Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? What works now?

Posted by throwaadblock on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @03:44PM
from the self-post dept.

I've been disregarding the ad warnings on youtube but today, while listening to music they finally forced me to turn it off. I was using u block origin up until this point

And holy crap is it abysmal, every ad is designed to be as horrifically annoying as possible.

So what's the state of the art with adblock specifically for youtube at this point?

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Re:Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? W... by pwg on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:03PM (#38549431)

So far, yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) still downloads youtube content (at least it downloads videos), and once downloaded there are no ad 'insertions' during playback.

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Re:Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? W... by mtmail on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @03:52PM (#38549313)

My current work-around is deurl.com, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538325 (from "Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538236)

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Re:Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? W... by throwaadblock on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @03:55PM (#38549347)

Thankyou. I will check this out.

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Re:Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? W... by AlectronikLabs on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @03:51PM (#38549307)

Brave browser worked for some time but stopped as of today. The ad speedup extension (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ad-speedup-skip-vid...) is the only thing that still works afaik.

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Re:Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? W... by throwaadblock on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @03:55PM (#38549341)

Yeah this really sucks. Part of my plan was to just use brave mobile but this stopped working as well yesterday.

I refuse to give google a dime of revenue though. If it were some other company I would have bought the paid service a long time ago but I absolutely will not in this case.

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Re:Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? W... by dp-hackernews on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @05:19PM (#38550291)

I use uBlockOrigin and the now defunct uMatrix - I never see any ads or warnings related to ads.

uBlockOrigin may also work similarly with noScript - I've not checked.

Might be worth asking on the NewPipe repo on github how they avoid the ads on the server side.

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Re:Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? W... by clipsy on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:18PM (#38549595)

uBlock Origin on Firefox still seems to be working fine for me.

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Re:Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? W... by throwaadblock on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:42PM (#38549910)

I'm on firefox as well. It seems like maybe they are to some extent A/B ing this.

They gave me 3 warnings over a period of a few weeks and then finally stopped playing videos unless I disabled uBlock for the site

One thing to note is that I'm logged in.

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Re:Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? W... by I_Am_Nous on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:59PM (#38550117)

Have you cleared cache and cookies? I was getting the message but clearing the browser seemed to reset the countdown.

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Re:Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? W... by kenpoole on Thursday December 07, 2023 @09:24PM (#38564651)

ruining my enjoyment as a diablerd person whose only enjoyment comes from youtube

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