I started getting the dreaded anti-adblock pop-ups on Youtube when they started ramping up their efforts a month or so back, and I initially went through the whole rigamarole: First it was just the pop-up, then it was the pop-up with the timer, then the 3-video countdown finally leading to the video player being disabled outright.
Throughout all of this I did the recommended Purging All Caches -> Update Now routine on the Ublock Dashboard at least once a day to keep the pop-ups away, but when it got to the player getting blocked it didn’t seem to work anymore. Since I’m on Firefox, I experimented using Containers and found that I could just log in to my YT account on a different container to keep using Youtube until that container started getting blocked.
In the past few weeks I’ve noticed no issues though apart from having the video player blocked once, which was fixed by purging all caches and updating and I almost forgot about the whole anti-adblock thing altogether. It does seem like YT pages are loading slightly slower than they used to though.
Are you still having issues with Ublock on Youtube or were you even affected at all?
Firefox user with auto-clear cache on closing: I didn’t notice a thing. On Android I use NewPipe, didn’t notice anything either.
Firefox gets those ads. Librewolf doesn’t so i have a browser specifically for YT xD
Its probably just outdated version or cache. Look into it again, should be a easy fix.
Also Brave allows for background playback of YouTube videos on mobile, iOS at least
Pedophile browser.
My experience can be summarized as: lol. lmao.
I’m on Chrome. I just keep uBlock updated and turned off automatic Chrome updates. I’ve had Privacy Badger, uBlock, and HTTPS since forever.
They can bite me.
I don’t think I’ve done anything and I’m still yet to see an add.
I do most of the watching on phone, so might be I just missed the transition
I just shrugged and decided I didn’t really need to see that music video after all, so I added youtube URLs to /etc/hosts and mapped them to “0.0.0.0”.
I have a Firefox extension for creating PWAs (Progressive Web App), and had a profile setup for Youtube. The adblocker detected popup just appeared a couple weeks ago. So i just deleted the YouTube PWA profile, recreated it, and added Ublock back. Havent seen the popup or ads since.
I was using Chrome and doing the usual steps once a week kept ads away for a while but about a week ago it was no use.
We use a Mac for our main TV and were using Chrome, but it was taking up a ton of space and CPU so I just deleted it. I’m using Safari for now, All ads for the first time in a decade…
My secondary computer/bedroom TV is a crappy HP with the non upgradable RAM, I use edge and ads are still blocked with Ublock origin, for now
I don’t use AdBlock, I use Peertube. no ads by defualt. Never had any problems with YouTube knocking at my door.
Peertube, while empty at the content level, there are some known YouTubers who have a presence there. Especially Linux and open source YouTubers. But you will always find new people who only post on Peertube.
Didn’t get any of these popups yet, instead uBlock doesn’t block ads sometimes. I have to refresh the video a couple of times before it stops showing them. It gets really annoying.
What browser are you using?
Librewolf
I had pretty much the same experience you did. I did randomly find a reddit post with a ublock custom filter to avoid the whole “page not loading at all” thing. Ever since, I’ve had only one ubo failure that I fixed with the routine filters refresh, and dare I say youtube’s actually been getting faster for me lately? I did have that slowdown, due to their thing that prevented the page from loading, but now it’s almost like they’ve ramped down on their efforts.
Edit: I’m here to stand corrected. Fuckers are messing with any browser that’s not theirs. Add the following filter to ublock if your video pages take 5 seconds to load:
www.youtube.com###+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), 5000, 0.01)I’m so confused on how rollout happens. Is it random? I’m in a first world country (not the USA), using Firefox and Ublock Origin and have never experienced the popups. I use YouTube daily, often watching 10+ videos a day, and have never seen an ad or the popup. I have also never done anything to update my extensions or purge the cache as you mentioned. I’ve just had 0 issues. On mobile, I use Newpipe (BraveNewPipe, a fork with sponsorblock) and once again, 0 issues.
I just updated the filters and it never happened again.
Firefox user in Canada here. The last few weeks ads would try to load, but nothing would play. If I refreshed the page the video played as normal.
The last few days I’ve had no issues at all.
I don’t use adblock ([thunderous booing] Yeah yeah I know.) despite that fact sometimes videos flat out won’t load for no fucking reason.
Kind of reminds me of antipiracy which ends up harming normal consumers more than it does the people it’s intending to target.
Firefox doesn’t really work anymore for me with ublock and privacy badger. I don’t always get the popup but the video usually won’t buffer. I’m using a different browser now for YouTube only with ublock and it works so far. Never had the timer or blocked video player though
