Ublock dashboard, filter lists, purge cache and update. Should work
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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Ok I should try doing this.
Purge your filters and redownload. It's a problem on your end.
watched a free movie on yt for the first time in a couple months last thursday. i knew about the new war on adblockers, so i had updated ublock origin's filter list cache first.
worked fine no ads, even got 1080p, which i rarely ever see for the 'legit' mainstream tv shows and movies they have.
even got 1080p
What's up with that by the way? I constantly watch videos in 720p that advertise 4K in the title.
I think they will offer higher bitrates if you use chrome instead of firefox
It seems really inconsitent though. On some videos I have the option and sometimes not.
Can you choose 4K from the little gear icon in the bottom right corner of the player?
Not trying to defend YouTube, but I think they align video quality to network speed so you can watch without buffering.
No, I can't manually set hit higher either
the big content providers and studios often don't allow a higher bitrate or resolution in a third-party (to the os its on) browser.... i hardly ever see 1080p available on that free stuff on yt.
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I installed freetube in preparation of this, haven't used youtube itself all week either freetube or invidious and both work well for now, would recommend both if you're open to them
I've been doing the same! Freetube works quite well
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Mine is working fine but Sabine Hossenfelder made a pro-capitalism video that ignores the deterioration of the global market in the 20th century. Can someone send her a bugfix?
Sir this a is a community about firefox
That part is working. Yes. Good job!
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Still working for me. The second it stops I'm out of there.
Go to "Filter Lists" and Purge All Caches. That may help.
I did that and it worked! Thank you!!!
np
Still working for me. Only change I noticed is that the edges of the video player are rounded now.
I'm using these. YouTube still works, but I haven't used the 'Home' tab since the nag screen about turning watch history on. I won't. My subs still work fine. I'm in the process of manually building my list in https://freetubeapp.io/ (can't get the import to work)
I'd ditch AdBlock Plus. uBlock origin is better in every regard and there's no acceptable ads bullshit:
I would also remove DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. It is redundant if you are using uBlock Origin.
Works fine on desktop here, on mobile I just use Newpipe
Same for me with uBlock Origin, until I have updated to version 1.51.0
Use invidious
Google also rate limiting some Invidious instances.
I haven't had an issue. Anyway if you have a problem you can switch instances
Still works for me on mobile and desktop.
I've had a few times where ads somehow appear with audio but no video.
How's it with you guys ?
Still working for me
Stopped working yesterday now I just find what I want to watch and watch it on piped. It's a little more annoying but less annoying than the endless ads every few minutes
Purging the filters of uBlock worked for me, maybe it'll help you too. But I was using piped too.
Still working for me. I'm wondering if it's a staggered rollout on YouTube's end. Have you had any luck in getting this working again?
still fine so far for me
wonder how long that's going to last
I use freetube
Same, a few weeks ago already. Switched to freetube back then.
Samet thing happened to me thsn got fixed by itself, I switched to piped tho in case they win the war on adblock
Holy shit you scared me, everything works for me on librewolf
How's it with you guys ?
Me too. But I purged the cache and updated ublock filters. And now it's working again.
It's a race between youtube and ublock, and ublock is winning.
Gorhill is great, and they don't even accept donations for uBO
the filter list maintainers and debuggers deserve the big shout out here.
my uBo code is a bit dated (don't update addons automatically) but has updated filter lists and works fine so far.
Same happend to my mom, but not to me for some reason, maybe try deleting all browser data.
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