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YouTube once again ahead of uBO on Firefox; fiddling with the extension settings not working this time and DDG search is useless ... anyone got ideas? (beehaw.org)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Pretty much the subject line. uBO has successfully blocked the nag screen enough times that I can't play anything at this point. No preview loads, and the play button serves no function. I'd really prefer not to have to find content on YT, copy the URL and use Piped/Invidious, but this ongoing escalation is steeling my resolve to screw Google.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So... They've been A/B testing this the whole time and will continue to do so. Do you think OP is lying or could it be that you're having the B variant until it flips for you too?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OP didn't say if they use Firefox. If they're using Chrome, then I'd find this result rather unremarkable and unsurprising.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I'm on FF. Forgot that detail. Also forgot I can edit the title. Which I have done, so the message above this made sense at the time it was written (for anyone who came in late).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Oof, well I don't like the sound of this at all. Looks like my days of using YouTube might be numbered.

If these sites keep enshittifying at this rapid pace, I may be forced to touch grass before my time is up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Never had a single issue on FF. Make sure you open the UBO settings page, uncheck all the filter (basically set it to its default settings) the refresh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That worked last round but not this time, unfortunately. I'm kicking the tires on LibRedirect currently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Did you purge and update your filters?

Note: I'm not talking about turning filters off then back on, I'm talking about updating the version of each filter itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've been going through this every now and then with Firefox and uBlock. It feels like maybe it's in-between Youtube making their change and uBlock catching up. I'll go through the purge process but will still be blocked. Check back the next day and videos play fine with ads blocked.

My workaround in that in-between time is either open up a private browser (with ublock turned on for private browsing), watching it not logged in. Or I paste the video to a hidden discord channel I have on my server and watch that way (unless the video disables embedding). It's always worked for me those two ways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Look up YouTube enhancer extension. It has a trick, too. I don't remember exactly what it is, but I read it here somewhere on Lemmy where you add a script of some sort to YouTube enhancer and it blocks that YouTube bullshit message.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

OP most likely is not following the instructions laid out at the uBlock subreddit. Probably a conflict with another adblocker.