Tell HN: This is how you can bypass YouTube's Anti-Adblock mechanism

Re:Tell HN: This is how you can bypass YouTube's Anti-Adbloc... by mikhailfranco on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:44AM (#38114179)

First, I stopped using Google search, because it gave me a CAPTCHA whenever I used a VPN (or that was my impression of the correlation), but ...

...I am pedantic with my CAPTCHAS. I would tag all the wing mirrors and tires on the motorcycles. That obviously diverged from normal human behavior (maybe autistic, but not-a-bot :)

Googlenazi would give me another CAPTCHA, and another, sometimes 10 in a row! Enough already. DuckDuckGo here we come.

Now, Chrome blocked the YouTube AdBlock, so I see all the YT ads.

Next step is to change browser, probably for Firefox (hello again, old friend).

If that doesn't work, I will never look at YT again. Let's hope the YT (music) downloaders manage to stay one-step-beyond. I cannot spend all my time trying to second-guess the Search-Chrome-YouTube-industrial-complex. F*GOOG.

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Re:Tell HN: This is how you can bypass YouTube's Anti-Adbloc... by mikhailfranco on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:58AM (#38114379)

P.S. Kudos to Joe Rogan to see this collapse of YT so far ahead - and also the CA political woke tax-hike covid-madness general stupidity implosion.

Two good early calls. Not just seeing it and bloviating to his pals, but switching to Spotify and moving state.

Impressive (independent of whatever you think about his other personal or political beliefs).

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