Submitted 1 year ago by kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
That’s a lazy solution without installing Peertube/Piped/Invidious etc,
I see loads of posts thag adblockers stopped working on youtube. However, I still have no ads there. I’m running vivaldi with ublock on Linux and Vivaldi with minminguard on Android (EU based).
Is this a firefox issue, US only,…?
Google/YouTube never rolled out new features to all users at once, especially for new controversial features. They always do staged rollout (e.g. 1% of users, then 5%, then 10%, etc), often geographically limited too. That way they can gauge the potential impact if the feature before fully deploying them (e.g. whether the new features would actually increase their projected revenue or actually decreasing it).
That would explain a lot. We’ll see how this develops. For me it would be no big loss when adblock detectoon starts to work here. Loads of spare time to get back. ;) (no ads or no content, as I refuse to watch ads)
I am in France
Nobody said adblocks stopped working. It’s YouTube who blocks YOU from watching when adblock running
No ads here, adblocker active and I can watch yt in the Netherlands. Either the ad block detecting is not perfect or not globally active.
I’m on fiefox with ublock and didn’t notice any change, Germany…
There’s 3 reasons why you might see this AdBlock nonsense:
If you didn’t run into any of these yet, you’ll have no problems.
Alternatively I noticed opening a video in a new tab won’t trigger the popup.
Mine just started working out of nowhere. I went to YouTube on my chrome browser to find a video I wanted to watch so I can play in Firefox and it just played as normal 🤷🏾♂️
I just got the popup a couple of times but never any ads. I’m behind Pi-hole, running Firefox with arkenfox.js.
De_Narm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
After I got blocked from watching further videos, I disabled uBlock on Firefox, clicked any video and then enabled uBlock again. For some reason neither the blocking nor the pop-ups came back after reloading or since.