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

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• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty

  jokes on them, my enhancer for youtube always disables comments

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• probable_possum@leminal.space ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It is just another turn of the enshittification downward-spiral. There have been steps before this and there will be more to come.

  You can decide if you need the platform and look for alternatives - but where to? Content creators want the range and the monetization of yt. Classic lock-in.

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• nykula@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reading reviews on Google Maps in private browsing mode also got blocked for me.

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• silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yuse MPV.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My brave browser’s still working fine.

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• SalamenceFury@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had this happen to me. I simply disabled ublock origin’s quick filters and everything worked fine after.

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• rollerbang@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  One way I’ve found around it is to open videos in new tabs and then they play normally. Playlists or clicking in the same tab doesn’t work. Then I just Ctrl+W the tabs to advance the “playlist”.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sounds like updating firefox and/or ublock will get past most of it.

  Personally? I am not as opposed to google making life harder for people who want to run an adblocker, considering that is the site’s revenue (specifically the targeted ads based on user data). But I actually pay for youtube premium and have been having to refresh every video between clicking and watching it and that is just fucking stupid.

  Although, it also means that shorts no longer autoplay. So when I actually want to watch a short that a channel I like put up, I only see THAT short rather than however many others before I click away.

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  • I_Jedi@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    considering that is the site’s revenue (specifically the targeted ads based on user data)

    I actually pay for youtube premium

    pick one

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sorry, are you saying you want youtube to be a private site that is subscription only?

      Because, if you think this is a gotcha, you probably won’t have a good time. And the site itself would die as creators would have no market to really target.

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• heiligerbimbam@lemmy.wtf ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I dont care. Smarttube works as usual, I dont have any problems. I use the YT Android App to write comments… so …

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