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How to bypass YouTube ad-blocking restrictions?
Today was the first time YouTube showed me the message “Ad blockers are not allowed”.
I am trying to find a way to bypass YouTube’s ad-blocking restrictions. This is partly for personal use, but I also have a browser extension that improves the YouTube experience and, among other things, blocks ads. How can I avoid my extension being recognized as an ad-blocker from YouTube? Some users have already reported seeing this warning because of my extension.
Is it possible? Any technical insight is appreciated.
p.s. The extension is Music Mode for YouTube™
- hotbit9 10mo agoUse Brave browser and turn on filters, nothing else.
- thunderarea 10mo agoI got the same answer from a friend of mine :) That's good for my but it does not help with my extension. I cannot tell the users go and use Brave. I am trying to find a way to avoid my extension being detected as an ad blocker
- delaminator 10mo agoBest I managed with mine (which pressed Skip for you) was to make it mute ad-videos
- thunderarea 10mo agoSo, you stopped blocking ads and muted them instead?
- delaminator 10mo agoyeah, Google said this is an ad blocking extension when it got it to press the skip button. I was only making it for myself so I didn't want to risk get in my account banned by testing, testing, testing.
- JustinXie 10mo ago[dead]
- miladyincontrol 10mo agoUpdate your ad blocker and it's filters. Use a better adblocker Or what I'd really suggest if on a computer is to use an open source client like freetube. Much better experience, with integrated adblock, sponsorskip, and dearrow (de clickbait)
- thunderarea 10mo agoThe problem is that I own an extension that blocks ads and is detected as an ad blocker. So, I am looking for a technical solution on how to prevent YouTube from detecting my extension as an ad blocker.
- sgt 10mo agoI don't think you can easily block those ads as they are part of the video...
- thunderarea 10mo agoThe problem is not blocking the ads. I already do that. The problem is how to prevent YouTube recognizing my extension as an ad blocker
- sgt 10mo agoI see. I'm quite impressed you were able to block those video ads in the first place. I thought they originated from the same domain as the regular videos.
- exploraz 10mo agoTry getting some inspiration from uBlock Origin's "Quick Fixes" filterlist[0] (GPL-3.0 licensed) [0]: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters/quick-fixes.txt https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters/...
- thunderarea 10mo agoThank you very much. It seems very useful.