is it for the US market only?
if yes, can’t you spoof other countries
Is what for the US market? The forced acceptance of ads?
I’m in western Europe, and seeing the same thing. Or was until I reconfigured my system.
ok, I got the feeling this is somewhat geographically limited to some countries …
I have never experienced any problems/nag-screens here in LatAm
Just tried to view a YouTube video. Of course, I have an ad blocker running.
Got the YouTube banner: “This is video one of three you’re allowed for free. Turn off your ad blocker.”
I did turn off my ad blocker, and tried again. “This is video one of two you’re allowed. Turn off your ad blocker.”
Jeez, I don’t even have to watch the videos; I’m credited for watching them anyway.
YouTube, I turned off my ad blocker for you, you dumb @#$%s! If you do not know that I have indeed followed your instructions and disabled my ad blocker when visiting your site, and am willing to put up with ads (good opportunities to go to the bathroom or fix another drink, thus negating your insistence on showing ads for products I neither care about nor can take advantage of, as I am not in the US), then … No, I really do not know how to finish that sentence without a huge dose of profanity.
Oh yes I do. @#T% you with a rusty spoon, you @#%, #%^. For years, you've provided us with videos at no charge. Now, it's all about the money? Well, @#% you once again and may you #$%^ the %^&*. Sideways, so it scrapes.
Make of that what you will.
Maybe Dailymotion has what I’m looking for. At no charge, as it should be.
IME you should not see any bad things using UBlock Origin, but you can also try some of these portals: https://docs.invidious.io/instances/#list-of-public-invidious-instances-sorted-from-oldest-to-newest
Thanks @DPRK . I had not heard of Invidious and that URL doesn’t explain it to a newbie. For other’s info, here’s a short Wikipedia article.
Google’s new tactic is to slow the rate at which Chromium browser extensions are allowed updates so they can’t keep up with YouTube (and Google in general) pushing ads on you
this could come back and bite them in the arse … EU is surely taking notes of “leveraging mono/oligopolistic behaviour” hence putting other companies (ad-blockers) at a disadvantage.
Just call Microsoft and ask what they learned from that.
I still have yet to have any issues with youtube. If it wasn’t for this thread, I’d have no idea this was going on. I assume it’s an A/B thing, but I don’t know. But in any case, slowing down Chrome’s ability to keep extensions updated seems like a great way to push people to other browsers.
ISTM, if youtube wants to make this work, their best bet would be to force people to use a standalone app that they’d have full control over.
Unrelated and maybe this has already been mentioned, but I was skimming youtube’s wiki page and noticed that their current CEO, who took over in February of this year, was previously the vice president of DoubleClick.
Blocked again, after weeks of no problems since I did the above.
But this time I had to reset to default, purge all caches, THEN update filters and then I was able to use Youtube again. Once again, thanks!
I just had to update ublock also. I noticed something odd prior to updating. I was watching a youtube video embedded in another web site and it worked fine, but if I clicked on the “watch on youtube” link it wouldn’t work.
I’ve been seeing something like that happening lately; specifically, a ‘skip’ timer counting down more than 5 seconds - often 10, but sometimes other amounts, and it seems to count against both ads in the preroll, so for example a 12 second countdown might be there at the start, but the first ad is only 5 seconds, so the second ad starts and the countdown still has 7 seconds left.
That’s not all that weird. Embedded YouTube videos are not affected. There’s actually a script mentioned earlier in the thread that actually embeds YouTube on YouTube’s website. I used that for my dad when he got blocked, and it works fine. Though you have to turn it off when uBlock unblocks you.
I still haven’t gotten it on my computer. And I just notice I use something called Canvas Blocker, which prevents sites from tracking you using the canvas element (which allows scripts to draw on the screen). And it blocks 5 uses of that by YouTube.
Maybe that has something to do with it? I wouldn’t think so: they surely could track me by cookies. But it’s also weird that YouTube is using something as underhanded as canvas tracking.
When I’ve been blocked on my Chromebook, I report it as an issue, turn off uBlock and send in a screenshot. That seems to work for several weeks, rinse and repeat.
On my PC, I’m now using Brave for any YouTube videos. No issues yet.
Based on what is only a lay-woman’s knowledge of the male anatomy, I wish it luck. 
I’m going to pirate this and use it on occasion. I hope that’s okay. LOL
I stole it from Penn Jillette. He has a way with profanity.
Not sure if this is still relevant (YouTube management’s efforts to do the impossible are well into Wile E Coyote territory at this point), but you have to reload the page with the ad blocker off before it’ll register as such. Also, UBlock will prevent the message from reappearing if you target it with the “element zapper” (it’s the lightning bolt icon on the far left). This will cause YouTube to freeze up but not count the video, and then you can update/purge caches to get everything running smoothly again. The drawback is that YouTube will also freeze up whenever it generates any kind of window, including deleting or reporting a post. But you can shut off UBlock, reload, do what you need, and then turn it back on, with no harm done.
Just for the record, I’m using Edge right now with no problems, but I’m perfectly willing to jump to Opera or Brave if it comes to that. (I don’t like Firefox; it slows everything down too much.)
More front ends for you:
I feel like Google/YT has given up the fight. My Chrome browser, with uBlock Origin has now been working fine for a couple weeks. No more nags which eventually ended up in totally blocked videos requiring the usage of an incognito window to get more ad-free viewing.