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youtube getting more aggressive.. i've got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Search for "quick fix" in the filters tab and update that. You have to do it atleast twice a day to keep up with YouTube updating their end but that's the only thing that's working for me. That and disabling all other adblockers including Firefox's.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Vinegar app for Safari on iOS/iPadOS/MacOS has a very clever feature that’s called “switch to ad skipping”. It basically deceives YouTube by telling it you watched the ads and the videos load perfectly.

Also, UBlock Origin on Firefox’s been doing an excellent job at removing ads from YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Man I hate YouTube so much by this point, and had even before this anti adblock thing due to their mobile apps never working properly on any of my devices, mobile website basically made the clunkiest experience possible (to force people into using the app?) and desktop site being just so damn heavy. Would totally completely move to federated alternatives if not the 20 years of YT exclusive content that won't ever be reuploaded elsewhere. It's not even like a social network or a forum where you minutely talk to someone about something, get a response and then forget forever, it sadly grew a lot bigger than that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Updating filter lists always does the trick for me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I unfortunately have a youtube addiction but I have canceled my subscription and will be using proper adblocking at home and alternatives like piped on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

worth checking out https://grayjay.app/. It's new, but comes from Futo/Louis Rossman. It's in alpha/beta right now but the concept is pretty neat. Think of it as the Pigeon/Trillian of instant messengers. (do need android I believe)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Are there any ad blockers that currently support blocking the popup?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin still works fine. You just need to make sure you're following these instructions

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For now I didn't see anything on Firefox and Librewolf, but who knows how long that can go on. I guess I have to just wait and see.

...and get used to Invidious in the meanwhile.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've started transitioning to Odysee. It's like YT but less evil.

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

Yeah same. Idk why I've got ublock setup, tried resetting the filter cache, reinstalled unlock (idk if that helps but had to try) and I still get these.

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

This happened to me, I just pressed F5 and just watching

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

Am I the only one who thinks "Allowlisted" is a seriously stupid term? Why, pray tell, can't we use name of a colour anymore?

And no, I won't Caucasianlist YouTube, ever.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Some chrome user problems 😏

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

It's not chrome-specific unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm using firefox and i don't have this kind of problem. Ublock Origin + Firefox all the way.

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

I have enhancer for youtube extension for firefox and I get to just cross it off

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