youtube getting more agressive

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• aufheben@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not exactly an original opinion but I hate this. I watch ads on my Roku app, I watch them on the mobile app, can’t they just let it go on web browser? This just wreaks of greed

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  • CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Every report i’ve passed claims yt is running in the reds for years, assuming this is true i can understand it.

    But i’m still very happy adblock works for me on pc, the ads i get on tv are too many, too often.

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    • Hoomod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sometimes you have a product that’s a loss leader to hold marketshare instead

      I can’t imagine adblockers are really that big of a deal, it’s just Google trying to get revenue off the 0.1% of people who use them

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• kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just saw the “will be blocked after 3 videos” for the first time" (I was only seeing the generic warning so far). Updated filters and it went away.

  I recently stumbled upon this post; seems like filing a complaint to said entity is something you can do if you’re in the EU. I haven’t done so yet, but I plan to. The fella over there has even provided the text he’s sent. If what is said is true and it’s indeed illegal for YouTube to show such prompts (and if that entity receives enough complaints), they might be forced to withdraw them (unless they’re using some legal loophole already).

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  • Pinecone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The complaint won’t work. He doesn’t know what method YouTube is using to detect an adblock and there are dozens of non invasive methods to do so.

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• nothingness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  what idiots watch Youtube whilst being logged in?

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• lastrogue@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People are going to throw a brick at me, but I’m using brave and have never seen this.

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  • khorak@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This has probably nothing to do with the browser in this case. YT is A/B testing this, which makes reproduction harder as they slowly roll it out.

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    • lastrogue@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Very plausible. I also haven’t recently been signing in when watching.

      I noticed some thoughts in this thread estimating that this is being rolled out to users logging in for the time being.

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  • yoz@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol thanks. Downloading brave now.

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• charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do you need to be signed in to Youtube to get this?

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  • creditCrazy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Interesting question I’m genuinely curious think I’ll experiment that

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• XaeroDegreaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My buddy reported that he started getting blocked using uBlock starting today.

  I’ve never had any of the problems, but I have some caveats that may be helpful:

  1. I live in Korea
  2. I use brave browser with no uBlock as it’s unnecessary
  3. I also use NextDNS at the router level.

  #3 seems to be of no consequence as I tried using vanilla Chrome and ads played while randomly testing videos

  That leads me to believe #2 or #1 is preventing ads.

  I didn’t disable NextDNS since it failed at #3, and I haven’t tried VPNing into a U.S. endpoint out of laziness.

  Either #1, or #2 is preventing ads … I’m inclined to believe it is #2, Brave browser, that is successfully blocking ads; even without VPN, with NextDNS, I was still getting ads in vanilla Chrome.

  I think there is something in Brave browser that is currently overlooked.

  I hope it helps someone

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• 0Xero0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just got blocked by YouTube on LibreWolf today but not Firefox. The ad blocking related extensions I have are uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and Malwarebytes. After 15 minutes of resetting uBlock Origin settings, I’ve decided to try turning them off one by one, I found that it was Malwarebytes that triggered it. Even when I whitelisted Youtube but it didn’t work, I have to disable the extension to fix it.

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• eray@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some chrome user problems 😏

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  • twena@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not chrome-specific unfortunately

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    • eray@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m using firefox and i don’t have this kind of problem. Ublock Origin + Firefox all the way.

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• Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Same story, different day.

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• Darksouls1234@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Brave luckily do not have those problems.

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• Synther@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m able to play videos on my Samsung S9 with Firefox running with ublock. I never got a message.

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• tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had this too, only thing that worked was clearing cookies and site data of YouTube, then logging in again. Another browser on the same account with the same uBlock settings worked the whole time, so I guess it’s “device” bound not account bound. Since the cookie purge I don’t even get the AdBlock warnings anymore.

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• Ignacio@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I'm unable to watch any video despite uBlock instructions thing.

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  • TheGoodKall@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was in your same position until I realized updating ublock and updating the filter list arw two different tasks. The filter lists are in ublock settings and after updating those I’ve had no problems

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  • tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Purge YouTube cookies and site data, log in again and see if it works

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    • Ignacio@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It doesn't work.

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