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Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? What works now?

I've been disregarding the ad warnings on youtube but today, while listening to music they finally forced me to turn it off. I was using u block origin up until this point And holy crap is it abysmal, every ad is designed to be as horrifically annoying as possible. So what's the state of the art with adblock specifically for youtube at this point?

AlectronikLabs 3y ago
Brave browser worked for some time but stopped as of today. The ad speedup extension (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ad-speedup-skip-video-ads/pcjlckhhhmlefmobnnoolakplfppdchi https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ad-speedup-skip-vid...) is the only thing that still works afaik.
- throwaadblock 3y ago
  Yeah this really sucks. Part of my plan was to just use brave mobile but this stopped working as well yesterday. I refuse to give google a dime of revenue though. If it were some other company I would have bought the paid service a long time ago but I absolutely will not in this case.
mtmail 3y ago
My current work-around is deurl.com, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538325 (from "Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538236)
- throwaadblock 3y ago
  Thankyou. I will check this out.
pwg 3y ago
So far, yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) still downloads youtube content (at least it downloads videos), and once downloaded there are no ad 'insertions' during playback.
clipsy 3y ago
uBlock Origin on Firefox still seems to be working fine for me.
- throwaadblock 3y ago
  I'm on firefox as well. It seems like maybe they are to some extent A/B ing this. They gave me 3 warnings over a period of a few weeks and then finally stopped playing videos unless I disabled uBlock for the site One thing to note is that I'm logged in.
  - I_Am_Nous 3y ago
    Have you cleared cache and cookies? I was getting the message but clearing the browser seemed to reset the countdown.
dp-hackernews 3y ago
I use uBlockOrigin and the now defunct uMatrix - I never see any ads or warnings related to ads. uBlockOrigin may also work similarly with noScript - I've not checked. Might be worth asking on the NewPipe repo on github how they avoid the ads on the server side.
kenpoole 3y ago
ruining my enjoyment as a diablerd person whose only enjoyment comes from youtube

AlectronikLabs 3y ago

Brave browser worked for some time but stopped as of today. The ad speedup extension (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ad-speedup-skip-video-ads/pcjlckhhhmlefmobnnoolakplfppdchi https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ad-speedup-skip-vid...) is the only thing that still works afaik.

throwaadblock 3y ago
Yeah this really sucks. Part of my plan was to just use brave mobile but this stopped working as well yesterday. I refuse to give google a dime of revenue though. If it were some other company I would have bought the paid service a long time ago but I absolutely will not in this case.

mtmail 3y ago

My current work-around is deurl.com, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538325 (from "Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538236)

throwaadblock 3y ago
Thankyou. I will check this out.

pwg 3y ago

So far, yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) still downloads youtube content (at least it downloads videos), and once downloaded there are no ad 'insertions' during playback.

clipsy 3y ago

uBlock Origin on Firefox still seems to be working fine for me.

throwaadblock 3y ago
I'm on firefox as well. It seems like maybe they are to some extent A/B ing this. They gave me 3 warnings over a period of a few weeks and then finally stopped playing videos unless I disabled uBlock for the site One thing to note is that I'm logged in.
- I_Am_Nous 3y ago
  Have you cleared cache and cookies? I was getting the message but clearing the browser seemed to reset the countdown.

dp-hackernews 3y ago

I use uBlockOrigin and the now defunct uMatrix - I never see any ads or warnings related to ads. uBlockOrigin may also work similarly with noScript - I've not checked. Might be worth asking on the NewPipe repo on github how they avoid the ads on the server side.

kenpoole 3y ago

ruining my enjoyment as a diablerd person whose only enjoyment comes from youtube