When I go on YouTube, all I get is a blank page with a functioning hamburger icon, search box, and 4 placeholder icons.<p>When I click on the hamburger icon and go to home, videos appear on the feed. When I click on a video I get ads as if I didn't have uBlock Origin enabled.<p>Looks like others are facing the same issue.[0]<p>[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1679jmx/is_anyone_else_not_able_to_load_youtube_with/
On a related note, I cannot believe how many ads YT are showing nowadays. I know the word “unuseable” is thrown around a lot but its really become that way for me. I got 5 ads in the first 3 minutes of a video yesterday. I know people say “just pay for it” but I don’t think that the alternative to not paying should be ads every minutes. My usage has gone way down recently as a result. I use an adblocker on desktop but can’t elsewhere.
Working on this end. Maybe A/B testing?<p>Never forget you can fall back to yt-dlp and mpv/vlc locally if the website stops working.<p>Stealing from Google is ethical. Keep it up.
Yes, it's become an arms race. However it seems like it's one YouTube can't win, due to some limitation in their process flow. You'd think it would be trivial, just don't send the video if the user hadn't first watched the ad, but for some unknown reason YouTube is unable to do this.<p>Since YouTube ultimately can't win with their current strategy, it's difficult to understand why they're bothering. Everybody running uBlock Origin clearly <i>wants</i> to block their ads, it's trivial to update filter lists to block them again, and those people (like me) will never, <i>ever</i>, pay YouTube so long as we can get the content without doing so. All they're doing is annoying people to no particular benefit.<p>Instead they should work out some way to do what I said earlier. But they haven't. Because they can't? Sure seems that way.
- "Pay or not to pay?"
- "G needs revenues."
- "Abuse in qty of ads."
Valid points but...<p>What about all the deleted or demonetized channels in the last 4 years?
What about the increase of blocked-censured information ?
Have we forgotten that, although they all (GAFA & more) were seducingly sold to the people, they are tools for mass control ?<p>Maybe this issue with YT ads... will bring attention to freedom of speech's erosion.<p>just my grain of salt.
I have also seen ads again, but when I see these discussions I always wish someone would tell us or link to the actual reason: What filter rule has been updated? What is youtube exactly doing to fight the adblocker?<p>If anyone knows, please link to it!
Master discussion thread on reddit /r/uBlockOrigin is here:<p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/163cy47/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_weekly_thread_august/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/163cy47/youtu...</a><p>I had this issue and updating filter lists worked for me:<p>> Make sure uBO is running at latest versions (1.51.0+), then force update all your filter lists (click uBO icon > Dashboard button > Filter lists pane > Purge all caches > Update now)
Side note: the display of this thread is completely broken on mobile: <a href="https://ibb.co/cLJS6pX" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ibb.co/cLJS6pX</a><p>How can I notify someone to take a look at it?
Today Android Auto pops up a notification saying "Spotify is not supported" and proceeds to fill half my car screen with a Youtube Music promo while disabling BT media controls for spotify.<p>This company is off the rails, they need to hard fire all the MBA-type idiots making their products shittier in misguided attempts at services revenue generation. When was the last time anyone had a good experience using this garbage?
Happened to me. It was at night, listening to a podcast while I was doing some chores. An ad for a horror movie popped up while I was walking through the corridor with the lights off. You can imagine the heart attack...<p>I solved it by manually updating all the filters.