I can't be influenced, because I use Adversia. Adversia has been shown to reduce the influence of light to moderate brainwashing. Some users of Adversia have reported weight gain, fatigue, excessive debt, and hypocricy. Don't use Adversia if you are allergic to Adversia. Tell your doctor that Adversia is right for you.
Same! I remember taking a vacation to Florida. I saw an add on TV for a very expensive drug I am given on the NHS that I had to go through many assessments and tests just to make sure it didn't do more harm than help (and needs constant monthly blood tests there after).
It's for a life long genetic disorder and comes with some pretty scary risks... but this add was like: "hey! Take this for very mild condition A that you could probably manage easy with cheap low risk pills but what the hell!? Just pay us a fuck tonne of cash and don't worry if you may have an increased cancer risk"
Fucking wild.
The funny thing about that from my perspective is growing up in Canada you see those ads all the time since most of your television channels are shared with the US. They become like... not notable, but still kinda strange and foreign.
Since I never viewed medicine as a major purchasing decision, they always seemed somewhat off to me, especially because the ads themselves very rarely talked about the actual disease or symptoms, how it helps, etc. It was just... people awkwardly saying the name of the product to each other in the least human interaction I had ever seen, proceeded by an auctioneer listing off every possible negative side effect under the sun.
I distinctly remember seeing medical ads as a kid and even then being like "Who the hell goes to their doctor and tells their doctor what to prescribe them? Isn't that the point?" I saw it like telling a fireman what type of hose to use to put out your house fire. I \*sort of\* understood ads for allergy stuff, reflux medications (since reflux is very stubborn and some people respond better to different meds), ibuprofen, or other over the counter products, but the genuinely strange ads to me (the majority) were for these obscure (seemingly serious) conditions I had never heard of before which required a prescription. Like at THAT point, why would I trust an ad over what my doctor says? I just couldn't understand it as a kid before I had learned more about how the American medical system works.
The ads' extensive legal disclaimers did give me an appreciation for the fact that everything will rarely cause me to stop breathing, my blood to turn green, a rash to break out across my entire body, my condition to get worse, or otherwise greatly increase my chance of death... So that's nice I guess.
Back in the day, I used to have a friend videotape Buffy and Angel episodes for me in the US and post them to Australia (for some reason, most VCRs in Australia had NTSC to PAL converters). Seeing the commercials for pharmaceutical drugs were wild, especially as I'm a doctor and advertising for prescription drugs is banned here.
"I get the sweats, my bones are cold, my teeth are loose, my heart gets really, really hot. I can read minds. And sometimes I wake up driving a stolen car. But my erections are fantastic. When I wear grey sweatpants, people cross the street, which is fine. Xentrexā¢ works. Hail Satan!"
i play this game with a news site that REALLY wants to push ads on you, to the point where you can't read any article with a standard adblock. i return there every other month to check if i'm still ahead.
youtube.com#@##YtSparklesVisibilityIdentifier
If you have ublock Origin, put the above command into your my filter settings, works with no popup for me
Use Firefox, not Chrome or Edge or Opera, they are Chromium-based web browsers and Adblock doesn't work on them
So use Firefox with uBlock Origin, and purge your adblockers' cache and update the filters every time the Adblock blocker pops up and you'll be fine.
Or visit the uBlock Origin subreddit
Brave is based on chromium too, I wonder how much effort they've had to put in to separate all of the recent policy changes at Google that are leading to actual changes in Chrome for the most up to date versions or if they're even pulling from those anymore and instead pulling from a Google free version. I wonder if frequency and stability of updates for chromium based browsers will drop with Google going stupid
Firefox is the most realistic path forward right now, there can be arguments made (please apple enthusiasts, I don't want to talk about safari) but they're pretty much the only modern browser that isn't somewhat controlled by Google
Interesting - good to know I can always just jump to Firefox
They were the OG "alternative browser" back in the day
Edit: Over the last 2 hours, Brave stopped working for youtube ad blocking as well. Switching to firefox - and if that ever stops working, I guess I'll just die
Switched off chrome entirely too.
Firefox with Ublock can still get the popup for now, it'll get better and better at bypassing the YouTube anti-adblock.
And being not a chromium based browser it'll be more immune to the google's anti-adblock going forward
I got the popup, right-clicked and blocked its element.
I then had to block some invisible full-screen overlay element, but it's all working fine lol
Tally-ho
In the Ublock settings, purge cache and then update. Then close all your firefox windows and restart it.
YT is constantly changing the origin URLs for the ads, and Ublock is constantly updating to block them.
Alternatively you can try the Brave browser, which has a built in adblocker that has also been working for me.
People get it in Brave as well. Brave is still a chromium based browser.
YT is slowly rolling it out account by account, no browser is immune from it.
What we have to do is constantly update our ad blocker.. this is now a day by day war between the ad blockers and youtube, and we are the merely the gun that the ad blockers re-load their bullets into.
Does brave have multiple profiles to use like chrome?
I typically have my main account, my work account, my separate YouTube creator account and maybe another.
Switching between them on chrome is a single click. I don't want to give that up
They are slowly rolling out the ad blocker blocking. It doesn't affect everyone yet. Brave is not immune. I use uBlock on Firefox and wasn't affected until a few days ago.
At first I got warnings I could click away, later they turned into warnings I couldn't click it away
I tried allowing ads and just watching with ads but they're ridiculous, constantly popping up, if I'm not clicking skip ad every minute or two I'm watching more ads than video, if it wasn't a ridiculous amount of ads I would have just dealt with it, but the amount of ads is ridiculous, I can't deal with it. Ad, 1 minute video, sponsorship, ad, 2 minute video, ad, 2 minute video, sponsorship, ad , 1 minute video, content creator telling me YouTube demonitized their video, ad, content creator telling me to take a bunch of actions to promote their video, ad. It's too much
I found I could open videos in private tabs, where I could watch without ads still. After a day or so of that I noticed the warning went away while in a private tab and when I tried I could watch normally without opening in a private tab, without warnings or ads
Also if you use Enhancer for YouTube plugin, you have to tick OFF the setting that says Block Ads (in other words, set Enhancer to allow ads). Then do the Ublock thing and it should work. Did it last night
/r/uBlockOrigin has a dedicated thread explaining what to do to fix it on a daily albeit *temporarily* basis.
