After I got blocked from watching further videos, I disabled uBlock on Firefox, clicked any video and then enabled uBlock again. For some reason neither the blocking nor the pop-ups came back after reloading or since.
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2023
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So basically you just updated your filter lists to get the new anti-adblock blocking.
I see loads of posts that ad blockers stopped working on youtube. However, I still have no ads there. I'm running vivaldi with ublock on Linux and Vivaldi with minminguard on Android (EU based).
Is this a firefox issue, US only,...?
Google/YouTube never rolled out new features to all users at once, especially for new controversial features. They always do staged rollout (e.g. 1% of users, then 5%, then 10%, etc), often geographically limited too. That way they can gauge the potential impact of the new features before fully deploying them (e.g. whether the new features would actually increase their projected revenue or actually decreasing it).
That would explain a lot. We'll see how this develops. For me it would be no big loss when adblock detectoon starts to work here. Loads of spare time to get back. ;) (no ads or no content, as I refuse to watch ads)
The moment an ad loads I close the window and copy the link to another browser. I'm not watching ads for a company that is making billions selling my data why they cry poverty because I won't watch ads. Seriously fuck off Google.
I already had colleague come to me to solve the issue. Thank you Google for making alternatives better known.
I am in France
Nobody said adblocks stopped working. It's YouTube who blocks YOU from watching when adblock running
No ads here, adblocker active and I can watch yt in the Netherlands. Either the ad block detecting is not perfect or not globally active.
mullvad vpn
mullvad browser
ublock origin
not logged into google
youtube works fine for me, no ads, no warnings
not logged into Google
That explains everything :)
I've gone through great pains to do deGoogle myself. Guess I get some benefits nowadays. Free tube to manage my subscriptions.. works well enough for me
There's 3 reasons why you might see this AdBlock nonsense:
- YouTube changed something and the filter lists need a bit of time for volunteers to update them
- Your auto update of filter lists did not pull the above update yet
- Some other addon/privacy feature interferes with ublock or triggers the adblock detection themselves
If you didn't run into any of these yet, you'll have no problems. Also sometimes you might have one of the above problems, but the adblock detection feature may not have been rolled out to your region/account yet, so you're also fine.
I'm on fiefox with ublock and didn't notice any change, Germany..
You don't install piped or individious, they are websites you simply navigate too:
Or you even can install a firefox extension to redirect all youtube links automatically for you. Here is one that has minimal permissions required:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-redirect/
I was talking about self hosting them which obviously requires installation
Oh, well when you spoke of convenience I thought it was less likely you had self-hosting in mind ;)
I just want to make sure people to know how easy it is to avoid youtube with the further prooliferation of their enshittification.
I use farside.link to go to available piped instance.
Thanks! Do you know if an equialent of this exists for nitter?
Alternatively I noticed opening a video in a new tab won't trigger the popup.
Mine just started working out of nowhere. I went to YouTube on my chrome browser to find a video I wanted to watch so I can play in Firefox and it just played as normal 🤷🏾♂️
I just got the popup a couple of times but never any ads. I'm behind Pi-hole, running Firefox with arkenfox.js and uBlock
Currently using ungoogled-chromium with uBlock Origin, never encountered warnings and not logging in.