#AdBlock

[anarchopuppy]

Here's uBlock Origin's official guide to bypassing youtube's anti-adblock popups, updated weekly. Please share widely. Don't reward google for their predatory anti-consumer bullshit

To summarize: 1. Get uBlock Origin and make sure it's updated to the latest version. 2. Click on the gear icon to get to the dashboard, go to "Filter lists", and make sure that "uBlock filters - Quick fixes" is up to date

Repeat those steps any time you get another popup (google and uBlock are having an arms race right now so it might stop working at any moment), and if you have any more problems, read the reddit thread for troubleshooting advice

[radicalgraff]

Ad blocking in Melbourne

[pigeonphd]

btw guys, ublock and youtube have been in an arms race for the past few weeks so circulating filter lists is pretty useless since youtube gets wise to each one in a matter of days. what you should actually do is remove all your custom filters related to youtube and then force update your filter list whenever you see the anti-adblock pop up again

[moomingitz]

[ailurinae]

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If you just use uBlock Origin and don't layer random other adblockers or rules on top, you should be fine on YouTube. Adding special rules yourself or multiple blockers is just making trouble for yourself.

[chthonic-cookie]

handy diagram guide to the uBlock vs Youtube situation

thought this might be useful, but mostly wanted to illustrate the sisyphean cycle we seem to be trapped in

uBlock Reddit thread :

(there's probably a new thread stickied at the top of the subreddit)

remember to follow all the instructions first! After that you will be trapped in the cycle above, but we're in it together! :)

[dat-soldier]

Guhh

adblockers rly arent working now... it's no longer a pop up window...

would be a shame,,,,,,,,

if i pressed the Embed button, revealing a smaller video player.........

[river-taxbird]

Cool interaction I just had on twitter! It's not easily enforceable, but it seems like the thing youtube are doing where they detect if you are using an adblocker is not only economically unviable, but could actually be illegal in europe under GDPR! It requires determining if you have specific software available on your computer, which legally you can't do without consent under GDPR. I really hope someone is able to fight this! I know it's a longshot but it would be super cool.

Link to Alexander Hanff's original tweet showing a legal letter from the EU that re-enforces this point: https://twitter.com/alexanderhanff/status/722861362607747072

[aloftmelevar]

2023 has been, without a doubt, the most depressing, dire, enraging year for the internet. youtube is blocking adblockers. twitter is a racist homophobic NFT bro incel's paradise. tumblr is shoving their dumbass live service in our faces (yet it's still the most habitable social media right now). reddit had that whole API disaster thing. instagram killed hashtags and now it's basically impossible to grow an account on there...and horrific everything-phobic comments are allowed, and if you report them or call them out, YOU'RE the one who gets banned.

at the beginning of 2023, most of these websites were still themselves for the most part, but for some reason it was this year when they all decided to burst into flames. the internet is literally uninhabitable. we live in a world that's suffering from inflation, where the average neurodivergent youtube junkie like me isn't able to afford 15 dollars a month to remove ads. there are too many streaming services. everything is too much. it's too overstimulating.

[nuka-rockit]

[radicalgraff]

"Ad block"

Painted on a broken ad space during a demonstration in Paris against Macron's retirement reform

[incognitopolls]

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Instead of the “Adblock is not allowed on YouTube” message, my video player got replaced by a Cease and Desist letter and a box prompting me to write a response.

[assbestos]

firefox wrapped. you blocked 8,463,285,221 ads

[whereserpentswalk]

[unofficial-sean]

For anyone who has been struggling with Youtube's recent attempts to force you to disable or whitelist their site on your adblock extension, I have a simple guide to help. Google has been getting more more intrusive, and simple element picking hasn't been working to get past their ever-strengthening bulwark.

Thankfully uBlock Origin has been keeping pace with Youtube, and responds to them within the day. These uB updates to bypass the YT adblock blockers may not automatically apply, though. So, if you're on Firefox, use uBlock Origin, and have run into a new form of blocker on Youtube, follow thee steps:

1). Click on the uBlock icon.

2). Click on the clustered gear icon.

3). Under "Filter Lists," in the "Built-In" dropdown menu, click on the clock icon, and then click the now highlighted "Update Now" button on the top of the page to manually update uBlock's filters.

4). Refresh the page of the Youtube video you were about to watch and the blocker should disappear. If it doesn't, you may need to wait and repeat these steps. So far, I have yet to run into a blocker that could not be banished with a uBlock filter update.

I hope this helps! Fuck advertisers <3