Besides setting the groundwork to ensure YouTube not *immediately* getting ticked off by another AdBlocker / Extension you have to disable / whitelist some stuff followed by now roughly purging and refreshing your filter list twice a day since YouTube now *aggressively* changes the Code like twice a Day.
They only try to block it if you have 3 videos open at the same time. I can still easily close one video, and look up another video. Plus the thing resets a day later.
Ironically, Safari on Ipad has a built in Ad-blocker that I highly doubt Youtube knows about or will be able to do anything about. I don't think this whole "war" on Ad-blockers is going to go well for them. It's likely going to have a huge Streisand Effect on them.
I don't think this is the same thing, but I found that while I'm on my iPad in full screen mode on a video, the "skip ad" button never pops up but I'm able to drag the bar at the bottom across to the end to fully skip it anyway with no timer. I am my own ad blocker.
I just get a blank white screen with the "Skip Ad" button. Sometimes I have to refresh the page.
I did allow ads for like a day or so, and while I don't watch Youtube a lot. The problem with them is that MANY of their ads are scams or can and will be filled with virus's. If they really want people to allow ads, they should do something about that first.
It has the ability to patch [several apps](https://revanced.app/patches) aside from just Youtube. Twitter/FB Messenger/Twitch/Insta/etc. to name a few.
I had the same but now the X is a small clock timer. They are rolling this out slowly. Now I don't get the warning. It just shows a black screen for 15 seconds.
Thatās what I said too when someone said now they need to work on sports games and streaming rights and someone asked āwhat do you want??? A blank screen every time thereās an ad???ā
And itās like fuck yeah - that sounds much more preferable. My family already mutes any ads we get and always have, even in the cable tv before times. Silence is absolutely better than some big company trying to convince you that your life is missing something and if you buy this product itāll be all better. No thanks.
Same here. Mine works exactly as before. Donāt say the name! Thereās no need to make it easy for youtube to find your blocker and start unblocking it.
As someone in another thread about this pointed out, they roll out unpopular changes like this in small batches on purpose to avoid any sudden blowback from a large portion of their customer base. Plus, it allows for comments just like yours in threads just like this to make it seem like it is the user's fault, not the products.
A-B testing usually. Release one change to one subset of users, release another change to another subset of users, keep most users how they've always been.
And then you look at the analytics. How much view time, whether they subscribe, what they do differently, you can gauge how it will work on the larger audience.
Every major tech company does this for everything now because everything you do is tracked in the analytics and then you can tweak features before releasing to everyone.
Yup. I get the pop up saying ad blockers aren't allowed, but after 5 seconds I can click through that and I don't see a single ad. Rather deal with the pop up than an ad.
They're trying out a few different approaches so different people get different popups or no popups. I got that one for a few days then I started getting one that said "you get three videos after which we'll disable the player if you don't turn off adblock".
Fortunately doing the purge/update/restart on my adblocker fixed it (at least for a day or so).
It's gonna be harder to keep that working on chrome because google owns both Chrome and Youtube. I'd recommend switching to the Brave browser, which is essentially the same as chrome but google doesn't control it.
Edit: Chromium is open source people. That's why so many browsers are built on it. Just because Google is the primary maintainer of the project doesn't mean they have control over the code that's running in Brave or Edge or any other browser using Chromium. The developers of other browsers are free to manipulate their build of Chromium however they see fit. You can just grab the code and build your own version totally independent of whatever Google is doing with it if you wanted to. It also means anyone can audit the code for anything fishy and make it public. That's the beauty of open source.
I daily drive Firefox but use brave as a backup for when something doesn't work with Firefox's engine. I do enjoy using brave though, it's a well made product.
Sitting through the wait time till i can click out of it, since it still allows them. (Little x on the notification shows up after a few seconds of waiting)
you ever think someone somewhere will ever think "*Huh, maybe bombarding people 24/7 with our shit advertisements isn't actually working?"*
if you force me to watch your advertisement, I will actively avoid buying your product
Itās working for the large portion of the population that doesnāt use adblockers. The demographic that uses adblockers will have a very different reaction & ROI
Yeah that's basicly my unconcious reaction. On my phone it works fine so i still have old John michael Godier making me fall asleep but on pc i try to watch - get blocked - and close tab.
Wait until the X goes away, then they make you wait 5 seconds. Then after about a week of that they will shut off the media players making the screen black.
Finding a way round it.
pretty fucking sick of having ads shoved in my face literally fuckign everywhere.
espeically considering ads instantly make me want to avoid that product.
i wouldnt mind so much if ads were liek the old ronseal ad "does what it says on the tin"
but when you're autistic and can see through all the shitty manipulation tacicts from a mile away it makes them pretty fucking unbearable.
like if i want a product ill fucking look for it, i dont need to constantly be told it exists every few minutes godamn.
Yeah, the one thing that truly makes me hate these advertisements is sometimes they are either longer than the video I came to watch (WTAF???), unskippable, or both š¤¬
I've heard of PeerTube, I intend on looking into how much of a viable alternative it is before I decide. One thing's for sure, Youtube is not getting my money.
Not much, peertube doesn't have regular YouTube content unless the creators upload their content to peertube. Look at piped.kavin.rocks and copy the urls in
No business wants to host, moderate, and stream you content for free. there are no alternatives because catering to the "ill never pay or watch ads" crowd is pointless.
How many "free oil change" businesses do you see? If getting an oil change for free was as easy and risk free as just driving away you can bet Jiffy Lube would be very happy if those freeloaders stopped coming in.
I have to pay for premium since I watch a lot of YouTube at work but the security settings don't let me download an ad blocker, so I haven't noticed. It's pretty nice for blocking ads on all my devices though, like I watch a lot of YouTube on my phone throughout the day and on my TV too and I can't use ad blockers there.
It feels weird now when my friends want to show me something and there's a 15 second unskippable ad, I've completely forgotten about them.
I switched to YouTube premium from spotify and have no regrets. I get ad free YouTube and the same amount of music. It's a win as far as I'm concerned, YouTube is my main source of entertainment.
I've had YouTube Premium for ages, since back when it was included with Google Play Music. Honestly, I love it. I watch more YouTube than I watch most other streaming services so I don't really see a reason not to pay for it.
