Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me?

Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

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I have UBlock installed on Firefox and what is pictured here is what has been happening for every video that I’m clicking on. Panning doesn’t make the video play either. I tried that. It’s not my internet connection since the videos and ads that you can’t even skip and pause when you tab out play just fine on Chrome. In the days before this happened I got several popups from YouTube saying that adblockers aren’t allowed. Did YouTube disable video playback for people using adblockers or something?

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D06M4@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You’re not alone. But since YouTube is such a shitshow anyway I’m kinda glad to be pushed away for being privacy and security conscious. Invidious instances are a good point of transition while adapting to Peertube and such. Sure, most video content is uploaded to YouTube, but that’s also part of the charm of using alternatives. There’s less garbage to filter and some geniunely good and passionate (not algorithm driven) creators to discover.

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ser@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This happened for me on Brave. I deleted all cookies and logged in again. Worked fine after.

Then it happened after a week… Cat and mouse game.

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throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Works fine for me. Did you update the filters?

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marcos@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yes. They did that years ago.

The ad-blockers are constantly working into evading the ban. You may need to update your ad-blocker of your browser.

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- TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s working for me now!
  
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  - thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    CTRL SHIFT R can help too, forced refresh of all cached data.
    
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hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
seems to work for me rn but youtube’s web ui has been extremely slow for the past few years. videos take more than 15 secs to load and start… to the point where running a terminal and doing yt-dlp & mpv is much quicker/easier.

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spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No issues for me with Firefox and uBlock Origin. Do you have origin or just uBlock?

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- TinyLittlePuni@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  uBlock Origin. YouTube videos are playing without issue now!
  
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  - spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Now that I think about it, if I leave a video tab open overnight it sometimes has to be refreshed to play the next day. That is the one thing that I have run into with youtube.
    
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Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s just you. I’m using Firefox 138.0.4 64-bit (linux) and uBO 1.64.0 and youtube works fine for me.

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Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s a cat and mouse game. They’re constantly doing this. Just wait a little while and ublock should find a way around the block.

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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Don’t know if it’s related, but thus got posted yesterday

techspot.com/…/108232-youtube-shuts-down-ad-block…

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FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No issues on my end with ublock origin + Firefox

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EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
When YouTube does anything weird I switch my VPN to a neighboring country that’s less popular. Suddenly YouTube loads everything without problem.

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altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah I read an article yesterday that they’re rolling out new stronger ad blocker detection.

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scytale@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They’re testing something and you’re one of the lucky winners to be sampled. Usually it goes away in a day or until uBO catches up and deploys an update.

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Alk@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No trouble using FreeTube.

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- klu9@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Me neither.
  
  Browser: Zen (fork of Firefox)
  
  Extension: LibRedirect (pre-installed in Zen IIRC)
  
  App: FreeTube
  
  I click on a YouTube link and it opens in FreeTube, no ads.
  
  Every now and then, videos won't play because of some change by Google, usually it's just a day or so until FreeTube releases an update that works again.
  
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  - tankfox@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    no problems at all for me because I pay for the shit I use
    
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mhague@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Youtube is run like shit. I get frequently told to turn off my adblocker… when I don’t even have extensions installed. It’s already annoying as fuck dealing with ads but it’s some kafka-lite bullshit to be told you’re not watching them.

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Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Right-click the link and open it in a private tab.

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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
How long did you wait when this came up? I believe it might be just blocking the video playback until the expected (by youtube) length of the (blocked) ad has finished, after which the video starts playing as usual.

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Squorlple@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yep, both that one and another adblocker I use for a few days now. I tried yet another plug-in called something like Ad Block for YouTube that works with blocking the non-video ads but I’ve still been getting video ads with it that only play the ad’s audio with a plain black video screen for the length of the ad; spamming refresh on the page tends to bypass the video ad. Hopefully the plug-ins will adapt soon.

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slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It happens every so often. Give it some time and it start working again.

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remon@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Still works for me (Chrome + uBlock), though I have beeing seeing the “Experiencing interruptions?” pop-up a lot since 2 days ago (and it’s not on my end).

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RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
everything’s been working normally on my end

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HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use Firefox and uBlock Origin and for the last week or more every Youtube video I open takes about 10 or so seconds to open, just sitting there spinning.

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- sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Same here. It’s not even that annoying, but noticable.
  
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- bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Try using the extension that can spoof what browser you’re using. Last year, Firefox was being hindered by YouTube until I downloaded that and made it think I was using a Chrome browser.
  
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  - grue@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sometimes I wonder if Firefox actually has low market share, of if this sort of shit just skews the statistics.
    
    I, for one, refuse to spoof my browser because I want them to know Chrome is not as dominant as they think.
    
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  - Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/chrome-mask/
    
    This extension also shims a few additional JavaScript attributes, like navigator.vendor or the global chrome object, to pass common browser checks
    
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  - A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sure would be nice if we had net neutrality back and they couldn’t pull this bullshit
    
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Shirasho@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve had this happen when using VPN. I also tried disabling ublock, but I get this behavior for 5-10 seconds before the video loads. I get no such behavior on Chrome.

This is probably another attempt at Google degrading the experience for people not using Chrome.

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- remon@ani.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Happens on Chrome, too.
  
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