Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message

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Post by the_bookmaker » Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 10:06 PM UTC

Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message
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Post by dylan604 » Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 10:22 PM UTC

This is nice and all for now while YouTube allows dismissal of the warning. However, YouTube could go nuclear and just not allow any video to play at all if an ad blocker is detected. No DOM element removal will solve that. I'm not sure if that qualifies as scorched earth on YT's part, but it is an option.

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Post by m4jor » Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 10:25 PM UTC

If you have a VPN with a Ukraine location, you can set it to there and purchase YouTube Premium for ~$2.70/month. That's what I just ended up doing. I use Mullvad as my vpn provider.

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Post by Kuinox » Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 10:27 PM UTC

An up to date ublock should bypass the new YouTube ad thing.

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Post by thriftwy » Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 10:27 PM UTC

m4jor wrote: post #3

If you have a VPN with a Ukraine location, you can set it to there and purchase YouTube Premium for ~$2.70/month. That's what I just ended up doing. I use Mullvad as my vpn provider.

If you have a VPN with Russian location, you will get absolutely no ads at all.

24 February 2022 virtually gave the whole country YouTube Premium.

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Post by wedernoch » Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 10:28 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #2

This is nice and all for now while YouTube allows dismissal of the warning. However, YouTube could go nuclear and just not allow any video to play at all if an ad blocker is detected. No DOM element removal will solve that. I'm not sure if that qualifies as scorched earth on YT's part, but it is an option.

YouTube already does exatly this for me. If uBlock origin is active it loads the base site, but all video tiles are just grey squares and the video titles below are just grey bars.

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Post by wedernoch » Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 10:30 PM UTC

Kuinox wrote: post #4

An up to date ublock should bypass the new YouTube ad thing.

It realy depends. Looks like they have a few A/B versions active. Some still work with uBlock, some dont

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Post by kaelinl » Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 10:30 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #2

This is nice and all for now while YouTube allows dismissal of the warning. However, YouTube could go nuclear and just not allow any video to play at all if an ad blocker is detected. No DOM element removal will solve that. I'm not sure if that qualifies as scorched earth on YT's part, but it is an option.

This, in turn, will spawn user scripts which work around the detection. Any client-side solution will be an arms race between Google and user script/adblock devs. The only real way to prevent it is to withhold the video stream from the CDN until the client has streamed the full ad and/or bake it into the video stream. My impression is that Twitch does this for its live streams (although not VODs).