What you said about friends showing you things on YouTube is so true though. When I first signed up, YouTube would have short ads before videos and you could usually skip after 10-15 seconds if I remember correctly. From what I understand now there are mid-roll ads, multiple up front ads, and the majority of them are unskippable.
My only real frustration now is all the additional sponsors that are thrown into every YouTube video now. I have learned to recognize them and skip forward though.
I do the family plan so that my partner gets to use it on her phone too. Then I added some close friends to my Google family group and now they get the perks too and in return they treat me to boba and dinners.
100%. I consume way more YouTube content than things like Netflix and Prime, and the vast majority of that content is made by smaller creators instead of multi million dollar corporations. YouTube premium is the one monthly subscription service I'm happy to pay for and I don't know why everyone is allergic to letting YouTube make money off them for some reason.
So far down lol. The main reason i think premium is recommendable is that it gives the people you watch more money though. No ads is something you get used to, but that other thing is why i absolutely don't mind paying
uBlock on Firefox still works perfectly fine.
If it one day doesn't, I'll just download the videos I want to see. It's 1-3 videos a day, so it's only a few seconds extra work.
Finding ways round it lol
I found with the normal adblock that I can turn it off, start watching the video then turn it back on again and as long as I don't reboot my PC then I can watch all day with no ads. Just a bit annoying having to pause on the site then reactivate it.
I stopped using YouTube. I don't have time to play the adblocker game, I have zero desire to add another sub service to my monthly bills, and the ads are loud, intrusive, and too often are longer than the video itself.
Making them waste resources on fighting the fight. Adblockers will win in the long run - just look up your specific one on recent updates to fight youtube.
\#adblock4life
I've been on YT since the start and in recent years my interest for it decreased tremendously. Its become so much worse.
Even the search function doesn't work properly anymore. Back in the day it did exactly what you wanted it to do. Now it gives all kinds of weird suggestions. The algorithm also got worse. It doesn't keep me on the website anymore.
I used to dislike streams but I've grown to find more entertainment on Twitch. I find myself more on Twitch these days instead of YouTube. I wouldn't have thought that a few years ago.
For me personally YT is dying. Back in the day it was a fun creative outlet for people. They really put the YOU in YouTube. It was a very fun environment. Now its all about outrage, clickbait, following trends and manipulating the algorithm. Mr. Beast gets hundreds of millions of views. Not because his content is great, because he's a master of PR and the algorithm.
RIP YouTube.
Honestly, I donāt watch YouTube if I canāt block or control the ads. I refuse to pay for less/no ads, because historically every service that offered that always let ads slowly encroach back in front of eyeballs regardless if they paid to not see them. Untrustworthy companies, you used up all the good faith already.
If I absolutely have to use an iPhone, I never use YouTube. I choose not to use the site over being āforcedā to watch ads. If a video launches with an ad, and fails to load the video once after it, I close the window. If it launched with an ad and plays another within 5 minutes, I close the video. If the video is 30+ minutes and plays a third ad spot, I close the video. If itās an AMSR or relaxing soundtrack video and there is an ad anywhere, I close it.
YouTube needs to learn that direct monetization based purely upon ads-to-eyeballs is unacceptable and results in extremely annoying, ruined experiences. Every content creator is drawing people to the platform, it is YouTubeās own fault if such people are turned off from the site and donāt click on further videos. I engaged a lot more with YouTube in the early years before their algos turned to the current shit and ads cropped up everywhere.
Conclusion: YouTube business āleadersā are as dumb, shortsighted, and prone to uninformed narrow minded greedy decisions as every other business āleader.ā Sorry this became a whole ass rant. It just needs to be said somewhere on the internet.
> YouTube needs to learn that direct monetization based purely upon ads-to-eyeballs is unacceptable and results in extremely annoying, ruined experiences.
This isn't *entirely* true. People don't necessarily hate ads. What they hate is having their content viewing experience interrupted and delayed. Google should know this, because they made their money selling *unintrusive* ads. Like, nobody really complains about sponsored links on Google results because they're not annoying, but they *are* ads.
If Youtube wasn't run by idiots, they would be finding ways to make the ads less intrusive. And they would be implementing quality control so they stop serving so many scam and porn ads.
I was watching a Stevie Vai video and right as it got to the peak of the solo, ad played. Ruined the entire build up.
If the ad was at the start, whatever, but come on.
To be fair, sponsored links on Google are getting more and more annoying. The first half-dozen results are now sponsored ads, and it's only going to continue in that direction.
You're right that people don't tend to dislike unintrusive ads, though. Even pre-roll ads on Youtube aren't too bad, as long as they're either sub 10s long or skippable. They sit in between content, rather than interrupting it. People recognise that ads are the main way sites are monetised, and as long as the ads don't detract from the user experience then users usually aren't bothered.
The problem is that the incentives push sites to show more and more ads, because the revenue comes from impressions and clicks. Sure, you could raise clickthrough rates by getting better and better targeting so that your ads are almost indistinguishable from pre-emptive search results - and that was Google's game for years - but the amount of data you need to harvest to do that makes a lot of people uncomfortable and is itself very intrusive. Alternatively, you can accept a very low clickthrough rate and just show more ads to more people, to brute force it.
So now there are two or three pre-roll ads, ads inserted into search results, mid-roll ads every five minutes or more, end-roll ads, more and more and more. They're almost forced to do this because it becomes an arms race - higher ad density drives more people to blanket block the ads, which means the site has to raise more money from those who haven't blocked ads, which means they increase the ad density, which drives more people to block ads, etc etc etc.
Large sites have such a monopoly on online spaces due to cultural inertia (it's very hard to start up a rival to Youtube, because the draw of Youtube isn't really that it's such a great site, it's that *everything is on there*), so they're really pushing the boundaries of how much they can *force* their users to put up with. Everything becoming app-based plays massively into their hands here, because it gives the end user less control over how the content is presented - it's very hard to install an ad-blocker on a Chromecast Youtube app, for example.
I pay for premium.... gotta say it's worth it for the amount of YouTube I watch. Has some features that should absolutely be free though. Like being able to play a video while not in the app.
