What has Mr. Jeremy got to do with this?
After updating my uBlock lists to the latest version the popup no longer appears. Something to try out.
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.
This has pissed off a lot of people, including tech youtubers that have had to turn to alternative income sources like sponsors and patreon that are working on or promoting as blockers.
Man, I’m still waiting on Netflix to tell me my parents and I can’t use the same account. They asked for an email verification code one time and that’s been it.
Honestly I’m just kind of blue balled at this point. Just make me cancel already!
Spotify has been harassing me to get whatever the heck the duo crap is…literally only me uses it but I’m on the verge of cancelling from their full screen garbage
That’s too bad. Just in these last few days I’ve been messing around with free Spotify and I was wondering if it might be worth trying out paying for it.
What exactly is the full screen garbage you’re talking about?
This is pretty much it. Desktop, android. Don’t matter.
Telling me to upgrade to duo so I can share my login for whatever reason. It’s just annoying more then anything.
Same here, but Netflix is going to increase prices again, so that might be the final straw to ditch them for me
Ublock released an update that allowed it to keep working on YouTube.
When? I’m one video away from being blocked and I manually updated my ublock stuff like a week ago.
I had to re-update last night. I’ve heard it’s a bit of an arms race currently, so you might need to regularly update.
Personally I’m getting libredirect up and considering full abandonment of all the major platforms. I’m already on lemmy, I might as well move away from everything else that is that is going through enshittification.
YouTube revanced still working for me…
Firefox invidious redirect add on is where it’s at
I’m using the Piped YT frontend on Firefox with uBlock and I’ve not once seen any add pop up. I don’t have a Google account but I added a bunch of rss-feeds to my Thunderbird, so I get a message when my favorite creators make a video. This way I’m not bothered by any stupid Google algorithm. Goes to show, YT is best consumed without an account.
I’ve exported my subscriptions and imported them in FreeTube. Seems to work even better since it doesn’t try to hide videos in my subscription list.
A proxied front end which works 10/10 , FOSS online and selfhostable, online with encryted server (SHA-384), very fast and lighweight, even more in Light Mode for PC with few resources. The best front end i’ve seen, nice UI without ads or other crap.
Is this something that surfaced only recently? Can’t believe I haven’t come across it already, if it’s as good as you make it seem
Yes, it’s pretty new. Seen in New Apps in AlternativeTo.
What the hell is an encrypted server? What’s special about SHA-384, where do they use it to improve privacy? Please don’t bullshit people with random IT terms.
Glancing at the code, this is just another YT proxy. Ofc they have your user info, they just choose to only store aggregated data.
Do you have anything better to contribute to solve the YT problem than what I have contributed in this thread?
Our servers are secured with SHA-384 Signature Algorithm; meaning we cant see the videos you watching, things you search, or things you do We migth use third party services on PokeTube, but third party request on PokeTube is proxied by default. no third party can see wat the hell ru doing on PokeTube. We do this by proxying the requests via a whole diffrent server, so no third party can see you.
Source code https://codeberg.org/ashley/poketube/
Do you have anything better to contribute to solve the YT problem than what I have contributed in this thread?
Apparently pointing out false or at least misleading claims, instead of making them.
Our servers are secured with SHA-384 Signature Algorithm
This is a meaningless sentence.
meaning we cant see the videos you watching, things you search
This is just not true. Go to a video on their site, the browser requests the video id as cleartext from their server. Search for something, your browser sends the search term as cleartext as well. There is nothing encrypted beyond the standard, it’s all visible to them.
This is how all YT proxy sites do it, but they don’t claim to use some sort of special encryption. It’s widely accepted that you have to put some amount of trust into whoever is hosting the instance you are using, because they can see the things you watch and search for.
Google forcing ads down our throats is putting ads in classrooms.
Y’all…get the hell off chrome and chromium. Firefox and uBlock Origin lmao. I have no idea why so many people still use these browsers when there is a free and fantastic alternative that has been around longer than chrome has - and is more secure/privacy focused to boot.
Interestingly, I use wrapped Firefox Developer edition in NixOS, which was hardened manually by me using other extensions like LibreJS, SkipRedirect, Tor (which I don’t use a lot these days) and CanvasBlocker. Apparently, it looks like either one of the developer extensions I use has interrupted, so this time, I made sure to disable them all, and then updated the filter. Now it works just fine.
I swear half the users here are running NixOS these days (with the other half on Arch). Redditors likes Linux, but Lemmings take it to an whole new level.
Even that might be going a bit short. In the long run it’s probably better to switch to piped, freetuhe, invidous, etc.
This is not a chrome vs firefox issue. People using an adblocker on firefox are getting blocked just the same.
See:
source (sorry for the reddit link)
I use Firefox and also got that pop-up. Eventually I just grew tired of clicking the “X” button so I went on uBlock origin and added that stupid banner and the banner background to the blacklist.
