Technology

Some solutions:

• Android
  • LibreTube
  • NewPipe
    • NewPipe x SponsorBlock
    • BraveNewPipe
  • Grayjay
• iOS
  • Yattee with this guide
  • (Adding Piped/Invidious website to Homescreen)
• Web
  • Piped
  • Invidious
  • ViewTube
  • (Tubo)
• Desktop
  • FreeTube
  • (Using any of the web solutions as PWAs)
• TV
  • Android TV
    • SmartTubeNext
  • Apple TV
    • Yattee with this guide

Ya know, I've seen a lot of posts regarding Elon Musk spam in this community, and calls to "ban" them, yet every week we get gloom and doom posts like this when some new subset of the world starts seeing this shit. I'd really like to see a pinned message about the fix, which is...

1. Install Firefox or a derivative, and add the uBlock Origin extension.

If you visit YouTube and see the pop-up, the page isn't loading the video content, or it just seems to be acting strange, do the following:

1. Click on the uBlock Origin brown shield in your extensions.
2. Click the three little gears icon to enter the settings.
3. Make sure you're in the Filter lists section from the top and click the Purge all caches button below it.
4. Click the Update now button.
5. Wait until the filter update completes.
6. Refresh the tab(s) that YouTube is in.
7. Press play.

I literally have no other installed add-ons for ad blocking, anymore. Only uBlock Origin. Any time I see the message or YouTube starts acting up, I just repeat those 7 steps above for any YouTube tab that was already open, and viola, the video plays. It has simplified so many issues for me and reduced the number of adblock extensions I need to run.

I definitely plan on donating this holiday season to their team, probably the biggest share of the pie between the FOSS apps I enjoy and appreciate. Should uBlock Origin ever fail, I'll just stop going to YouTube.

Intrusive and sneaky ads like the ones on YouTube should be heavily regulated if not illegal.

Edit: especially ads louder than the average content volume, repetitive jingles designed to get stuck in your head, billboards, and ads thrown in the middle of the video you’re watching

Ublock Origin on firefox still work for me no filter

It isn't blocking my uBlock Origin on Firefox.

Never seen that banner or an ad. I guess it's just a matter of time though 😕

No, they most certainly are not.

I wish I could donate to ublock origin so badly. I never even saw the popup.

I get there's a heap of people on here who've somehow never seen these new anti-popup measures before, but they're definitely becoming more prevalent.

I switched to uBlock and purged the caches and it seems to have fixed the issue (for now anyway)

At some point I'll have to find a more permanent solution like switching browsers but right now things are working

No change for me, youtube sure is trying but ublock origin keeps fighting the good fight

Firefox + uBlock Origin here still holding strong.

Nooo. YouTube thinks it's fully blocking ad blockers. In reality nothing's changed.

Fully, you say?

$ yt-dlp -f 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEEZBmUYTM
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFEEZBmUYTM
[youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading webpage
[youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading ios player API JSON
[youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading m3u8 information
[info] WFEEZBmUYTM: Downloading 1 format(s): 22
[download] Destination: Noiselund - Are You There？ [WFEEZBmUYTM].mp4
[download] 100% of   12.82MiB in 00:00:04 at 2.99MiB/s

Oh, guess not.

EU based Firefox + uBlock Origin user here. All very good :)

Did someone forget to purge their uBlock caches?

No problems here whatsoever, I don't know what everybody is talking about. Remember to donate some bucks to your favorite open source adblock (or piping app), thank you.

This was annoying me in browsers so i did a bit of reading and found out that not only can I remove their ad block blocker in browser, but my TVs also support ad free YouTube. Thanks Google! Couldn't have done it without you.

It made an attempt for sure, a cute one at that 🤣

UK Firefox user here.... All good

I was just using Chrome with ublock origin at work and didn't see jack shit.

... yes. I know because you've told me 25 times in the last week.

And I've been using only newpipe and freetube since this all started. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Nope. FF with UBO still works perfectly.

The ReVanced app still works just fine.

I don't get it, I use a variety of browsers and apps, with or without VPN. I even scrape channel RSS from the same IP and have never seen this.

This will definetly be a shot in the foot for Google, the beginning of YouTube's downfall

Me still haven't seen that shit, but my cousin does. Weird

I’m self hosting an invidious instance and not once have I noticed any interruptions. 10/10 just use a public invidious instance and be done with it

Firefox nightly working lime a charm. I would rather download any video I want to see than using the shitty native app.

Three one minute adds was enough for me.

I have not changed anything about my browsing habits and I spend like 12 hours a day on YT, haven't yet seen this. Not very universal.