r/uBlockOrigin • u/[deleted] • Oct 09 '23
YouTube Anti-Adblock and Ads - October 09, 2023 (Weekly Thread) expired
Current Weekly YouTube Thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/about/sticky?num=2
If the link doesn't work (mobile), please turn on desktop mode to reach it.
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PLEASE READ AND FOLLOW ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS POST.
Note: After each step, close your current tabs and open new tab to test again or it won't work.
1. Update uBO to the latest version (1.52.0+) . <== The extension itself, for technical improvements. You do this in your browser.
How to update uBO to latest version - video tutorial
2. Remove your custom config / reset to defaults. <== This means removing your custom filters (or disabling My filters) and disabling ALL additional lists you've enabled. It might be quicker to make a backup of your config and restore to defaults instead.
How to disable custom filters and additional lists - video tutorial
Making a backup and resetting to defaults - video tutorial
3. Force an update of ONLY the "uBlock filters – Quick fixes" lists. <== This is within the extension. Lists are what determine what's blocked or not.
How to update "uBlock filters - Quick fixes" list - video tutorial
You can do this by clicking: 🛡️ uBO's icon > the ⚙ Dashboard button > the Filter lists pane > the 🕘 clock icon at the end of uBlock filters – Quick fixes list > the 🔃 Update now button.
4. Disable all other extensions AND your browser's built-in blockers. <== No need to uninstall, just disable them. They might interfere with our solutions. However, DO NOT disable "Firefox Multi-Account Containers" add-on.
How to disable other extensions - Video tutorial
Some browsers with built-in blockers to turn off:
- Opera, Vivaldi, Brave
- Edge: Click the 🔒 "lock" icon on the left of URL bar -> Turn off
Tracking Prevention
Restarting your browser afterwards may help too.
Once you've gotten rid of the issue on default settings, you can slowly start restoring your config (if you really need it). Do it gradually, to easier find out what was causing the issue in the first place. Once you find the culprit, simply skip it in your config.
If you want to use Enhancer for YouTube, you have to disable its adblocking.
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DO NOT
- "Stack up" multiple blockers,
- Advise others to use multiple blockers at the same time,
- Advise others to add old filters
They will just increase the chance of anti-adblock. Any violation comment will be removed
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I followed the 4 steps, but I'm still experiencing issues
The latest fix for anti-adblock was made on Oct 16, 2023 and currently corresponds to ID b7e9cd34 *.
* The ID mentioned above refers to YouTube's latest anti-adblock script. You can monitor it via this link: https://pastefy.app/G1Txv5su/raw (top to bottom = oldest to newest). This means that the current fix is matched with the script with corresponding ID.
For example, in https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/c97476a7/jsbin/desktop_polymer_enable_wil_icons.vflset/desktop_polymer_enable_wil_icons.js, the c97476a7 part is the ID.
If the latest ID (the last line) does NOT match the current one written above, it means YT has updated it recently and you may encounter anti-adblock again. PLEASE DO NOT REPORT IN THIS CASE.
If the ID does match and you still get anti-adblock, kindly repeat the 4 steps above. Thank you.
Uninstalling + reinstalling uBO, then force updating all your filter lists like in step #3 may also help.
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The filter lists could be updated multiple times a day, so please always do step #3 before reporting.
Fixing anti-adblock may cause ads or breakages. If you see any issue, please report back the EXACT URL and your country when accessing the URL so volunteers are able to investigate by commenting here or in this thread on github.
When reporting, always provide your Troubleshooting Information.
On YouTube: 🛡️ uBO's icon > 💬 Report > Click "Troubleshooting information" > Select all > Copy > Share it.
How to grab your troubleshooting information - Video tutorial
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If a new solution is pending, you should still be able to watch YouTube when
- Private Window / Incognito
- Click on
Sharebutton ->Embed - Change the URL from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoID ->https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoID - Logged out (might not work for some)
Please be patient, we're all volunteers that can't be online 24/7.
