Well I guess jewtube decided to roll out anti adblock messages before watching videos. I just got my first message saying "youtube does not allow ad blocking software".
God forbid I want to watch something and not have my eyes and ears assaulted by Pfizer/McDonalds/Disney/etc. at max volume.
If they actually ban adblock I'll just stop using it entirely. It's not usable without it, and it's not worth the hassle to get around it.
I'm not really bothered by this. If they try to force ads on me, I will simply stop watching YouTube. Only effect it will have on me is more free time.
Same when my Reddit account got "permanently suspended". Helped me to break bad habits. Thanks Reddit admin faggots!
'Same when my Reddit account got "permanently suspended". Helped me to break bad habits. Thanks Reddit admin faggots!'
My brother got full bans after fullbans from reddit from quoting Robert Jordan, and pointing out that his main characters are white, and finally, today, left that midden forever. Better late than never!
Google has passed a downward spiral tipping point in revenue growth; more ads, fewer viewers, so more ads. There's no other path for them.
It may take a while but this will escalate to making all video Widevine'd with DRM - even making the whole browser DRM'd with Web Environment Integrity.
Moral is, buy a large HD and download everything you can while you can. So far yt-dlp with phantomjs and ffmpeg can still download anything even age-restricted.
Easily done by only allowing DRM to be unlocked by Premium/ads for a specified period of time. Even Premium will have ads eventually because that's where the other streaming firms are going.
You are right with DRM, it's coming whether we want it or not.
Someone on Twitter shared this Pastebin to put into uBlock Origin's custom filters to stop those stupid things.
And it worked...for about 24 hours. They came back tonight.
The uBlock Origin sub has a wiki as well. That helped me several years back when they were doing some kind of a/b test that I wanted to block.
Well, I just had the player itself blocked for the first time today. Got any pointers, other than "get off the computer and live your life, you goddamn fucking idiot"?
...I may have issues.
(Edit: I regret this comment.)
I just starting having weird issues today. Like the screen got darker and it refused to play or respond to any clicks. It's only happening on some videos though. Fortunately I do have 2 ideas that work (or one if your issue is different):
If you're having my issue add www.youtube.com##.opened to a new line on your filters and refresh.
This is a more general (and probably durable) solution, but use FreeTube. It's a client that you use to watch Youtube instead of a web browser. It blocks ads and allows you to view age restricted content without signing in. You can get it here.
Funny enough, the problem cleared on its own. I didn't even have to restart Brave.
But thank you, I just got FreeTube a few minutes before I saw this. Works great, even lets me subscribe to channels without having to sign in. I wish I could make comments, but hey, beggars can't be choosers.
And also thank you for not taking my remark as an insult. I was in a bit of a...MOOD when I wrote that. Sorry.
It will only last a few days. They seem to be testing this out on groups of accounts, or maybe groups of IPs, in a sort of rolling beta. It's happened to me three times, then it disappears after a few days. At first you could circumvent it with Ublock, but it seems they've found a fix for that. Whether they actually roll it out permanently site-wide may depend on the number of people they can bully into whitelisting them with these tests.
Youtube's been trying different stuff in recent months. Used to be ads simply didn't exist with an ad blocker. Then videos stopped loading at all for a couple days. Then for a while only the audio of the ad played but not the video. And now I just get a black screen, no audio or video, for a bit and then the actual video starts.
All kinds of sites have tried blocking ad blockers. I don't think anyone managed to keep it up. It's a constant game of cat and mouse and in the end they all seem to realize it's not worth the effort to keep updating their system.
I have not seen it on brave browser, I don't know if it's because they're way ahead of the game or all the contents I watch were demonetized/ad off in the first place
I want to echo this with Brave. I've had zero ads on YouTube.
I noticed that YT managed to slip in sponsored ad videos on to the homescreen which I don't remember there before.
I haven't noticed any pre-roll ads though.
YT's preroll ads do seem to give a prolonged black buffering screen sometimes though that makes it seem like your video won't load.
YouTube is just a long con, selling people on free video hosting and then monetizing their expansion.
Google did the same to GSuite. "Free forever" until it wasn't.
I suppose the whole company is kind of this. Gmail was free email forever, until it got a limit, while people's attachments have been piling up. It's not that it's a bad deal now; it's that it was "sold" 20 years ago as free and permanent. Most people didn't sign up for the deal as-it-is.
There are clients you can use that also block ads. At one point I was using one to get around the "sign in to see age restricted content" crap they pull, because I'm sure as shit not signing in.
Youtube has been testing this kind of thing over the past few months. I haven't gotten hit by it yet but if you have with an adblocker, chances are it's a direct message telling you to unblock. Updating uBlock should work as a temp solution.
You should be using Youtube Enchancer and Sponsor Block too.
I've been getting these pop overs too. Someone will find a way to squash it, they always do. I will not use YT if I can't block all ads.
Invidious still works for me. If you have some technical know-how you can even get it set up to run locally so you're not depending on anyone else keeping the service up for you.
I couldn't get Invidious to work after YT Vanced finally stopped working.
Kept getting errors that claimed that my device's OS was too old/incompatible.
This will have the good effect that people will start writing articles again, saving everyone's time.
https://freetubeapp.io/
Well just saw one on brave, hopefully they'll get to it once the feature becomes widespread