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Tell HN: uBlock Origin Blocks YouTube
for several days now I couldnt load youtube. incognito works though. so I thought it has to do something with my extensions. turns out ublock origin (when enabled) causes youtube to only show a skeleton page (no content).
searched and found this on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/167bzk9/youtube_stopped_loading_with_ublock_origin/
- pwg 3y agoThe reddit you linked to said to force update your filter lists and things will be back to normal. Have you done this? Meanwhile, for a less "ad-full" youtube experience, try yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
- omani 3y agoyes Ive done it and it worked.
- gwnywg 3y agoI noticed youtube will detect too many downloads and start serving errors at some point. I could download one or sometimes two videos error free and then yt-dlp log starts spamming with 'unreachable' errors...
- pwg 3y agoI've not experienced that one (yet) myself. If you are running an older version and there has been an update, try updating to the newer version and see if that helps.
- ravenstine 3y agoyt-dlp is awesome, but I'd hardly call it an "experience" that's alternative to the YouTube GUI. That's like telling someone who's frustrated with Chrome to just use curl.
- pwg 3y agoThe emphasis should be on "less 'ad-full'" -- that is the "experience" it provides, a significant reduction in advertising.
- kosasbest 3y agogHacks has a good tutorial on how to address this: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/03/youtube-showing-ads-with-ublock-origin-enabled-here-is-a-fix/ https://www.ghacks.net/2023/09/03/youtube-showing-ads-with-u...
- yellow_lead 3y agoI noticed this last night too