Ad blocker blocker on You Tube

[Sasquatch]

Brave browser is a great way to watch YT without ads. It quickly became my primary browser for desktop and mobile. It also has a feature to bypass paywalls using Tor that works about 50% of the time.

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This is what I've been doing for the last few days. Typically I use FireFox for my browser as its generally been faster than Brave for me. YouTube started sending messages a week ago to me about disabling my ad blocker, and finally it got to a point where YouTube videos will not play for me on FireFox. The page itself flatly will not load, even the thumbnail pages.

I went through my subscriptions the other day to see who has also transitioned to Rumble, and have started watching content there for those who are on both. I need to ween myself off the YouTube because Google can suck a fat one. I had YT Premium for a while but it got to a point it wasn't worth it. Now at $14 a month, its definitely not worth it. We already have too many subscriptions.

So for now I'm running Brave and YT loads fine. Its a matter of time though.

Oh, and funny enough I think FireFox and my ad blockers don't like the title of this thread - I had to copy the link and paste it into Brave to load it. Below is what I get trying to view this singular thread on FireFox:

 

[RaySendero]

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I think they're doing a phased rollout just to see how many people they can get to sign up for premium. They'll never block playback completely to people using adblockers as that would be bad for them, or if they finally do it'll be right before they shutdown for good.

Yep, Looks like they backed off the AD blocker requirement. I haven't turned mine off but, no "adblockers not allowed" message and is working fine with no interruptions now.

 

[Bozz10mm]

I use Firefox, my wife uses Edge on the same computer. Friday she started to watch a You tube video and got a message saying that unless she turned the ad blocker off, she would be allowed to watch 3 more videos and would then be blocked from watching any. We called their bluff, but sure enough, after 3 videos nothing came up but a white screen..

I turned the ad block off but had to reboot the computer to continue watching. Ironically after turning off ad blocker in both Edge and Firefox, neither one of us get ads in the You tube videos.

 

[Vaquero]

You can copy a link and insert it here, like so.

If you watch on here, no ads.
If you watch on YouTube, ads all the time.

Maybe y'all already knew that.

 

[Bozz10mm]

You can copy a link and insert it here, like so.

If you watch on here, no ads.
If you watch on YouTube, ads all the time.

Maybe y'all already knew that.

I did not know that. Great idea. I'll just copy and paste the links to all my YT videos and watch them here.

Hmm, well maybe not. i don't want y'all seeing what I'm watching.

 

[msharley]

I did not know that. Great idea. I'll just copy and paste the links to all my YT videos and watch them here.

Hmm, well maybe not. i don't want y'all seeing what I'm watching.

This has OOC written LARGE!

 

[Rhino]

Chrome and YouTube are owned by the same entity, no? Firefox works fine, Chrome is getting that adblock nonsense still for me. Kinda glad to be reminded why not to throw Google everything.

 

[Sasquatch]

Chrome and YouTube are owned by the same entity, no? Firefox works fine, Chrome is getting that adblock nonsense still for me. Kinda glad to be reminded why not to throw Google everything.

FireFox with ad blocker still gave me the "3 watches then you're out" warning

 

[Sasquatch]

Funny enough - I still have to view this thread on Brave, because it *still* will not load on FireFox. I wonder if the title were changed if it would get through.

 

[benenglish]

I did not know that. Great idea. I'll just copy and paste the links to all my YT videos and watch them here.

That won't always work. Many channels on YT block embedding on third-party sites. You just get a link that takes you back to YT.

If that weren't the case, lots of sites could pop up that just present YT streams as their own. YT wouldn't like that. Nobody likes that unless they own both sides of the distribution, e.g. Mindgeek for most of their sites.

 

[kenboyles72]

I finally got the message a few days ago. I turned my adblock off and watch a few seconds of a vid and turned it back on. Haven't got another message since. I'm using Firefox and Ublock Origin. Dunno if ytube stopped the block or Ublock updated to bypass it.

 

[TheDan]

Brave just let a YT ad play for the first time ever on my end. The war is in full swing I guess

 

[Sasquatch]

I finally got this thread to load into FireFox. Spiffy. Still using Brave for YouTubing.

 

[RaySendero]

Oh well, didn't last! YouTube is still at it.

Yep, Looks like they backed off the AD blocker requirement. I haven't turned mine off but, no "adblockers not allowed" message and is working fine with no interruptions now.

With AD blocker "ON", I can't view my playlists now.
If I logout with AD blocker "ON", I can see individual videos without ADs.

 

[Bozz10mm]

I spoke too soon. Threats and ads are back. It's frustrating when those ads interrupt the middle of a video. Might as well be watching cable TV.

 

[Lead Belly]

uMatrix 1.4 still works for me but don't tell YT.

 

[TheDan]

 

[benenglish]

We need a "Which browser?" thread.

 

[kbaxter60]

Yep, saw story on Benzinga, you can pay $13.99/mo for no ads.
Good luck with that!

 

[Sasquatch]

Yep, saw story on Benzinga, you can pay $13.99/mo for no ads.
Good luck with that!

Google can piss up a rope. YouTube isn't worth it, even with the ability to "download" videos - once your subscription stops, those videos won't work.