ijeff to [email protected]English • 2 years agoYouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world9to5google.comexternal-linkmessage-square340fedilinkarrow-up1825
arrow-up1825external-linkYouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world9to5google.comijeff to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square340fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish62•2 years agoI 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
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish23•2 years agoa more permanent solution would be using an alternative front end like piped. there are a lot of public instances available
minus-squareYinchielinkfedilinkEnglish15•2 years agoUse clients such as LibreTube. It works great and even allows skipping sponsored content.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•2 years agonever seen the youtube anti-adblock stuff. Mullvad vpn + mullvad browser + ublock origin + never logging into google… Also freetube, also newpipe… Maybe they don’t bother trying to block vpn users?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agofrom what I’ve read incognito mode is still unaffected, but thats just rumors online
minus-squareSnausagesinaBlanketlinkfedilinkEnglish10•edit-22 years ago purged the caches Do this daily.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoI only had to do it once. Haven’t seen the pop up since.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoIf you have a VPN just set your location to a place they don’t run ads
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoI 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).
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
a more permanent solution would be using an alternative front end like piped. there are a lot of public instances available
Use clients such as LibreTube. It works great and even allows skipping sponsored content.
never seen the youtube anti-adblock stuff.
Mullvad vpn + mullvad browser + ublock origin + never logging into google…
Also freetube, also newpipe…
Maybe they don’t bother trying to block vpn users?
I use a VPN, and I saw the popup.
from what I’ve read incognito mode is still unaffected, but thats just rumors online
Do this daily.
I only had to do it once. Haven’t seen the pop up since.
If you have a VPN just set your location to a place they don’t run ads
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).