"Disable adblocker"-thing on YouTube is back

Hey everyone,

since YouTube started annoying us with their “disable ad blocker” thing, I managed to get rid of it by uBlock Origin and a Tampermonkey script. Yet, the stupid popup is back. To everyone who's gotten rid of it until now: What did you do? Can you point me to the resources you used? It's annoying!

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I just use uBlock Origin (without any additional scripts) and whenever it stops working I update the filter lists manually (it updates them automatically every now and then).
- Which lists do you use?
  
  Just the standard ones. Do a purge and a manual update. So long as the script has been updated, you'll be good to go
  
  Not using the default ones is a probable cause for why your browser gets flagged. Restore to default settings and make sure you don't have other adblockers enabled (such as the one built into YouTube Enhancer add-on) If you still get the pop-up you can update the "quick fixes" list or wait an hour or so for the uBlock team to catch up with Google's latest updates to the detection script.
  
  I use the standard ones plus everything under "Annoyances".
- How do you update manually? It won't let me anymore since an update (the update button is always grayed out now)
  
  You can click the clock icon next to the list/group you want to update as well.

Switched to piped/invidious. There are even a few good apps like Libretube or Freetube. No need to waste time with scripts and stuff.
- I have been loving freetube on desktop. I could never get the websites for piped or invidious to work well
- me too but back in october of 23... works so much better than youtube for me even if ads weren't the reason
- "No need to waste time with scripts and stuff.", you mean other than learning and knowing what the script does as opposed to hoping the apps' developers are honest, never die, and never sell out.
  
  It's all FOSS. Whoever gets doubts about the devs can check the source or have it checked by experts. They sell out or die? Switch to other frontends or forks. I'd never trust any dev blindly, but if I can choose between these ones and Google... well.
  
  Not everyone has the time, energy, or even the knowledge needed to understand what the scripts do. I think most internet users don't even know what is a function and how it looks like, and they don't want to change after getting home from the 8 or more hour work and still needing to do house chores, bills and whatever.

FreeTube is the way

Just use a Invidious instance. Don't even bother with YouTube. You can use an RSS feed reader to port your subscriptions, then use a redirection extension to bring you to the invidious version of the channel.
If you're so inclined, you can download the video using yt-dlp which you can use to download videos from invidious and even pass a sponsor block flag which integrates with the sponsor block api.
On mobile, if you have Android, you can use Tubular. You can request from Google to give you your subscriptions as a fifle that you can upload to these apps. Tubular also uses Sponsor block as well.
Lastly, if you're on iOS, the best I've found is simply to use the Brave browser.
Hope this helps.
- The freetube client (invidious client) is a much better user experience than base invidious
- There's Yattee for iOS, just use this guide to set it up.

Update your filters lists on uBlock Origin. That may help.
Use FreeTube and use Privacy Redirect or LibRedirect to redirect to FreeTube.
- Privacy redirect has been discontinued for years, I strongly suggest using libredirect
  
  Privacy Redirect still have Nitter support.

I use the LibRedirect browser add-on to use Invidious on desktop and NewPipe on Android. Never use youtube.com, problem solved.

firefox? if so update your ublock lists and refresh the tab.

Are you using Firefox?
- Yes

Updating your filter lists in uBlock Origin should fix it. Nevertheless, there are better solution for watching YouTube videos without Google's crappy ads and trackers. There are private frontends like Piped and Invidious, you can use LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links to your desired frontend. You can also use a native client like FreeTube on Desktop, LibreTube or Tubular/NewPipe on Android, Yattee with this guide on iOS, iPadOS and tvOS, SmartTube on Android TV or this app if you have an LG TV running webOS.

Idk why this never happens to me. I'm been using unlock origin on ms edge.

I guess it's time to update uBlock Origin lists.

I set my user agent to the Google bot for youtube. It seems to work last time they pulled this shit. The only down side is that it forces desktop view if on mobile.
- I haven't used it, but couldn't you use the mobile version of the useragent string?
  Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
  
  I'll have to give that a try.

I use a locally hosted frontend.

Restarting Firefox usually fixes everything for me.

to keep me sane I just use Freetube on destop and Tubular on phone
you can't post comments on both but I feel this is a positive
- You are a smart biped.