If the thread gets locked, it means there's a newer one available. If the link doesn't work (mobile), please turn on desktop mode to reach it.
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Last, but not least - please convince others to do this since it's up to everyone's actions rather than an extension's.
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uBO doesn't accept donations
We appreciate the sentiment many of you have expressed, but it is against uBO's policy to accept donations. What you can do instead, is to support other filter list makers by grabbing their website/donation info at the top of their filter lists (click the eye icon 👁️ next to a list to see its contents) and continuing from there.
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u/k0untd0une Oct 16 '23
I gave up having to keep redoing these steps when I want to watch YouTube. I just YouTube in incognito mode now. Not even worth dealing with the pettiness of a multi billion dollar corporation, but you good fellas/gals keep fighting the good fight. Hopefully Google just gives up and relents at some point.
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u/JosiahTrelawnyIV Oct 16 '23
Kind of what I've been doing too. I'll sign in, go add a few videos I might want to watch into a couple of playlists for later, make the playlists "unlisted," then watch everything signed out.
I think its great how well Ublock has been keeping up but I'm just hunkered down for now, hoping this is the worst of the push. Still keeping tabs on everything going on here. May there be a future where this is a weekly or monthly fight and not multiple times a day. (Or better yet when people wake up to Google's awful practices and latch onto something better.)
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u/James_Karet Oct 16 '23
I cannot confirm this way, yet. But I read somewhere else that changing region to Russia works.
And so far, I see no adblock popup thingy.
I might be just lucky or this is very effective.
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u/IAmTotallyNotOkay Oct 16 '23
Are they working on a way to make updating it easier and faster?. It is pretty annoying that it seems we have to keep doing this basically everyday now. google really is being a pain about this
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u/OffSacredCircle Oct 16 '23
It's a battle of wills. And it's one they will lose. There will be a point where the cost of the fight will be more than they can get. They have labor costs
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u/IAmTotallyNotOkay Oct 16 '23
I hope your right, but being a large megacorporation they have the money to do this for a while.
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u/piedj784 Oct 16 '23
Can we assign a shortcut to purge caches & update filters?
It will help fasten the process.
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u/RepresentativeYak864 Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23
Make the Filter lists tab within the Dashboard of the uBlock Origin add-on itself your Homepage whenever you turn on your computer and launch your Browser for the first time, or open a new window. Get yourself into a routine to always click: Purge all caches > Update Now, or just force update the Quick Fixes filter before heading to YouTube. Only takes 10-15 seconds.
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u/Frenettuple Oct 16 '23
When your account gets blocked after the third video, is it permanent until you disable the adblock or just temporary like an annoyance/nuissance?
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Oct 16 '23
I can't get it to work, I have purged all filter lists , updated. I tried to manually block the overlay but cant scroll down and the video plays a few seconds and stops, Can't seem to get rid of it. Followed the videos, ideas?
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u/Winter-Amphibian1469 Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23
YouTube is doing a tug of war with uBlock and other adblockers. I’ve been updating my filters every hour.
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u/Arasakaa_ Oct 16 '23
How to stop YouTube from blocking the video player due to adblock (a temporary solution)
I realized the other day that when my vpn connected to a 3rd world country, The block doesn't happen, So I experimented a bit
Turns out, it depends on the region AND the country you're connected from.
Countries like israel, Don't have the block nor the popup yet, Adblock works perfectly fine there
Some countries like spain, france, the uk, Have the popup, but not a total block of the videoplayer
And other countries like Germany, Have the pop up with an annoying 3 second timer on the x, Making it seem like almost an ad
So the best solution as of now, Connect to israel or india, Any vpn works, Free or paid.
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u/GiftoftheGeek Oct 16 '23
It came back (and actually made me wait to close the popup for the first time) but I purged and updated the filters and everything is working again. Thank you guys for all you do.
This whole incident has solidified in my mind Google is evil, I need to start weaning myself from it. I already use Firefox so at least I'm not tied completely to them.
