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Has YouTube Blocked Your Adblocker Yet?? (strawpoll.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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UPDATE 2 It seems that starting today, uBlock Origin is working to combat this Youtube Block. Mine started working again! Lets all thank the devs of UBO for fighting this fight!

UPDATE So as new info comes out, I'll be posting it here. It seems as if this Rollout Has Several Parts.

Part 1

You get a popup message over top of your video, blocking the screen:

This is the first sign. If you see this popup AND are logged into a YouTube account, your account has been selected.
At this stage you can likely close or block these messages with an adblocker.

Part 2

This message will change, indicating that you have 3 remaining videos to watch without ads.

Will insert photo once one has been found

At this stage your adblocker will imminently stop working in 3 videos time.
Personally using Firefox + uBlock Origin and tweaking filters and updates does not even fix it.

Part 3

None of the video loads now, everything looks blank.

At this stage you must tred new ground to avoid ads. I have posted methods in the comments. If you want to bypass this end page, read down there.

End of Update

YouTube has started rolling out anti-adblock to users inside the United States, which means that they are preparing to roll this out to the entire country. Personally, I have been blocked already. I want to gauge how common this occurrence is.

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[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Freaking ironic that I get an ad on strawpoll stopping me from seeing the results.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use YouTube revanced, and after a quick update a few weeks ago it's working fine again

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Ublock Origin still works for me

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago

Very good. It will be nice to be off YouTube completely.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

should I vote if I'm not in the US?

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago (13 children)

If you have a good party to vote for. I'm in the UK, and I'm not so sure if any party deserves my vote.

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[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I have a script I used to auto download new stuff from my subscriptions using yt-dlp. I never watch videos on youtube anymore because it's just garbage, buffering all the time or just straight up not playing content. The only thing I miss is sponsor block but I don't care that much

here's instructions on setting the script up if you're interested

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[–] randint@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mine is not blocked yet. I am definitely worried about this though. I am in East Asia.

Wonder how much YouTube is going to squeeze out of this ad blocker blocking.

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[–] Neon_Dystopia@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't know because I use firefox. Fuck google.

[–] Waluigi@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (29 children)

Sad thing is that this will affect even Firefox + uBlock

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[–] BrownianMotion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is google that stupid that this will not bring on an onslaught of abuse to circumvent their false god status of the internet? I have already been "part 3'd" and completely bypassed it.

They get jackshit from me now at all. At least before they may have made some revenue from me for viewing the videos, now I am a ghost. No money for anyone. (and in case you are gonna say - I dont care content makers are losing, they are all dumbarses, and if they are supporting yt still and not posting elsewhere, then they are just stupid cunts. The only reason google is doing this is to make more money off of the people who make content, but not upset their already unstable revenue income. If the content providers get antsy and leave, YT loses.

[–] XYZinferno@lemmy.basedcount.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dont care content makers are losing, they are all dumbarses, and if they are supporting yt still and not posting elsewhere, then they are just stupid cunts.

You had me until here. If you want to monetize online video content or get widespread appeal, YouTube is pretty much the viable choice atm, save for Twitch which only works if you're a streamer or Nebula, which even then it alone doesn't suffice and is very specific. If you plan on trying to "make it big" using PeerTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc. alone, your aspirations may as well be dead on arrival.

Not losing sleep over the money content creators lose over you using adblock is fine, I personally don't put too much importance on it myself. But to call them all dumbasses or stupid cunts is just unreasonable, given the lack of a proper, popular alternative for most of them to do what they do.

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[–] roon@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I didn't get this banner yet maybe because I'm using ublock origin

[–] janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Here's hoping YouTube Revanced on Android and Adguard on desktop continues to work, eh...

[–] Lt_Cdr_Data@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tbh, at this point there's no reason in them disabling ad blockers. If you haven't gotten used to this insane amount of ads by experiencing the slow, uphill creep, having to go from seeing no ads to suddenly this, is impossible. I couldn't watch youtube videos in the current state of ads, so I'd just have one less vice.

I had already stopped once, when youtube vanced went offline (until i found revanced) and I will do it again

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[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I feel like we can ignore this and it'll mostly be a non-issue. Hopefully I don't have to eat those words later.

YouTube can detect common current adblocking methods, and use this to hinder you now, prompting to comply with them. If you do, they win. You pay for no ads or you have an exception in your adblocker.

As another comment mentioned, it's a cat and mouse game. Adblockers will get ahead of it. So just wait it out.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Firefox + UBO and ReVanced still working rn.

[–] tombuben@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I pay for premium.

I spend like 20x time on YouTube compared to other premium streaming services, knowing the money at least partially goes to the creators and that it's usually a much larger source of revenue than the midroll ads makes it pretty worth it to me. Other than that I use uBlock on medium/high, but if there was an extention that could skip the sponsor segments inside the videos themselves I'd use it in a heartbeat.

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[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

welp time to use yewtu.be

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