Am I the only one who finds it particularly obnoxious to tell me ad blockers violate their terms of service?
The terms of service that are somehow a completely one way contract? The terms of service that can be a hundred pages of dense legalese that are frankly beyond the comprehension of a significant portion of the population? The terms of service that I, to my knowledge, have never actually affirmatively agreed to?
Someday I should start a Pit thread on EULAs and terms of service and how stupid and wrong they are.
Right. Almost every other browser is apparently built on the same basic code base from Google.
Even Microsoft Edge uses the Google code base, it seems.
Which is why, as a possibly lame hope for competition and choice, I keep using Firefox.
There’s basically 3 browsers these days: 1) Gecko/Firefox, and its lesser known forks, 2) WebKit/Safari, and 3) Chromium, which is Chrome, Edge, Brave, DuckDuckGo, and pretty much every other one. Firefox is good, and yes it does YouTube just fine.
UBlock Origin is officially gone from Chrome, but there’s workarounds. If you use an Android device, there’s also ahem a way to run the YouTube app ad-free.
I was a diehard Firefox fanatic for many years. I have never installed Chrome on any of my machines. But, Firefox is slow. I started experimenting with Brave about a year ago, and switched to it full-time about six months ago. Yeah, I know, it’s a Chromium-based browser.
I’ve reported many times in this thread that I have never seen any of the issues everyone is reporting. Whether using Firefox or Brave. That is still true. I’m using Brave with its built-in ad blocking and nothing more. I suspect running Linux (Kubuntu 24.04) has something to do with it.
I still am getting the scolding screen fairly frequently (Firefox, and dumped Adblock+ in favor UBlockO)-there’s a twiddle involving turning on, then off, a checkbox called “Quick Fixes” under UBlock Filters, have to do so then completely close all Ff tabs and windows.
I’m not getting a warning pop-up bit I have getting a pause before starting with a little “Technical difficulties? Find out more” link in the corner. Which, as previously pointed out, winds up feeling less like “I shouldn’t be ad blocking” and more like “Wow, this service kind of sucks; it can’t even play a video half the time”
I’ve been getting that pop up for just about every video lately (Firefox, with uBO), along with a delay of 5 or 10 seconds and sometimes requiring a few refreshes.
For me it’s ‘maybe I should give Nebula another shot’. I always forget that I even have Nebula.
It hadn’t even crossed my mind to disable my adblocker to see if that makes a difference. But I’m trying to leave well enough alone. I’m worried that whatever I’m doing that’s keeping all these ads away might be a sort of Three Stooges Syndrome and I don’t want to go jostling things around.
I’m also getting this and I haven’t clicked on the “Experiencing interruptions?” pop-up yet but when I hover over it, I see the word “adblockers” in the URL. So I guess Youtube has decided to make the user experience terrible in the hopes that this will make us want to spend money on it.
I downloaded UBlock Origin, then when I got a warning, selected “Block Element” and targeted it. A line with something like “ytd-enforcement-measures” in your filters. Then whenever the blocked warning showed up (a white horizontal bar), I reloaded the video and it ran fine. Same as last time. I don’t know if the lite version has these filters, but that’s definitely the way to go.
The bars stopped for me about a day ago, but I’m not letting my guard down again.
Now, the video platform is once again finding another way to implement advertisements by beta testing 30-second non-skippable ads in regular campaigns.
Today the videos will come up on Firefox with uBlock but won’t play, they freeze up without ever running. As a test, on Chrome with no ad blocker they play no problem.
I use Chrome with AdblockPlus (free version). The ads come up, but adblock silences them. So I just get a blank screen and a swirly circle for a few seconds of silence, then back to whatever I was listening to. I find that convenient enough. It doesn’t steal my focus from whatever else I am doing.
This seems to be a sort of détente in the YT/ABP war. Normally YT updates so that I get ads again and then ABP updates about a week later to make them go away. But this has been the status quo for at least a month. I’m beginning to think ABP isn’t going to win this one.
More than that, know that Chromium (Google) is the basis for almost all web browsers. Firefox is one of the few who do not use Chromium so are not subject to the whims of what Google wants.
I made the switch months ago and Firefox does everything I want. Never looked back.
I’ve been using Brave for months without troubles and only something like last week or so, I got the youtube nag screen. Just once so far. (Knocks on wood)
My Brave started quitting on YouTube about the same time frame
Switched to Chrome for the moment which was okay with Youtube ad blockers.
Today Brave seemed okay again
Firefox with UBlock–you know, the one everybody touts as the ad-blocker?
It hasn’t been updated in 14 days now-note all the pinheads on reddit kept insisting to get this one, as it allegedly gets frequent updates to combat YT’s silliness. I am now forced to run vids in private windows, and make comments (if any, no big loss) in a normal one.
Maybe something is wrong with your specific installation. It might be worth removing and reinstalling it. My filter lists are showing as having been updated 25 minutes ago* and I’m still not having any issues with youtube.
*Full disclosure, I’ve never actually looked at that timestamp before now. For all I know they updated 25 minutes ago after having not been updated for the last two weeks.
Or just going down the filter list and forcing updates.
(The clock icon, it will turn from grey to blue.)
I started to see ads again earlier in the week, forced all the updates, and the ads stopped.
I have absolutely no idea how to do any of that; it just shows a greyed-out “update now” button–I see no “forcing updates” buttons, nor do I see any timestamps on anything.
I don’t know if the lite version has these filters, but that’s definitely the way to go.