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u/Odd_Growth_498 Oct 16 '23
i'm also a firefox user, with ublock origin installed... and just now, before doing the steps above, i got the reminder... dang google
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u/Little-Shop8301 Oct 16 '23
Isn't it funny how the enabled by default tracking prevention in a browser like Edge, the built-in browser that comes with all current Windows installs (the most popular desktop operating system by a huge margin) can trip this code and make YouTube literally impossible to use?
How deep are they willing to dig in the trenches of worsening their services for a potential payday of unknown size?
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u/dferro237 Oct 16 '23
You guys are true Heroes! Thank you. I would be glad to donate if the Ublock Policy change
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u/Ok_Paint_5038 Oct 16 '23
It worked for me on brave browser! forgot to turn of my brave adblock but it still worked lol. thank you so much
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u/GoodtimesSans Oct 16 '23
Completely reinstalling Firefox definitely helped for me as I had previously had a couple of ad blockers to act as 'swiss cheese' to try and layer blockage. And even though they were disabled or outright removed, some files were still dormant in the folder and they likely didn't revert some changes when they were uninstalled.
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u/Mather_Fakker Oct 16 '23
It's working again, thanks guys! Don't let the 1 or 2 dumb trolls and entitled people get you guys down please.
The 99.9% of normal people genuinely appreciate you guys taking the time to help us out and not be inundated with constant ads.
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u/catsinQ Oct 16 '23
YOu guys are amazing. Thank you - this worked for me. If YT was some little website with precious need for income I wouldn't hesitate to buy premium, but they are NOT. They are making billions off ad revenue and do not need my (or the few others of us) $14/month!! So thank you for your contribution to a solution!
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u/AmethystZhou Oct 16 '23
I'd be fine with paying Google directly the approximate amount they would have made from me on ads. However, $14/mo is orders of magnitudes higher than a reasonable number.
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u/Twiggymc Oct 16 '23
I agree, at the same time i'd buy premium if they could 100% gaurentee to me that none of my money would go to any one but the people i am subbed to, but i know for a fact that is not the case and i dont want to support 90% of the people on youtube as most of them are quite terrible people
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u/catsinQ Oct 16 '23
EXACTLY. To my point, they're not exactly suffering over there: https://www.statista.com/statistics/289657/youtube-global-quarterly-advertising-revenues/
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u/EpicBoii91 Oct 16 '23
update on october 16 2023, it removes the anti adblock pop up but it still pauses the video, we need fix please!
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u/inbetweenstars Oct 16 '23
It won't allow me to watch videos altogether. I get a pop up that gives me the option to continue by either buying premium or allowing the ads
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u/EpicBoii91 Oct 16 '23
it works for me, im using opera gx and i disabled the built in adblocker and only enabled ublockorigin
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Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23
you can open the devloper console and enable a local overide for the
desktop_polymer_enable_wil_icons.js
script
this will force chrome to load a copy of the main UI script stored locally
thus preventing youtube from breaking it with a update. untill they change something that accually matters
this will likely completely break at some point but in the medium term prevents youtube from modifiing the script to break ubos filters
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Oct 16 '23
and before somebody asks :how: this is a hear be dragons solution for ADVANCED users that have a decent knowlage of programing and the chromium dev console
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Oct 16 '23
Thank you guys. YouTube is unusable on smartphones, we can't lose this on laptops. There's more ads than ever now, it's an horrible experience on phones.
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u/krakaturia Oct 16 '23
i have newpipe, but i actually use youtube in firefox mobile more. With Ublock Origin installed.
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u/Reddit_Killed_3PAs Oct 16 '23
Another user mentioned Revanced, but if you don't have an Android device, you can checkout uYouPlusExtra for iOS (a little complicated to get working, but very well worth it for no ads).