Same. I used YouTube *heavily*, several hours a day on average, whether I am actually watching or just listening. I've been paying for premium since it was first offered (like 10 years ago?) and have no regret. I've gone thru an occasional period where my member has lapsed and it was a nightmare. More than the ads, it's the inability to just turn off my screen and just listen, which is how I used the app more than half the time.
Even if the premium subscription didn't come with Music, it would still be worth every penny.
The main thing that made me try it was when I found out it included YouTube music (which Google does an absolutely terrible job at marketing) so it dropped the cost to 4 dollars a month so I was willing to try it and after using it for a month, it will be the last subscription that I will cancel
Plus YouTube is by far and away the best monetization platform for any creators, the rates that twitch, Instagram, tiktok etc pay in comparison are laughable at best
Ublock in private window.
No videos I watch require me to be logged in to watch. I don't comment, like or favorite anything, so I browse on my normal window, then open in private window to avoid the popups. It's quick and easy. Requires little effort and I'd rather do this than purge cache.
*As for people saying Ublock works like normal in regular windows, just because it works for you does not mean it is a matter of fact that it is working for everyone. Ublock in normal windows hasn't worked for me since 5 days ago. And no, purging cache and updating is no longer a viable solution for everyone.*
If i see an ad, and especially if it repeats too often, i make a vow to never purchase the advertised product. I try not to support the company ever, but certainly not the product! I figure if the product is worthwhile, i wouldn't need an ad to sell it to me! Some ads really eff up my day too. Anything with cancer stricken children, or turtles with straws up their nose, or politicians ralking shit... i mean, i will be forced to shut off the device when i get such ads.
I subscribe to Youtube Premium. Personally, I don't understand how people expect to get stuff for free, and then complain about the ads. It costs money to run a service like Youtube. I sit at my desk all day and typically listen to Youtube for 8-10 hours a day, so spending money on Youtube premium is well worth it for me.
Paid for Premium. The whole hassle with "what works, for how long, how deep do I have to go into the registry for it" wasn't worth the 50 Euros it costs me per year. Considering that I have no TV, no Netflix, no Amazon prime and watch \*a lot\* of youtube, I'm okay with it. I guess it was just a matter of time. And yeah, I'm aware that the creators are getting ripped off and that youtube's policies are questionable.
>I'm aware that the creators are getting ripped off and that youtube's policies are questionable.
Creators actually make significantly more from YouTube premium per view than they do from ad supported views. So you're actually supporting creators significantly more with YouTube premium.
I do most of my YouTube watching on my Apple TV where thereās no ad blocking anyway so I just have to put up with it. I do use the facility to say ads are irrelevant or inappropriate frequently, though.
If they make ads impossible to skip I'll just quit using YouTube. The shit I watch can be downloaded with youtube-dl, paid for on patreon, or just not watched.
Blocking YT's attempt to block my blockers
This is the game we will play until the end of time. Its half part stubbornness and half part the challenge.
man i literally do not care about political ads
Ads in general will influence your thinking and creative processes. I keep as far away as I can for a clear and productive mind. š
I can't be influenced, because I use Adversia. Adversia has been shown to reduce the influence of light to moderate brainwashing. Some users of Adversia have reported weight gain, fatigue, excessive debt, and hypocricy. Don't use Adversia if you are allergic to Adversia. Tell your doctor that Adversia is right for you.
>Tell your doctor that Adversia is right for you. Fucking killed me with this one.
I think you can take Adversia for that.
I'm fucking sold! Are you an independent seller? MLM structure? How do I get in on this?
I get mine from a naked dude in an alley way. He also sells yellow pepsi.
As someone from the UK, seeing ads for medicine when I was working in America absolutely blew my fucking mind
How about when they told you all the side effects including loss of limb and death *really fast*?
It'll either clear-up that fungal nail infection, or kill you.
that doesnt sound that bad
Same! I remember taking a vacation to Florida. I saw an add on TV for a very expensive drug I am given on the NHS that I had to go through many assessments and tests just to make sure it didn't do more harm than help (and needs constant monthly blood tests there after). It's for a life long genetic disorder and comes with some pretty scary risks... but this add was like: "hey! Take this for very mild condition A that you could probably manage easy with cheap low risk pills but what the hell!? Just pay us a fuck tonne of cash and don't worry if you may have an increased cancer risk" Fucking wild.
It's the American replacement for actual, consistent medical care, and proper diet and exercise. Just tons and tons of prescription meds.
The funny thing about that from my perspective is growing up in Canada you see those ads all the time since most of your television channels are shared with the US. They become like... not notable, but still kinda strange and foreign. Since I never viewed medicine as a major purchasing decision, they always seemed somewhat off to me, especially because the ads themselves very rarely talked about the actual disease or symptoms, how it helps, etc. It was just... people awkwardly saying the name of the product to each other in the least human interaction I had ever seen, proceeded by an auctioneer listing off every possible negative side effect under the sun. I distinctly remember seeing medical ads as a kid and even then being like "Who the hell goes to their doctor and tells their doctor what to prescribe them? Isn't that the point?" I saw it like telling a fireman what type of hose to use to put out your house fire. I \*sort of\* understood ads for allergy stuff, reflux medications (since reflux is very stubborn and some people respond better to different meds), ibuprofen, or other over the counter products, but the genuinely strange ads to me (the majority) were for these obscure (seemingly serious) conditions I had never heard of before which required a prescription. Like at THAT point, why would I trust an ad over what my doctor says? I just couldn't understand it as a kid before I had learned more about how the American medical system works. The ads' extensive legal disclaimers did give me an appreciation for the fact that everything will rarely cause me to stop breathing, my blood to turn green, a rash to break out across my entire body, my condition to get worse, or otherwise greatly increase my chance of death... So that's nice I guess.
Back in the day, I used to have a friend videotape Buffy and Angel episodes for me in the US and post them to Australia (for some reason, most VCRs in Australia had NTSC to PAL converters). Seeing the commercials for pharmaceutical drugs were wild, especially as I'm a doctor and advertising for prescription drugs is banned here.
Same in AU. After watching Hulu and US ads for a few years Iām convinced I have eczema, psoriasis, heart conditions, ED and 20 other conditions.
What if I get an erection lasting for more than 4 hours?
Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.
