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I have cookies disabled on YouTube and I never get any of these issues. (I don't use the site logged in, either, for obvious reasons.) I recommend it.
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Vanrushal posted:That's how it started for me too, then after a few days the popup had a timer before I could close and ignore it (although this could still be bypassed without waiting by making the video fullscreen), then it became a "you can watch x more videos before we cut you off" thing which ultimately got me to disable my blockers when I hit the limit. Don't be surprised if poo poo gradually gets more obnoxious. I would like to have video watching history, but I'm not keen on paying Google a dime. I don't mind supporting the handful of creators I like via Patreon, but I'd rather give money to Nebula for the type of content I watch than youtube.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:17
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Is youtube testing this out by region? I've haven't seen anything so far. I read on reddit in the Firefox and uBlock subs, that the uBlock devs are telling people not to use their own filters as it gets in the way of what they're doing and they're constantly updating it at the moment to get around this poo poo. quote:If you are using ublock origin clear your cache and update plugin Another comment said that if you're running YouTube enhancer to turn off its ad blocking as well. Just let uBlock handle everything.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:17
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I haven't seen anything either. But I only watch 1 or 2 youtubes a day, maybe 3 at most. Are y'all who are getting blocked watching a lot more? Also I have a housemate who allows ads, maybe google counts by IP address and they are saving me.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:23
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Nah, I'll go days without a single video, then maybe 2-3 a day... like maybe total 20 min-1hr or so tops. Really spotty usage. Even now with my posting I literally haven't seen anything yet just a few seconds linked to videos from other threads which made me notice the issue.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:27
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If you have a vpn and don’t want to fight in the Adblock wars, Indian YouTube Premium is like $1.50 a month.
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Oct 10, 2023 18:58
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Klyith posted:I haven't seen anything either. But I only watch 1 or 2 youtubes a day, maybe 3 at most. Are y'all who are getting blocked watching a lot more? I watch a lot because I just have youtube running when I'm on my treadmill, so that's almost 2 hours a day of old music videos and random people showing off cool skills. Not complaining - every day I don't have to worry about this poo poo is fine by me.
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Oct 11, 2023 04:55
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Atopian posted:It's... interesting to see google decide to go up against the entire adblocking internet like this. Google is one of the biggest companies on earth and they make pretty much all of their money with ads, so this is part of their most important battle.
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Oct 11, 2023 11:30
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Peggotty posted:Google is one of the biggest companies on earth and they make pretty much all of their money with ads, so this is part of their most important battle. I’ve not seen any evidence of any change, I still block ads 100% of the time with no glitches on multiple OS including mobile (Brave browser on iOS). There are easy options available to them considering they control the dominant browser and the dominant video platform - but they can be subject to reducing their own marketshare or getting done on antitrust grounds by the EU etc; go app only, or go Chrome only via some proprietary drm based ad injection. Sky and Now TV make you install a windows app to playback their subscription TV service. It’s heavily secured, locked to a hardware profile, and is prone to breaking with antivirus software or anything else that might affect the DRM.
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Oct 11, 2023 12:15
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Peggotty posted:Google is one of the biggest companies on earth and they make pretty much all of their money with ads, so this is part of their most important battle. They make most of their money selling your data.
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Oct 11, 2023 13:57
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No. More than 80% of Alphabets revenue is from ads.
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Oct 11, 2023 14:56
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Peggotty posted:No. More than 80% of Alphabets revenue is from ads. They’re one and the same thing, they use your data to better target and sell ads, which is mostly why companies collect your data.
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Oct 11, 2023 17:06
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Yes, obviously. The point is that they make most of their money with ads, that's why fighting ad blocking is important to them. "They make money selling data" is not a counter-argument to that.
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Oct 11, 2023 17:10
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I don't know what Mozilla did but I updated my Firefox and now I'm getting flashbanged by new tabs before the page loads in.
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Oct 11, 2023 17:22
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wooger posted:They’re one and the same thing, they use your data to better target and sell ads, which is mostly why companies collect your data. Yeah but they're selling ads not your data
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Oct 11, 2023 18:13
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i haven't gotten the mad at adblocker wall and am curious what the A/B test segmenting is that makes me not get it. i figure usually the answer is "desktop linux" since that puts me in such a tiny minority that most tests just exclude it because they don't care and it'd just add one more variable to their metrics. we have to wait for https://www.techemails.com/ or similar to cough up the internal deets whenever they inevitably pop up in discovery it looks like they've been trying to gently caress with yt-dlp again too; it's once again mired in some issue where it gets throttled because ~why on earth would anyone ever want to access the world's largest trove of video content through anything other than the official player designed by the content provider (that conveniently ensures all the ad widgets run correctly)~
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Oct 11, 2023 19:56
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The throttling with yt-dlp is usually because YouTube changed the JS and they need to update their thing to parse it and get a needed token to unlocks full speed.
