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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by gruez on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:21PM (#43324777)
>Not only does YouTube either get through or cause weird issues, YouTube now blocks you until you completely disable the extension

Works fine on my machine. You might need to update your filter lists or try another content blocker app.

>Content blockers often block cookie banners too which can often result in broken functionality - a nightmare when you’re trying to buy tickets to something and have to “reload without blockers” for the website to work.

So don't enable the filter lists that try to block cookie banners?

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by epiecs on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:36PM (#43324975)
Can you recommend a blocker? I have one (adblock pro), but I cant seem to find where to update the lists and sometimes YT does weird things :)
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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by gruez on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:39PM (#43325013)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047...

There's also a new extension that was posted on hn a few weeks that's free and claims to have scriptlets to block youtube ads as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204406#43208085

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by dredmorbius on Monday March 10, 2025 @04:41PM (#43325841)
Bypass the YT website entirely.

You can perform video search through DuckDuckGo, Invidious, or Piped.

The latter two are often blocked themselves, copy the video URL and feed to mpv to play through your preferred video player on the command-line:

<https://mpv.io/>

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by dredmorbius on Monday March 10, 2025 @07:41PM (#43327503)
Clarifying: Invidious/Piped video playback (and often the video webpage itself) may be blocked, even if the search pages work.

Recent mpv / ytdl can almost always gain access. If you are blocked, check for updates to ytdl (which mpv typically uses for video/media downloading).

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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by derkster on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:38PM (#43324998)
YouTube has been playing a cat and mouse game, disabling some accounts until disabled, randomly re-enabling them. I personally think it's so when people talk about issues like this - people say "Well, it's been ok on my end". But it's definitely some kind of A/B testing.
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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by philistine on Monday March 10, 2025 @06:28PM (#43326845)
Oh absolutely. YouTube will 100% try new ad blocking technology for only a specific strata.
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Re:uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store by stavros on Monday March 10, 2025 @09:19PM (#43328172)
Nit, but "stratum" is the singular.
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