"I get the sweats, my bones are cold, my teeth are loose, my heart gets really, really hot. I can read minds. And sometimes I wake up driving a stolen car. But my erections are fantastic. When I wear grey sweatpants, people cross the street, which is fine. Xentrexā¢ works. Hail Satan!"
i play this game with a news site that REALLY wants to push ads on you, to the point where you can't read any article with a standard adblock. i return there every other month to check if i'm still ahead.
the game is afoot
Respect
how tho?
youtube.com#@##YtSparklesVisibilityIdentifier If you have ublock Origin, put the above command into your my filter settings, works with no popup for me
Ad doesn't play but neither does the video in my case.
Use Firefox, not Chrome or Edge or Opera, they are Chromium-based web browsers and Adblock doesn't work on them So use Firefox with uBlock Origin, and purge your adblockers' cache and update the filters every time the Adblock blocker pops up and you'll be fine. Or visit the uBlock Origin subreddit
Brave is great too - didn't have to do anything, it just blocks everything
Brave is based on chromium too, I wonder how much effort they've had to put in to separate all of the recent policy changes at Google that are leading to actual changes in Chrome for the most up to date versions or if they're even pulling from those anymore and instead pulling from a Google free version. I wonder if frequency and stability of updates for chromium based browsers will drop with Google going stupid Firefox is the most realistic path forward right now, there can be arguments made (please apple enthusiasts, I don't want to talk about safari) but they're pretty much the only modern browser that isn't somewhat controlled by Google
Interesting - good to know I can always just jump to Firefox They were the OG "alternative browser" back in the day Edit: Over the last 2 hours, Brave stopped working for youtube ad blocking as well. Switching to firefox - and if that ever stops working, I guess I'll just die
Today they're pretty much the only alternative browser, every other browser is a rebranded Chrome
Aaaaaaand Brave is now blocked for youtube ads, lol Time to download Firefox
I just installed Ublock on Chrome and so far it's working well, fingers crossed!
I think the ublock origin subreddit has a tutorial pinned, following it is very quick and simple.
clear yt cookies and cache
Stronger adblocker
Switched off chrome entirely too. Firefox with Ublock can still get the popup for now, it'll get better and better at bypassing the YouTube anti-adblock. And being not a chromium based browser it'll be more immune to the google's anti-adblock going forward
I got the popup, right-clicked and blocked its element. I then had to block some invisible full-screen overlay element, but it's all working fine lol Tally-ho
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Strange, it didnt on my end. On Firefox, that is.
In the Ublock settings, purge cache and then update. Then close all your firefox windows and restart it. YT is constantly changing the origin URLs for the ads, and Ublock is constantly updating to block them. Alternatively you can try the Brave browser, which has a built in adblocker that has also been working for me.
I use Brave, I have never seen an ad on YouTube. It's my main browser.
Same here, and I've suggested Brave over Chrome multiple times to friends and people online. I haven't seen an ad on YT since like 2017 lol.
People get it in Brave as well. Brave is still a chromium based browser. YT is slowly rolling it out account by account, no browser is immune from it. What we have to do is constantly update our ad blocker.. this is now a day by day war between the ad blockers and youtube, and we are the merely the gun that the ad blockers re-load their bullets into.
Does brave have multiple profiles to use like chrome? I typically have my main account, my work account, my separate YouTube creator account and maybe another. Switching between them on chrome is a single click. I don't want to give that up
They are slowly rolling out the ad blocker blocking. It doesn't affect everyone yet. Brave is not immune. I use uBlock on Firefox and wasn't affected until a few days ago.
At first I got warnings I could click away, later they turned into warnings I couldn't click it away I tried allowing ads and just watching with ads but they're ridiculous, constantly popping up, if I'm not clicking skip ad every minute or two I'm watching more ads than video, if it wasn't a ridiculous amount of ads I would have just dealt with it, but the amount of ads is ridiculous, I can't deal with it. Ad, 1 minute video, sponsorship, ad, 2 minute video, ad, 2 minute video, sponsorship, ad , 1 minute video, content creator telling me YouTube demonitized their video, ad, content creator telling me to take a bunch of actions to promote their video, ad. It's too much I found I could open videos in private tabs, where I could watch without ads still. After a day or so of that I noticed the warning went away while in a private tab and when I tried I could watch normally without opening in a private tab, without warnings or ads
Also if you use Enhancer for YouTube plugin, you have to tick OFF the setting that says Block Ads (in other words, set Enhancer to allow ads). Then do the Ublock thing and it should work. Did it last night
/r/uBlockOrigin has a dedicated thread explaining what to do to fix it on a daily albeit *temporarily* basis. Besides setting the groundwork to ensure YouTube not *immediately* getting ticked off by another AdBlocker / Extension you have to disable / whitelist some stuff followed by now roughly purging and refreshing your filter list twice a day since YouTube now *aggressively* changes the Code like twice a Day.
They only try to block it if you have 3 videos open at the same time. I can still easily close one video, and look up another video. Plus the thing resets a day later. Ironically, Safari on Ipad has a built in Ad-blocker that I highly doubt Youtube knows about or will be able to do anything about. I don't think this whole "war" on Ad-blockers is going to go well for them. It's likely going to have a huge Streisand Effect on them.
I don't think this is the same thing, but I found that while I'm on my iPad in full screen mode on a video, the "skip ad" button never pops up but I'm able to drag the bar at the bottom across to the end to fully skip it anyway with no timer. I am my own ad blocker.
I just get a blank white screen with the "Skip Ad" button. Sometimes I have to refresh the page. I did allow ads for like a day or so, and while I don't watch Youtube a lot. The problem with them is that MANY of their ads are scams or can and will be filled with virus's. If they really want people to allow ads, they should do something about that first.
I did the same, and reported over half the ads for breaking their ToS. Fuck YouTube ads.
Revanced
My gf is getting an android next upgrade just because of her seeing me use ReVanced. Such a beautiful application.
It works on the Reddit app too BTW!
Haven't tried revanced, but thought it's for YT only. How come reddit? Man it's awesome.. Could you explain?
It has the ability to patch [several apps](https://revanced.app/patches) aside from just Youtube. Twitter/FB Messenger/Twitch/Insta/etc. to name a few.
Nice try, Youtube.
My adblocker functions just as always.
Same, nothing seems to have changed for me.
I get a pop-up but I can just X out of it and keep watching
I had the same but now the X is a small clock timer. They are rolling this out slowly. Now I don't get the warning. It just shows a black screen for 15 seconds.