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Oct 11, 2023 22:17
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Got this twice today but you can just click the x to close it and keep playing :  I got ubo and sponsorblock.
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Yeah, I finally got it too. What I find interesting is that I use ReVanced on my phone and the Kodi YouTube player and neither of those have an issue and I assume never will, so hopefully in the long run this won't really make much of a difference to me. Well, until Google go full on evil and force the use of Chrome or something.
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Oct 12, 2023 11:48
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phosdex posted:Got this twice today but you can just click the x to close it and keep playing : Seemed to fix the issue.
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Oct 12, 2023 12:27
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I got this once, closed it, then purged caches + update filters in the filter list tab on the ubo dashboard.
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Oct 12, 2023 12:47
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How would I turn this grayed out box off? Clicking on Learn More just goers to a placeholder page (just says Placeholder 1848710) Firefox Nightly 120.0a1
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Wee posted:How would I turn this grayed out box off? You have the whole category turned off, so none of the sub-categories do anything. If you want the aesthetic value of that box being unchecked, turn on the top box to make the rest interactive, turn that one off, then turn off the top one again.
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Oct 12, 2023 13:26
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Klyith posted:You have the whole category turned off, so none of the sub-categories do anything. Yeah, I've tried that.
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Oct 12, 2023 13:32
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Wee posted:Yeah, I've tried that. In that case it may be a new thing that's enabled on Nightly, and can't be disabled because they're bug testing.
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Oct 12, 2023 13:35
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Ojjeorago posted:If you have a vpn and don’t want to fight in the Adblock wars, Indian YouTube Premium is like $1.50 a month. i perfer giving $15 to ublock than $1.5 to google tbh
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Oct 12, 2023 15:21
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Wee posted:How would I turn this grayed out box off? Found this on Betterfox: code:
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Truga posted:i perfer giving $15 to ublock than $1.5 to google tbh
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Oct 12, 2023 15:42
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Oooh there we go! Just closing the window for now works though.
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Oct 12, 2023 21:34
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Go into your uBlock Origin settings, click Purge all caches while HOLDING SHIFT, then click Update now. Make sure you turn off anything else that may be trying to block ads like any YouTube addons.
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Nalin posted:Go into your uBlock Origin settings, click Purge all caches while HOLDING SHIFT, then click Update now. Make sure you turn off anything else that may be trying to block ads like any YouTube addons. Can confirm the rest works, though - just like it did about 12 hours ago.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:What does holding shift achieve? quote:Clicking this button with Shift (version before 1.34 required also Ctrl) pressed will remove all locally cached content of filter lists, which will force uBO to rebuild all of its databases from the beginning. It basically forces a full database rebuild. Useful for troubleshooting.
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Nalin posted:It basically forces a full database rebuild. Useful for troubleshooting.
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So far I've had to update my filters every morning since the blocking attempts have started. When the anti-block gets through, Youtube won't let me close the window anymore, but element zapper takes care of it.
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Gotta say, element zapper remains the most useful and hilarious thing I've ever used in Firefox. So many annoying overlays and full video ads and windows and all that poo poo. Just one click and 
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it's so good i clicked a couple things on fandom and it looks like a wiki now, instead of being full of cookie popups and youtube embeds. i still avoid it when i can but some wikis are slow to move
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slidebite posted:I've been away for a while and just tried YT with the same issue about blocker detected. In addition to what mobby said, Mozilla shows limited signs of caring about the Android app. The limited extension support was supposed to get better, but it's been years. There are silly issues like the tab list losing its place for reasons of varying opacity. And some other apps that open a browser window automatically will do weird poo poo, like not recognize that you've done whatever you were asked to do. But it generally works fine.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Gotta say, element zapper remains the most useful and hilarious thing I've ever used in Firefox. Link for that? Searching for "Element Zapper" I'm not finding anything with that exact name. Blue Footed Booby posted:In addition to what mobby said, Mozilla shows limited signs of caring about the Android app. The limited extension support was supposed to get better, but it's been years. There are silly issues like the tab list losing its place for reasons of varying opacity. And some other apps that open a browser window automatically will do weird poo poo, like not recognize that you've done whatever you were asked to do. But it generally works fine.
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slidebite posted:Link for that? Searching for "Element Zapper" I'm not finding anything with that exact name.
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