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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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[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I only watch Rossmann’s channel anymore so I will probably just quit if they block mine. I use uBlock Origin + Librewolf + VPN + pihole + a random user agent extension. When I set my VPN to USA it still doesn’t say anything.

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[–] Echo71Niner@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (13 children)

They are rolling this out in stages to users worldwide, It happened to me 3 weeks ago, on Brave, Firefox, and on Chrome. I had to junk Brave, update firefox, flush out my extensions (remove them) and reinstall, and now I run 6 different ad blocking and tracking extensions and its back working again. You should also know that Adblocker Ultimate are also involved and working on blocking their extension from working so they can sell premium app, which is now an app that runs on your computer, not an extension anymore.

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[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I load the old 2014-2017 layout locally from my C drive as my localhost and proxy it to load when i type in youtube dot com. avoids ads, increases performance, and looks better as a layout all in one.

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I saw two borked up ads that played audio and no video, refreshed my browser and haven't seen them since. I also updated my block list and it's been fine.

[–] Platform27@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Until today I haven’t seen an ad on YT, for years. Then I searched for a video, clicked, and got an ad. Clicked off the video, restarted the browser (also updated uBlock’s filters), and that fixed it.

Edit: I wrote this and got another ad. No video, just the audio.

[–] toiletwhole@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If you are on Linux you can just use freetube. Maybe it’s also available on windows but that’s something I don’t know

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[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

*Laughs in PeerTube

[–] lemming007@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I'll quit YouTube before I watch ads.

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