ad blocker no longer works with youtube?

[Mr-B]

Mammasaid said:

Or just download Brave and do what I'm doing, just use Brave for Youtube.

I use chrome all the time so i don't need another browser just for YT, uBlock is doing its job fine, for now anyway, and has been for years, 14.7m ads blocked to date.

[r3g]

I-A said:

Hi All,

What is the latest extension set up for Chrome?

Currently I have Adblock, Privacy Badger, Tamper Monkey and uBlock - all of which no longer work on Youtube!

Anybody else faced this issue overnight?

Thank you

Adblock was causing problems for me so I removed it completely. Just running with uBlock ORIGIN here and haven't had any problems with YT months now - all works good .

[Digby]

Had the warning message pop up yesterday. During my last three videos before my family were murdered, I found a solution......on youtube.

I have also noticed on platforms where the odd advert appears, a quick search of Amazon almost always reveals the exact same product, produced by the same companies, for quite a bit less.

I have also reduced my Netflix subscription and the adverts are more than bearable.

[AlexC1981]

Adguard on Firefox is working for me. Not sure if it helps, but I don't sign in to my account anymore.

[.:ian:.]

I was using YouTube enhanced plug in on chrome, this also removes stuff like shorts and adds sponsorblock.

However Google forced them to get rid of adblock feature so I just downloaded an older version before the nerf

On mobile I use Revanced. This also adds sponsorblock and removes the crap you don't want, like shorts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/

[Stan the Bat]

.:ian:. said:

I was using YouTube enhanced plug in on chrome, this also removes stuff like shorts and adds sponsorblock.

However Google forced them to get rid of adblock feature so I just downloaded an older version before the nerf

On mobile I use Revanced. This also adds sponsorblock and removes the crap you don't want, like shorts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/

Some shorts are nice.

[Mars]

Anyone noticed the absence of ads on YT recently? I'm not getting any at all on either my Android phone or my PC.

[FourWheelDrift]

I've read that Youtube's Adblock-Detection violates many country's privacy laws, at least all the free countries that look after their citizens not the USA which allows corporations to do as they please for profit. See what has happened to Apple in Europe being forced to use USB C and being sued for €2bn in another anti-trust violation, that wouldn't be allowed to happen in the land of the not free.

[Wdc_22]

Adding a +1 for Brave browser. Seems to work really well, even at blocking mid-video ads.

[Register1]

Duckduck go

[Mammasaid]

For everyone using a VPN to get Youtube Premium

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-targeting...

[James_N]

Mammasaid said:

For everyone using a VPN to get Youtube Premium

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-targeting...

noticed that yesterday but nothing has happened with my sub - yet!

[WrekinCrew]

Firefox with uBlock Origin still working fine for me.

[FourWheelDrift]

Youtube on Chrome with UBlock, Ghostery & Privacy Badger still working here.

[Monsterlime]

James_N said:

Mammasaid said:

For everyone using a VPN to get Youtube Premium

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-targeting...

noticed that yesterday but nothing has happened with my sub - yet!

That will not have the effect they desire. Instead of getting some money, they will get none. Youtube Premium is NOT worth £12 a month (or whatever it is now here).

[TameRacingDriver]

I'm surprised it took so long to start cracking down on it.

My setup still working fine here - laptop - edge and ublock origin; phone - YouTube revanced; firestick - smarttube.

Although to be honest one day I might just cough up, I watch loads of stuff on there, use their music service all day at work and part of me thinks the creators should get a little slice of pie considering. The price is the main thing that's put me off but even if I get the family plan thing for me and Mrs, I think she'd be happy to go halves and that's less than a tenner a month each which isn't too bad?

[SteveKTMer]

Brave browser still working perfectly, no ads in videos or in the window.

[Bullett]

I read they are looking at pushing/embedding the ads into the stream at source so they are in effect invisible to ad blockers.

[r3g]

My standard desktop Chrome with uBlock Origin extension has worked fine for.. a long time now - 6 months maybe? YT seems to have implemented aggressive AI bots on the comments sections to auto-del ete or simply not publish any of your comments if you dare to say something 'fringe' on one video. I've noticed that some creators I cannot comment on them at all, even if it's some sort of gushing remark. A lot of chatter about this on the reddits and elsewhere from other people also finding their comments not publishing or instantly disappearing, and it's not the creator who is removing them. Nobody with any sense is going to be pay Google £12 a month to be arbitrarily censored and then not be told what exactly they said that caused their comment to get removed beyond simply pointing you at the "community guidelines" which tells you absolutely nothing.

[Lucas Ayde]

Bullett said:

I read they are looking at pushing/embedding the ads into the stream at source so they are in effect invisible to ad blockers.

I'm susprised they didn't do that from the very start. I couldn't believe that ad-blockers could actually block YT ads too.

Personally, I've paid for YT Premium for the past couple of years. By far my most-used streaming video service, I get much more VFM out of it than Prime or Netflix (especially with the music streaming 'Youtube Music' included).