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>Not only does YouTube either get through or cause weird issues, YouTube now blocks you until you completely disable the extension Works fine on my machine. Yo

by gruez 2y ago

>Not only does YouTube either get through or cause weird issues, YouTube now blocks you until you completely disable the extension Works fine on my machine. You might need to update your filter lists or try another content blocker app. >Content blockers often block cookie banners too which can often result in broken functionality - a nightmare when you’re trying to buy tickets to something and have to “reload without blockers” for the website to work. So don't enable the filter lists that try to block cookie banners?

epiecs 2y ago
Can you recommend a blocker? I have one (adblock pro), but I cant seem to find where to update the lists and sometimes YT does weird things :)
- gruez 2y ago
  https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047223162 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047... There's also a new extension that was posted on hn a few weeks that's free and claims to have scriptlets to block youtube ads as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204406#43208085 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204406#43208085
- dredmorbius 2y ago
  Bypass the YT website entirely. You can perform video search through DuckDuckGo, Invidious, or Piped. The latter two are often blocked themselves, copy the video URL and feed to mpv to play through your preferred video player on the command-line: <https://mpv.io/ https://mpv.io/>
  - dredmorbius 2y ago
    Clarifying: Invidious/Piped video playback (and often the video webpage itself) may be blocked, even if the search pages work. Recent mpv / ytdl can almost always gain access. If you are blocked, check for updates to ytdl (which mpv typically uses for video/media downloading).
derkster 2y ago
YouTube has been playing a cat and mouse game, disabling some accounts until disabled, randomly re-enabling them. I personally think it's so when people talk about issues like this - people say "Well, it's been ok on my end". But it's definitely some kind of A/B testing.
- philistine 2y ago
  Oh absolutely. YouTube will 100% try new ad blocking technology for only a specific strata.
  - stavros 2y ago
    Nit, but "stratum" is the singular.

by gruez 2y ago

epiecs 2y ago

Can you recommend a blocker? I have one (adblock pro), but I cant seem to find where to update the lists and sometimes YT does weird things :)

gruez 2y ago
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047223162 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047... There's also a new extension that was posted on hn a few weeks that's free and claims to have scriptlets to block youtube ads as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204406#43208085 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204406#43208085
dredmorbius 2y ago
Bypass the YT website entirely. You can perform video search through DuckDuckGo, Invidious, or Piped. The latter two are often blocked themselves, copy the video URL and feed to mpv to play through your preferred video player on the command-line: <https://mpv.io/ https://mpv.io/>
- dredmorbius 2y ago
  Clarifying: Invidious/Piped video playback (and often the video webpage itself) may be blocked, even if the search pages work. Recent mpv / ytdl can almost always gain access. If you are blocked, check for updates to ytdl (which mpv typically uses for video/media downloading).

derkster 2y ago

YouTube has been playing a cat and mouse game, disabling some accounts until disabled, randomly re-enabling them. I personally think it's so when people talk about issues like this - people say "Well, it's been ok on my end". But it's definitely some kind of A/B testing.

philistine 2y ago
Oh absolutely. YouTube will 100% try new ad blocking technology for only a specific strata.
- stavros 2y ago
  Nit, but "stratum" is the singular.