YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world
Since May, YouTube has ramped up its block of ad blockers and the company has now fully launched this policy worldwide...
cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2787773 (!google@lemdro.id)
This effort I don't believe was targeting people like most of what you would find here.
This ad-block ban, was mostly targeted at people who didn't know what an ad-blocker was and didn't want to have to deal with having to get banned.
If Alphabet(google) is actually serious about blocking ad-blockers, I would be surprised. Mostly because Microsoft has had more experience with this, also has billions, and even they quit.
Fully blocking only if you aren't using uBlock Origin
Not even that, I use Adblock Plus and have no trouble accessing Youtube and watching videos. Didn't even need to update any filters, it just keeps working as-is.
Don't know, not using ublock origin. I use enhancer for YouTube on Firefox, and still not seeing any pop up.
Tho I have it set to allow ads for subscribed channels. Tho the setting seems bugged as a feature where most video ads get blocked, but some of them still run sometimes at the start of the video. The square adds on the side aren't blocked either, but they are not a hindrance.
Ublock origin on firefox. Never forced an update, never did any fiddling with block lists. Never got a single warning or notification, still works perfectly. Huh.
Could just be luck of the draw. I'm using the same setup and sometimes I get it, sometimes I don't
I did get the splash notification about adblockers a few times ago on a linux garuda system with firefox and ublock, but after popping up on two videos it was gone.
I'm also using ublock on Firefox, I had plenty of notifications over the past two weeks, I have even an Invidious redirect set up, though admittedly ublock is winning RIGHT NOW.
I was told to install it fresh and turn off any updates, that seems to work
I'm in the same boat whether on Windows, macOS, Linux or Android. But my sister, in the same household, also using uBO on FF, has been getting the message constantly
Ditto, but had to manually update a few times. You need to boost your YouTube addiction!
around the world
fully blocking ad blockers
One of those two has to be false, because I'm still not seeing any anti-adblocker measures on my end.
Silence, Marsian scum, we finally got you.
Only time I every encountered the popup was when I used orion with its built in adblocker. And even then I gat one warning (no metion of 3 strike policy). Only change now is the added a 3 second timer to the dismiss button.
Edit: Ublock origen and firefox as usual no issue
It's a staged rollout, meaning that not every one will get this (anti)feature at the same time, rather in groups.
It's all good just make sure you have an up-to-date ublock-based extension: https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/
As of writing this Adblock Plus isn't working with Youtube but no reason you should be using that over ublock origin anyways.
I have Ad Guard installed and still use UBlock Origin for its features.
So fully blocking ad blockers other than the most popular one? I guess we should be glad they weren't this bad at programming 18 years ago when they launched Youtube...
I'm not using the most popular one (I use Adblock Plus, which iirc most people hate) and I can also freely use Youtube with it turned on. So it's not about ublock.
I don't hate ABP, it used to be the main one everyone used, including me. Problem is it stopped working well at some point so we all switched to uBlock Origin. I'm glad ABP is working well again, but I'll keep recommending uBlock Origin as long as it keeps working.
hmmm hadnt noticed. must be a you problem. heh
PEBKAC
I have seen it just once so far. However, this isn't the end. YouTube is rolling this out gradually - perhaps to avoid a massive backlash. I'm sure that even uBO won't be good enough soon.
i was being cheeky, but seriously, ive moved on from youtube. i dont need the content that bad, and i am comfortable drawing a line in the sand. so it does not matter what they do it does not affect me.
The two worst things that ever happened to YouTube were monetized content and Google buying it. It hasn't even been very fun to browse YouTube since like 2010.
Very true. In germany we had "Ytitty", a group of young guys doing music parodies and comedy stuff. They went more and more professional and less funny, not realizing thats not how comedy works.
LOL
So kind of Google, always putting out new fun challenges to encourage people to get their hands dirty with hacking their crap :)
Lol, Microsoft played that game so long and just give up and just get paid by pressure/bundle sale to the business. Let's see how long Google can keep up with the milking game.
No it's not.
I mean, maybe it's trying, I don't know, but I'm not even trying to keep ublock origin up to date (maybe it updates itself in the background?) and I haven't noticed any difference (or ads) other than the normal progressive enshittification of both platform and channels, and I'm pretty certain I live in the world... EDIT: And before anyone asks, I am logged in, I mostly use YouTube through the subscriptions page, so being logged in doesn't seem to be causing any problems for me either.
Also I've had zero problems with Youtube ad blocking using Brave browser.
Firefox with uBlock Origin and a Pi-Hole on my home network. When I started getting the "you're using an adblocker" popups I used uBO to select and block those, also. That was maybe two weeks ago.
On my work laptop (which is unfortunately remotely managed), Chrome with uBO and a pick-and-blocked filter for the same popup. I still have my background noise for working.
I also have a Piped install that does a pretty nice job as a front-end.
Not in Incognito mode it isn't.
Still works fine here (Switzerland) with Vivaldi's built-in ad blocker and Pi-Hole.
According to the developer of Wipr, from what I understand Youtube is using A/B testing for their "ad blocker blocker” and that the dev is working on adapting the app for Youtube latest efforts.
In the meantime, I just stopped going to Youtube. I find I now have a lot of time to read.
I wouldn’t mind if Youtube placed and ad. But when a video has 4-5 ads that awkwardly break up the flow of the video I just don’t have the patience.
@ijeff Is there a fediverse alternative to youtube?
Still not getting any ads in Vivaldi
