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For anyone looking for up-to-date information on getting YouTube ad blocking to work: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976 https://github.com/uB

For anyone looking for up-to-date information on getting YouTube ad blocking to work: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976

uoaei 3y ago
Ad-blocking never stopped working for me. I use a combo of uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and Unhook.
- therein 3y ago
  As far as I can tell, they are leaving Silicon Valley IPs to the end of the rollout.
  - applecrazy 3y ago
    this is untrue. located in the bay area and getting dinged hard on most of my devices
    - therein 3y ago
      Interesting. Maybe it is Google Fiber in Bay Area, or something more specific like that. I get it on my devices when I travel outside Bay Area and my friends everywhere else are getting the treatment that people are complaining about. But with just uBlock Origin, haven't seen anything pertaining ads on YouTube on Google Fiber in Bay Area.
- mantra2 3y ago
  I don’t think they’ve rolled it out to everyone yet.
  - pests 3y ago
    They haven't. I was hit just last week.
  - uoaei 3y ago
    uMatrix breaks so much across the entire internet that I feel like it has an effect here. But I haven't done any tests to confirm that.
  - bluescrn 3y ago
    Currently doesn't seem to affect logged out users. So I just logged out.
    - sphars 3y ago
      This explains why I haven't seen the popup yet. I'm logged out on FF, logged in on Chrome (I have premium), but do all casual YT viewing in FF.
    - bonton89 3y ago
      One of my PCs never had an account and the ad blocker no longer works. My other PC appears to be logged into my throwaway account and the most I ever saw one message about blocking.
- Semaphor 3y ago
  uBO + uMatrix, got the nag and the 3-video warning. Adding "uBlock filters – Annoyances" fixed it for me.
- venatiodecorus 3y ago
  I used to use uMatrix before it ceased development, but eventually switched over to only uBlock advanced mode. Do you find it still works fine? What cases do you keep uMatrix around for?
  - brigandish 3y ago
    The UI is superior, in my opinion. Better colours; much clearer about which connections are made or attempted; less interaction with typing out rules or looking at such rules. If I could get the uMatrix "skin" on top of uBlock Origin that would be great.
    - freedomben 3y ago
      Yep, and uBO is low resolution compared to uMatrix. I rejoice in being able to decide whether CSS, XHR, scripts, etc should be allowed on each domain. uBO doesn't get that fine grained even in advanced mode
hypertele-Xii 3y ago
AdBlocker Ultimate still works. I just blocked the nagging popup element.
spartanatreyu 3y ago
In the last year, youtube anti-ad-block only ever occurred to me once and I fixed it in 2 minutes by reading the instructions on that github issue. All I had to do was manually trigger an update for uBlock Origin's filter lists then restart firefox. The filter lists update automatically, but a new youtube change got around them and the filter had a fix inside an hour (too short a time for my extension to auto-update it's filter lists).
- chii 3y ago
  This has been continuing for the past couple months. I don't see youtube giving up tbh, and i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube. This is different to other ads, which is a crowdsourced list of filters, and isn't on a small or single individual to keep up. There must be a better way to utilize the crowd to make it work.
  - jeron 3y ago
    > i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube Don’t underestimate what open source can and will do just to spite things they despise
  - autoexec 3y ago
    > This has been continuing for the past couple months. I don't see youtube giving up tbh, and i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube. If UBO stops working, I'll use newpipe, if that stops working I'll use yt-dlp and if that stops working I'll use whatever else people have come up with, and if nobody has anything that gets rid of the ads I'll just stop watching youtube. I don't see that happening though. As long as we have computers that still work for us, I doubt google will come up with a way to stop ad blocking entirely. Maybe we'll have youtube re-release groups that manually edit out the ads and re-upload videos from popular channels to P2P sites. Maybe we'll get AI that can download videos and edit out the ads for us. We'll figure something out.
thomastsch 3y ago
For those who can't or don't want to install an ad blocker on their device, a youtube viewer bookmarklet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37973944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37973944
- smartbit 3y ago
  Low resolution, but works great. Thanks.

