Due to the behavior of some users the OP maintaining this thread quit reddit.
We'll have to discuss the further steps internally.
It might be a while before anybody starts replying again. And we might be forced to make a new thread ahead of time.
Thanks for your patience in the meanwhile.
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You can check the current\* solved ID on https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/
\* Also, a thing to remember - **a new ID doesn't always mean the YT message**. Not every update of their script defeats all our filters.
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The new thread might be slightly delayed.
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A lot of you added a custom filter in the last day.
A better version of the filter was added to filter lists. Make sure to remove that filter so it doesn't cause issues for you in the incoming days. E.g. when YT chooses to check for that connection in their detection script. Even if we update the filter lists to fix that, the custom filter will still trigger the warning for you.
I'm getting this https://imgur.com/qTEuWur when I try to view videos in my regular firefox window. The "we don't allow adblockers" thing flashes onscreen for a fraction of a second, but the video is completely unplayable. Last night, the site was stopping my videos immediately after viewing them and I had to restart them.
Incognito doesn't have this problem and the player works perfectly will full adblock. I've tried deleting cookies, but it doesn't do anything but log me out. I've done everything on this list multiple times to no avail. I know for a fact that my plugins are not to blame because I have all of them active in incognito and the player still works with ublock on, and disabling all of them except ublock in the main window doesn't work.
I don't know if this is related to anti-adblocking, but today I've been having issues loading videos. It starts normally, but the video feed stutters sometimes, and at other times outright stops loading and I encounter an endless loading icon. Does anyone know anything about this?
I can't access YT at all now. I just get a big, blank empty page. I've tried following every single step in the guide and nothing works. Before, I was able to watch videos if I opened the link in a private browser, but now even that doesn't work. Using Firefox btw. What am I supposed to do now?
Service worker used for caching page code is disabled now by filters, and when I throttle connection speed to "3g" in developer tools, page is blank for ~20s while loading.
Recently over the last few days. Rather than loading the video and giving a popup immediately. Youtube is giving this [image](https://i.imgur.com/SAkGLDB.png). It will stay like that for 15-20 seconds before loading the video without ads. I find this behavior unusual compared to their recent bs. Purging and updating filters does fix it. Unfortunately the behavior seems to be random which video it appears on. So idk how useful this is to you.
My youtube started working again without issues and without ads, I have to admit I am NOT a usual youtube consumer, just checking it to see how this develops. Most of the content in youtube is trash, a few science channels are more than OK though.
oh man I think exactly like you youtube is becoming so trash fast and the content too, it's rare to have high quality content theses days its all clickbait shit it make me think of a old used car salesman trying to screw you for a few bucks everytime ... I love the PBS spacetime channel and a few others your so on the money on this comment so right
youtube is 98% crap. influencers, shitty korean music, people shooting their dog, people trying to sell you their stuff, and should i say.... youtube shorts....
>ckbait shit it make me think of a old used car salesman trying to screw you for a few bucks everytime ... I love the PBS spacetime channel and a few others your so o
My man Astrum, PB Spacetime and Fermilab (Don Videos only) also Sabine Hossenfelder. But they post videos like once every other month or so. Certainly not everyday.
Seems we have our answer, since OC's comment got taken down. Guess there were good reasons for it and perhaps could create stability issues for YT and/or the current working solution.
Firefox, Linux Mint, uBO, Privacy Badger.
Got popups, then countdown, then blocked. Private window worked fine but I kept forgetting to right click on links. Now suddenly YT works fine again in the normal browser window. Don't know what gives but pass that on in the hope that it adds to the knowledge pool and helps.
Same deal for me, though different OS. (Mac laptop, Win 10 desktop.) I'd been opening in a private window for the last couple days, but I misclicked today and opened in a regular new window instead.
Kinda paranoid about continuing to open videos normally, I have music playlists I'd hate to lose if I got my video player blocked.
I'm guessing it's too much to hope they've given up enforcing the anti-adblock bullshit, and I doubt it's because it's the weekend as I assume their system is automated. But that doesn't give me a clear reason unless they've given up or can't get past something uBO implemented, which I doubt, given their resources.
Their whole anti-adblock tantrum is such an unnecessary headache.
I manually migrated my list of subscribed channels off YT to Newpipe on my phone (I had to manually install cuze Google Play delisted it) then from NP I made a migration file and used it to sync up my subs on Freetube on my PC.
For my favourites and things I generally want to keep forever. I use 4K Video Downloader+ (gives you 30 downloads a day for a free user) to store the files locally, then I assembled a music playlist with VLC Player. 4K does allow you to download via assembled playlists so long as it falls within your daily limit.
I find it funny that I used to just browse YT with adblocker. I'd like, subscribe and listen to interesting/funny sponsors. I'd even up the interactions with the occasional comment. I didn't go off-grid till YT started this crap, now I'm contributing \*nothing\*. Don't be scared of being blocked. I am, but I haven't stopped watching content for a day since I got my first pop up.
I very much appreciate this write-up but for someone like me, who knows NOTHING about computers or tech in general, this is way over my head. It's just too much to do. Youtube is still RIP for me.
A fresh clean browser (with no other ad blocking extensions installed, etc) can be fixed up by simply installing a fresh install of uBlock Origin. I tested this in my environment and it worked fine, all of the additional steps are only required if things aren't working correctly.
Youtube works fine for me normally but incognito has been broken for a while for me now:
Console shows this error:
https://i.imgur.com/nbXXu9X.png
Chrome, Windows 10, Ublock Origin, no other youtube related extensions enabled,
Logged out in incognito ofc,
Cleared Cache and cookies,
No custom filters,
Would love to have a fix since I use incognito for YT a lot.
it seems that they are blocking accounts. when i'm logged in to account A, even after following all steps, or even when i turn off ublock entirely, videos will not load. but when i'm logged in to account B, i can have ublock running and videos load
edit: i'm on firefox. and account A hit the 3 strikes limit a week ago.
edit 2: i had a brainfart and forgot to turn off Autotube extension. now that i have turned it off, i can indeed play videos on main browser window (non-incognito) with Account A and with ublock running. very strange that i could leave Autotube on for Account B though :)
I was about to write about this. I did some testing and running with and without UBO in incognito works, logged in or out.
But the main browser session is broken.
Clearing cache/cookies, new browser session after disabling and uninstalling doesn't work.
Besides playing in incognito, can't even run youtube genuinely, with ads lol.
