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[–] 62 points 2 years ago (16 children)

I get there's a heap of people on here who've somehow never seen these new anti-popup measures before, but they're definitely becoming more prevalent.

I switched to uBlock and purged the caches and it seems to have fixed the issue (for now anyway)

At some point I'll have to find a more permanent solution like switching browsers but right now things are working

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    a more permanent solution would be using an alternative front end like piped. there are a lot of public instances available

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    But it's difficult to trust Piped and other 3rd parties with your login credentials. Especially for people who make a living on YouTube. Even if they themselves might be trustworthy, they can't be perfectly secure, so it becomes added vulnerability.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    purged the caches

    Do this daily.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    never seen the youtube anti-adblock stuff.

    Mullvad vpn + mullvad browser + ublock origin + never logging into google....

    Also freetube, also newpipe...

    Maybe they don't bother trying to block vpn users?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I saw them, then I purged ublocks cache and updated and they have been gone ever since (also on firefox, because I switched as soon as I read the news that they would pull this stunt on all chromium browsers a year ago).

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