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.
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.