Gorhill (uBO's developer) is in the comment section urging people to not use these types of unverified fixes: <a href="https://x.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://x.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991</a>
Maybe it's just A/B testing, but I got the "3 strikes and no more video playback" thing, which this DOM element blocking doesn't work around it seems :(<p>After years of procrastinating, I'm finally gonna get around to setting up a basic homelab to run pihole. Thanks, youtube execs and bean counters, for kicking my lazy ass into gear on this!<p>In a way, I kinda wish that ads worked as well as youtube suggestions. If one has good enough willpower / mental health to not use youtube as a coping device, suggestions are really amazing. I've seen so many great conference talks and other videos that have O(100) views that I would have never heard about otherwise. Ads, however, still think I'm gonna overpay for aliexpress drop-shipped items, or that I need to make a basic purchase into a way of life (e.g. that cooler company that now is somehow a lifestyle brand).
Feel free to pilfer:<p><pre><code> ! 2023-10-14 https://www.youtube.com
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)
! 2023-10-13 https://www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com##.opened
www.youtube.com##tp-yt-paper-dialog.ytd-popup-container.style-scope > .ytd-popup-container.style-scope
||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p
##.ytp-endscreen-content
youtube.com##.ytp-scroll-min.ytp-pause-overlay
youtube.com##.ytp-ce-covering-shadow-top
youtube.com##.ytp-pause-overlay
youtube.com##.ytp-ce-covering-overlay
youtube.com##.ytp-ce-element
! 2021-06-10 https://www.statista.com
statista.com##.vertical-align-content.default.otCenterRounded
instagram.com##.RnEpo
instagram.com##body:style(overflow: auto !important)
! 2023-07-08 https://www.roadandtrack.com
www.roadandtrack.com##journey-modal-meter
</code></pre>
This might not be the "correct" solution, but it works for me. Has Gorhill (uBO's developer) provided a better solution? If so, would someone mind posting the full and complete set of steps?
This is nice and all for now while YouTube allows dismissal of the warning. However, YouTube could go nuclear and just not allow any video to play at all if an ad blocker is detected. No DOM element removal will solve that. I'm not sure if that qualifies as scorched earth on YT's part, but it is an option.
Note that the ublock origin creator has specifically recommended you <i>don’t</i> do custom filters like this because it can mess up elements that the other filtersets are keying on, and it’s not guaranteed to be stable over time. So something like this can actually result in you <i>seeing</i> ads, if it becomes stale. Which it will because YouTube is changing this up every day, practically.<p>The best defense is to purge caches and update filter sets every day.<p>edit: from another comment: <a href="https://x.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://x.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991</a>
I think the only "happy ending for everyone" if Google is going to ban ad-blockers for YouTube is if they make the ads less annoying.<p>What makes YouTube's ads annoying:<p>- the number of them<p>2 ads at the start is way too much. 1 max.<p>Middle of video ads should be content creator controlled.<p>- the ads they choose to show<p>Google showing me the same few very annoying (to me) ads and gives me no option to avoid those specific ads.<p>I have done the unthinkable and given up on YouTube as a daily site I visit. Now I will only visit it if I have to - e.g. someone link to it. Yes, I hate those specific ads that much.
This is really heavy handed and I don't think this will work as they hope.<p>I tend to spend too much time watching YT anyway.
This will help saving some time to do useful work or gaming instead.
I like YouTube Premium. It's worth it. For a bunch of tech people... Wouldn't we see more people wanting to pay for software, a service and intellectual property?
I'm disappointed the term "anti-anti-adblocker" isn't instead "adblocker blocker blocker". If we're going to use repetitive negatives, we might as well lean into it.
If you have a VPN with a Ukraine location, you can set it to there and purchase YouTube Premium for ~$2.70/month. That's what I just ended up doing. I use Mullvad as my vpn provider.
Lots of people here who seem to think that the only viable options are to pay what they view is an exorbitant subscription fee, watch ads, or block ads. There is, of course, a third option. Nobody is forcing you to watch YouTube. You can just not do that.
