YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers::undefined
update your rules, made the popup go away on my ubloick origin <3
addendum: a how to:
- left click ublock origin
- click the three interlocking cogs
- select the filter lists tab at the top
- click purge all caches
- click update now
- refresh your youtube tab you just encoutered the popup in and press f5 or refresh the site otherwise
before i had the popup on each video, after no more.
if the forcr me to watch ads i will finaly leave that platform
And where will you go?
Peertube has a great import feature.
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Yt-dlp is great for uhhh… duck acquisition
I want to build something into a webserver with a CLI version that starts playing from cache but lets users search
I heard there’s this stuff outside called grass.
I intend to touch it.
peertube
And what will they have lost?
I mean, I get your point, but why would they care
Users who don’t directly pay for a social service where user content and interaction is the business are still valuable. They share videos around, they comment, they contribute to it being the place where everything is happening. There’s a reason all these tech platform companies spent so long in the honeymoon phase of monopolization. Without the network effect of people on their platform, they have nothing.
They still need a way to overall make profit from their users, but they aren’t losing nothing by losing people who adblock.
As far as I can tell, they aren’t doing a very good job. I’ve seen the notice that an ad blocker is not allowed, and even without upgrading the ad blocker I use I can still just click the close button on the notice and it goes away and I can continue to watch uninterrupted.
If Google does figure out how to prevent people from using ad blockers on YouTube, I think it will help me break my honestly unhealthy habit and reduce the amount I watch, or perhaps even quit entirely, since there are far more ads on YouTube than there were in the past - especially if you also include sponsor ads that are embedded in videos.
I have been enjoying Nebula. If Google manages to kill ad blockers, I will probably just go live over there.
So far, I can dismiss the popup in Firefox and keep watching, but I dread the day that this doesn’t work anymore.
It’s a fairly straightforward cat and mouse game. The only thing that has the potential to make it complicated soon is Google’s Web Environment Integrity API.
These ad block users should be considered the cost of doing business and they should be careful with targeting them.
This kind of thing springs users into action to either find or use work arounds or create a alternative platform.
No one can create an alternative platform. Youtube costs far far, far too much to run. This is why everyone failed. Google subsidised it for what, 15 years? Before it got any level of profitability and even then, nof really. Google derives other value from it, like feeding data into their ad profiles, but no one else needs that.
It’s also clear that workarounds will stop soon as Google has installed Web drm directly into chrome
You’d be surprised how things can change, and quickly. It’s not going to be a overnight win for another platform. It’s going to have to start from the ground up, in probably a decentralized way, but it can happen.
YouTube is fighting a losing battle
havent seen this popup on Youtube. currently using librewolf with ublock origin. maybe i’m not logged in.
An updated uBlock Origin will remove the popup
Like I said, I haven’t encountered it yet.
Yes, because of uBlock Origin
It’s not a loophole, it’s a necessary security function.
we will win, sail the high seas
Ads are like door-to-door salesman. Obnoxious. Let me enjoy the content without the sales pressure. I don’t want to buy your stuff.
I’m using Firefox with uBlock Origin and I have yet to see that popup
You will. I didn’t start getting it until three days ago.
I’ve been getting it off and on the last few days, oddly only on one PC still running 10 but everything else with FF/UO is up to date. Nothing on two 11 machines so far, with all signed in on the same google account.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
refresh your filter cache <3
I don’t need to, I don’t see any popup, I can watch videos on YouTube just fine without changing anything in uBlock Origin’s settings or manually updating it.
Do it anyway if you want that to continue. It’s generally a good practice anyways since filter updates are pushed regularly with old redundant strings removed and new filters added, for all sites, not just YouTube.
oh, guess i misread your comment, pardon me ^^’
It has been a long time coming - might be we’re in for another dark age of the net at the current pace of things.
A way around will be found, it always is, until then consider archiving the things you enjoy to pass the time while we wait.
I have a feeling it’ll probably due a great deal of harm to the idea of Anti-adblock being “actually effective”. Up until now it’s only really been used by a handful of News, file download, and… Mature content… sites. Places with smaller userbases and less traffic where the effort for bypassing them is lower or just not discussed due to the small size or nature of the site.
It’s not really the case here though. So in one way or another this is going to fail.
I would definitely recommend people start backing up YouTube videos from older creators because I imagine that after this they’ll be looking to reduce costs and that likely means purging inactive channels or channels that cost more than they make.
This thread is full of fixes, and i havw another one that im not seeing anyone mention so its not lost yet!
I’m noting down fixes as I find them, and so far they are effective. However, our fixes face the same dillema as their changes - what one person can contrive another can work around.
We have the advantage of numbers, so we generate a wider range of work arounds, but our opponent can also see those work arounds (we share them freely) and so has an easier time countering them, i.e. they are faster at reversing each individual fix.
