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YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it (www.androidauthority.com)
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[-] Pamasich@kbin.earth 321 points 2 months ago

For people who only go off headlines and comments and don't read the article, here's the important bits:

  • This only affects some users, not everyone
  • The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty
  • The issue goes away with a refresh, you don't need to turn off the adblocker, though you'll have to refresh every video
  • It affects all videos
  • The link to adblockers is due to everyone who is reporting the issue being a user of an adblocker, and turning it off fixing the issue permanently until it's turned on again
  • There's no specific browser or adblocker mentioned in the article
  • It affects Premium users too

edit: added "the article" after "don't read" to clarify

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 155 points 2 months ago

This is why I will never get premium. You pay the motherfuckers money and still have to take it up the ass.

[-] rozodru@piefed.world 4 points 2 months ago

there's no point. I tried the free trial of youtube premium cause i'm on Qutebrowser and the adblocking isn't the greatest. even with Premium i'd still randomly get ads every now and then. IF i were paying for it I'd be pissed.

Now I circumvent this by just opening all the videos in MPV.

[-] errer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I’ve never gotten an ad with premium. Been subscribed for about 5 years.

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