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YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround (www.tomsguide.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Have you noticed uBlock Origin being a bit hit and miss on YouTube lately? I’ve had it happen a few times lately where the video won’t play, or an ad comes up but doesn’t play. I’ve had to keep refreshing until it gets to normal where it just plays the damn video.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    No. It works across all my systems. I never see ads on YT. However...

    Videos not loading or playing delayed: That's a YT feature which they implemented for Firefox users, to annoy them. And to promote Chrome as "the fastest" webbrowser.

    I also have dns issues at home... I should fix them already. Sometimes, a page doesn't load on the first try.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I experience the same issue. All the elements on the page load extremely slow or sometimes not at all.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I think youtube might have implemented something that prevents the server from delivering the video files until the expected duration of the ad has passed. This idea is completely unfounded, but this is what it feels like to me.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Maybe it is a regional thing? I was watching YouTube 30 mins ago with no issues and haven't ever had any unless I open a new tab but don't try to watch until the next day. Then I just need to refresh and it is off to the races.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Work PC and I have to use edge there with Ghostery (ugh). Was trying to find a decent coding tutorial. Every page load of a video was a playback error that instantly vanished when I hit reload. No problems on FF with uBO today, though.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I sometimes get a popup warning from YouTube that my account will be blocked from viewing videos if I keep running an ad blocker. But the warning goes away after a while and YouTube still works. I don't see ads except on mobile.

    Oddly, they also keep begging me to "return" to YouTube Premium, though I have never paid for YouTube Premium.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Oddly, they also keep begging me to “return” to YouTube Premium, though I have never paid for YouTube Premium.

    This is just 'normal' commercial psychological manipulation.

    Returning sounds better than starting, so a small percentage of people would sign up that wouldn't have otherwise if it was worded accurately.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If on mobile, try setting it to desktop mode. Also, getting the chameleon extension and pretending you are using chrome can also help.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I am not an expert so don't quote me here, but I think there are ways of bypassing the agent switcher/spoofer (like chameleon) revealing the true browser you are using... that would actually make you MORE fingerprintable.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I use different shared PCs at work and this happens every time on the Windows 11 machines. Some ad plays before the video, but disappears when I refresh the page. This doesn't happen on the Win 10 machines we still have left. In forced to use Chrome there but everything has UBlock Lite enabled.

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