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Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by mschuster91 »

kmlx wrote: post #30

what i’m reading from these comments: we will do anything, including leaving youtube, but for sure we will not be either watching ads or paying for content.

> but for sure we will not be either watching ads or paying for content.

The quality and quantity of ads is the problem. Getting blasted with Uber Eats ads all the time (I had a two week streak on my tablet for this crap) without any ability to tell Youtube that, no fuck no I will never eat at Uber Eats and their jingle is annoying the fuck out of me, absolutely sucks. And no I don't want to be interrupted every five minutes with an ad break that completely breaks the flow of the video, and especially not right after coming out of a 2 minute "sponsor" block shilling NordVPN, Athletic fucking Greens, Aura or AirUp.

In contrast, regular TV ads are at least placed in joint blocks that leave you enough time to go to a loo and then have 20-30 minutes of uninterrupted video. Oh, and there also won't be low-quality ads for Evony or whatever other free-to-play whale hunter games on TV either.

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by argsnd »

BuyMyBitcoins wrote: post #115
ranting-moth wrote: post #20

Yes, but YT seems to be doing a lot of A/B testing so what works for others doesn't mean it works for you. If I see an ad I just close YT for the rest of the day.

I should generate some incompressible 4K 60 FPS videos that consist of three hours of randomly generated static and upload them out of spite.

I'm not sure if "incompressible" is possible, at least in a way that Google would still consider an annoyance.

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by shiroiuma »

HideousKojima wrote: post #92
endisneigh wrote: post #70

Imagine valuing your time so little you waste it trying to block instead of just abstaining or using premium. When Facebook started being user hostile I stopped using it wholesale. Anti Google YouTube folks haven’t gotten the message yet. If you make 25 an hour - the bottom decile wage for software engineering - and waste more than half an hour on this a month, idk what to say. That’s a minute a day. Chop chop. By th…

>Imagine valuing your time so little you waste it trying to block instead of just abstaining or using premium. I mean it takes ~15 seconds to update uBlock Origin's filter scripts any time there's an update to bypass YouTube. Based on my current salary that's under 50 cents worth of my time. Also I've actually had zero adblock warnings on Firefox so far, my wife had issues on Opera and uBO wasn't updated yet and I sp…

>I mean it takes ~15 seconds to update uBlock Origin's filter scripts any time there's an update to bypass YouTube. Based on my current salary that's under 50 cents worth of my time.

It takes me precisely 0 seconds to update uBO's scripts. It's all done automatically; am I the only one here that doesn't spend any time at all blocking ads? I installed uBO ages ago, I've spent a couple minutes going through the options and enabling almost everything useful to me (annoyance lists, etc.), and that was it. It doesn't take any effort on my part to block ads on YouTube or anywhere else now that it's set up.

Also, I've also have zero adblock warnings so far, on FF/Linux, FFNightly/Android, and SmartTubeNext.

Setting up a YouTube Premium account and managing the payment details would honestly take me far more time than it does for me to block ads.

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by thaumasiotes »

dmw_ng wrote: post #163
gorhill wrote: post #52

A reliable way I found to confirm whether there is new anti-content blocker code released by Youtube is to visit uBlockOrigin's reddit sub[1]: If there are well over 1,000 "here now" (near top right), this confirms the anti-content blocker code has been updated. If well below 1,000 "here now", all is fine. At time of writing, it's fine. * * * [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/

Is there some place with a technical writeup of what YT are doing to frustrate circumvention so effectively?

Effectively? I've been using uBlock Origin the whole time. Whatever YouTube is doing, it cannot be accurately described as "effective".

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by thaumasiotes »

hunter2_ wrote: post #114
colpabar wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is clever and I'm definitely using it. Website idea: a downdetector-like site that uses reddit's "here now" numbers to give insight into whether something is going on with a certain thing. edit: Has anyone else not really been affected by the new youtube adblock policy at all? I think I have seen the warning a single time, and I use youtube all the time . I only use ublock origin and privacy badger... on chrome.…

> Has anyone else not really been affected by the new youtube adblock policy at all? The megathread addresses this: > I've never seen this message. Is this because of my browser being X or Y? No, YouTube didn't roll this out to everybody yet. [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/184fivk/youtu...

It was rolled out to me. I saw several warnings that my ad blocker wasn't allowed, and on one day they blocked me from watching videos, except that they didn't block me from watching videos in Incognito Mode.

On all other days, I was free to watch whatever I wanted while logged in. They might complain at me about ad blocking, or not.

On all days, youtube-dl worked fine. (This matters because, contemporaneously with the anti-ad-blocking campaign, YouTube started sometimes reducing my video frame rate to 0 fps. Audio never suffered at all.)

It's not a strict regime.

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by lucumo »

CrzyLngPwd wrote: post #57

Youtube seems to me to be a bullshit test platform. They will work around ad blockers and continue to pile on repetitive and banal adverts that have nothing to do with the user until they reach breaking point (where people flee and seek alternatives), and then they will relax their system to show marginally less bullshit. The confusing part of this battle is the app users, who do not agree with the avalanche of adver…

> scroll shorts until their brains leak from their ears

I use a little user script that redirects me from YT shorts URLs to a normal video player URL. I found that it adds just enough friction to getting the next video that just scrolling shorts for an hour doesn't happen anymore.

Added bonus is that you can rewind a bit of video if you want to, instead of having to watch the entire video again.

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by SiempreViernes »

dmw_ng wrote: post #163
gorhill wrote: post #52

A reliable way I found to confirm whether there is new anti-content blocker code released by Youtube is to visit uBlockOrigin's reddit sub[1]: If there are well over 1,000 "here now" (near top right), this confirms the anti-content blocker code has been updated. If well below 1,000 "here now", all is fine. At time of writing, it's fine. * * * [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/

Is there some place with a technical writeup of what YT are doing to frustrate circumvention so effectively?

I think they are just updating their measures frequently, so not really anything technical. In other words: Youtube is continuously spending a lot of money to put out new patches block the latest circumventions.

Re: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-adblock script?

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Post by piva00 »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #196
dmw_ng wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there some place with a technical writeup of what YT are doing to frustrate circumvention so effectively?

Effectively? I've been using uBlock Origin the whole time. Whatever YouTube is doing, it cannot be accurately described as "effective".

I didn't even notice that my YouTube Premium Lite subscription had been terminated for about a month, YT decided to not offer that type of subscription anymore and I'm not willing to pay more for YT Premium, uBlock Origin is working flawlessly.
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