cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2787773 (!google@lemdro.id)
Intrusive and sneaky ads like the ones on YouTube should be heavily regulated if not illegal.
YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world
Submitted 7 months ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to technology@lemmy.world
https://9to5google.com/2023/10/31/youtube-ad-blockers-launch/
Comments
Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
“Loud” is unfortunately hard to quantify. There’s a lot of psychoacoustics that mean that the number of decidels really doesn’t tell you what’s loud and what’s not.
This is a great demo of how sounds can appear extremely loud without actually being physically very loud: youtu.be/tONF9OSUOSw?t=7m16s
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
yesterdayshero@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sounds like you haven’t watched a lot of free to air tv haha
wooki@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Free to air is heavily regulated in my country if it had a fraction of the fraudulent grifter ads Google would be shut down
yata@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Those are also regulated in civilised countries.
RelentlessArts@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Luckily all that is prosecutable by Ofcom here so it very rarely happens.
wooki@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Googles ad platform is utterly full of fraudulent scams and grifters. Bring on regulations and HEAVY fines for Google making profit of fraud and crimes.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Ublock Origin on firefox still work for me no filter
Sunrosa@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s pretty random whether you get the message or not. Some of my friends, including me, straight up cannot watch youtube on their website half of the time anymore, because it full blocks us. It’s not just an annoying message, videos actually just don’t play. But I only get it on some days. I think the message only pops up if you’ve been watching for more than like an hour straight. Then again, some of my friends have never seen the message. Who knows. Just more weird big tech server bullshit. Like how twitter’s api works 15% of the time (for me).
yata@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Purge cache and refresh does the trick if you have problems with the firefox+ublock combination. Or you have some other active extensions which prevents ublock from doing its thing.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Been watching for 3h straight and still no pop or problem with videos but when time eventually come I’ll try to setup UBO filter or using 3rd party frontend
Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Firefox with Adblocker Ultimate working fine for me as of last night. I’ll check again tonight.
vxx@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They blocked me with that combo on my PC a week ago.
vanontom@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m using uBlock Origin (with Firefox) on PC, and ReVanced on mobile, and have had zero indication that Google is at war with ad blocking. It’s fucking fantastic. I don’t expect it to last forever, but bravo to these devs and contributors.
Lilweed2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Librewolf is one that might work for you
omnissiah@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 months ago
A bit unrelated, but do you know if there is a hardened firefox for linux (just like Mull for Android)?
yata@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It isn’t blocking my uBlock Origin on Firefox.
hydrospanner@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, all Google accomplished with this bullshit was finally getting me to switch from Chrome to Firefox as my main browser on desktop.
Alchemy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pretty much, also encouraged me to download uBlock, and now I see how many items it blocks from pages like YouTube. Spoiler: It’s a lot.
Magister@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It does on mine, sometimes, so I clear cache, update uBlock, restart Firefox. In general it blocks them again
MrFlamey@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Or mine on Vivaldi. It was showing me the notice the other week, but seems to have stopped now. Either they are now time limiting youtube before the ad blocking thing comes back, or uBlock upped the ante.
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Your uBlock probably updated. uBlock has pretty much been able to successfully block YouTube’s adblocker block since YouTube started blocking adblockers.
noxy@yiffit.net 7 months ago
No, they most certainly are not.
Orbituary@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone the way.
JustMy2c@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Be brave, tell everyone
joelthelion@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Never seen that banner or an ad. I guess it’s just a matter of time though 😕
Zak@lemmy.world 7 months ago
uBlock Origin is reliably blocking the blocker blocker for me at this time, though a few popups got through a couple weeks ago.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Same, uBlock in Firefox is doing it 100% for me. Haven’t even seen a youtube ad or a complaint that I should stop blocking ads.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I feel sorry for Chrome/Chromium users who can’t even use real ad-blockers
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 7 months ago
Same, it's a cat and mouse battle .. lol
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yo dawg, I heard you like blockers
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 7 months ago
Brave is dropping the ball. It’s the only mobile option.
Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Brave for iOS (sorry firefox gang I appreciate you guys) is working fine for me. I had some issues with both Firefox/uB and Brave on windows getting the pop-ups.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I got the pop up a couple of times until I manually updated uBlock’s filters list. After that, no issues.
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Xylight@lemdro.id 7 months ago
I wish I could donate to ublock origin so badly. I never even saw the popup.
whome@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I didn’t know they don’t accept donations: github.com/…/Why-don't-you-accept-donations%3F
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 7 months ago
They make some interesting points, though.
ours@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As asked by uBo’s creator: please donate to the list maintainers instead.
What a solid guy.
fosforus@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Fully, you say?
$ yt-dlp -f 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEEZBmUYTM [youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEEZBmUYTM [youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading webpage [youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading ios player API JSON [youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading android player API JSON [youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading m3u8 information [info] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading 1 format(s): 22 [download] Destination: Noiselund - Are You There？ [WFEEZBmUYTM].mp4 [download] 100% of 12.82MiB in 00:00:04 at 2.99MiB/s
Oh, guess not.
Sunrosa@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah yt-dlp has been my strat this whole time anyway. Also Piped and Invidious get the job done when i’m too lazy to type in one short command for every video I watch.
Also, specifying format with yt-dlp is unnecessary (“-f 22”) if you have ffmpeg installed iirc because it automatically selects the highest quality, thus shortening the command even further.
jack@monero.town 7 months ago
You can also put “alias y=yt-dlp” in your ~/.bashrc to minimize it to “y”. Or set up a keyboard shortcut to a script that executes the command with your clipboard content.
