Has YouTube Blocked Your Adblocker Yet??

UPDATE 2It seems that starting today, uBlock Origin is working to combat this Youtube Block. Mine started working again! Lets all thank the devs of UBO for fighting this fight!

UPDATESo as new info comes out, I’ll be posting it here. It seems as if this Rollout Has Several Parts.

Part 1

You get a popup message over top of your video, blocking the screen: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/bd0e0c67-f37d-4b82-a5b8-1703542f0af1.jpeg

  • This is the first sign. If you see this popup AND are logged into a YouTube account, your account has been selected.
  • At this stage you can likely close or block these messages with an adblocker.

Part 2

This message will change, indicating that you have 3 remaining videos to watch without ads.

Will insert photo once one has been found

  • At this stage your adblocker will imminently stop working in 3 videos time.
  • Personally using Firefox + uBlock Origin and tweaking filters and updates does not even fix it.

Part 3

None of the video loads now, everything looks blank.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/e37261ac-cf82-4ecd-9481-bea42029a3a0.png

  • At this stage you must tred new ground to avoid ads. I have posted methods in the comments. If you want to bypass this end page, read down there.

End of Update

YouTube has started rolling out anti-adblock to users inside the United States, which means that they are preparing to roll this out to the entire country. Personally, I have been blocked already. I want to gauge how common this occurrence is.

Melody, (edited )

Here’s a rule for uBlock Origin.

Credit: lemmy.one/comment/597479 && original link: lemmy.nz/comment/446556

! Anti-Youtube Anti-Adblocker https://lemmy.one/comment/597479

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

Honse,

This has not worked for me.

PelicanPersuader,
@PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org avatar

Doing the lord’s work. Thank you!

pdqcp,

I feel dumb, do I need to do anything else besides pasting it to my rules > temporary rules > save?

!deleted120991,

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    glad_cat,

    You can save comments too.

    !deleted120991,

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    quirzle,
    quirzle avatar

    Just upvote or boost? Aren't you having to go to your profile to find it either way?

    !deleted120991,

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    quirzle,
    quirzle avatar

    Looks like you comment more than you boost though.

    Teppic,
    Teppic avatar

    They are on kbin which doesn't support saving comments (yet).

    zipzoopaboop,

    Firefox and ublock as usual, still good

    riley0,
    @riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    I got it once on Chrome. Haven’t used Chrome for YT since. No trouble with FF and UBlock Origin.

    Psythik,

    Damn, I just recently switched to Ungoogled Chromium, just for YouTube (still use Firefox for everything else.) I did this for HDR and RTX Video Super Resolution, since Firefox supports neither. Looks like I’m going to have to live without now.

    riley0,
    @riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    No trouble for me using Yandex and AdGuard AdBlocker, either, fwiw.

    henfredemars,

    This is such a better use of their time and dollars versus improving their service to make it more attractive to customers.

    If this is the change that really sets them financially straight, then I would say they have a failing business model.

    gravitas_deficiency,

    So you know that the people watching YouTube aren’t really considered “customers” by google in the traditional sense, right?

    doggle,

    You are not the customer. You are the product.

    theshatterstone54,

    Yes, but if they destroy their products (aka drive users away) their real customers (ad companies) will pull out.

    ours,

    Just ask Twitter/X or what’s left ot it.

    machinya,

    capitalism (or at least the weird version of it used in the tech world) is about short term profit. if they get good numbers from this, they can make future projections of an imaginary increase over the years and make the ad companies happy for a while. they do not care about breaking the product in the long term

    theshatterstone54,

    I know. This was just the intelligent person view. In reality, as you said, they only care about short term profit, and can you blame them? Things can change overnight in the tech world. Google (as a product) was undisputed until ChatGPT was released and integrated into Bing, now Alphabet is falling vehind and losing its dominance on the market.

    skullgiver, (edited )
    @skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

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    theshatterstone54,

    Less viewer numbers to show to advertisers.

    Landrin201,
    @Landrin201@lemmy.ml avatar

    If premium cost $5per month I’d pay for it, u use YouTube all the time

    No way in hell it’s worth $15 a month though, their pricing is completely brwindead

    kionite231,

    I won’t give a penny to the evil google.

    Petter1,

    Just make a (digital) trip to India and get family of 5 accounts for about 1$ a month per account. This the way I did it.

    charles,

    It’s $25/mo for family. I hate that I pay for it, but I use music, and I mostly watch YouTube on a streaming device, so I’ve never been able to use ad blockers. $15 for the fam felt worth it, but $25 has me rethinking. Maybe I can configure YT-DL to get the shows I care about on my Plex

    TwoCubed,

    Any android based streaming device can run SmartTube (formerly SmartTube next). On an Android phone you can patch the YouTube apk with revanced, which also gives you full access to yt music.