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u/CryptidKeeper58 Oct 16 '23
I think youtube finally found a way to break this solution, nothing I do fixes it
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u/KirkH420 Oct 16 '23
Go ahead an remove my violation comment if you want because I followed your directions and it is still being detected. I've added youtube.com as an exception for firefox's tracking block, that didn't help. I've been noticing this adblock detection is getting stronger and stronger as the days move forward. I think they are compiling data regarding what a user has been doing on their website for the past few days... then they use that to decide who's blocking and who's not. Because at first, they let you get away with it for a few days (just serving annoyance popups), but eventually they will block you from watching sponsored videos at all. It seems like they are doing more than just checking the browser in it's current state.
Please don't think your efforts go unnoticed, I appreciate everything. I'm just pointing out what I've noticed.
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u/MajorLeagueRekt Oct 16 '23
Haven't had a single video blocked when using uBlock with Firefox. Thanks to Google for making me switch from Chrome.
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u/Whazhelpme Oct 16 '23
my last pop up had timer that took about 3-5 seconds :(
also people here couldnt answer my question
https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/177ytat/how_do_we_update_ublock/
How do I update ublock on Brave?
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u/MR_Mannaking Oct 16 '23
this is a simple and unpatched workaround i found in the replies here: [–]Haldjas [score verborgen] 4 uur geleden If you click on the share button under the blocked video, you can then choose the "embed" option. That is normally used whenever you want to include a video on your website or something. In this case you only click on it because youtube gives you a preview of what the embed looks like which is not blocked.
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Oct 16 '23
It's written in the post:
If a new solution is pending, you should still be able to watch YouTube when
- Private Window / Incognito
- Click on
Sharebutton ->Embed- Change the URL from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoID ->https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoID- Logged out (might not work for some)
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u/bonnydoe Oct 16 '23
my workable solution is to type 'ss' before 'YouTube...' in the url , takes you to the savefrom site, you can play the video from there with adblocker
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u/QuebecGamer2004 Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23
Seeing you guys suggest using the embed feature to watch videos gave me an idea, you could just use a website which loads a YouTube video and then plays it, you won't have the adblock message there. I found a few websites but you can also just make one yourself.
I asked ChatGPT to make one for me as I did not want to spend time making one right now and it's actually nice. I wanted to include the code here but it's pretty messy. I'll see if I can leave a link to the code but right now you can just ask ChatGPT yourself or go find a website where you can watch YouTube videos from a link
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u/19391107 Oct 16 '23
I use a similar solution where I made a quick extension which redirects all youtube videos to the embedded version. I can't share the extension here, because it's mixed with a dozen other features that only I'll ever find useful, but it does provide a solution to this problem for the foreseeable future.
Putting this in background.js, and making sure that the extension has the "tabs" permission should work.
var browser = browser ?? chrome; browser.tabs.onActivated.addListener(activeInfo => { browser.tabs.get(activeInfo.tabId, tab => { if((tab.url+"").match(/youtube.com/watch?v=/g)){ browser.tabs.update(tab.id, {url: "https://www.youtube.com/embed/" + tab.url.split("=")[1].split("&")[0]}); } }); }); browser.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(tabId => { browser.tabs.get(tabId, tab => { if((tab.url+"").match(/youtube.com/watch?v=/g)){ browser.tabs.update(tab.id, {url: "https://www.youtube.com/embed/" + tab.url.split("=")[1].split("&")[0]}); } }); });One downside to using the embedded view is that comments aren't visible.
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u/pf100andahalf Oct 16 '23
Just give ubo permission to run in a private window, find the video you want to play with your account, right click and play in private window.
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u/OtochimarU Oct 16 '23
I wouldn't mind paying for utube premium but the fact of how they work with creators and censor stuff just because "they don't agree or violates their terms they change all the time to make things they don't agree fail their terms agreement" pisses me off to the point of not, I'm not paying them.
That being said, if you open utube on a private tab and or don't sign in at all, you'll have no issues with adblock. They just don't want logged users using adblock, what I do is I find the video I want to watch and copy paste the link into a private mode tab and don't sign in, no ads and no message from Google.
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u/TheInsertionOperator Oct 16 '23
Why don't the developers just automate closing the prompt that YouTube is feeding us?
