Since May, YouTube has ramped up its block of ad blockers and the company has now fully launched this policy worldwide...
  • Ænima@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ya know, I’ve seen a lot of posts regarding Elon Musk spam in this community, and calls to “ban” them, yet every week we get gloom and doom posts like this when some new subset of the world starts seeing this shit. I’d really like to see a pinned message about the fix, which is…

    1. Install Firefox or a derivative, and add the uBlock Origin extension.

    If you visit YouTube and see the pop-up, the page isn’t loading the video content, or it just seems to be acting strange, do the following:

    1. Click on the uBlock Origin brown shield in your extensions.
    2. Click the three little gears icon to enter the settings.
    3. Make sure you’re in the Filter lists section from the top and click the Purge all caches button below it.
    4. Click the Update now button.
    5. Wait until the filter update completes.
    6. Refresh the tab(s) that YouTube is in.
    7. Press play.

    I literally have no other installed add-ons for ad blocking, anymore. Only uBlock Origin. Any time I see the message or YouTube starts acting up, I just repeat those 7 steps above for any YouTube tab that was already open, and viola, the video plays. It has simplified so many issues for me and reduced the number of adblock extensions I need to run.

    I definitely plan on donating this holiday season to their team, probably the biggest share of the pie between the FOSS apps I enjoy and appreciate. Should uBlock Origin ever fail, I’ll just stop going to YouTube.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The element picker and disable JS button are also a life saver. Gets around so many shitty things about the modern web. The one thing I agree with from Brave (Firefox all the way though) is including uBlock by default (I just wish they gave credit).

  • pythia@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    with FF and ublock i can watch yt as always. Never got the poup. But as of today, the youtube page is just blank. I can search and watch anything, but the start-page is blank. (no account)

  • aksdb@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year 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.

      • aksdb@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        As others said: VPN. Ukraine seems to work good currently, since the Credit Card address isn’t validated. Cheaper countries like India or Turkey now check if the CC you use is from that country. That is a bit more complicated to pull off, so that wasn’t worth it for me.

    • Polar@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Love how Lemmy downvotes anyone who pays for anything. Such a great place for discussion! Definitely no echo chamber here.

      • aksdb@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        For the service they offer (the hosting basically) I am actually willing to pay quite a bit. But what they typically ask for (about €15 for a single account) that’s just not worth it, given that YouTube isn’t the producer of the content they serve. Music might be a bit more complicated thanks to the fucking idiotic way how licensing around that works. Anyway: nothing of that excuses the excessive use of ads they serve nowadays.