Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• FG_3479@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  YouTube has been shadowbanning ad blocker users, where you comments appear to post but actually haven’t, for a while now.

  I think the issue is with the EasyPrivacy list blocking the heartbeat signals that tell YouTube you are actually someone interacting with the page and not a bot.

  Brave doesn’t seem to have this issue as they whitelist those scripts but it has other issues so I recommend keeping it as a YouTube only browser.

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  • entwine@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1. Why the fuck are you posting YouTube comments?
    2. Why the fuck are you using Brave?

    Stop using the YouTube app/website, get an alt frontend like FreeTube, Grayjay, Revanced, etc. Not only do they remove ads and make it impossible for Google to track you, they have better UX than the official apps.

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    • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What alternative do you recommend for watching YouTube on a PC?

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      • br0da@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        One of the options laid out above: FreeTube

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    • pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s wrong with Brave?/gen I keep seeing positive comments about it, so there must be something I don’t know.

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      • emokidforever@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Here’s a pretty in-depth explanation. www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ The article is from 2023, so I’m not sure if they’ve improved since then.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I noticed one of my comments was shadowbanned, I thought it was the channel that did it. Hmm, I don’t comment much on YT, I guess I won’t at all now. NBD.

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    • FG_3479@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The issue is with your ad blocker, not YouTube, though YouTube has no incentive to tell you what is going on as it would help out bots trying the same thing.

      I don’t like Brave but they seem to have gone to the effort of whitelisting the heartbeats, so use that for YouTube comments.

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Firefox extension to fix youtube comments forever

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