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Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?

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Re: Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?

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Post by Bender »

It changes often. Verify you are on the latest version of uBlock then force an update for any of the ad-block and Unbreak sources in your uBlock config. If that does not work de-select all of them, restart the browser and enable one at a time to see when it breaks which may require restarting the browser each time to get reliable results.

Re: Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?

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Post by AlexeyBrin »

Got same message in Chrome with uBlock Origin Lite when I clicked on an YouTube link.

Even worse sometimes when I'm in an Incognito window or after I've erased my browser history Google asks me to solve a captcha which made switch to DuckDuckGo for all my searches.

Re: Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?

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Post by thisislife2 »

verdverm wrote: post #7

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There is no "ad-free" YouTube. Even if you pay, you will still see ads - https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1gnaetv/paying_to_... ... (ofcourse, those who pay will only see "premium" ads, befitting their financial status, unlike the cheap, ordinary every day ads for the lower class masses). Note that paying for YouTube doesn't prevent collection of your personal data (i.e. profiling). A comprehensive blocker like uBlock Origin helps prevents that to some extent by blocking the trackers.

Re: Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?

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Post by verdverm »

thisislife2 wrote: post #8
verdverm wrote: post #7

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There is no "ad-free" YouTube. Even if you pay, you will still see ads - https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1gnaetv/paying_to_... ... (ofcourse, those who pay will only see "premium" ads, befitting their financial status, unlike the cheap, ordinary every day ads for the lower class masses). Note that paying for YouTube doesn't prevent collection of your personal data (i.e. profiling). A comprehensive blocker l…

I've been paying for years, I can tell you the only ads I see are sponsored and embedded in the video. Off YT content like NFL is not a proxy for the Premium experience, that's not what paying the $14/m is getting you

Re: Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?

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Post by rithdmc »

verdverm wrote: post #9
thisislife2 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no "ad-free" YouTube. Even if you pay, you will still see ads - https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1gnaetv/paying_to_... ... (ofcourse, those who pay will only see "premium" ads, befitting their financial status, unlike the cheap, ordinary every day ads for the lower class masses). Note that paying for YouTube doesn't prevent collection of your personal data (i.e. profiling). A comprehensive blocker l…

I've been paying for years, I can tell you the only ads I see are sponsored and embedded in the video. Off YT content like NFL is not a proxy for the Premium experience, that's not what paying the $14/m is getting you

This was an on-platform ad for NFL, not an off-platform NFL experience delivering ads.
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