Oddly enough, I keep seeing people reporting that Youtube is blocked for them if they use ad blockers, or that they are now seeing ads regardless, but… it still works fine for me, using ublock origin on Firefox
Same. I’ve been seeing all these memes about it and thinking to myself “there’s ads on YouTube?”.
I also have auto update on both firefox and ublock origin (firefox macos) and if I am sleepless
and pulling up youtube around 1am-4am youtube seems to push updates around then and I’ll see the skip ad button or the yellow ad timer bar with no video or sound. It appears that, as predicted by some in a previous thread about this topic, that there is an arms race between the ublock and youtube devs
the powerful devs at ublock maintain their struggle
still works for me, just update the ublock lists when it starts to fail, takes like 30 seconds
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I use ublock origins with firefox. it works fine.
Use this in the “my filters” section in ublock:
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) ! 2023-10-16 https://www.youtube.com www.youtube.com##tp-yt-paper-dialog.ytd-popup-container.style-scope www.youtube.com##.openedOccasionally you might not be able to scroll but that’s stopped for me now. When it does happen you can full screen a video and un-fullscreen and then it’ll be fine though.
I feel bad, because when the adblocker is initially rendered ineffective I kinda go into a primal state. It doesn’t help that last time I wanted just to put on some brown noise to calm my head and I got a blaring ad instead.
Still works for me on desktop, I’ve been having trouble with ads busting through Adaway on my android tv box though.
I’m using smarttube / smarttubenext on my android box. I get ads through my browsers but not on the tvbox.
I like pipepipe personally but my guests refuse to use anything but youtube and I get mad hearing ads.
Adguard has been working very well on my android phone, even better than Blokada… maybe try it out, because afaik you don’t even have to download anything, you just set it up in your DNS configuration (haven’t done it myself, but it seemed easy enough)
