youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos : technology

[–] vbb@lemmy.sdfeu.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

😃 - “I blocked ads”

🙁 - “I don’t have ads”

[–] fushi01@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For some reason, I got this popup but I didnt care which then blocked my player but I tried several different adblockers simultaneously which made the ads not play but there was a black screen for 5 seconds or so when the ad should've played but then I installed adguard, which after that no matter what I did on youtube, didn't get any ad anywhere or the popup, with the ad blockers on or off .

Using Vivialdi btw

[–] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 year ago

Happened to me a the other day, so i used piped instead, yesterday my muscle memory got me back to YouTube and everything was back to normal

[+] Abhijeet@lemm.ee -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[+] XaeroDegreaz@lemmy.world -6 points 1 year ago

My buddy reported that he started getting blocked using uBlock starting today.

I've never had any of the problems, but I have some caveats that may be helpful:

I live in Korea
I use brave browser with no uBlock as it's unnecessary
I also use NextDNS at the router level.

#3 seems to be of no consequence as I tried using vanilla Chrome and ads played while randomly testing videos

That leads me to believe #2 or #1 is preventing ads.

I didn't disable NextDNS since it failed at #3, and I haven't tried VPNing into a U.S. endpoint out of laziness.

Either #1, or #2 is preventing ads ... I'm inclined to believe it is #2, Brave browser, that is successfully blocking ads; even without VPN, with NextDNS, I was still getting ads in vanilla Chrome.

I think there is something in Brave browser that is currently overlooked.

I hope it helps someone

[+] Darksouls1234@lemmy.world -7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Brave luckily do not have those problems. Edit: to be more precise, yesterday this appeared, and then recordings stopped, but only with a refreshing returned to normal, today this did not appear and the recordings work normaly.

[+] nothingness@lemmy.world -8 points 1 year ago

what idiots watch Youtube whilst being logged in?

[+] lastrogue@lemm.ee -13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

People are going to throw a brick at me, but I’m using brave and have never seen this.

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[+] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world -29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This news is so fscking old. Why do we keep seeing it repeating here?

YT . Block antiblock. its all out intrusive. Stop using, next post.

Stop fscking reposting this shit that is literally 2 months old. Just because you "only just saw it" doesnt mean your 2 second GOOGLE would have told you everyone else knows ffs, and its been rolled out.

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