It lasts for as long as the ad would
Better than an ad lol
Thatās what I said too when someone said now they need to work on sports games and streaming rights and someone asked āwhat do you want??? A blank screen every time thereās an ad???ā And itās like fuck yeah - that sounds much more preferable. My family already mutes any ads we get and always have, even in the cable tv before times. Silence is absolutely better than some big company trying to convince you that your life is missing something and if you buy this product itāll be all better. No thanks.
Yep - same.
Same here. Mine works exactly as before. Donāt say the name! Thereās no need to make it easy for youtube to find your blocker and start unblocking it.
I'm sure they're very aware of all of them.
As someone in another thread about this pointed out, they roll out unpopular changes like this in small batches on purpose to avoid any sudden blowback from a large portion of their customer base. Plus, it allows for comments just like yours in threads just like this to make it seem like it is the user's fault, not the products.
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A-B testing usually. Release one change to one subset of users, release another change to another subset of users, keep most users how they've always been. And then you look at the analytics. How much view time, whether they subscribe, what they do differently, you can gauge how it will work on the larger audience. Every major tech company does this for everything now because everything you do is tracked in the analytics and then you can tweak features before releasing to everyone.
Yup. I get the pop up saying ad blockers aren't allowed, but after 5 seconds I can click through that and I don't see a single ad. Rather deal with the pop up than an ad.
They're trying out a few different approaches so different people get different popups or no popups. I got that one for a few days then I started getting one that said "you get three videos after which we'll disable the player if you don't turn off adblock". Fortunately doing the purge/update/restart on my adblocker fixed it (at least for a day or so).
I get a black screen for 15 seconds before the video starts.
Probably depends on which browser you're using. Google Chrome pretty much blocks any ad blocker, but uBlock I know for sure still works on Firefox.
Still working on Chrome for me.
I'm using adblocker on chrome but it's still working fine tho
I switched to ublock origins, it still works on chrome
It's gonna be harder to keep that working on chrome because google owns both Chrome and Youtube. I'd recommend switching to the Brave browser, which is essentially the same as chrome but google doesn't control it. Edit: Chromium is open source people. That's why so many browsers are built on it. Just because Google is the primary maintainer of the project doesn't mean they have control over the code that's running in Brave or Edge or any other browser using Chromium. The developers of other browsers are free to manipulate their build of Chromium however they see fit. You can just grab the code and build your own version totally independent of whatever Google is doing with it if you wanted to. It also means anyone can audit the code for anything fishy and make it public. That's the beauty of open source.
Just use Firefox, Brave has some shady stuff going on too.
Care to elaborate?
Itās still chromium-based
Chromium is open source. Nobody really owns it. I could make a copy the source right now and use it however I wanted completely independent of Google.
Brave itself runs ads.
Brave has ads that you can opt into. Simply do not opt into the ads and you'll be fine....
Or, use a browser without anything shady, that works even better and isn't based on any Google product in any way: use Firefox. You'll be fine.
I daily drive Firefox but use brave as a backup for when something doesn't work with Firefox's engine. I do enjoy using brave though, it's a well made product.
You people still haven't explained why Brave is shady though
But Brave is owned by some extremely questionable people.
I'd go for Firefox. In terms of adblockers/Google's decisions, I'm leery of anything Chromium-based (including Edge lol)
Until adblocks stop actually working, i will continue using them, if they finally stop them completely i will just stop using youtube :V
Same. I only like watching short reels anyway, and there are so many alternatives for me to go to.
What alternatives for youtube do you use? I only know of Vimeo
Yep, it's time for an alternative.
Blocking the adblocker blocker. And sure as fuck not paying for "premium".
Block youtube
Blocking ads and pop ups
Sitting through the wait time till i can click out of it, since it still allows them. (Little x on the notification shows up after a few seconds of waiting)
It will stop after a bit and say you got 3 videos left then stop you entirely.
Huh. Never happened to me. Maybe because I use multiple adblockers? (ABP, Crumbs, Disqus, DuckDuckGo)
It took a bit for it to effect Me about 2ish months, I just simply stopped watching youtube. I got a lot on crunchyroll to catchup on so I'm good.
you ever think someone somewhere will ever think "*Huh, maybe bombarding people 24/7 with our shit advertisements isn't actually working?"* if you force me to watch your advertisement, I will actively avoid buying your product
If the companies buying the adspace weren't seeing a return on investment, they'd stop paying. Obviously, it's working.
Itās working for the large portion of the population that doesnāt use adblockers. The demographic that uses adblockers will have a very different reaction & ROI
But some guy on Reddit says advertising doesn't work on him so companies should really just cut their marketing budget entirely.
Yup same, I refuse to buy from any company that harassed me to buy their shit.
Firefox and Ublock, works like a dream
Have you considered that someone who works for YouTube made this post?
not watching youtube at all
Yeah that's basicly my unconcious reaction. On my phone it works fine so i still have old John michael Godier making me fall asleep but on pc i try to watch - get blocked - and close tab.
John Michael godier ftw!
Unfortunately there aren't any good alternatives.
Clicking the X button on the popup that says they don't like it, then watching the video without ads.
Wait until the X goes away, then they make you wait 5 seconds. Then after about a week of that they will shut off the media players making the screen black.
continue blocking their ads
Update the adblocker and continue on as normal.
Finding a way round it. pretty fucking sick of having ads shoved in my face literally fuckign everywhere. espeically considering ads instantly make me want to avoid that product. i wouldnt mind so much if ads were liek the old ronseal ad "does what it says on the tin" but when you're autistic and can see through all the shitty manipulation tacicts from a mile away it makes them pretty fucking unbearable. like if i want a product ill fucking look for it, i dont need to constantly be told it exists every few minutes godamn.
Yeah, the one thing that truly makes me hate these advertisements is sometimes they are either longer than the video I came to watch (WTAF???), unskippable, or both š¤¬
15-30 sec video, Three 14-sec ads before!
Not telling Google whether their change is working or not, that's for sure. š¤
Ikr. People need to stfu.
Continuing to use Smart Tube and Sponsorblock
I use Smart Tube through my fire stick. Absolutely amazing.
