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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2787773 ([email protected])

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Ya know, I've seen a lot of posts regarding Elon Musk spam in this community, and calls to "ban" them, yet every week we get gloom and doom posts like this when some new subset of the world starts seeing this shit. I'd really like to see a pinned message about the fix, which is...

  1. Install Firefox or a derivative, and add the uBlock Origin extension.

If you visit YouTube and see the pop-up, the page isn't loading the video content, or it just seems to be acting strange, do the following:

  1. Click on the uBlock Origin brown shield in your extensions.
  2. Click the three little gears icon to enter the settings.
  3. Make sure you're in the Filter lists section from the top and click the Purge all caches button below it.
  4. Click the Update now button.
  5. Wait until the filter update completes.
  6. Refresh the tab(s) that YouTube is in.
  7. Press play.

I literally have no other installed add-ons for ad blocking, anymore. Only uBlock Origin. Any time I see the message or YouTube starts acting up, I just repeat those 7 steps above for any YouTube tab that was already open, and viola, the video plays. It has simplified so many issues for me and reduced the number of adblock extensions I need to run.

I definitely plan on donating this holiday season to their team, probably the biggest share of the pie between the FOSS apps I enjoy and appreciate. Should uBlock Origin ever fail, I'll just stop going to YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Weird. One way or another, they're gonna get my money!! How dare they make a great tool for free, and accept nothing for their time and contributions!! The nerve of some devs, I tell ya! /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Take it to the list maintainers <3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or do what uBO's creator suggests: donate to the silent Chads maintaining the lists uBo depends on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The element picker and disable JS button are also a life saver. Gets around so many shitty things about the modern web. The one thing I agree with from Brave (Firefox all the way though) is including uBlock by default (I just wish they gave credit).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah they really are. I use to use firefox but now I use a modafied version called librewolf. It comes with ublock by default

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why not LibreWolf, a privacy oriented browser that ships with the real uBlock Origin? ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And using Firefox or its derivates supports the Internet. Chromium's near-monopoly only helps Google dictate web standards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wdym with the rral ublock origin? 👀👀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because Brave ships with a very limited ad blocker that is not uBlock Origin

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or just live with a couple five second ads, it's not the end of the world. At the end of the day, YouTube is a business, not a charity.