    IIIIII,

    I agree. It’s around $22 NZD and that is just too steep. They have a slightly cheaper one but you can’t background play with it. I’m sick of being nickel and dimed at every possible opportunity and then hearing about how these companies are making record profits.

    skullgiver, (edited )
    @skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl avatar

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    Landrin201,
    @Landrin201@lemmy.ml avatar

    Nope, not available her ein the states.

    splendoruranium,

    This is such a better use of their time and dollars versus improving their service to make it more attractive to customers.

    Making their service more attractive to customers is precicesly what they’re trying to do.

    It’s just that an advertising agency’s customers are not the folk who watch, read or hear the ads, it’s the folk who pay for the ads.

    tryptaminev,

    I am not sure if it will work out like this though. The amount of ads they are forcing down peoples throat is isane. Eventually it will make people consume less videos and with that less ads overall.

    BlueBockser,

    And thus the enshittification cycle completes

    splendoruranium,

    I am not sure if it will work out like this though. The amount of ads they are forcing down peoples throat is isane. Eventually it will make people consume less videos and with that less ads overall.

    Sure, could be - but keep in mind that they have all the relevant usage data at hand. Any decrease in service popularity among users (or indeed any kind of user behavior) is immediately visible to them. They have the means to know exactly what annoyances the market will bear.

    And considering that YouTube still holds a de-facto monopoly on video discoverability within the entire anglophone internet I feel like it’s safe to say that the market will likely bear a lot more annoyances :P

    jabberati,
    @jabberati@social.anoxinon.de avatar

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    01189998819991197253,
    @01189998819991197253@infosec.pub avatar

    From what I read on their own report, less than 2% use adblocks.

    snowbell,
    @snowbell@beehaw.org avatar

    That is depressing

    01189998819991197253,
    @01189998819991197253@infosec.pub avatar

    Agreed. Sadly, agreed.

    refurbishedrefurbisher, (edited )

    I haven’t used youtube.com to watch YouTube in years. NewPipe x SponsorBlock (polymorphicshade) on mobile, SmartTubeNext on TV, Invidious, Piped, or FreeTube on desktop.

    XYZinferno,

    Hadn’t heard of FreeTube before, thanks for mentioning it!

    riley0,
    @riley0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Thanks! Freetube works great. Here are directions for importing YT subscriptions. docs.freetubeapp.io/…/importing-subscriptions/

    lemming007,

    I’ll quit YouTube before I watch ads.

    kworpy,

    For me it’s quite strange. This first happened around 2 weeks ago, I was getting ads, however only the audio works as when the ad plays the screen is black.

    I’m on Firefox with uBlock. Also I never got this popup, I just started getting ads with a black screen.

    cmysmiaczxotoy,

    Install 1.51.1rc2 and restart Firefox. That will fix it. github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases

    sculd,

    Enshittification is REALLY going strong, huh…

    RickyRigatoni,
    @RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml avatar

    Youtube has not blocked me with my uBlock but your poll did for being a vpn user.

    I know it’s an anti-vote-fraud measure but it’s still kind of funny.

    treble,

    Skip in 5 seconds? No. I’ll trek 7 deserts, gleefully abandoning everything and everyone I ever knew before you will subject me to this.

    useful_idiot,

    Invidious has been working flawlessly :)

    bzxt,

    I have been having this problem 2 days ago, but I have started using NoScript in combination with UBlock Origin yesterday and i didn’t see any ads after that.

    couragethebravedog, (edited )

    I wonder if the people having this issue are using chrome. On FF it has never been an issue for me.

    hunt4peas,

    Not there in Edge as well.

    NeckarIT,

    I had this issue using Firefox. But updating the block lists has fixed it for now.

    couragethebravedog,

    Interesting.

    janguv,

    Here’s hoping YouTube Revanced on Android and Adguard on desktop continues to work, eh…

    viking,
    @viking@infosec.pub avatar

    Firefox has zero issues with adblock on Desktop. On mobile I prefer Newpipe, but hey. Anything goes.

    Lt_Cdr_Data,

    Tbh, at this point there’s no reason in them disabling ad blockers. If you haven’t gotten used to this insane amount of ads by experiencing the slow, uphill creep, having to go from seeing no ads to suddenly this, is impossible. I couldn’t watch youtube videos in the current state of ads, so I’d just have one less vice.

    I had already stopped once, when youtube vanced went offline (until i found revanced) and I will do it again

    hunt4peas,

    REX is working fine with the SponsorBlock enabled.

    janguv,

    Forgive my ignorance – what’s REX?

    hunt4peas,

    Revanced Extended.

    Based_and_Cool,

    Revanced stopped working for me last week. I may reinstall incase I was running an old patch.

    janguv,

    Yeah likely cause is something outdated. All working fine on my end

    EuphoricPenguin22,

    Patching a newer version of the Youtube app resolved the issues with playback I was having.

    MattTheTekie,

    There’s constant fixes for it btw from the ublockorigin team now! :D

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