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I’m still using uBlock Origin to block ads everywhere, but I no longer use YouTube directly, instead I go through Invidious or Piped.
While using Ublock, change your user agent to chrome. Never seen the warning again.
Edit: I use Firefox.
Does this work? Can anybody verify it?
Worked for me as well. I changed to windows 10 chrome and it went away for now. Using Firefox with ublock origin on Linux.
Ah yes, the reason for our user agent hell :D
This was the final straw that pushed me to using stuff like piped and libretube exclusively.
I watched an interesting video about the cobra effect and think at least in my case, its relevant
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Yeah I jumped ship to piped too because of this. I also discovered it allows me to circumvent region locks without even firing up my VPN which is a nice bonus
How to make this work? I want to watch videos from a channel that makes them available only for UK, I want to watch it in India.
Idk I just went to a channel that I know for a fact only allows you to purchase the videos if you’re watching from France, but I was able to watch all the videos for free because they are not restricted outside of France. I think it’s supposed to work automatically if your piped instance has access to instances that are hosted in countries where the videos are unrestricted
So in your case it should work if you go through an instance that is hosted in the UK
I saw those messages, turned my ad block off for a few days… turned it back on and messages didn’t come back…
For me it actually straight up blocks the video from playing until I refresh UBlock Origin. Today the a couple youtube webpages wouldn’t even load until I did. Doesnt matter, refreshing UBlock Origin still fixes it
I’ve gotten the warning, but I just close the window and watch the video. Is that how it’s supposed to work? Because, if so, it’s only a minor annoyance.
This is just the first step, the more you click that X the more annoying they make it until eventually you can’t close it or watch anything at all.
Then I’ll just watch stuff on Invidious.
I mean as this post says, uBlock is still blocking everything.
Soon it will make you wait a bit seconds before the X appears
And then later it won’t appear
And after that it appears in the video window and is unable to be closed.
Never got that far for me. Went through Ublock’s steps to force update filters and clear cache a couple of times. Occasionally I won’t be able to interact with the UI. No scrolling etc. Since I also run a YouTube enhancer (with it’s add block turned off), the video is automatically full screen, 2x speed and auto plays.
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I’m using the windows phone user agent solution. It loads the old version of YouTube and is much faster besides the lack of anti adblock
YouTube devs: “Wow, Windows Phone still has a sizeable userbase”
YouTube viewers:
Hey Jim, when did Microsoft start releasing Windows phones with 27" screens?
Just had to do this to my wife’s computer for the first time. Mine hasn’t needed it just yet.
So im running pihole with ublock on Firefox in Linux. I’ve yet to see this warning. Any reason?
I have the exact same setup and also didn’t get the warning yet. Maybe pihole stops the AdBlock detection?
That would be cool. I mean maybe they use telemetry to determine if you’re using an adblocker and the pihole blocks that?
Youtube is using scripts on the webpage that detect in-browser adblockers only.
I’m not using pihole myself and just rely on uBlock Origin. I should probably set it up sometime.
It’s surprisingly easy
Also haven’t seen any ads all this time but not because of pihole. I’m guessing it’s because I also have DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials and Privacy Badger installed as they block requests from “googleads.g.doubleclick.net”
Ah, my pihole regularly blocks those. I have over a million domains on my adlist
Ditto, except Win10. Never see warnings.
Same setup, also have not seen the popup
As long as you’re using just the pihole YouTube shouldn’t be able to detect it. The playback blocker is based on detecting common ad blocker extensions in your web browser.
I was told the other day that pihole doesn’t block YouTube ads because they’re served from the same server?
If you use a YouTube app then yes, the ads don’t seem to be able to be blocked. Browser based YouTube ads still seem to be able to be blocked by pihole
Pi Hole for me blocked some YT ads but not all. YMMV based on the block list you use. I didn’t get very aggressive but still killed most page ads.
From my experience it’s different servers, but it might depend on your location. It’s the twitch ads that come from the same server as the video stream. Those are harder to block.
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Why should a company like Google just lose money, its not like Google ows you anything… So why tf are you threatening someone?
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i no longer get that warning. now the screen remains black and time is 00:00… but purge always works.
It’s been working again for me but does anyone else have a really weird bug where youtube just starts refreshing several times throughout any given video?
Update: seems Enhancer for Youtube was doing that.
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