Since May, YouTube has ramped up its block of ad blockers and the company has now fully launched this policy worldwide...
  • @[email protected]English
    61•2 years ago

    I get there’s a heap of people on here who’ve somehow never seen these new anti-popup measures before, but they’re definitely becoming more prevalent.

    I switched to uBlock and purged the caches and it seems to have fixed the issue (for now anyway)

    At some point I’ll have to find a more permanent solution like switching browsers but right now things are working

    • YinchieEnglish
      15•2 years ago

      Use clients such as LibreTube. It works great and even allows skipping sponsored content.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 years ago

          Apparently that’s not as common as it used to be - the number of sites that send a warning about “someone has accessed your account from an unknown device” every time you log in from the same computer!

          • Aniki 🌱🌿English
            1•2 years ago

            I just turn those off :-D

            I find stuff like that to be entirely useless as most site exploits happen at the server level and have essentially nothing to do with front end operations. Betty plugging in that USB is what you need to worry about.

    • @[email protected]English
      11•2 years ago

      never seen the youtube anti-adblock stuff.

      Mullvad vpn + mullvad browser + ublock origin + never logging into google…

      Also freetube, also newpipe…

      Maybe they don’t bother trying to block vpn users?

    • @[email protected]English
      23•2 years ago

      a more permanent solution would be using an alternative front end like piped. there are a lot of public instances available

      • @[email protected]English
        7•2 years ago

        But it’s difficult to trust Piped and other 3rd parties with your login credentials. Especially for people who make a living on YouTube. Even if they themselves might be trustworthy, they can’t be perfectly secure, so it becomes added vulnerability.

        • @[email protected]English
          23•2 years ago

          wait what? piped doesn’t use your login in any way tho? you manually import subscriptions from Google checkout and you create a piped specific login for syncing that across devices. at no point will piped ever ask for your Google account

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 years ago

      I saw them, then I purged ublocks cache and updated and they have been gone ever since (also on firefox, because I switched as soon as I read the news that they would pull this stunt on all chromium browsers a year ago).