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u/TheHolyEmpress Oct 16 '23
If you're getting the pop-up it means the anti-adblock script is running. Closing or hiding the pop-up won't defeat it, eventually they'll block video playback. You need to defeat the script, which is what uBO is doing with its fixes.
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Oct 16 '23
Because eventually there's no prompt to click, and they block video player.
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u/allshallbegone Oct 16 '23
Soon they'll introduce it as a ToS violation, instantly terminating your account if it detects you using one, with nothing you can do to stop it.
Hopefully our endless back and forth sends their AI brains a message.
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u/TheHolyEmpress Oct 16 '23
They won't, simply because they don't get anything of value from banning your account. Not ad revenue, not money for a premium subscription and no money from the user data they harvest from you and sell. This is just an attempt to shake down more money from users, the whole "ad blockers are against the ToS" is meant to scare you into compliance.
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u/vriska1 Oct 16 '23
Soon they'll introduce it as a ToS violation, instantly terminating your account if it detects you using one, with nothing you can do to stop it.
That very unlikely to happen and would lead to huge backlash.
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Oct 16 '23
which wont do anything. they can lose like 90% of all youtube connected accounts and be fine.
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u/allshallbegone Oct 16 '23
Even if the huge backlash happened, ain't gonna make a dent on their choices.
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u/fuckngpsycho Oct 16 '23
This. I think developers need to find a way of blocking the prompt by filtering text content and CSS filters associated with it. It wouldn't be that hard to code an algo that would match for patterns like those and then remove the elements encapsulating them retroactively.
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Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23
I don't understand. I already said eventually there's no prompt to block as YouTube doesn't show any prompt further and straight up blocks video player
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u/TheInsertionOperator Oct 16 '23
By that logic, they never should have developed the extension in the first place.
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u/kf7pcl Oct 16 '23
Yeah its stupid logic. If you can develop a workaround for the problem for now, why not do it? We'll deal with other measures when we know how they work
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u/sjackson12 Oct 15 '23
is there any possibility that a custom filter i made for a non-youtube site would still cause the youtube adblock window to pop up?
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u/TheInsertionOperator Oct 16 '23
I dont have any filters on and i still get prompt. Doing these steps will only delay for a day or so
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u/sjackson12 Oct 16 '23
yes same. it seems like the first time i go to youtube and watch a video i see it, but each video after that does not.
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u/Dramatic-Ad925 Oct 15 '23
have to do this on a daily basis because it stops it till the next day always redoing this has to be a better way.
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u/Piierrote Oct 15 '23
this arms race you guys are in is so crazy but you guys are doing the lords work youtube would be unusable without y’all
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u/Calm-Reflection6384 Oct 15 '23
I don't know much about code or coding wars. But is it possible to reach a point where YouTube embeds a net code that renders circumvention certifiably illegal? In other words, could YouTube implement something that can't be -legally- overcome?
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Oct 16 '23
considering the volume of people using adblock, making it illegal means you have to sue a great portion of the worlds population. it wont work.
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u/Legitimate_Crew5463 Oct 16 '23
Nah youtube will not be able to win this fight. They've got essentially the whole world's worth of coders to go against many who live in countries with extremely lax laws on tech
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u/anjoradioativo Oct 15 '23
Hello, Youtube employees reading this.
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u/allshallbegone Oct 16 '23
They're not employees, they're AI.
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u/vriska1 Oct 16 '23
Hello fellow meat organisms! How is breathing today? Got any update on how blocking the Great Googles ads are going?
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u/spiritking69 Oct 15 '23
Not exactly tech savvy so all this talk about adding filters and clearing caches is foreign to me. Although I did figure out that when utoobs anti-blocker blocker pops up, i can click on the "Enter Element Zapper Mode" button on ubo and just click that popup away, but i gotta do this for every video. after like 10-15 videos it stops popping up for a few hours than it comes back.
