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YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 42 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently there is a way around it as I've been watching YouTube all day and haven't encountered a single ad.

[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

YouTube has been shadowbanning ad blocker users, where you comments appear to post but actually haven't, for a while now.

I think the issue is with the EasyPrivacy list blocking the heartbeat signals that tell YouTube you are actually someone interacting with the page and not a bot.

Brave doesn't seem to have this issue as they whitelist those scripts but it has other issues so I recommend keeping it as a YouTube only browser.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I noticed one of my comments was shadowbanned, I thought it was the channel that did it. Hmm, I don't comment much on YT, I guess I won't at all now. NBD.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 19 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
  1. Why the fuck are you posting YouTube comments?
  2. Why the fuck are you using Brave?

Stop using the YouTube app/website, get an alt frontend like FreeTube, Grayjay, Revanced, etc. Not only do they remove ads and make it impossible for Google to track you, they have better UX than the official apps.

[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with Brave?/gen I keep seeing positive comments about it, so there must be something I don’t know.

[–] emokidforever@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Here's a pretty in-depth explanation. https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/ The article is from 2023, so I'm not sure if they've improved since then.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What alternative do you recommend for watching YouTube on a PC?

[–] br0da@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

One of the options laid out above: FreeTube