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Are people actually getting blocked? I saw the adblock-block popup once, and after flushing the cache and updating filters of my adblocker I haven't had any iss
by tokai 3y ago
Are people actually getting blocked? I saw the adblock-block popup once, and after flushing the cache and updating filters of my adblocker I haven't had any issues using yt since. Am I just in a lucky A/B group or is the detection and blockage actually that toothless?
- LelouBil 3y agoYouTube updates the script multiple times per day and uBlock Origin devs are fighting back, but they will always be a little bit behind. Maybe you didn't try to play videos when they didn't update their fix yet.
- nwoli 3y agoI’m getting fully blocked. I barely mind it anymore though, it basically acts as a great procrastination block. (I think there’s work around a like that embedded videos still work but I like reducing the amount.)
- willsmith72 3y agoThis is why I'm surprised by their tactics. Google is SO data driven, and many people's objectives are going to be impacted by the reduced watch time. They're going to have to (or already have) modify the objectives of many, many employees
- over_bridge 3y agoPremium was the worst purchase I ever made. I used to scroll shorts on my phone until my rage towards ads was strong enough to overpower my desire to continue. Now there's no release valve. I should go cancel it actually...
- Jaxan 3y agoI get the pop up constantly. But you can just close it and watch the video.
- nkozyra 3y agoCannot watch a video at all with it enabled while in my account. If I go incognito I can. FreeTube for now, I guess.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoOr stop using Chrome.
- sircastor 3y agoI got blocked briefly. I switched to non-logged-in or using an alternative interface for a bit. I switched back and haven’t seen hide-nor-hair of the warning. I don’t know what that means though. Here’s hoping they don’t disable my Google account.
- sircastor 3y agoOh, as of this afternoon I'm seeing ads show up on YouTube (I'm using Brave, with no additional ad-blocking) now. I guess we'll see how it plays out.
- ttyyzz 3y agoYesterday I got the popup constantly but could chose to watch anyway. Today it said "you can watch 2 more videos.." and now I'm blocked after said 2 videos.
- neuromanser 3y agoI've seen the pop-up twice in roughly two weeks, both times in Firefox on Linux with uMatrix, uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoChrome users are out of lock due to the way extensions work, Firefox users can continue blocking without issue.
- tokai 3y agoAh makes sense. Guess it also helps me that I never use yt with a user logged in.
- cardboard9926 3y agoYes, it's crazy. Upon updating ublock, even turning it off and clearing cookies resulted getting blocked.
- LightHugger 3y agoyou need to clear cookies and local storage on youtube.com and also google.com, update ublock, and make sure you're on the default filter settings, then you'll get unblocked
- jjulius 3y agoI've been blocked for a week now.
- LightHugger 3y agoyou need to clear cookies and local storage on youtube.com and also google.com, update ublock, and make sure you're on the default filter settings, then you'll get unblocked
- jjulius 3y agoI know, I just don't really care. I never watched much of any creator-based content, just used it to browse for music, most of which was uploaded by someone other than the artist and, usually if I like it, I'll go and buy it directly from the artist/label. Someone's gotta pay for that hosting, though, right? Sure, I'll tell my ad blocker to allow YT ads through, that's a compromise I'm fine with. But Google decided, arbitrarily, that that compromise isn't good enough and the mere presence of an inactive adblocker is enough for them to tell me to fuck off. If that's how they're gonna be, then it's not gonna bother me at all to use Invidious.
- ksherlock 3y agoI'm blocked, but for a different reason. Every click, their SPA javascript decides i'm not connected to the internet.