I'm still waiting for my "AdBlOcKeR bAd 😭" popup, at this point I'm actually disappointed it hasn't shown up yet.

People keep saying this but I guess I'm on the lucky slow end of the rollout because I haven't had my adblock stop working yet.

But they've done this before, it's just a cycle. If I have to, I'll start using a new adblocker, or entirely diffent way to access the videos, once an option becomes available shortly, inevitably. No reason to worry about this long term IMO.

After updating my uBlock lists to the latest version the popup no longer appears. Something to try out.

Chrome based browsers can get fucked.

Copy the URL, open it in a private window with ublock origin set to allowed in private windows. Can still view the video, and now they also can't attribute it to your user account.

So they lose again.

Maybe I've found a definitive solution, because adblocking only works for a few days, until Google noticed it and put contrameasures. In Firefox install Tampermonkey and in it this script

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/477725-youtube-iframe-adblocker

In Vivaldi no need of Tampermonkey, download the link to an folder and don't delete it. Open the Extension page in developer mode and drag the script in it. Done

It is an ingenious userscript that helps persistent YouTube viewers bypass the frustrating "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube" message. It employs a clever technique of dynamically inserting an iframe player to replace the standard YouTube player. This method effectively circumvents YouTube's ad-blocker detection, allowing for an uninterrupted, ad-free viewing experience even after YouTube's standard measures have been triggered. So you can still use your adblocker without problems.

Youtube only serves ads on its own website and apps. Just saying. . .

If I had any programming ability above the level of a sloth I’d make a blocker called “Muffler” that basically separated out all the adstreams and made them think they were viewed and played in real time, but invisible to the user.

Shouting into the void, and nothing to be done about it as they’d look like they were being played.

No love for freetube? Started using it a few days ago and it's actually brilliant. Rather than contunue with the constant battle back and forth with ublock and YouTube, I've just taken the nuclear option and blown away the front end. It's amazing. Loads faster than the Web version of YouTube too.

you can also use invidious or piped

Make sure you're using the latest version of uBlockOrigin, then update all your filters. Should work just fine.

Vivaldi with uBlock Origin here. A simple refresh of the page makes the popup go away, often for the rest of the session. For me, it's YT without ads as usual. I might need to clear uBlock cache and refresh filter lists to make it work even better. There's also a Tampermonkey script for blocking the popup, but I haven't tried it yet.

As a side note, I've seen a lot of talk about boycotting Youtube. There are 3 things to consider with this:

1. Boycotting YT will give Google exactly what they want, getting rid of the "freeloaders" who don't pay for Premium and block ads.
2. Boycotting YT will hurt small creators who don't see much ad revenue (if any) anyway. Views and likes are what make small creators visible to the algorithm, if these drop off, their reach will diminish.
3. Boycotting YT won't affect big creators with sponsorships, healthy Patreon community, millions of subscribers and views.
   Best way of defiance here is not stopping to use YT, but on the contrary, generating as much traffick to YT as possible while blocking the ads.

Just get into the routine of going to ublock origin addon each morning, clear the caches and loading all filters. Close all youtube tabs and reopen them. Those daredevils are playing anti-anti-adblock with youtube via blocklists daily now.

Ah, if it doesn't work, disable all addons, restart browser, update filters, try. If it works, enable addons one-by-one until the method suddenly fails.

Also pi-hole and similar adblocking solutions can cause this now, so you might need to remove those, add exceptions or stuff. It's tedious, but doable.

Might be time to migrate to indiviuous as my new youtube frontpage (uses youtube as video source, nothing lost) or setup my own instance of it. My TV runs smarttubenext for years now, anyway, which is way better than the original yt app.

Google forcing ads down our throats is putting ads in classrooms.

One word. Piped.

Check out GrayJay it's like YouTube vanced, but it can access twitch, nebula and many other sources at the same time

*laughs in NoScript

Just update the filters

Why even use the offical site or app anyway?

Haven't had this issue yet. Firefox with ublock on Linux.

And new circle between adBlocks and antiAdDlocks begins.

I've started using Piped but oh my god the fucking buffering is ridiculous

One option I'm using, change the url from youtube to nsfwyoutube. It's a simple website, but works a treat.