Or do the same with “mpv” instead of “yt-dlp” to watch the video stream directly without downloading.
fosforus@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I use -f 22 to set a lower quality actually, because most videos are needlessly larger than my 4K monitor.
Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I get there’s a heap of people on here who’ve somehow never seen these new anti-popup measures before, but they’re definitely becoming more prevalent.
I switched to uBlock and purged the caches and it seems to have fixed the issue (for now anyway)
At some point I’ll have to find a more permanent solution like switching browsers but right now things are working
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 7 months ago
a more permanent solution would be using an alternative front end like piped. there are a lot of public instances available
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 7 months ago
But it’s difficult to trust Piped and other 3rd parties with your login credentials. Especially for people who make a living on YouTube. Even if they themselves might be trustworthy, they can’t be perfectly secure, so it becomes added vulnerability.
Yinchie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Use clients such as LibreTube. It works great and even allows skipping sponsored content.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 7 months ago
purged the caches\
Do this daily.
yata@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I only had to do it once. Haven’t seen the pop up since.
Nihilore@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you have a VPN just set your location to a place they don’t run ads
yata@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I saw them, then I purged ublocks cache and updated and they have been gone ever since (also on firefox, because I switched as soon as I read the news that they would pull this stunt on all chromium browsers a year ago).
verysoft@kbin.social 7 months ago
Firefox + uBlock Origin here still holding strong.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
LibreWolf (Fork of Firefox without the crap like Pocket or Sponsored sites) is great too. It also comes preinstalled with uBlock Origin. It’s what I recommend to everyone.
verysoft@kbin.social 7 months ago
I'd rather not personally. I can just disable all that anyway.
joker125@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I still haven’t run into any issues with this setup.
sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
No change for me, youtube sure is trying but ublock origins keeps fighting the good fight
WallEx@feddit.de 7 months ago
Gotta love those guys
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nooo. YouTube thinks it’s fully blocking ad blockers. In reality nothing’s changed.
Centaur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
EU based Firefox + uBlock Origin user here. All very good :)
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Canada based same, is this only happening on Chrome or something?
tehBishop@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Exact opposite here, no issues on chrome, blocked on Firefox.
sagrotan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No problems here whatsoever, I don’t know what everybody is talking about. Remember to donate some bucks to your favorite open source adblock (or piping app), thank you.
JoMomma@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Did someone forget to purge their uBlock caches?
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This was annoying me in browsers so i did a bit of reading and found out that not only can I remove their ad block blocker in browser, but my TVs also support ad free YouTube. Thanks Google! Couldn’t have done it without you.
CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It made an attempt for sure, a cute one at that 🤣
Codandchips@lemmy.world 7 months ago
UK Firefox user here… All good
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 7 months ago
… yes. I know because you’ve told me 25 times in the last week.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I was just using Chrome with ublock origin at work and didn’t see jack shit.
Bebo@literature.cafe 7 months ago
And I’ve been using only newpipe and freetube since this all started. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Nope. FF with UBO still works perfectly.
notExactlyI20@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This will definetly be a shot in the foot for Google, the beginning of YouTube’s downfall
Tattorack@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The ReVanced app still works just fine.
MrAlpharius@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Firefox nightly working lime a charm. I would rather download any video I want to see than using the shitty native app.
Three one minute adds was enough for me.
Never_Sm1le@lemdro.id 7 months ago
Me still haven’t seen that shit, but my cousin does. Weird
aksdb@feddit.de 7 months ago
I got fed up with this shit and invested a bit of time into getting a working Premium Family plan through a cheap country (Ukraine is about $4 per month). I invited my whole family (parents included) so essentially 6 people have an ad-free YouTube now for less than $1 each (per month). I assume that’s still less than what they have gotten by serving us a shit ton of ads. And I am rid of that cat and mouse game for a while.
registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 7 months ago
I don’t get it, I use a variety of browsers and apps, with or without VPN. I even scrape channel RSS from the same IP and have never seen this.
JewGoblin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nerds rejoice, we will never be defeated
netchami@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Some solutions:
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Where is YouTube ReVanced?
GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Not mentioned, on purpose 🤫
PeachMan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ReVanced is definitely worth mentioning, but I’m here to tell you that GrayJay is better.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thank you so much for showing Yattee and the guide to me.
squaresinger@feddit.de 7 months ago
…google.com/…/gbghmolkliahkeekflofoaiofibligjf could help as well.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Just use a proper ad-blocker like uBlock Origin in combination with a browser like Firefox or LibreWolf that supports proper ad-blocking extension. Fuck this Chromium garbage that deprecated MV2 because Google is scared of adblockers. Don’t support Google’s monopoly on browser rendering engines and use Firefox or something even better like LibreWolf.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Remember people start logging out for these services. Any day they could decided to start terminating accounts if this whole anti Adblocking campaign doesn’t get subscriber numbers up
Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tangential question - what is stopping youtube from restricting access to their API for 3rd party apps like Reddit did?
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
SSSSSSHHHH
Rexios@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Sideload uYouPlusExtra on iOS
github.com/arichorn/uYouPlusExtra
netchami@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I am aware of this option, but sideloading on iOS currently kinda sucks. You have to use AltStore which sometimes goes unmaintained for a few months, even if it’s maintained it’s kinda buggy and the Windows version almost never works. It’s also not available for Linux. And you have to connect your phone to a computer running AltStore every 7 days, otherwise the app will stop functioning. It’s just not a great solution and especially bad for less tech-savvy users.