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Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin (andadinosaur.com)

submitted 11 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Really interesting read about the history of YouTube adblocking, how the new detection works, how uBO is responding, and how not to block the new popups.

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[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Has anybody else not seen an ad yet? I'm wondering if it's because I'm using Enhancer for youtube which also has an adblocking function 🤔

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 11 months ago

Did you not read the article?

YouTube isn’t rolling out the anti-adblock to everyone. It seems to depend on things like your account, browser, and IP address. And if you’re not logged in or you’re in a private window, you’re safe. As a result, there are a bunch of people saying, “I use XYZ and I haven’t seen an anti-adblock popup yet,” unknowingly spreading misinformation.

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

I haven't seen any anti adblock things on youtube if that's what you mean

[–] anothermember@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

I haven't yet but I presume that's because I don't have an account - which according to the article they're targeting people by account.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For a day I got the no video but audio playing ads.

On my Shield where I don't have uBlock Origin, I get bombarded with ads.

[–] Gingernate@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

Use smarttube

[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

With uBlock Origin I'm not getting anything, but the Ghostery plugin with "adblocking enabled" set to on actually now returns a blank youtube site. As soon as I switch it off (so blocking trackers only) it works perfectly fine and with zero ads.