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Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin (andadinosaur.com)
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Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin::Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely due to personal interest. This blog post is where I write down what I know. Some Background Here’s...

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[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Plot twist, it is YouTube sending those moronic support requests.

Edit: I checked out the reddit thread and people really are moronic.

A:

I can't access YT at all now. I just get a big, blank empty page. I've tried following every single step in the guide and nothing works. Before, I was able to watch videos if I opened the link in a private browser, but now even that doesn't work. Using Firefox btw. What am I supposed to do now?

B:

I just started having this problem this morning. I realized I forgot to disable Ghostery, one I took care of that the page would load again.

A:

I ain't disabling Ghostery...

[–] hotdaniel@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just disabled ghostery ad-block and that seems to work. Still have ublock going.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

You don't need Ghostery if you have uBlock Origin, it only increases the chance of the two adblockers interfering with each other. It's like those boomers who have 5 different anti viruses on their Windows PC... Just stop it!

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I had to whitelist youtube in disconnect, small price to pay but it works