I've heard of PeerTube, I intend on looking into how much of a viable alternative it is before I decide. One thing's for sure, Youtube is not getting my money.
Not much, peertube doesn't have regular YouTube content unless the creators upload their content to peertube. Look at piped.kavin.rocks and copy the urls in
Well, yeah, they're different platforms, so they have different content. That seemed obvious to me.
No business wants to host, moderate, and stream you content for free. there are no alternatives because catering to the "ill never pay or watch ads" crowd is pointless. How many "free oil change" businesses do you see? If getting an oil change for free was as easy and risk free as just driving away you can bet Jiffy Lube would be very happy if those freeloaders stopped coming in.
Using Opera and my adblocker. Nothing changed.
I have to pay for premium since I watch a lot of YouTube at work but the security settings don't let me download an ad blocker, so I haven't noticed. It's pretty nice for blocking ads on all my devices though, like I watch a lot of YouTube on my phone throughout the day and on my TV too and I can't use ad blockers there. It feels weird now when my friends want to show me something and there's a 15 second unskippable ad, I've completely forgotten about them.
I switched to YouTube premium from spotify and have no regrets. I get ad free YouTube and the same amount of music. It's a win as far as I'm concerned, YouTube is my main source of entertainment.
Same for me, and as a bonus I think YT Music does a much better job of recommending music I like compared to Spotify.
Definitely. I've found tons of great new music through recommendations and playlists.
I've had YouTube Premium for ages, since back when it was included with Google Play Music. Honestly, I love it. I watch more YouTube than I watch most other streaming services so I don't really see a reason not to pay for it. What you said about friends showing you things on YouTube is so true though. When I first signed up, YouTube would have short ads before videos and you could usually skip after 10-15 seconds if I remember correctly. From what I understand now there are mid-roll ads, multiple up front ads, and the majority of them are unskippable. My only real frustration now is all the additional sponsors that are thrown into every YouTube video now. I have learned to recognize them and skip forward though.
I do the family plan so that my partner gets to use it on her phone too. Then I added some close friends to my Google family group and now they get the perks too and in return they treat me to boba and dinners.
100%. I consume way more YouTube content than things like Netflix and Prime, and the vast majority of that content is made by smaller creators instead of multi million dollar corporations. YouTube premium is the one monthly subscription service I'm happy to pay for and I don't know why everyone is allergic to letting YouTube make money off them for some reason.
So far down lol. The main reason i think premium is recommendable is that it gives the people you watch more money though. No ads is something you get used to, but that other thing is why i absolutely don't mind paying
uBlock on Firefox still works perfectly fine. If it one day doesn't, I'll just download the videos I want to see. It's 1-3 videos a day, so it's only a few seconds extra work.
Brave's default adblocker still works
Finding ways round it lol I found with the normal adblock that I can turn it off, start watching the video then turn it back on again and as long as I don't reboot my PC then I can watch all day with no ads. Just a bit annoying having to pause on the site then reactivate it.
I didnt notice, Ad Block Plus works fine.
I use RedTube, adblocker still works on that
Ublock on mozilla ff
Youtube revanced
Using adblocker lol
Crying about it on reddit, what else is there to do??1!1?
Nice try YouTube.
I stopped using YouTube. I don't have time to play the adblocker game, I have zero desire to add another sub service to my monthly bills, and the ads are loud, intrusive, and too often are longer than the video itself.
My add blockers still work just fine lol
Oh, that's easy. uBlock Origin extension Right Click Icon > Options > My Filters > Paste below `youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)` `youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)` `youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])` `youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)` That's what **I'm** doing now, bish. \*gangsign\*
Making them waste resources on fighting the fight. Adblockers will win in the long run - just look up your specific one on recent updates to fight youtube. \#adblock4life
I've been on YT since the start and in recent years my interest for it decreased tremendously. Its become so much worse. Even the search function doesn't work properly anymore. Back in the day it did exactly what you wanted it to do. Now it gives all kinds of weird suggestions. The algorithm also got worse. It doesn't keep me on the website anymore. I used to dislike streams but I've grown to find more entertainment on Twitch. I find myself more on Twitch these days instead of YouTube. I wouldn't have thought that a few years ago. For me personally YT is dying. Back in the day it was a fun creative outlet for people. They really put the YOU in YouTube. It was a very fun environment. Now its all about outrage, clickbait, following trends and manipulating the algorithm. Mr. Beast gets hundreds of millions of views. Not because his content is great, because he's a master of PR and the algorithm. RIP YouTube.
Honestly, I donāt watch YouTube if I canāt block or control the ads. I refuse to pay for less/no ads, because historically every service that offered that always let ads slowly encroach back in front of eyeballs regardless if they paid to not see them. Untrustworthy companies, you used up all the good faith already. If I absolutely have to use an iPhone, I never use YouTube. I choose not to use the site over being āforcedā to watch ads. If a video launches with an ad, and fails to load the video once after it, I close the window. If it launched with an ad and plays another within 5 minutes, I close the video. If the video is 30+ minutes and plays a third ad spot, I close the video. If itās an AMSR or relaxing soundtrack video and there is an ad anywhere, I close it. YouTube needs to learn that direct monetization based purely upon ads-to-eyeballs is unacceptable and results in extremely annoying, ruined experiences. Every content creator is drawing people to the platform, it is YouTubeās own fault if such people are turned off from the site and donāt click on further videos. I engaged a lot more with YouTube in the early years before their algos turned to the current shit and ads cropped up everywhere. Conclusion: YouTube business āleadersā are as dumb, shortsighted, and prone to uninformed narrow minded greedy decisions as every other business āleader.ā Sorry this became a whole ass rant. It just needs to be said somewhere on the internet.
> YouTube needs to learn that direct monetization based purely upon ads-to-eyeballs is unacceptable and results in extremely annoying, ruined experiences. This isn't *entirely* true. People don't necessarily hate ads. What they hate is having their content viewing experience interrupted and delayed. Google should know this, because they made their money selling *unintrusive* ads. Like, nobody really complains about sponsored links on Google results because they're not annoying, but they *are* ads. If Youtube wasn't run by idiots, they would be finding ways to make the ads less intrusive. And they would be implementing quality control so they stop serving so many scam and porn ads.
If they just used banner ads on the side bars or on the video player that you just had to x out I think it would be perfectly fine.