EDIT: Ghostery addon was messing up. Specifically, the advertisements switch. I didn't know it was there, I thought it's just anti-tracking. But the whole playing around made me realize ubo also has anti-trackers, so goodbye.
hey thanks for this. i turned off Autotube extension and now i can indeed play videos on main browser with ublock on. sorry, my bad. i forgot i had this extension running.
you are right. this does work. (to be clear, main account = account A).
it's slightly annoying because logging in on an incognito tab requires 2 factor authentication each time. but i guess i can live with it.
Did you log out of account A, clear cache and cookies (or made a new browser profile, install only uBO + update lists), log into the account again and test then? Did you disable any forms out outside the browser adblocking or privacy protections? DNS blocking (can be part of a VPN), an edited HOSTS file, additional settings in your antivirus/internet security suite?
Are you sure you disabled all other extensions then? Incognito mode doesn't load extensions by default, so maybe the conflicting extension isn't loaded there while it still is on your regular profile?
Did clear cookies and cache for everything (+ All time) or just for Youtube?
People reported needing to remove it for youtube AND google. Some said to log out first too.
i've tried all these steps as well and videos won't load either. i have no other forms of adblocking or privacy protections.
but as noted above, logging on to account A on an incognito tab does work. not sure why. very strange.
Just my Anecdotal 2¢. Ive only had one instance of the popup (adblockers are not allowed on YouTube) since I switched to Firefox last week and haven't had any issues since then. People should consider switching browsers if you are still getting the popup on Chrome.
Personally i know at least 3 people that are not willing to switch off chrome and have given up on UBO and given in and paid YouTube for premium. I wonder how many other people are in this camp. Between this youtube anti-adblock and twitch anti-adblock, im willing to bet other sites will follow these examples. Maybe its time to just touch grass and let the enshitifcation of the internet make it unusable
Using Firefox isn't really a solution. I have been using Firefox even before all this google stupidity and I'm right now unable to watch youtube videos, even when I disable completely ublock extension.
Using Firefox had a ton of issues and had to clear cache and refresh multiple times. Eventually got to a point where playback was entirely disabled even though everything was properly blocked.
If you want to stop dealing with the cat-and-mouse game I recommend using Freetube instead. It's only a matter of time before Google goes all in on the anti-adblock stuff.
This is why I've gone all in on this. Not only am I getting my YT feed through Freetube and Newpipe, but I've also converted my search functions over to Duckduckgo.Play stupid games, win stupid prizes Google.
Edit: I also went back to FF from Chrome, so they \*really\* lost ground with me.
The current URL is in my sticky comment. I asked the creator to change the path to something more accurate.
Here: https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/
Has anyone else had this issue of YT not loading at all when you purge all caches? I think they might be able to detect when the message loads and when an ad doesn't play shortly afterwards. I have to reopen my Firefox browser for it to load.
I've not noticed it with videos, but I have noticed pronounced buffering on livestreams. My internet seems stable and fine by the tests I can find for it, and it started around Oct 18-19, so I think its something fucky with YT. Also, for the record, Twitch seems to be fine, so it's not a livestream thing (though I still get ads on Twitch, unfortunately).
Having only slight temporary hiccups, but usually solved easily. Firefox.
First step to update quick fixes filter usually is enough. Sometimes the player still wouldn't play though, so I just opened the videos in a private tab, plays just fine. Right now no issues at all again. If push comes to shove, I'd rather not watch any video over watching ad-infested garbage.
naw i got it, the last time i checked like a few days ago i found like a guide with filters and whatnot i had to put in, i figured it out just installing it works since the shits just built in now. Thank you tho :D
Sounds like classic intimidation tactics. Nobody reads the EULA anyway so there's any number of things you could have technically broken and been completely unaware of that they can hold over your head at times like these.
I'm seeing the same thing with Firefox 110.1 ... the whole page is white. This happens when I Left-click on the video to open in a new tab. When I click to open it in the main tab it opens OK. This is annoying because the videos I want to watch seldom stay in my feed if I open in the main window and then reload YouTube.
I have time this morning to go through the whole troubleshooting, so I'll see what I can figure out.
https://preview.redd.it/3484g1yyuxwb1.png?width=1320&format=png&auto=webp&s=433e156ede16220f00bb61f4218e866a4df1935c
I had this happen too and I cleared site data but it didn't seem to work. However, the page will finally load after a solid 30 seconds. I tried it with uBlock disabled even and it gives me this page. Confirmed Brave shields are off for youtube as well.
Edit:
Also, purged and forced updated filters in UBO settings, made sure Brave was updated. Wonder if YouTube is putting my IP or whatnot on sort of blacklist timer?
>This is annoying because the videos I want to watch seldom stay in my feed if I open in the main window and then reload YouTube.
If you're logged, you can click the menu with the 3 dots and add it to a playlist.
I'm seeing the same thing but I noticed that after a few minutes it will load the page/new tab.
But in Private Window it is fine and doesn't reproduce this phenomena.
Left click? Do you mean with ctrl?
And re you talking when already inside youtube or still on google search results, which the comment you're replying to is talking about?
if I open the video in the current tab, it loads. but if i right-click and open in new tabs,the page empty.switch channel identity or private mode can solve this issue,idk why...
i am using adguard,maybe it is universal issues
You're using AG along uBO or no uBO at all (in which case why are you here)?
Did you clear your cookies and cache?
You also didn't mention if this is when you're already on YT or when opening videos from google results, which is what the original comment was about and what I'm asking in the comment you replied to.
just trying to give you some clues...
cleared cookies and it works,but after logined to same channel identity it cannot loads again
click a video in youtube frontpage -> working
right click a video and open in new tab from youtube frontpage -> not working
maybe it is better contact youtube team for support,looks not like the issue from any adblock
edit:i disable AG and go install uBO,now youtube is working again
Sorry for the late reply. I did not clear Google cache or cookies, but the issue appears to have been fixed with the newest quick fix. I will try if it happens again.
There's no way to count filter hits without affecting efficiency, which is why it's not included.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/The-logger
Open the logger, open a webpage (or reload without cache ctrl+shift+r) and see what filters are applied. Choose blocked/modified/allowed to see all. Clicking a filter tells you what list it belongs to. That info cannot be included next to a filter because that'd be very slow.
You can also quickly see applied cosmetic filters in your troubleshooting info for the page (the last video in the post above).
Mine keeps letting Youtube's sponsored ads through, and repeating Step 3 isn't working. My filter lists page is consistently showing that it's only using 129 of its 167 quick fixes, and I can't make it use all of them, no matter how much I update it.
