ad blockers
One of those two has to be false, because I’m still not seeing any anti-adblocker measures on my end.
Silence, Marsian scum, we finally got you.
Only time I every encountered the popup was when I used orion with its built in adblocker. And even then I gat one warning (no metion of 3 strike policy). Only change now is the added a 3 second timer to the dismiss button.
Edit: Ublock origen and firefox as usual no issue
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.
I think they just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
All the more reason to switch to Firefox!
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…
I’m not using the most popular one (I use Adblock Plus, which iirc most people hate) and I can also freely use Youtube with it turned on. So it’s not about ublock.
I don’t hate ABP, it used to be the main one everyone used, including me. Problem is it stopped working well at some point so we all switched to uBlock Origin. I’m glad ABP is working well again, but I’ll keep recommending uBlock Origin as long as it keeps working.
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.
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.
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Not in Incognito mode it isn’t.
Still works fine here (Switzerland) with Vivaldi’s built-in ad blocker and Pi-Hole.
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…
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.
Still not getting any ads in Vivaldi
Fully blocking only if you aren’t using uBlock Origin, which you just have to update the filters on.
Complete waste of effort.
Alphabet needs to be broken up.