For anyone looking for up-to-date information on getting YouTube ad blocking to work: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976

uoaei 3y ago

Ad-blocking never stopped working for me. I use a combo of uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and Unhook.

therein 3y ago
As far as I can tell, they are leaving Silicon Valley IPs to the end of the rollout.
- applecrazy 3y ago
  this is untrue. located in the bay area and getting dinged hard on most of my devices
  - therein 3y ago
    Interesting. Maybe it is Google Fiber in Bay Area, or something more specific like that. I get it on my devices when I travel outside Bay Area and my friends everywhere else are getting the treatment that people are complaining about. But with just uBlock Origin, haven't seen anything pertaining ads on YouTube on Google Fiber in Bay Area.
mantra2 3y ago
I don’t think they’ve rolled it out to everyone yet.
- pests 3y ago
  They haven't. I was hit just last week.
- uoaei 3y ago
  uMatrix breaks so much across the entire internet that I feel like it has an effect here. But I haven't done any tests to confirm that.
- bluescrn 3y ago
  Currently doesn't seem to affect logged out users. So I just logged out.
  - sphars 3y ago
    This explains why I haven't seen the popup yet. I'm logged out on FF, logged in on Chrome (I have premium), but do all casual YT viewing in FF.
  - bonton89 3y ago
    One of my PCs never had an account and the ad blocker no longer works. My other PC appears to be logged into my throwaway account and the most I ever saw one message about blocking.
Semaphor 3y ago
uBO + uMatrix, got the nag and the 3-video warning. Adding "uBlock filters – Annoyances" fixed it for me.
venatiodecorus 3y ago
I used to use uMatrix before it ceased development, but eventually switched over to only uBlock advanced mode. Do you find it still works fine? What cases do you keep uMatrix around for?
- brigandish 3y ago
  The UI is superior, in my opinion. Better colours; much clearer about which connections are made or attempted; less interaction with typing out rules or looking at such rules. If I could get the uMatrix "skin" on top of uBlock Origin that would be great.
  - freedomben 3y ago
    Yep, and uBO is low resolution compared to uMatrix. I rejoice in being able to decide whether CSS, XHR, scripts, etc should be allowed on each domain. uBO doesn't get that fine grained even in advanced mode

hypertele-Xii 3y ago

AdBlocker Ultimate still works. I just blocked the nagging popup element.

spartanatreyu 3y ago

In the last year, youtube anti-ad-block only ever occurred to me once and I fixed it in 2 minutes by reading the instructions on that github issue. All I had to do was manually trigger an update for uBlock Origin's filter lists then restart firefox. The filter lists update automatically, but a new youtube change got around them and the filter had a fix inside an hour (too short a time for my extension to auto-update it's filter lists).

chii 3y ago
This has been continuing for the past couple months. I don't see youtube giving up tbh, and i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube. This is different to other ads, which is a crowdsourced list of filters, and isn't on a small or single individual to keep up. There must be a better way to utilize the crowd to make it work.
- jeron 3y ago
  > i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube Don’t underestimate what open source can and will do just to spite things they despise
- autoexec 3y ago
  > This has been continuing for the past couple months. I don't see youtube giving up tbh, and i don't see how uBO can continue to maintain a manually constructed filter every time a new mechanism is added/altered in youtube. If UBO stops working, I'll use newpipe, if that stops working I'll use yt-dlp and if that stops working I'll use whatever else people have come up with, and if nobody has anything that gets rid of the ads I'll just stop watching youtube. I don't see that happening though. As long as we have computers that still work for us, I doubt google will come up with a way to stop ad blocking entirely. Maybe we'll have youtube re-release groups that manually edit out the ads and re-upload videos from popular channels to P2P sites. Maybe we'll get AI that can download videos and edit out the ads for us. We'll figure something out.

thomastsch 3y ago

For those who can't or don't want to install an ad blocker on their device, a youtube viewer bookmarklet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37973944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37973944

smartbit 3y ago
Low resolution, but works great. Thanks.