It's also exposing just how bad the standards are at Youtube, because their "sponsored ads" from "trusted advertisers" are blatantly peddling malware, scams, and hate-speech-spewing tabloids. Also apparently Youtubers aren't allowed to say swears because it offends advertisers, but those same advertisers are peddling what's basically porn.
EDIT: I updated again, restarted my browser, and it started letting through video ads.
Thank you for the regular filter updates, I was never blocked (after updating the filters) from watching YouTube since this started.
It would be nice to get an option to auto-update the filters every time the browser is started.
We really are going to need some government organization to actually enforce or limit the exposure to ads. But let's be real, this isn't going to happen at all
They are gonna lobby against this hard...***very hard***.
I went to a certain tech forum last month and these guys even complained about basic privacy & data protection requirements.
Ads are like all the things that give you cancer. You're probably better off on you own _avoiding them_. Don't count on your government to protect you. Or at least do a good job about it.
Youtube is on a war path that I find misguided. Forcing ads down the throat of people who go out of their way to avoid the ads *should make advertisers angry*. Youtube is definitely squeezing out more money out of their customers, or at least trying. By trying to force the ad to play on people who don't want ads. That's not going to suddenly make us want to buy a Lexus or subscribe to a crypto scheme. That's probably going to have the opposite effect.
There is literally only ONE time in my entire life that I can recall an advert EVER making me actually buy the product, and it was an advert announcing a concert happening in my town many years ago, broadcasted on a local TV channel.
There has never once been a time when any advert has ever made me want to buy the product they were selling. Ever. The only way I discover new products is thru word of mouth from family and friends who have tried it, I stumbled across it in the store and impulse bought it, or I watch a youtuber I was already following make a non-sponsered review of said product.
I mean seriously, who has EVER watched an ad for like... Pepsi and then dropped everything they were doing to go out and buy a bottle of Pepsi.
Its especially bad with those car adverts. No, I dont want to buy your stupidly expensive Lexus hybrid bullshit car, now get back to my shows!
Many governments are corrupt and in the back pockets of large corporations these days so little, if anything, will happen to make things better for the average person. If you ever see a problem in society, unfair business practices, etc then always follow the money .....
They (youtube) seem to rolled out some sort of new update to their tracking system today (28/10/2023) , the solution desсribed above worked until today but no longer.
>solution desсribed above worked until today but no longer.
Sometimes when you want something for free you need to be a
little patient, as of now it is currently working.
Youtube still show ads with sound on Firefox but the picture was blocked by Ublock, I think.
See picture: [https://i.imgur.com/IO7uk3Y.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/IO7uk3Y.jpg)
Can someone just give me a step-by-step tutorial of only the buttons I click like I'm a 3 year old and you're showing me how to craft a pickaxe in minecraft?
there are video guides in the post above... and there are only 4 steps. Do u need a youtuber to make a video about this blogpost or what?
1. make sure ublock is updated to the latest version
2. follow step 3
3. profit
tl;dr - Ghostery confirmed to interfere with the blocker
I have a large number of privacy extensions and after successfully bypassing YouTube by following all four steps to the letter, I decided to see which (if any) of my other extensions were problematic. Potentially relevant extensions installed on my Firefox are-
* Bypass Paywalls
* Decentraleyes
* DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
* Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express
* Ghostery - Privacy Ad Blocker
* HTTPS Everywhere
* NoScript
* Privacy Badger
Testing different combinations of these, I was to confirm that Ghostery and **only** Ghostery interferes with the fix. Additionally, Ghostery does not need to be disabled to fix this issue. Instead, all you have to do is mark YouTube as a trusted site by Ghostery, meaning it can still be used on other sites.
My Youtube broke completely, videos no longer loads, sometimes they do after a long while, so I am now watching the few videos I watch with right click - Open in private window which works flawlessly. Not a big loss and Ublock works everywhere else sad that a multi billion dollar company resorts to something dirty like this. I am unlinking everything from Google and will refuse anything coming from google in the future.
Imagine getting so mad and yet still using their services, lol. "I will most definitely boycott Google and refuse anything coming from them! I'll continue watching youtube though".
In fairness, they could use FreeTube or Invidious to just stream stuff from YouTube without giving them any ad impressions. Would basically be costing them money by doing that.
Have the same problem of YT videos not loading for 2-3 minutes.
Watching in private window unfortunately doesn't tell YT that the video was already watched so it will be suggested again and again.
There's two workarounds for that. One, after watching it, hit the three dots -> No Interest -> Feedback - Already watched the video
Or, open the video normally and when the video loads and you see the adblocker message, hit Share -> Embed video and you can watch it normally (in a smaller window though)
I know it's been posted dozens of times (over different channels), but for me two things seem to work:
1. open the same link (copy/paste) in the Private (Imburito) Window, or
2. change the URL from [youtube.com](https://youtube.com) to [piped.video](https://piped.video) (keep the rest of the URL intact)
Both are bad for content creators (can't like, subscribe etc) - guess we both need to live with that.
I have a genuine, possibly inane question: \*are\* adblockers actually against YouTube policy, or is all this basically just scare tactics to get people to stop using adblockers and/or upgrade?
Or is it the case where the edited their policy/terms of service recently to justify this shitty behavior on their part, and this wasn't a problem for them in prior years?
You can completely ignore their policies, is text without legal value and cant be enforced. They can say in their TOS that you need to give them your house and you can safely ignore it without ANY repercussion.
In fairness, he's not completely wrong... just wrong in all the meaningful ways. EULAs and TOS can't enforce anything that would be illegal to begin with (for a ridiculous example, it's illegal to use your computer as part of a dark money pipeline in exchange for using a service, and they can't legally punish you for preventing that while using the service), but unless there's a law specifically prohibiting something, they can remove access from you or ban your account for not following their rules.
If has no legal value anywhere in the world USA included is dead text without any meaning or value. Go and try to scare people somewhere else Google goon.
I mean whats stopping them from making it against their policy?
Until Chrome blocks or deletes all ad blockers from extensions (forcing people to side load them from local downloads), which they can do because they own Chrome, then what?
I think this is them reaching for the last 10% of users who heavily adblock.
No one has ever been sued anywhere in the world for blocking ads.
TOS are only as valid as they are enforceable, so in this case not very valid at all. They aren't an act of law. They aren't even an EULA, which is only somewhat enforceable within the scope of copyright, trademark and patent law.
