ruh roh

Use freetube, a desktop frontend to invidious that you can import your sub list

Never look back

If you're on desktop, download FreeTube. No more ads, ever. No more jittery youtube videos even though you have 300mbs down, you can download any video in app at max speeds, and its not algorithm fed. I imported my subscriptions, and now if I want to see something new I can use the not broken search function. Its like early early youtube and its wonderful!

Well I guess I'll be mozying over to Rumble now.

20 minutes later

Turns out Jews are aliens directing the Democratic Party and Hollywood to sacrifice babies for adrenochrome. Why is the lamestream media not talking about this???

i use ublock origin

reddit still good for something: Filter Lists-->uBlock filters-->uncheck the "ublock filters - quickfixes" box and then reload the page.

this worked for me

I kinda miss when places would host their own videos instead of relying on youtube, but that's the problem of a centralized internet, the majority of people won't want to leave yt/ig/fb/tiktok/twitter/reddit in order to watch or read whatever you posted.

I saw it and refreshed the ublock filters and everything works again

If a million porn sites can make streaming video work, then YouTube is replaceable.

The whole idea that it violates the terms of service of a company to not let them show things on my screen without my consent is insane. It's like if every time you went to the grocery store, the employees held you down and force fed you a free sample, then banned you from the store when you started running away from them.

aggressively refreshes ublock patch list

I use Firefox on Linux Mint, none of this happens and if it does you fix it by copy pasting a code on the settings of ublock

Grayjay by futo just released a desktop app.

So sad YouTube died, it was such a useful service.

Good joke, YouTube.

Ah yes, but what about the violation to our time where we've had to sit through 30 second ~ 2 minute ads of over-dramatized ways for shitty companies to get us to buy shit we don't want and subscribe to services we don't need? What about those violations and those violations happen more frequently than us blocking your ads? The hell with you.

From the uBO subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1etvawp/youtube_ads_detection_breakages_2024_08_16_ubo/m31kbkw/

There was just an update to Quick fixes. Please test if it works for you.

1. Click Here to update the list.
2. If you disabled the list previously, enable it back.
3. Close all previously opened YT tabs and try in a new one.

Just a reminder: Please always treat disabling lists as a last resort/temporary solution type of thing. Without that list, you won't be receiving important filter updates and will likely encounter ads after a while. So don't keep it disabled forever - verify that it's still necessary (daily?).

I blocked the popup...

Fun fact, it seems this ban is IP based. (they're still testing in waves with a subset of overall users)

I switched to a new IP with my VPN, and while still signed in to the same YouTube account on the same video without ever clearing my cache or cookies, the block disappeared.

Genius work from the developers over at YouTube.

If the garbage takes itself out, I won't complain. YT doesn't see how the cable companies dying is the exact same future it is racing to emulate.

Eat shit, Youtube!

I just got the same warning on FF with uBlock. Both Freetube and NewPipe seem to be fine though. I guess Freetube it is until uBlock is patched.

Edit: Also, glad I'm not the only human watching Grossi's videos today lol.

Looks like google needs more broken up!

I've landed on that page a couple of times. I'm just waiting to be blocked.

I almost never watch videos on youtube because I download them and watch them locally. The two things that I use to download them are Downie (Mac) and yt-download (cross platform). This helps me avoid ads unless they are baked into the video. I also like to grab a bunch of content all at once and then watch at my leisure.

AdGuard pro, SponsorBlock, DeArrow, and Untrap for YouTube. I only rarely ever see a brief part of a sponsor ad, and never see YouTube’s own ads.

Untrap lets you modify nearly anything about YouTube like even removing the view count and channel avatars, among many other options.

mpv youtube-URL works just fine without even loading the crappy scripts to show a banner like that. Manage your subscriptions with a RSS feeder and you don't need an account to follow creators.

What's the Fediverse YouTube? ooof. that's a tough nut.

Mine's different:

Just replace the watch?v= with embed/

War, War never changes.

Still working here, you can try clearing ubo's cache to see if it goes away.

Haven't got this yet.

Hasn't happened with Bing yet.

This again?

Yeah, they're trying new things again. Gotta squeeze that stone for all the blood that's in it.

One of my accounts has been getting a long delay before the video starts. Pre-roll ads are trying to load and play but the add-ons I have installed are still stopping them from completely succeeding. For now.

I also have auto-play turned off, and I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Pretty sure the systems at their side think that I'm seeing the ads because I've had pop-ups during the delay offering free Premium.

I just saw this on my phone for the first time ever about 20 minutes ago

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Get a cheap (Argentina, Egypt, Ghana, India, Ecuador) premium... There are dozens of instructions on how to get it through a VPN.

Running yt in browser is so inefficient. So in in its native app.

There's a very simple solution to this, and I'm honestly not quite sure why no one is doing it.

Make ads voluntary. Make them separate from the rest of the experience.

Make it so that you can watch ads and answer surveys based off of the ads in order to get credits which then allow you to watch videos.

Alternatively, make it so that you can purchase the credits out right.

Everyone fucking wins.

I don't know why people are so stupid as to not even contemplate the easiest and most satisfying solution to all of the problems.