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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

UPDATE 2 It seems that starting today, uBlock Origin is working to combat this Youtube Block. Mine started working again! Lets all thank the devs of UBO for fighting this fight!

UPDATE So as new info comes out, I'll be posting it here. It seems as if this Rollout Has Several Parts.

Part 1

You get a popup message over top of your video, blocking the screen:

  • This is the first sign. If you see this popup AND are logged into a YouTube account, your account has been selected.
  • At this stage you can likely close or block these messages with an adblocker.

Part 2

This message will change, indicating that you have 3 remaining videos to watch without ads.

Will insert photo once one has been found

  • At this stage your adblocker will imminently stop working in 3 videos time.
  • Personally using Firefox + uBlock Origin and tweaking filters and updates does not even fix it.

Part 3

None of the video loads now, everything looks blank.

  • At this stage you must tred new ground to avoid ads. I have posted methods in the comments. If you want to bypass this end page, read down there.

End of Update


YouTube has started rolling out anti-adblock to users inside the United States, which means that they are preparing to roll this out to the entire country. Personally, I have been blocked already. I want to gauge how common this occurrence is.

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[-] janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 months ago

Here's hoping YouTube Revanced on Android and Adguard on desktop continues to work, eh...

[-] Lt_Cdr_Data@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Tbh, at this point there's no reason in them disabling ad blockers. If you haven't gotten used to this insane amount of ads by experiencing the slow, uphill creep, having to go from seeing no ads to suddenly this, is impossible. I couldn't watch youtube videos in the current state of ads, so I'd just have one less vice.

I had already stopped once, when youtube vanced went offline (until i found revanced) and I will do it again

[-] viking@infosec.pub 11 points 10 months ago

Firefox has zero issues with adblock on Desktop. On mobile I prefer Newpipe, but hey. Anything goes.

[-] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

REX is working fine with the SponsorBlock enabled.

[-] janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Forgive my ignorance – what's REX?

[-] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Revanced Extended.

[-] Based_and_Cool@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Revanced stopped working for me last week. I may reinstall incase I was running an old patch.

[-] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 4 points 10 months ago

Patching a newer version of the Youtube app resolved the issues with playback I was having.

[-] janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah likely cause is something outdated. All working fine on my end

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