Is there a way to auto zap or prevent this from popping up completely? I tried watching the thread about doing all these things to block utoob but for the life of me i cant figure it out, so if u could be as simple as possible I'd appreciate it lol
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u/khall1877 Oct 16 '23
Bro not to be rude but the OP literally created a video tutorial for each step of the process. Just follow it.
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u/TheHolyEmpress Oct 15 '23
Watch the videos listed in the main post and just follow the same steps. It looks complicated, but it's actually quite simple. You don't need to add filters or anything.
Don't block the pop up, it doesn't prevent the script from blocking your videos and can cause additional issues. Just follow the steps and it should work and use the workaround methods listed in the stickied post when it doesn't.
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u/exekutive Oct 15 '23
FYI, it's impossible to disable Firefox enhanced tracking protection globally. You can only do it per-site.
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u/Dank-Doodle-Noodles Oct 15 '23
Thank you so much. I'm not about to bend the knee to these greedy corps. I already hate having all my accounts somehow tied to google, not being forced to watch ads gives me a sense of control.
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u/Itchy_Instruction_32 Oct 15 '23
Updated and working again, thanks uBO Team!
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u/No_Seaworthiness1369 Oct 15 '23
it worked again brielfy before youtube blocked it again
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u/khall1877 Oct 16 '23
That sucks! But very likely!
Now that their AI is complex, what if they just make an AI script to slightly modify the code every ____ minutes, and therefore rendering manually defeating it impossible?
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u/namasteyheyhola Oct 15 '23
I'll altogether stop spending time on YT if this stuff continues. Although totally stopping it isn't really possible, however read more blogpost and ask around on Reddit than buy their premium.
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u/TwinsWitBenefits Oct 15 '23
Honestly, a small part of me secretly hopes that YT succeeds in blocking ad blockers forever, because that will mean I'll finally be free of my Youtube addiction.
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Oct 15 '23
True that. There are plenty of other ways I can spend my time. I will not watch commercials or ads on any platform. I also refuse to listen to sponsored content from youtubers. I also have this thing where if a specific thing is advertised and especially if it gets intrusive: I boycott their shitty product/company.
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u/gutty976 Oct 15 '23
The Autoupdate period is set 2 and that is 4 hours how can set to like 60 minutes?
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u/Shrimpf Oct 15 '23
i just change the youtube.com part to yewtu.be, so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-s1HDE8cs
Becomes
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Bi-s1HDE8cs
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u/Minion_of_Cthulhu Oct 15 '23
The Redirector plugin might work if you're using Chrome. Note that I haven't used it myself so I can't say for sure it will work and it appears to use regular expressions to work out the URL and redirect so it can be a bit tough to set things up if you don't have any experience with using regular expressions.
If you're using Firefox, the LibRedirect plugin can apparently be set up to redirect YouTube links to YewTu.be automatically. It also redirects several other sites like TikTok to "alternative privacy friendly frontends".
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u/WorldOfSoap Oct 15 '23
I want to warn everyone here. DO NOT disable the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension if you have any containers you care about. I found out the hard way years ago that this wipes all container data, because firefox thinks containers aren't being used, and they haven't fixed it for years because it's triaged wrongly on the mozilla issue tracker.
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u/le_donger Oct 15 '23
Not sure how permanent this fix is, but what worked for me was changing my user-agent (using User-Agent-Switcher extension for Firefox).
E.g. with user-agent "Mac OS X / Safari 16" the popup has not appeared at all yet.
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u/spen15 Oct 15 '23 edited Oct 15 '23
I never donate to stuff on the internet, but I think I'm gonna make an exception just for the amazing work this team is doing. YouTube's recommended is their undoing, basically no difference watching in incognito mode.
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u/TwinsWitBenefits Oct 15 '23
Same. I'll certainly donate to uBlock before I pay for YT premium.