It’s like nothing ever happened. And if shit continues to get worse, either someone comes up with a fix somehow, or I’ll just find a way to run ReVanced YouTube apk on my pc or something. I don’t care if I have to emulate it somehow.
Also, on mobile GrayJay is a good alternative to ReVanced. Made by LouisRossmann’s team apparently.
Most often this happens because the user runs some other addon/blocker that interferes with ublock (or gets detected). It’s important to test with only ublock active and see if the problem persists, and if not, to slowly enable more and more to see what is causing the issues.
I freshly installed win10 Firefox+uBlock and got this message after a while (was around 2weeks ago) first I could x the message, then the message had a timer, then 1-3 vids until block and then blocked.
That was at my parents house, now I’m back in my home with different pc win11 (same fresh FireFox+uBlock) and now I don’t get these messages anymore.
That probably was the “not up-to-date filter lists” problem, or the rare “filter lists themselves not updated yet”, but they are within a few hours usually.
Only had ublock active, still happens. For now it still goes away on refresh or if I switch adblockers (so I’m assuming cleaning out the cache daily will work too).
I’m not on YouTube’s side. But, ultimately Youtube has the advantage here. You guys are talking about technical solutions to get YouTube to continue sending you videos. But, YouTube has the nuclear option in their back pocket. Enshitification, YouTube is one of the only platforms that still works well on the internet without an app or logging in. If they want to badly enough they’ll stop allowing people to use YouTube signed out and ban accounts that watch with Adblock enabled.
We need to work on building platforms that work outside of Google. I think the hardest question is how would that work with monetization for new/smaller creators.
Odysee is the alternative, the plus, you can download almost every content, but the downside that are uploaded almost every content, no censored. Based on blockchain, that means that it works for the eternity and none of the content can be deleted, which also has + and -, because of a lot o cuestionable content, well, in YT is the same problem.
Yup, for me it was enhancer for Youtube’s ad blocker that was interfering. Didn’t see the popup since turning it off.
For me there was about a day where google was winning against ublock even if I was onoy using Ublock. Now though Ublock is back to winning, and I only occasionally have to refresh my cache
Are you using strict privacy settings? If not, do so. I have never seen an anti Adblock notice on YT despite watching quite a lot while working / listening to podcasts etc. Never had an ad either. /shrug
I haven’t seen it yet either, not on firefox nor on chrome. From what I hear it’s being rolled out gradually, so if you didn’t get a notice yet, it doesn’t mean that you won’t get one in the future.
Youtube have been increasing their anti-adblock efforts dramatically in the last few weeks, changing the scripts multiple times a day. The ublock origin team is very quick in updating the filters though. They have a post on their subreddit with some details.
Right? Firefox has been excellent for some time now, and Google has actively betrayed user’s trust for at least as long. It’s easy to switch and Firefox almost always has equivalent plugins and other solutions. There’s very little reason not to switch.
Mobile ad blocking without any root/jailbreak/proxy/dns was all I needed to finally push me over the edge.
No not edge, firefox!
I’ve never (almost?) used chrome as main for the past 15+ years
but he’ll, the last years updates are more and more unstable. Tab and browser crashes are to be expected multiple times per week (ok browser crash maybe once per week)
Also I actually miss WebUSB, WebBluetooth (I work with embedded as a hobby and it’s very convenient) and background blur (nobody wants to allow camera blur in ff, especially linux)
For me Firefox haven’t crashed once in a year or more, even though I’m a heavy user: using it every day for multiple hours as a “tab hoarder”, with quite a few addons.
I also rarely restart it, as I don’t turn off my computer completely, so the Firefox process is usually as old as the time of last system reboot.
I think you may have ran into a rare bug, that has got persisted in your browser profile.
You may create a new browser profile (e.g. on the about:profiles page) and set your things up there, and most likely it’ll be stable.
I think there’s also a “refresh Firefox” button somewhere where average people would look for it, but I don’t know where it is. But be aware that this will delete everything in Firefox, where’s if you create a new profile, the new profile will start with a clean slate and you can switch back and forth between the old one if you find out you need something from there (e.g. old passwords that you haven’t transferred, a specific about:config setting if you use those, addon settings, …), or even have them open at the same time.there’s a very high chance that something’s off with my profile but deleting my profile is not worth it (yet?)
Losing my history isn’t something I take lightly - at all
Tell you the truth I’m just “harvesting” anger to fix the fucking bug and fix it “properly”. I hope
About the other points.
I see your point, personally I prefer WebUsb, WebBluetooth and such to be completely missing, so it’s much less likely that a bug allows access to these to a site.
Bluring camera background seems to me very specific to webcams, and even if chromium based browsers will do it for you, I think you are better off with running OBS and it’s virtual webcam functionality, as it has been made for that purpose (video processing), and it can do much more if you want (including cropping, ways to improve video quality, or even do greenboxing). Introducing background bluring to the browser would mean more requests to add this or that effect (even if it should actually be the task of the web app), and I think it’s hard to maintain even a single such effect (that does not blur everything, but only certain parts of the image) if your devs don’t have extensive experience in video processing. This would be a feature that if introduced, either would break once and stay that way for quite some time, or would take significant development resources to find the problem and keep it working.