It’s funny to look back on all the people who were doing the “see, the world didn’t fall apart just because apple had to allow sideloading” over the last month. Like the law didn’t even come into effect yet and google is already flexing their monopoly power / browser monoculture, but people think that just because the internet didn’t explosively destruct overnight that everything is gonna be just fine.<p>See also, the “well, if they start abusing it, we can pass a new law to handle that!”. Yeah ok that’ll be great in 10 years, but what about now?<p>Manifest v3, the chrome Secure Enclave/remote attestation of ad delivery, and other measures are going to be coming down the pipe at an accelerated rate, and there's absolutely nothing to put the brakes on them anymore, because we now have a browser monoculture run by the world's largest adtech oligopoly. But people got their emotional victory over apple users and the app-review process.<p>Next stage: Youtube requires chrome, install it or get out. And I better see some remote attestation on that request, if you want FREE video. Why wouldn't they, when chrome/chromium control like 95% of every web request that's not iOS?<p>Now we get to do it again with RCS, where it's an "open" system that's chock-full of proprietary google extensions that google refuses to license or interoperate on. But everyone will nod along at how bad imessage is, and deliver us right into google's own proprietary system.<p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs-apple-for-mercy-in-messaging-war/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs...</a>
And the chase begins.<p>I pay for premium so this won't affect me, but it's always interesting seeing the efforts even a trillion dollar company has to go through to fight against a relative few very determined "hackers" underground.
I homelab a huggin instance to scrape my favorite channels for new videos and then send them to a ytdl like program. Then it dumps them in Jellyfin. No ads, and no rabbit holes :)
I've had the same ad-blocker for ages, and I wasn't receiving any of the YT anti-ad block popups until today. Interestingly, today was when I switched my default search engine in Chrome from Google to Kagi. I have to wonder if there is some kind of evaluation of what Google-y things you use for whether the ad-block popup occurs or not.
Direct link <a href="https://files.enderman.ch/scripts/yt-antiadblocker.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://files.enderman.ch/scripts/yt-antiadblocker.txt</a>
I am reminded of the "Trace Buster Buster Buster" scene from the otherwise forgettable 1998 movie "The Big Hit."<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw3G80bplTg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw3G80bplTg</a><p>When a MF tryin to block your ad with an adblocker, this will block the MF'n adblocker that's blocking yo...... ads.
Google is scared, and desperate to fund it's ML products. This is not an isolated incident, they will continue to burn goodwill across their entire product lineup (Gmail, Maps, Search, Drive) in an effort to liquidate as much as possible to fund an ML war chest.
Note: for me,disabling Firefox 'enhanced' protection and updating uBlock Origin filters fixes the issue. An initial packet examination showed little changed. I hope others will weigh in, however.
I’m curious why I haven’t seen any ads or warnings to disable my ad blocker on YT yet. I do watch a lot of videos. I guess they are likely rolling it out and I will get it eventually.
What is the cost for Google to serve YouTube data to users, is it $0.01/hour/DAU, or is it median 2-3x Premium subscription per user? If it's latter, how will this ever work out?<p>And, with inevitable encation spreading across Web, what is its long-term replacement? Is it App market dystopia, or some sort of Metaverse system, or could it be fragmented regional Webs? We have been seeing more Gitea repository in Chinese, leaked Russian footage in Telegram, European developer anecdotes from Mastodon, etc.
uBlock is very much <a href="https://xkcd.com/2347/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://xkcd.com/2347/</a><p>I know there are other implementations that support the same filters, but it still feels like a big lynchpin in the escalating adblocker war.
The real adblocker is people uploading their videos to s3 (or s3 compatible) in the first place :-)<p>Youtube was revolutionary when it came out but now it doesn’t offer much other than discoverablity. Since you need to work hard to be discovered anyway you can do that via X (etc.)<p>Just need some people to make the tools so average jo can do it.
Please pay for YouTube Premium if you can afford it and watch a lot of videos. It's not cheap to stream and store the insane amounts of data they handle and I think it's a genuinely fair price.<p>If everyone just constantly tries to circumvent YouTube's evolving adblock-detection methods, at some point YouTube is going to do something drastic.<p>There's no way of knowing what they might resort to, but usually efforts to thwart the pirates end up hurting the legitimate paying customers instead.<p>There aren't many online platforms/services that I think provide enough value to justify their own existence, nevermind sending them money on a monthly basis. YouTube Premium though is most certainly one of the exceptions.<p>Not even touching on the uploading and live streaming aspects, just the fact that you can stream full HD content 24/7 to multiple devices, embed the videos on other websites and it works perfectly with essentially zero down time is incredible. Paying like $10 a month to avoid any advertising at all PLUS access to their music streaming service... subscribing is such a no-brainer to me.