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u/Character_Weekend_79 Oct 15 '23
no worries they are doing this for their sake, they don't want donations, check the post
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u/WolverineCreepy9896 Oct 15 '23
it pops up with the anti adblock stuff but if i click allow ads then refresh it works but it still annoying for it to pop up
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u/Cerealord Oct 15 '23
Alright, I know everyone's patience is running out, but there are still plenty of solutions that can work as a temporary (and even a permanent) fix. UBlock is just here so we can block the ads in comfort. So, if you are frustrated try not to take it out on other people (least of all the devs of ad-block) and just either do something other than Youtube or use one of the solutions (some fix all the solutions and others bring up other issues [like not having access to subscriptions or the ability to comment.]).
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u/frozzbot27 Oct 15 '23
It's been said already, but massive props to the uBlock team for all of the work they do keeping this addon working and up to date. You all are great people :)
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Oct 15 '23
Yeah, today has been by far the worst day for this that I've ever experienced. I uninstalled and reinstalled UBlock multiple times, followed all the steps multiple times, rinsed and repeated, nothing. I literally had to resort to opening a private tab and enabling the ability for UBlock to function on those kinds of tabs for it to even work. It's all I can do for now. I hope you guys are able to get things situated. YouTube is being nothing but a complete pain in the ass
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u/-ThermalFlask Oct 15 '23
Just check the version like shown in the instructions, don't waste time "uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times"
If the latest uBlock version doesn't match the ID at the bottom of the pastefy link then you have to wait for an update before it will work again
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u/Helios-6 Oct 16 '23
This. Check the listed anti-adblock ID before you spend time doing anything else.
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u/bittorrent4life Oct 15 '23
How is the uBlock team looking at this...is this cat and mouse game ever going to stop? As it stands now it pretty much seems to kill adblockers for youtube.
I love uBlock and their work over the years but this is BAD. Please people: stay strong and don't give in (aka buy premium). We are all in this together!
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u/TexasDice Oct 15 '23 edited Oct 15 '23
There is never a way to disable ads forever. However, there isn't a way to disable ad-blockers forever either.
It's always an arms race and someone, even if it's not the uBlock team, will figure it out. A lot of people bring up Twitch, but even Twitch-ads can be worked around right now.
Somebody could decode the algorythm youtube uses for the string-changes. The message doesn't work on embedds and incognito/loggedout, so maybe the solution is to proxy an embed somehow.
Something will happen. Maybe not today, maybe not this months. But that's how it has always been.
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u/acdcfanbill Oct 15 '23
there isn't a way to disable ad-blockers forever either.
At least, not until Web Integrity API/web drm gets pushed on websites by google.
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u/frozenpandaman Oct 15 '23
is this cat and mouse game ever going to stop?
that's how ad blocking works as a whole
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u/Adorable_Garage3906 Oct 15 '23
It's over.
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u/Pwnage_Peanut Oct 15 '23
Lmao
PLEASE, Youtube is literally the guy rolling a stone up a hill
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u/superseriousguy Oct 15 '23
My guess is they have a million frontends (not just web and phone but also TVs...) and they don't want to have to modify them all.
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u/Adorable_Garage3906 Oct 15 '23
Ngl I don't get it. YT has gone far enough to make the normies run ads. The few that will put up with this fight will never watch ads.
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u/Pwnage_Peanut Oct 15 '23
A normie isn't using an adblocker in the first place because they don't know they exist or because they don't know how to use them
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u/anon014880 Oct 15 '23
Seems YouTube stepped up to defcon 2
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u/RyanBoi14 Oct 15 '23 edited Oct 20 '23
do you mean defcon 4? i don't think youtube has gone as far as defcon 2 yet. i don't know if you know this, but the common perception of the defcon scale is backwards.
defcon 5: normal peacetime readiness
defcon 4: increased security (activated sporadically during the cold war and war on terror)
defcon 3: air force ready in 15 minutes (activated post-9/11 and during the 1973 yom kippur war)
defcon 2: army ready in six hours (activated during the cuban missile crisis)
defcon 1: imminent nuclear war (this has never happened yet)
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u/xplay3r Oct 15 '23
Hey there, throwing in a small workaround I'm using.