I knooooooow, my feeling for WebUSB/whatever are completely love/hate. I come from a security background (and hobby) but the alternative to WebUSB is horrible and implementation specific - you need to download the binary, install the correct version of the X programmer and make it kiss your debugger. It’s bad.
Also I just don’t wanna open chrom* - I do but I’d like to tell a huge fuck off
About camera blur: What I wanted to point out is the lack of some “exotic” features that firefox lacks. the blur implementation is not in chrome but in each web app - means there’s the required api to do that
But it’s niche, I don’t care that much. there’s also a py project on gh that does exactly that: blur your background and expose a fake cam. It’s not “production ready” but it’s ok
also if you are on Windows the new duck duck Go browser takes care of all this automatically
You have no idea? You know exactly why people download/buy the most popular thing at any time and you also know most people don’t change anything unless it’s broken.
“Broken” is a variable scale which heavily depends on the users in this instance
Make sure you’re using the latest version of uBlockOrigin, then update all your filters. Should work just fine.
Not OP, but I tried that a couple of times and it always works for like 2 hours and then the popup reappears. I don’t have any other extensions activated which might mess with uBlocks config, any ideas what I’m doing wrong?
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You are being unlucky is what you are doing wrong. The changes on YT are not being rolled out to all users at the same time. You could just be in a location or in a part of the network where changes are applied first. Nothing you can do to change that, just wait for the filter lists to catch up. Or migrate to piped or Invidious.
This whole “Firefox, Firefox, Firefox” chanting as if it prevents the ad block detection is ridiculous. The reason why FF users got spared for longer is because the marketshare of FF is so low, that it took longer until most of them were affected purely based on random chance.
I use Chrome on my work laptop and FF on my PC and I either get the detection message on both or I don’t get it on either device.
I’m going to be super-mega-controversial here, and tell you all how I removed ads on YouTube:
YouTube Premium.
Yes, I realize it’s not very common to pay for the services we use these days, but I watch enough YouTube that I though it’d be neat. It is. No ads, except the direct sponsors of the people I actually watch. I only wish that this would make them not also sell my data, and track the shit out me, and all that jazz. I’d like to be the customer, if you’d let me, Alphabet.
I’ve been paying for a family plan for Google’s music streaming service for years. It has long included YouTube premium so the six family members I have on the plan don’t see YouTube ads. I guess it’s good that creators get a somewhat bigger cut of money from us, but honestly if I didn’t use the music streaming service, I’d be in the same boat as everyone else - desperately looking for a better way to block ads.
I paid for premium for years. And then they fucking doubled the price.
No ads, except the direct sponsors of the people I actually watch.
Nah fuck that, those are the most annoying of all the ads. Very very very rarely does a content creator actually incorporate those in the video well, it’s just jarring and annoying and I won’t pay money to suffer those shitty ads.
Sponsorblock is unfortunately just as mandatory as uBlock these days. That said I won’t critique video creators for doing what they need to do to get paid, my critique is leveled squarely at the system itself for making their only recourse for payment “produce propaganda for capitalists”.
Very very very rarely does a content creator actually incorporate those in the video well
Or worse, when they do a “clever” redditor-esque segue from content to ad
The “ads” they’re talking about are the ones placed directly in the video by the creators themselves. YouTube doesn’t control those and no ad blocker can get rid of them. To do that you’d need a vastly more sophisticated kind of ad blocker that actually watches the video and understands the content enough to decide what part of it is a sponsored message. We may be getting close to having that kind of technology but it would take a pretty big step up from something like CharGPT.
SponsorBlock blocks those types of ads and works great
Why let you choose one when you can be both customer and product!?
Understandably a few bucks for the hours of content I stream is justifiable, and if it were some other service I might, Im thinking on getting nebula, but google can go to hell. If they didnt want the burden of youtube they could have not bought it out, and not beat out the competition until they were the only game in town. Likewise Im salty that simple background and multitasking features are locked behind a paywall on a phone.
On top of that even the successful creators are kept afloat more by patreon and sponsor reads than they are youtubes ad services, and the algorithm and content blocker and lack of human support for creators means they regularly get screwed with age restrictions and copyright takedowns.
Im normally pretty understanding about companies needing to make a buck and be profitable and needing ads(though internet ads are non curated random scammy garbage) but I will continue to leech off of youtube until they finally block it.
Why does it bring you great pleasure? I see this as an unfortunate outcome.
That is just the meme format. When used this way, the top part implies a sarcastic tone.
I had it pretty bad for several days, having to purge caches several times but I saw no pop-ups yesterday or the day before that. Hoping that’s still the case today