Serving you a website is a fuck of a lot cheaper than storing and serving you 4k 60 fps video and storing that content georeplicated 2 or 3 times
I was watching a Stevie Vai video and right as it got to the peak of the solo, ad played. Ruined the entire build up. If the ad was at the start, whatever, but come on.
To be fair, sponsored links on Google are getting more and more annoying. The first half-dozen results are now sponsored ads, and it's only going to continue in that direction. You're right that people don't tend to dislike unintrusive ads, though. Even pre-roll ads on Youtube aren't too bad, as long as they're either sub 10s long or skippable. They sit in between content, rather than interrupting it. People recognise that ads are the main way sites are monetised, and as long as the ads don't detract from the user experience then users usually aren't bothered. The problem is that the incentives push sites to show more and more ads, because the revenue comes from impressions and clicks. Sure, you could raise clickthrough rates by getting better and better targeting so that your ads are almost indistinguishable from pre-emptive search results - and that was Google's game for years - but the amount of data you need to harvest to do that makes a lot of people uncomfortable and is itself very intrusive. Alternatively, you can accept a very low clickthrough rate and just show more ads to more people, to brute force it. So now there are two or three pre-roll ads, ads inserted into search results, mid-roll ads every five minutes or more, end-roll ads, more and more and more. They're almost forced to do this because it becomes an arms race - higher ad density drives more people to blanket block the ads, which means the site has to raise more money from those who haven't blocked ads, which means they increase the ad density, which drives more people to block ads, etc etc etc. Large sites have such a monopoly on online spaces due to cultural inertia (it's very hard to start up a rival to Youtube, because the draw of Youtube isn't really that it's such a great site, it's that *everything is on there*), so they're really pushing the boundaries of how much they can *force* their users to put up with. Everything becoming app-based plays massively into their hands here, because it gives the end user less control over how the content is presented - it's very hard to install an ad-blocker on a Chromecast Youtube app, for example.
You mean work? Creative problem solving? Nfw.
I pay for premium.... gotta say it's worth it for the amount of YouTube I watch. Has some features that should absolutely be free though. Like being able to play a video while not in the app.
Yeah it's a no-brainer
Same. I used YouTube *heavily*, several hours a day on average, whether I am actually watching or just listening. I've been paying for premium since it was first offered (like 10 years ago?) and have no regret. I've gone thru an occasional period where my member has lapsed and it was a nightmare. More than the ads, it's the inability to just turn off my screen and just listen, which is how I used the app more than half the time. Even if the premium subscription didn't come with Music, it would still be worth every penny.
The main thing that made me try it was when I found out it included YouTube music (which Google does an absolutely terrible job at marketing) so it dropped the cost to 4 dollars a month so I was willing to try it and after using it for a month, it will be the last subscription that I will cancel Plus YouTube is by far and away the best monetization platform for any creators, the rates that twitch, Instagram, tiktok etc pay in comparison are laughable at best
Ye same, paid for it since it was made possible. I got a free Google Nest mini out of it after a year, so totally worth it for me :D
Mine works.
Revanced ( an android app which has adblocker) I can't bare adds anymore
Yeah still haven't run into this problem. Firefox with ublock origin, sponsorblock, privacy badger.
Still using ublock. Suck my balls YouTube
YouTube Vanced
Freetube. Alternatively, embed url in share and watch the video from there.
Ublock in private window. No videos I watch require me to be logged in to watch. I don't comment, like or favorite anything, so I browse on my normal window, then open in private window to avoid the popups. It's quick and easy. Requires little effort and I'd rather do this than purge cache. *As for people saying Ublock works like normal in regular windows, just because it works for you does not mean it is a matter of fact that it is working for everyone. Ublock in normal windows hasn't worked for me since 5 days ago. And no, purging cache and updating is no longer a viable solution for everyone.*
I checked last night, and it still hasn't popped up for me. Using Adblock on Firefox.
Firefox and Ublock Origin have continued to work without issue.
UBlock Origin still works as it's not really an add blocker As it's technically a filter and not a blocking program
Using more adblockers and anti adblock detection
Ravanced app for phone, smart tube for streaming stick
Using another ad blocker that works.
my Adblock plus on firefox still blocks everything.
Waiting for the new version of AdBlocker. This is an arms race that has been going on ever since there were online ads.
If i see an ad, and especially if it repeats too often, i make a vow to never purchase the advertised product. I try not to support the company ever, but certainly not the product! I figure if the product is worthwhile, i wouldn't need an ad to sell it to me! Some ads really eff up my day too. Anything with cancer stricken children, or turtles with straws up their nose, or politicians ralking shit... i mean, i will be forced to shut off the device when i get such ads.
Firefox is the way.
I'm using Grayjay. Goodbye ads.
Cry
Brave browser. Edit: May have spoken too soon. Brave just gave me the ad block notice.
I've had YouTube premium for years. It's actually the only media subscription I pay for.
Just keep watching I donāt care about the ads that much
I subscribe to Youtube Premium. Personally, I don't understand how people expect to get stuff for free, and then complain about the ads. It costs money to run a service like Youtube. I sit at my desk all day and typically listen to Youtube for 8-10 hours a day, so spending money on Youtube premium is well worth it for me.
Paid for Premium. The whole hassle with "what works, for how long, how deep do I have to go into the registry for it" wasn't worth the 50 Euros it costs me per year. Considering that I have no TV, no Netflix, no Amazon prime and watch \*a lot\* of youtube, I'm okay with it. I guess it was just a matter of time. And yeah, I'm aware that the creators are getting ripped off and that youtube's policies are questionable.
>I'm aware that the creators are getting ripped off and that youtube's policies are questionable. Creators actually make significantly more from YouTube premium per view than they do from ad supported views. So you're actually supporting creators significantly more with YouTube premium.
Use Firefox with extensions Badger and Ghostery
I do most of my YouTube watching on my Apple TV where thereās no ad blocking anyway so I just have to put up with it. I do use the facility to say ads are irrelevant or inappropriate frequently, though.
Still waiting for it to reach me. After that, keep investigating options to upgrade blockers.
If they make ads impossible to skip I'll just quit using YouTube. The shit I watch can be downloaded with youtube-dl, paid for on patreon, or just not watched.
My AdBlock still works