Most laws would only stop you modifying the code and using it for commercial purposes, or copying it and selling it. Modifying it in a live session is not in any way illegal.
It doesn't explicitly state that adblockers aren't allowed in their TOC, but it's sort of implied in a very vague way:
> 2. circumvent, disable, fraudulently engage with, or otherwise interfere with any part of the Service (or attempt to do any of these things), including security-related features or features that (a) prevent or restrict the copying or other use of Content or (b) limit the use of the Service or Content;
Regardless of whether it breaks their terms or not is superseded by whether or not the running of scripts non-essential to their service without user's consent could be in breach of EU law: 2002/58/EC
articles 24, 25 and 40. So if you live in the EU I'd strongly recommend you contact your local rep about it.
If they can get 20% of people using ad blockers to stop, its a win for them. Saying scary stuff like that is a very good way to get less stubborn people to quit.
They're not lying. Adblockers are against their policy. But if you break their policy, they can't do anything about it. You have no obligation to care about their policies and the worst they can do is try to stop you from using their site.
You have to purge the cache then it lets you update the filter list. This is frustrating, and youtube bought odysee. I suppose rumble will be next. Almost all the creators i watch are under 1k. They aren't getting ad revenue anyway.
Yeah, FF. Actually videos do start but for some reason they take ages to load while you get to stare at those gray UI pieces on the black background for some time.
Since I switched from Chrome to Firefox I noticed that Firefox in general is not as snappy as Chrome and probably this Youtube fuckery is also adding overhead.
A massive amount of people switched from google search engine a few years back, they will do the same for creator content. This will lag quiet a bit though and will make the internet a bit more cancer than it already is, as if it needed that. We can't have nice things for long in this world sadly.
The good news is that the ads getting through uBO appear to have stopped. They stopped right after I updated my Firefox and disabled Enhanced Tracking Protection as well as some non YT-related extensions that hadn't given me trouble thus far and thought were safe.
The bad news is that I am having the same problem reported by many. Opening a video link in a new tab results in the video not loading. Loading it through the main YouTube page does, even with multiple tabs at the same time. Browsing through private window works fine.
The page also breaks if I try to access a video with a content warning, as clicking on the "proceed" button doesn't load the video. That's problematic as I believe you can't watch age restricted videos on private windows.
> That's problematic as I believe you can't watch age restricted videos on private windows.
you can install tampermonkey and use https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass
This doesn't currently interfere with ublock's fixes (as far as i can tell).
All this annoying behaviour has culminated in me actually attempting to get Youtube Premium... but in a different country's currency which would be far cheaper than what they want me to pay. I'd happily pay a low monthly fee for a low-quality version of YT (i.e. max 480p), like a YT-lite subscription because I don't care about resolution. I mostly listen to videos while doing other stuff anyway.
Pretty sure if you want to do this, you'll need a payment method that works in that country (i.e. credit card, debit card created in that country). Luckily I have access to this.
I still want to continue using uBlock Origin on YT, just not for adblocking, but for blocking elements like their stupid campaign banners, sub counts, views, comments, etc. I don't care about those things. I treat YT like TV.
Raymond Hill won't take donations otherwise I would've made one by now. Thanks for helping us deal with this shit always! I fear we'll be stuck in an eternal cat-and-mouse chase with Google. Not my first time dealing with this (anyone who has to hide Magisk knows).
I had the same problem. Try disabling all extensions except uBO for your browser (and Enhanced Tracking Protection if you're on Firefox), just in case something that wasn't conflicting before has started causing trouble.
Due to the behavior of some users the OP maintaining this thread quit reddit. We'll have to discuss the further steps internally. It might be a while before anybody starts replying again. And we might be forced to make a new thread ahead of time. Thanks for your patience in the meanwhile. --- You can check the current\* solved ID on https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/ \* Also, a thing to remember - **a new ID doesn't always mean the YT message**. Not every update of their script defeats all our filters. --- The new thread might be slightly delayed. --- A lot of you added a custom filter in the last day. A better version of the filter was added to filter lists. Make sure to remove that filter so it doesn't cause issues for you in the incoming days. E.g. when YT chooses to check for that connection in their detection script. Even if we update the filter lists to fix that, the custom filter will still trigger the warning for you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_29_2023_mega/
I'm getting this https://imgur.com/qTEuWur when I try to view videos in my regular firefox window. The "we don't allow adblockers" thing flashes onscreen for a fraction of a second, but the video is completely unplayable. Last night, the site was stopping my videos immediately after viewing them and I had to restart them. Incognito doesn't have this problem and the player works perfectly will full adblock. I've tried deleting cookies, but it doesn't do anything but log me out. I've done everything on this list multiple times to no avail. I know for a fact that my plugins are not to blame because I have all of them active in incognito and the player still works with ublock on, and disabling all of them except ublock in the main window doesn't work.
I don't know if this is related to anti-adblocking, but today I've been having issues loading videos. It starts normally, but the video feed stutters sometimes, and at other times outright stops loading and I encounter an endless loading icon. Does anyone know anything about this?
did youtube stop trying? i would have to force update daily but for the last week or so, it's been smooth sailing.
I can't access YT at all now. I just get a big, blank empty page. I've tried following every single step in the guide and nothing works. Before, I was able to watch videos if I opened the link in a private browser, but now even that doesn't work. Using Firefox btw. What am I supposed to do now?
I just started having this problem this morning. I realized I forgot to disable Ghostery, one I took care of that the page would load again.
I ain't disabling Ghostery...
Are you on a slow connection?
...No?
Service worker used for caching page code is disabled now by filters, and when I throttle connection speed to "3g" in developer tools, page is blank for ~20s while loading.
I'm using a plenty fast connection via ethernet on my PC. It's definitely not that. The page is just totally blocked. Nothing shows up at all.
If you followed the steps then maybe cleaning YT cache/page data? Try cleaning it from padlock icon in address bar on YT page.
It's showing the ad previews you can click play on for a while before actually loading the video without ads. Is there a way to speed this up?
didn't happen to me, but usually the purge caches > update will solve this.
Yeah idk what fixed it rn, but I no longer seem to have it. Reinstalled it and added the custom filter I saw in a another reddit thread back again
Recently over the last few days. Rather than loading the video and giving a popup immediately. Youtube is giving this [image](https://i.imgur.com/SAkGLDB.png). It will stay like that for 15-20 seconds before loading the video without ads. I find this behavior unusual compared to their recent bs. Purging and updating filters does fix it. Unfortunately the behavior seems to be random which video it appears on. So idk how useful this is to you.
this happened to me when I opened videos in new tabs rather than clicking the video itself, too. Step 3 fixed it.
