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Has YouTube Blocked Your Adblocker Yet?? (strawpoll.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Honse@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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UPDATE 2 It seems that starting today, uBlock Origin is working to combat this Youtube Block. Mine started working again! Lets all thank the devs of UBO for fighting this fight!

UPDATE So as new info comes out, I'll be posting it here. It seems as if this Rollout Has Several Parts.

Part 1

You get a popup message over top of your video, blocking the screen:

This is the first sign. If you see this popup AND are logged into a YouTube account, your account has been selected.
At this stage you can likely close or block these messages with an adblocker.

Part 2

This message will change, indicating that you have 3 remaining videos to watch without ads.

Will insert photo once one has been found

At this stage your adblocker will imminently stop working in 3 videos time.
Personally using Firefox + uBlock Origin and tweaking filters and updates does not even fix it.

Part 3

None of the video loads now, everything looks blank.

At this stage you must tred new ground to avoid ads. I have posted methods in the comments. If you want to bypass this end page, read down there.

End of Update

YouTube has started rolling out anti-adblock to users inside the United States, which means that they are preparing to roll this out to the entire country. Personally, I have been blocked already. I want to gauge how common this occurrence is.

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[-] speq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 2 years ago

For those who don't know: VLC also takes a YouTube video address as input (in the menu: Media | Open Network Stream...).

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago

VLC is so damn good

[-] determinism2@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

This has not worked for me in a very long time.

[-] Venus@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Your vlc is probably busted and could use a reinstall. Happened to me once. It still works.

[-] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

i thought maybe this would work for me: nope. it was awesome when it worked but it's completely broken afaict.

[-] meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe 8 points 2 years ago

You can also pipe yt-dlp into vlc if that suits your fancy.

[-] mariah@feddit.rocks 6 points 2 years ago

Mpv works just fine for me

[-] snowbell@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Strange, that doesn't work for me

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 11 points 2 years ago

Update your VLC player if you haven't already.

There is also a way to individually update just the extractor LUA script that VLC uses to play YT videos, but I haven't messed with that in so long I've forgotten how to do it

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