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Ublock users who got hit by Youtube's anti-adblock effort- how's your experience been? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I started getting the dreaded anti-adblock pop-ups on Youtube when they started ramping up their efforts a month or so back, and I initially went through the whole rigamarole: First it was just the pop-up, then it was the pop-up with the timer, then the 3-video countdown finally leading to the video player being disabled outright.

Throughout all of this I did the recommended Purging All Caches -> Update Now routine on the Ublock Dashboard at least once a day to keep the pop-ups away, but when it got to the player getting blocked it didn't seem to work anymore. Since I'm on Firefox, I experimented using Containers and found that I could just log in to my YT account on a different container to keep using Youtube until that container started getting blocked.

In the past few weeks I've noticed no issues though apart from having the video player blocked once, which was fixed by purging all caches and updating and I almost forgot about the whole anti-adblock thing altogether. It does seem like YT pages are loading slightly slower than they used to though.

Are you still having issues with Ublock on Youtube or were you even affected at all?

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[–] theshatterstone54 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm so confused on how rollout happens. Is it random? I'm in a first world country (not the USA), using Firefox and Ublock Origin and have never experienced the popups. I use YouTube daily, often watching 10+ videos a day, and have never seen an ad or the popup. I have also never done anything to update my extensions or purge the cache as you mentioned. I've just had 0 issues. On mobile, I use Newpipe (BraveNewPipe, a fork with sponsorblock) and once again, 0 issues.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

often watching 10+ bideos a day

Oh, they don't block bideos, just videos.

I also use firefox + ublock origin with zero issues on desktop (and on mobile too).

[–] theshatterstone54 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Haha, fixed. It's interesting to see I'm not the only one.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

So far the pattern I have seen is users who do a lot of extra filtering with UO are the ones that run into the issues, but us lazy peeps who stick with defaults are sailing clear.

The only custom thing I have done in UO is filter out posts in kbin/lemmy that have certain annoying politicians in the titles. I see them enough on regular news sites articles about their trials or their shitty laws being shit down in the courts.

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 1 points 11 months ago

I have enabled multiple lists that aren't default, have years worth of custom filters, run in medium mode and I have never seen a single warning on YouTube. Maybe none of the stuff I've configured is YouTube related.

[–] theshatterstone54 1 points 11 months ago

Interesting. I definitely wouldn't consider myself a normie (I use Arch and a Custom ROM, btw) but I've never tinkered with Ublock's extra features, so it seems that you're right.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago

I'm in this boat as well. I'd just kind of assumed I wasn't getting ads because I never log in to YouTube, but it's sounding like that's not the case.