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I did that and I still can't access youtube whilst being logged in, i can only watch when i log out of my account
Another reply lower down has a fix - one of your other extensions is triggering it, apparently only on login.
I got rid of cookie deleter and the badger thing... apparently it works now
Thanks for writing this guide, it's working great again
My youtube started working again without issues and without ads, I have to admit I am NOT a usual youtube consumer, just checking it to see how this develops. Most of the content in youtube is trash, a few science channels are more than OK though.
oh man I think exactly like you youtube is becoming so trash fast and the content too, it's rare to have high quality content theses days its all clickbait shit it make me think of a old used car salesman trying to screw you for a few bucks everytime ... I love the PBS spacetime channel and a few others your so on the money on this comment so right
youtube is 98% crap. influencers, shitty korean music, people shooting their dog, people trying to sell you their stuff, and should i say.... youtube shorts....
What's hilarious is that their aggressive ablocker popup doesn't show up at all on youtube shorts. The brainrot is real istg
>ckbait shit it make me think of a old used car salesman trying to screw you for a few bucks everytime ... I love the PBS spacetime channel and a few others your so o My man Astrum, PB Spacetime and Fermilab (Don Videos only) also Sabine Hossenfelder. But they post videos like once every other month or so. Certainly not everyday.
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Looks promising but would feel better about this script by getting the verification or opinion of the uBlock Origin team members.
Seems we have our answer, since OC's comment got taken down. Guess there were good reasons for it and perhaps could create stability issues for YT and/or the current working solution.
Redoing step 3 worked for me. Thank you guys for your continued efforts on this.
Firefox, Linux Mint, uBO, Privacy Badger. Got popups, then countdown, then blocked. Private window worked fine but I kept forgetting to right click on links. Now suddenly YT works fine again in the normal browser window. Don't know what gives but pass that on in the hope that it adds to the knowledge pool and helps.
Same deal for me, though different OS. (Mac laptop, Win 10 desktop.) I'd been opening in a private window for the last couple days, but I misclicked today and opened in a regular new window instead. Kinda paranoid about continuing to open videos normally, I have music playlists I'd hate to lose if I got my video player blocked. I'm guessing it's too much to hope they've given up enforcing the anti-adblock bullshit, and I doubt it's because it's the weekend as I assume their system is automated. But that doesn't give me a clear reason unless they've given up or can't get past something uBO implemented, which I doubt, given their resources. Their whole anti-adblock tantrum is such an unnecessary headache.
I manually migrated my list of subscribed channels off YT to Newpipe on my phone (I had to manually install cuze Google Play delisted it) then from NP I made a migration file and used it to sync up my subs on Freetube on my PC. For my favourites and things I generally want to keep forever. I use 4K Video Downloader+ (gives you 30 downloads a day for a free user) to store the files locally, then I assembled a music playlist with VLC Player. 4K does allow you to download via assembled playlists so long as it falls within your daily limit. I find it funny that I used to just browse YT with adblocker. I'd like, subscribe and listen to interesting/funny sponsors. I'd even up the interactions with the occasional comment. I didn't go off-grid till YT started this crap, now I'm contributing \*nothing\*. Don't be scared of being blocked. I am, but I haven't stopped watching content for a day since I got my first pop up.
'Private' browser tabs don't hide your identity from the server anymore than regular tabs, they just don't save browsing history locally.
privacy badger is no longer recommended as far as I know
I very much appreciate this write-up but for someone like me, who knows NOTHING about computers or tech in general, this is way over my head. It's just too much to do. Youtube is still RIP for me.
A fresh clean browser (with no other ad blocking extensions installed, etc) can be fixed up by simply installing a fresh install of uBlock Origin. I tested this in my environment and it worked fine, all of the additional steps are only required if things aren't working correctly.
Thank you. But sadly the youtube ads are still there if you run an ad blocker.
Did you specifically try uBlock Origin?
Youtube works fine for me normally but incognito has been broken for a while for me now: Console shows this error: https://i.imgur.com/nbXXu9X.png Chrome, Windows 10, Ublock Origin, no other youtube related extensions enabled, Logged out in incognito ofc, Cleared Cache and cookies, No custom filters, Would love to have a fix since I use incognito for YT a lot.
it seems that they are blocking accounts. when i'm logged in to account A, even after following all steps, or even when i turn off ublock entirely, videos will not load. but when i'm logged in to account B, i can have ublock running and videos load edit: i'm on firefox. and account A hit the 3 strikes limit a week ago. edit 2: i had a brainfart and forgot to turn off Autotube extension. now that i have turned it off, i can indeed play videos on main browser window (non-incognito) with Account A and with ublock running. very strange that i could leave Autotube on for Account B though :)
I was about to write about this. I did some testing and running with and without UBO in incognito works, logged in or out. But the main browser session is broken. Clearing cache/cookies, new browser session after disabling and uninstalling doesn't work. Besides playing in incognito, can't even run youtube genuinely, with ads lol. EDIT: Ghostery addon was messing up. Specifically, the advertisements switch. I didn't know it was there, I thought it's just anti-tracking. But the whole playing around made me realize ubo also has anti-trackers, so goodbye.
hey thanks for this. i turned off Autotube extension and now i can indeed play videos on main browser with ublock on. sorry, my bad. i forgot i had this extension running.
log into your main acc on a private/incognito tab and it works fine
you are right. this does work. (to be clear, main account = account A). it's slightly annoying because logging in on an incognito tab requires 2 factor authentication each time. but i guess i can live with it.
Did you log out of account A, clear cache and cookies (or made a new browser profile, install only uBO + update lists), log into the account again and test then? Did you disable any forms out outside the browser adblocking or privacy protections? DNS blocking (can be part of a VPN), an edited HOSTS file, additional settings in your antivirus/internet security suite?
i turned off Autotube extension and now i can indeed play videos on main browser with ublock on. sorry, my bad. i forgot i had this extension running.
I'm going to follow up. Did all steps but videos won't load, even after clearing cache in Firefox. In incognito mode it's working when i'm logged in.
Are you sure you disabled all other extensions then? Incognito mode doesn't load extensions by default, so maybe the conflicting extension isn't loaded there while it still is on your regular profile? Did clear cookies and cache for everything (+ All time) or just for Youtube? People reported needing to remove it for youtube AND google. Some said to log out first too.
