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This is interesting as I had noticed this happening to me (in Chrome) when the anti-ad-blocking started. I assumed that it was YT's way of "annoying" me still w
by m4tthumphrey 3y ago
This is interesting as I had noticed this happening to me (in Chrome) when the anti-ad-blocking started. I assumed that it was YT's way of "annoying" me still while no ads were shown... It was eventually replaced with the "You cant use Adblockers modal" and now I just tolerate the ads.
So I wonder if that 5s delay has always been there.
- dbspin 3y agoIt's still trivial to block ads, but the delay has recently started for me, after never happening before. So presumably a very intentional volley in the ongoing war to own your attention.
- Lacerda69 3y agoIt's weird but I saw the anti-blocker modal a week or two but them it stopped appearing and never saw it since shrug
- psll 3y agoMight be because of the EU ruling, if you're in the EU.
- dave881 3y agoI'm in the US, and had the same experience. I got the you can't use an adblocker message, but was able to close and/or reload the page to watch videos without ads. After a week or so it stopped popping up. US, Firefox, uBlockOrgin.
- xkcd1963 3y agoJust install adblocker?
- Erratic6576 3y agoOr Freetube / Newpipe
- ikt 3y agono need to go that extreme, the fix is to just update ublock orgins filters Go into ublock origin addon > click filter lists > purge all caches then update now all done
- m4tthumphrey 3y agoMeh.. I could but I have to tolerate them on TV anyway. I may look to install pi-hole one day.
- Larrikin 3y agoPi hole doesn't help, but there are various Android TV apps that do block ads. I still prefer the Roku eco system but I switched after they started putting ads in the middle of music videos.
- wanderingmind 3y agoIf you have an Android TV, You can use SmartTube[1] that has Adblock + Sponsorblock [1] https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
- samrus 3y agopihole doesnt work for youtube because ads and content are served from the same domains.
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- mlindner 3y agoI still use adblockers perfectly fine on Youtube. There was never a real interruption in adblocking either. You just need ublock origin + bypass paywalls.
- busssard 3y agoABP also still works just fine. I prefer the armsrace being taken care of someone else
- prmoustache 3y agoI think they only disabled adblockers to logged users probably because non logged users don't have to agree to terms of services.
- mlindner 3y agoI'm always logged on and using adblockers. So no, that's not it. I also use Youtube probably every day and am a very active user.
- jimcsharp 3y agoBlockers work with my throw away Google accounts that I use for this and that. So maybe it's restricted further still to very entrenched users.
- bluescrn 3y agoWhen I ran into the adblocker-blocker (Firefox + uBlock Origin), I noticed that I could watch videos if logged out. So I just stayed logged out, and haven't seen an anti-adblock message since. Or an ad. Added bonus, I'm less tempted to venture into the comments section...
- jonathanstrange 3y agoI'm using Firefox + uBlock Origin logged in and it works totally fine. Maybe Youtube removed the anti-adblocker on select accounts? I remember I once entertained myself with writing a report in which I sounded like I'm sitting in a retirement home and have no clue what's going on with "ad block." Did perhaps someone actually read this?
- Synaesthesia 3y agoIt seems to be something which is randomly deployed. Not everybody gets the warning.
- jonathanstrange 3y agoI got it in the past for weeks, though.
- SiempreViernes 3y agoI think you have simply been lucky, the full story is that uBlock Origin and Youtube have been tying to outpatch the other, with uBlock rolling out a bypass to the filters every one-two days since late October (https://github.com/stephenhawk8054/misc/commits/main/yt-fix.txt https://github.com/stephenhawk8054/misc/commits/main/yt-fix....). Depending on if you've set up uBlock to auto-update and when you've watched youtube relative to when the block filters got updated you might just not have been hit with the latest detectors while they were active. Personally I know I got the "accept ads or leave" modal with firefox + uBlock, locking me out completely on one of my devices.
- bratwurst3000 3y ago
- fimdomeio 3y agoAnother way I noticed is good at skipping ads when adblocker fails is to refresh the page. When it loads again it does not play the ad.