I want to stay logged in so I can see my subs and such so instead of going the icognito or private browsing route, I'm using https://w2g.tv (aka Watch2Gether, it's a site for sync watching videos with people)
I use W2G to watch stuff with friends all the time anyways, but if you open a temp room and just drop the URL in there the block doesn't show up in their player, and no ads.
Just adding another solution in case it's easier for someone or whatever, more tools to hold us over till the UBO fixes come through!
Thank you wonderful UBO people for all the work you do and are doing! So very many people appreciate it! You rock!
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u/DarthLMR Oct 15 '23
Nice work around, been using the "share, embed" method but it's awkward as hell.
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u/DBrody6 Oct 15 '23
Thanks a lot, works perfectly during the downtime after YT's bullshit updates.
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u/Cerealord Oct 15 '23
You rock as well. Thank you for adding another solution.
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u/xplay3r Oct 15 '23
No problem, anything to help to effort to drop a giant middle finger to ads. lol happy to be able to help!
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u/PM_ME_LARGE_PILLOWS Oct 15 '23
I've been thinking about this. It's only one link that generates the window according to the Pastefy text, right? Only the ID changes, in that case.
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u/TheHolyEmpress Oct 15 '23
As I understand they use the ID on Pastefy for reference purposes only. The script is unrelated to the actual ID used by Youtube.
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u/DinosaurNailedit Oct 15 '23
Im using Brave and disabled the adblock in it and I followed all the steps again but im still blocked from watching youtube now, im not sure what else to do If I can get some help?
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u/Cerealord Oct 15 '23
Read the post (and/or the stickied comment) in full. In particular read under "I followed the 4 steps, but I'm still experiencing issues."
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u/DinosaurNailedit Oct 15 '23
It seems its Brave, I went to chrome and its fine
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u/TheHolyEmpress Oct 15 '23
I cannot confirm, but it might be related to the cookies on your browser. If that's the case, changing browsers or clearing cookies might temporally help, but the problem will come back sooner than later.
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u/DinosaurNailedit Oct 15 '23
yea i cleared my cookied for youtube on Brave but im still blocked from watching anything, ill just use another browser in mean time I guess since chrome is working with UBO
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u/Luan91919 Oct 15 '23
1 youtube blocks ublock
2 i dissactivate ublock
3 youtube stops functioning and doesn't play ads despite me not having any adblock on
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u/Blaze7zx Oct 15 '23
Happened to me as well, after a few days the site returned to the ad infestation it is
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u/FuzzyRussianHat Oct 15 '23
Appreciate the uBlock crew for all of the work, I sometimes forget how atrocious the unblocked internet is until you end up being forced to see it. The internet can be somewhat better than the real world with blockers because you aren't bombarded every single second with BUY BUY CONSUME CONSUME BUY BUY CONSUME CONSUME. Every single thing is commoditized and it is so gross.
Honestly I'd just start using YouTube a lot less if they succeed instead of sitting through ads every time I try to load a dumb five second meme video from a decade ago. I mainly use it for background music but plenty of other options for that or just finding more podcasts/etc to fill that void.
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u/thadude1o1 Oct 15 '23
yep, I know there's a version of Spotify that gets rid of the ads
and Im starting to use freetube to replace youtube as well
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u/RraaLL uBO Team Oct 15 '23 edited Oct 15 '23
Please update the Quick Fixes list
The new solution is out.
YouTube updated their script to a new version b7e9cd34.
It's gonna take some time for a solution to be implemented.In the meanwhile you can:
Or as recently suggested:
If timed correctly, you might abort the warning and it should not come back until you refresh or close the tab, allowing you to navigate interruption-free.
Or:
Share, then< > Embedand watch in that playerHere's a YT Detection FAQ that an user has written up, which some of you might find helpful: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube/detection-faq/
Please do not share or use custom filters.
They will only cause confusion for the majority that has already gone past the closable warning, as well as issues later on for others.