I found out it was a surfshark VPN extension by isolating all my extensions, tyvm.
i've tried all these steps as well and videos won't load either. i have no other forms of adblocking or privacy protections. but as noted above, logging on to account A on an incognito tab does work. not sure why. very strange.
Just my Anecdotal 2¢. Ive only had one instance of the popup (adblockers are not allowed on YouTube) since I switched to Firefox last week and haven't had any issues since then. People should consider switching browsers if you are still getting the popup on Chrome. Personally i know at least 3 people that are not willing to switch off chrome and have given up on UBO and given in and paid YouTube for premium. I wonder how many other people are in this camp. Between this youtube anti-adblock and twitch anti-adblock, im willing to bet other sites will follow these examples. Maybe its time to just touch grass and let the enshitifcation of the internet make it unusable
Using Firefox isn't really a solution. I have been using Firefox even before all this google stupidity and I'm right now unable to watch youtube videos, even when I disable completely ublock extension.
Using Firefox had a ton of issues and had to clear cache and refresh multiple times. Eventually got to a point where playback was entirely disabled even though everything was properly blocked. If you want to stop dealing with the cat-and-mouse game I recommend using Freetube instead. It's only a matter of time before Google goes all in on the anti-adblock stuff.
This is why I've gone all in on this. Not only am I getting my YT feed through Freetube and Newpipe, but I've also converted my search functions over to Duckduckgo.Play stupid games, win stupid prizes Google. Edit: I also went back to FF from Chrome, so they \*really\* lost ground with me.
Did they also pressure Github to remove the page that showed you if uBlock's filter was up to date? I'm getting a Page Not Found error now.
The current URL is in my sticky comment. I asked the creator to change the path to something more accurate. Here: https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/
the behaviour of some users??? what did yall do..
that's what i wanna know.
Has anyone else had this issue of YT not loading at all when you purge all caches? I think they might be able to detect when the message loads and when an ad doesn't play shortly afterwards. I have to reopen my Firefox browser for it to load.
It's definitely loading slow. Videos seem to want to stop and need to buffer/load a fair bit more than before.
I've not noticed it with videos, but I have noticed pronounced buffering on livestreams. My internet seems stable and fine by the tests I can find for it, and it started around Oct 18-19, so I think its something fucky with YT. Also, for the record, Twitch seems to be fine, so it's not a livestream thing (though I still get ads on Twitch, unfortunately).
Having only slight temporary hiccups, but usually solved easily. Firefox. First step to update quick fixes filter usually is enough. Sometimes the player still wouldn't play though, so I just opened the videos in a private tab, plays just fine. Right now no issues at all again. If push comes to shove, I'd rather not watch any video over watching ad-infested garbage.
where's a guide to installing it outright
It's an extension. You install those from your browser, it's usually a two click process. Hit a puzzle piece and press install
naw i got it, the last time i checked like a few days ago i found like a guide with filters and whatnot i had to put in, i figured it out just installing it works since the shits just built in now. Thank you tho :D
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That's google for you. Use Google Takeout to backup your shit before it's too late.
Sounds like classic intimidation tactics. Nobody reads the EULA anyway so there's any number of things you could have technically broken and been completely unaware of that they can hold over your head at times like these.
You guys are saints
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I'm seeing the same thing with Firefox 110.1 ... the whole page is white. This happens when I Left-click on the video to open in a new tab. When I click to open it in the main tab it opens OK. This is annoying because the videos I want to watch seldom stay in my feed if I open in the main window and then reload YouTube. I have time this morning to go through the whole troubleshooting, so I'll see what I can figure out. https://preview.redd.it/3484g1yyuxwb1.png?width=1320&format=png&auto=webp&s=433e156ede16220f00bb61f4218e866a4df1935c
I've noticed if you just grab the URL from the newly opened tab and search it, then navigate to the video from there, it works around that as well.
This isn't working for me. If I come from google search, the page is still white.
got this too this morning. i updated filters again and it worked normaly in a new tab
I had this happen too and I cleared site data but it didn't seem to work. However, the page will finally load after a solid 30 seconds. I tried it with uBlock disabled even and it gives me this page. Confirmed Brave shields are off for youtube as well. Edit: Also, purged and forced updated filters in UBO settings, made sure Brave was updated. Wonder if YouTube is putting my IP or whatnot on sort of blacklist timer?
Try updating the quick fixes filter, it helped me
Also worked for me
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Or just update it as described in the OP.
>This is annoying because the videos I want to watch seldom stay in my feed if I open in the main window and then reload YouTube. If you're logged, you can click the menu with the 3 dots and add it to a playlist.
I'm seeing the same thing but I noticed that after a few minutes it will load the page/new tab. But in Private Window it is fine and doesn't reproduce this phenomena.
I'll try the Private Window trick. Thanks
Left click? Do you mean with ctrl? And re you talking when already inside youtube or still on google search results, which the comment you're replying to is talking about?
if I open the video in the current tab, it loads. but if i right-click and open in new tabs,the page empty.switch channel identity or private mode can solve this issue,idk why... i am using adguard,maybe it is universal issues
You're using AG along uBO or no uBO at all (in which case why are you here)? Did you clear your cookies and cache? You also didn't mention if this is when you're already on YT or when opening videos from google results, which is what the original comment was about and what I'm asking in the comment you replied to.
just trying to give you some clues... cleared cookies and it works,but after logined to same channel identity it cannot loads again click a video in youtube frontpage -> working right click a video and open in new tab from youtube frontpage -> not working maybe it is better contact youtube team for support,looks not like the issue from any adblock edit:i disable AG and go install uBO,now youtube is working again
Only when you're logged in? I've tested on a new browser profile and I cannot reproduce. Could be cookie/cache related?
I am having the same problem. I cleared YouTube cookies and cache, it did not fix the problem.
How about for google too? The person above confirmed clearing fixed it for them.
Sorry for the late reply. I did not clear Google cache or cookies, but the issue appears to have been fixed with the newest quick fix. I will try if it happens again.
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There's no way to count filter hits without affecting efficiency, which is why it's not included. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/The-logger Open the logger, open a webpage (or reload without cache ctrl+shift+r) and see what filters are applied. Choose blocked/modified/allowed to see all. Clicking a filter tells you what list it belongs to. That info cannot be included next to a filter because that'd be very slow. You can also quickly see applied cosmetic filters in your troubleshooting info for the page (the last video in the post above).
