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UPDATE 2 It seems that starting today, uBlock Origin is working to combat this Youtube Block. Mine started working again! Lets all thank the devs of UBO for fighting this fight!

UPDATE So as new info comes out, I'll be posting it here. It seems as if this Rollout Has Several Parts.

Part 1

You get a popup message over top of your video, blocking the screen:

  • This is the first sign. If you see this popup AND are logged into a YouTube account, your account has been selected.
  • At this stage you can likely close or block these messages with an adblocker.

Part 2

This message will change, indicating that you have 3 remaining videos to watch without ads.

Will insert photo once one has been found

  • At this stage your adblocker will imminently stop working in 3 videos time.
  • Personally using Firefox + uBlock Origin and tweaking filters and updates does not even fix it.

Part 3

None of the video loads now, everything looks blank.

  • At this stage you must tred new ground to avoid ads. I have posted methods in the comments. If you want to bypass this end page, read down there.

End of Update


YouTube has started rolling out anti-adblock to users inside the United States, which means that they are preparing to roll this out to the entire country. Personally, I have been blocked already. I want to gauge how common this occurrence is.

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Same here. Was just explaining to a coworker who was complaining about YT ads that I "just" use PiHole+Unbound for network blocking, AirVPN with DNS blocking, mullvad Private DNS on Android, and then Libretube to view my self-hosted Piped instance. As I said it I realized how ridiculous it's gotten and how deranged I probably sound.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This all sounds like extremely reasonable to me. Fuck the haters.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Reasonable, yes. Feasible for everyone? Not necessarily. I would like to get at least a pihole going at some point but for now ublock origin and ReVanced have been enough for me.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Haha I appreciate y'all! Next stop: Tor City

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just use use uBlock Origin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't think that could block Youtube ads alone? Like Hulu and Spotify

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

Before this new behavior uBlock Origin always blocked YouTube ads.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, it did up until maybe now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

still does outside the US

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PiHole+Unbound . . . AirVPN with DNS blocking, mullvad Private DNS . . . Libretube

This is what I pictured reading all that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Hahaha yeah I may have went a little berserk there

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of using Piped having a proxy between you and YouTube? Or are you serving your instance to friends/family so that your queries get mixed together?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's the point. I do use my instance for links when sharing to people, but the main reason I selfhosted was for control and mostly just fun

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do you need adblock, when using piped?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Because the internet includes more than just youtube...?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

For everything other than Youtube!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did your coworker know what you were talking about? Also, please explain how AirVPN with DNS blocking works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well they were already talking UBO and PiHoles, so I had faith lol AirVPN has the option to add blocklists to its DNS. Obviously with everything else I don't really need it, but it can't hurt.