"Violate Terms of Service" 😂 such agressive language for not wanting to watch endless ads for 2 min videos.

Get fucked.

If things keep going like this I guess I'll abandon Youtube completely. How brighter my life will be

Ad blockers assert your belief in the web browser as user agent, not server agent

• We know you're using an ad blocker. How dare you.
• Alphabet's cross-subsidy, and the political value of controlling the Overton window, allows Youtube to remain publicly accessible.
• You can get double-penetrated with Youtube Premium, first on the subscription fee then on the usage analytics.

just wait a bit for ublock to update their scrips/feed then it'll work again.

happens to me every now and again, at least on windows, but then I switched to linux and it just stopped happening. Hell I don't even get ads on Twitch anymore when I would all the time regardless of what extentions I used on windows.

I wonder which will happen first: I'll quit watching youtube because the platform becomes too much of a pain in the ass for me to bother with, or I'll quit watching youtube because of how difficult it is to find content I actually want to watch.

It's an interesting situation. YouTube needs us more than we need YouTube.

Datura Network's Invidious instance has a rotating IP, so it's considerably harder for Google to block it.

I love that their warning is an admission of failure

That sucks. Do you have access to a VPN with servers in Albania or Moldova? They still don't allow ads in youtube videos.

Happened to me last month, I set proton VPN to an Albanian server and everything worked until uBlock got updated to suppress the black screen of death again. Good luck!

I can't wait for the plugin that replaces all the ads with black and white mime videos

Unprompted pro tip: I started running ytdl-sub on my server, added the channels I'm interested in, and now I watch youtube on my personal mediaserver and dont even open the youtube page/app anymore. Because I already know this shit is only gonna get more annoying as time moves on, and especially after the silicon valley growth imperative collapses in on itself. Let's hope we'll have ytdl working for long enough.

You can even configure it to download videos a few days later, after sponsorblock info has been submitted, then it also cuts that out. And you can set it to only keep the last {n} videos if you just intend to watch recent stuff and not keep an archive. It even works for non-youtube. I added Neo Magazine Royale from ZDF Mediathek, and it just worked (shout out to the germans who know what that is)

Cons: I don't get yt recommendations Pros: I don't get yt recommendations

But I still find good new stuff via other feeds, so 🤷‍♂️

I switched over to FreeTube for all my Youtube needs.

Lets see if Google can break that one.

Just go to yewtu.be same thing. No ads, no tracking or analyzing you.

As soon as YT started blocking blockers, I created a new Firefox profile with only Bitwarden (just need that everywhere) and uBlock Origin ONLY. Using that has never failed me once this whole time.

When I forget to access YT through my special profile (and therefore only utilize those two plugins) I do see errors. I assume this is due to either uMatrix, AdNauseum or some combination of the two.

Invidious works absolutely great as an alternative way to access all the content uploaded to YouTube. No ads at all and a way better search function.

Still works for me with a combination of Firefox, uBlock and a VPN. I assume sharing an IP with thousands of other people screws up their detection algorithm.