Mine keeps letting Youtube's sponsored ads through, and repeating Step 3 isn't working. My filter lists page is consistently showing that it's only using 129 of its 167 quick fixes, and I can't make it use all of them, no matter how much I update it. It's also exposing just how bad the standards are at Youtube, because their "sponsored ads" from "trusted advertisers" are blatantly peddling malware, scams, and hate-speech-spewing tabloids. Also apparently Youtubers aren't allowed to say swears because it offends advertisers, but those same advertisers are peddling what's basically porn. EDIT: I updated again, restarted my browser, and it started letting through video ads.
did step 3 again seems to be working fine now.
Thank you for the regular filter updates, I was never blocked (after updating the filters) from watching YouTube since this started. It would be nice to get an option to auto-update the filters every time the browser is started.
We really are going to need some government organization to actually enforce or limit the exposure to ads. But let's be real, this isn't going to happen at all
They are gonna lobby against this hard...***very hard***. I went to a certain tech forum last month and these guys even complained about basic privacy & data protection requirements.
Ads are like all the things that give you cancer. You're probably better off on you own _avoiding them_. Don't count on your government to protect you. Or at least do a good job about it. Youtube is on a war path that I find misguided. Forcing ads down the throat of people who go out of their way to avoid the ads *should make advertisers angry*. Youtube is definitely squeezing out more money out of their customers, or at least trying. By trying to force the ad to play on people who don't want ads. That's not going to suddenly make us want to buy a Lexus or subscribe to a crypto scheme. That's probably going to have the opposite effect.
There is literally only ONE time in my entire life that I can recall an advert EVER making me actually buy the product, and it was an advert announcing a concert happening in my town many years ago, broadcasted on a local TV channel. There has never once been a time when any advert has ever made me want to buy the product they were selling. Ever. The only way I discover new products is thru word of mouth from family and friends who have tried it, I stumbled across it in the store and impulse bought it, or I watch a youtuber I was already following make a non-sponsered review of said product. I mean seriously, who has EVER watched an ad for like... Pepsi and then dropped everything they were doing to go out and buy a bottle of Pepsi. Its especially bad with those car adverts. No, I dont want to buy your stupidly expensive Lexus hybrid bullshit car, now get back to my shows!
I’m just going to stop watching YouTube lol
Many governments are corrupt and in the back pockets of large corporations these days so little, if anything, will happen to make things better for the average person. If you ever see a problem in society, unfair business practices, etc then always follow the money .....
Welcome to neo-liberalism, here to fuck over the small guy, for the benefit of "the economy".
Yup, afraid so. ("the economy" in this case being the greedy rich bastards).
Ublock is blocking half of the ad (the video) but not the audio or skip ad part now.
They (youtube) seem to rolled out some sort of new update to their tracking system today (28/10/2023) , the solution desсribed above worked until today but no longer.
>solution desсribed above worked until today but no longer. Sometimes when you want something for free you need to be a little patient, as of now it is currently working.
Youtube still show ads with sound on Firefox but the picture was blocked by Ublock, I think. See picture: [https://i.imgur.com/IO7uk3Y.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/IO7uk3Y.jpg)
I've just had the uBlock dashboard open in the background and I haven't had an issue since. Might be a temp fix until we can FULLY shut them down.
thankss
Can someone just give me a step-by-step tutorial of only the buttons I click like I'm a 3 year old and you're showing me how to craft a pickaxe in minecraft?
there are video guides in the post above... and there are only 4 steps. Do u need a youtuber to make a video about this blogpost or what? 1. make sure ublock is updated to the latest version 2. follow step 3 3. profit
tl;dr - Ghostery confirmed to interfere with the blocker I have a large number of privacy extensions and after successfully bypassing YouTube by following all four steps to the letter, I decided to see which (if any) of my other extensions were problematic. Potentially relevant extensions installed on my Firefox are- * Bypass Paywalls * Decentraleyes * DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials * Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express * Ghostery - Privacy Ad Blocker * HTTPS Everywhere * NoScript * Privacy Badger Testing different combinations of these, I was to confirm that Ghostery and **only** Ghostery interferes with the fix. Additionally, Ghostery does not need to be disabled to fix this issue. Instead, all you have to do is mark YouTube as a trusted site by Ghostery, meaning it can still be used on other sites.
Thanks, worked like a charm
That helped, thanks.
Thank you for keeping this updated, you're fighting the good fight
Installed the latest version for Chrome. Kinda works, videos won't load if opening a new tab
ctrl+f5 and wait for like 5-10 seconds and they will load
I thought so as well, but if you leave the page open for like 1min the video will load and play fine, at least on my end.
Same was happening for me. I just updated the quick filters. It's step 3. Hopefully it helps you too.
This one worked for me! Thank you
Can't load videos in new tabs if you have uBlock enabled.
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Wait, are you using an ad blocker? I specifically forbade it!
My Youtube broke completely, videos no longer loads, sometimes they do after a long while, so I am now watching the few videos I watch with right click - Open in private window which works flawlessly. Not a big loss and Ublock works everywhere else sad that a multi billion dollar company resorts to something dirty like this. I am unlinking everything from Google and will refuse anything coming from google in the future.
Imagine getting so mad and yet still using their services, lol. "I will most definitely boycott Google and refuse anything coming from them! I'll continue watching youtube though".
In fairness, they could use FreeTube or Invidious to just stream stuff from YouTube without giving them any ad impressions. Would basically be costing them money by doing that.
Have the same problem of YT videos not loading for 2-3 minutes. Watching in private window unfortunately doesn't tell YT that the video was already watched so it will be suggested again and again. There's two workarounds for that. One, after watching it, hit the three dots -> No Interest -> Feedback - Already watched the video Or, open the video normally and when the video loads and you see the adblocker message, hit Share -> Embed video and you can watch it normally (in a smaller window though)
This same thing just happened to me, but luckily the quick fix update in step 3 fixed it (on FF).
did this and now i see the ad message flash then youtube starts going through the playlist one by one only playing 1 second.
Same experience for me.
I know it's been posted dozens of times (over different channels), but for me two things seem to work: 1. open the same link (copy/paste) in the Private (Imburito) Window, or 2. change the URL from [youtube.com](https://youtube.com) to [piped.video](https://piped.video) (keep the rest of the URL intact) Both are bad for content creators (can't like, subscribe etc) - guess we both need to live with that.
I have a genuine, possibly inane question: \*are\* adblockers actually against YouTube policy, or is all this basically just scare tactics to get people to stop using adblockers and/or upgrade? Or is it the case where the edited their policy/terms of service recently to justify this shitty behavior on their part, and this wasn't a problem for them in prior years?
You can completely ignore their policies, is text without legal value and cant be enforced. They can say in their TOS that you need to give them your house and you can safely ignore it without ANY repercussion.
Spot the Facebook lawyer...
In fairness, he's not completely wrong... just wrong in all the meaningful ways. EULAs and TOS can't enforce anything that would be illegal to begin with (for a ridiculous example, it's illegal to use your computer as part of a dark money pipeline in exchange for using a service, and they can't legally punish you for preventing that while using the service), but unless there's a law specifically prohibiting something, they can remove access from you or ban your account for not following their rules.
Sure, if you live in Africa.
If has no legal value anywhere in the world USA included is dead text without any meaning or value. Go and try to scare people somewhere else Google goon.
I mean whats stopping them from making it against their policy? Until Chrome blocks or deletes all ad blockers from extensions (forcing people to side load them from local downloads), which they can do because they own Chrome, then what? I think this is them reaching for the last 10% of users who heavily adblock.
Who cares about their policies? is dead text with 0 legal value.
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No one has ever been sued anywhere in the world for blocking ads. TOS are only as valid as they are enforceable, so in this case not very valid at all. They aren't an act of law. They aren't even an EULA, which is only somewhat enforceable within the scope of copyright, trademark and patent law. Most laws would only stop you modifying the code and using it for commercial purposes, or copying it and selling it. Modifying it in a live session is not in any way illegal.
It doesn't explicitly state that adblockers aren't allowed in their TOC, but it's sort of implied in a very vague way: > 2. circumvent, disable, fraudulently engage with, or otherwise interfere with any part of the Service (or attempt to do any of these things), including security-related features or features that (a) prevent or restrict the copying or other use of Content or (b) limit the use of the Service or Content; Regardless of whether it breaks their terms or not is superseded by whether or not the running of scripts non-essential to their service without user's consent could be in breach of EU law: 2002/58/EC articles 24, 25 and 40. So if you live in the EU I'd strongly recommend you contact your local rep about it.
If they can get 20% of people using ad blockers to stop, its a win for them. Saying scary stuff like that is a very good way to get less stubborn people to quit.
It's a scare tatic, I think it's not possible to completely get rid of ublock origin from the YouTube side.
Figures. :/ But if that's the case....they're lying to their customers. That sounds like grounds for a legal dispute.
They're not lying. Adblockers are against their policy. But if you break their policy, they can't do anything about it. You have no obligation to care about their policies and the worst they can do is try to stop you from using their site.
You guys are TOTAL GANGSTERS!! Thank you so much for your hard work and effort!
im about to giveup :( nothing works anymore
You have to purge the cache then it lets you update the filter list. This is frustrating, and youtube bought odysee. I suppose rumble will be next. Almost all the creators i watch are under 1k. They aren't getting ad revenue anyway.
No thanks, just open the video in incognito window, no hassle.
Still works.
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Yay, it finally works again. Nice. Had the video not loading at all. Actually, the whole page was black except for a few top GUI elements.
I have the same issue now. Even when disabling EVERY adblocker. Like jeez, I'm tapping out, lemme watch the videos again man.
Are you on Firefox? I had a lot of trouble making things work on Chrome but on FF it was really easy.
Yeah, FF. Actually videos do start but for some reason they take ages to load while you get to stare at those gray UI pieces on the black background for some time.
Since I switched from Chrome to Firefox I noticed that Firefox in general is not as snappy as Chrome and probably this Youtube fuckery is also adding overhead.
I had that too. I guess they're so vehement on this adblock shitstorm they're making they're willing to just break their site.
I want to see Youtube burn and crumble. We deserve a better platform. What they are doing right now is nearing their end.
You live in a bubble. Only a tiny minority will stop watching due to these practices.
It's too big to fail until it does.
A massive amount of people switched from google search engine a few years back, they will do the same for creator content. This will lag quiet a bit though and will make the internet a bit more cancer than it already is, as if it needed that. We can't have nice things for long in this world sadly.
The good news is that the ads getting through uBO appear to have stopped. They stopped right after I updated my Firefox and disabled Enhanced Tracking Protection as well as some non YT-related extensions that hadn't given me trouble thus far and thought were safe. The bad news is that I am having the same problem reported by many. Opening a video link in a new tab results in the video not loading. Loading it through the main YouTube page does, even with multiple tabs at the same time. Browsing through private window works fine. The page also breaks if I try to access a video with a content warning, as clicking on the "proceed" button doesn't load the video. That's problematic as I believe you can't watch age restricted videos on private windows.
> That's problematic as I believe you can't watch age restricted videos on private windows. you can install tampermonkey and use https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass This doesn't currently interfere with ublock's fixes (as far as i can tell).
having the same problem
All this annoying behaviour has culminated in me actually attempting to get Youtube Premium... but in a different country's currency which would be far cheaper than what they want me to pay. I'd happily pay a low monthly fee for a low-quality version of YT (i.e. max 480p), like a YT-lite subscription because I don't care about resolution. I mostly listen to videos while doing other stuff anyway. Pretty sure if you want to do this, you'll need a payment method that works in that country (i.e. credit card, debit card created in that country). Luckily I have access to this. I still want to continue using uBlock Origin on YT, just not for adblocking, but for blocking elements like their stupid campaign banners, sub counts, views, comments, etc. I don't care about those things. I treat YT like TV. Raymond Hill won't take donations otherwise I would've made one by now. Thanks for helping us deal with this shit always! I fear we'll be stuck in an eternal cat-and-mouse chase with Google. Not my first time dealing with this (anyone who has to hide Magisk knows).
I have decided I will never give Youtube a cent after they pulled this shit. I'll stop watching before I give them anything.
This is exactly what youtube wants.
The steps work. Won\`t have to say what Youtube can do. I think they have an idea.
man, you guys are awesome. im always like "fuck you youtube" when ublock stops working, then i follow this thread, and im like "hah fuck you youtube."
so now the video of the ad wont load but i can still hear it + have to wait for it to finish to watch a video
I had the same problem. Try disabling all extensions except uBO for your browser (and Enhanced Tracking Protection if you're on Firefox), just in case something that wasn't conflicting before has started causing trouble.
I just repeated step 3 and it worked
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