I guess YouTube is launching a new offensive in the eternal ads vs adblock war?
Noticed over the last few days that a lot of YouTube links would just freeze rather than play.
I use Firefox as my primary brouser, and had Adblock Ultimate installed.
Switched to Ublock Origin today and things seem fine for the moment. I guess we will have to keep a few different adblockers in our toolboxes in future to keep ahead of this game?
I gave in and turned off my ad blocker (AdBlock Plus)… and YouTube still gives me the Black Screen Of Death
“It looks like you may be using an ad blocker.” Yeah, dorkwads, looks like it to you, but I’m not! C’mon, I need to see 420 Times Taylor Dissed Gandhi!
I’ve tried turning AdBlocker on, refreshing, then getting the same message and turning it back off, to no avail.
Only response is to click the “Report Issue” and give YT a piece of my mind… done that a couple of couple of times.
After you turned AdBlock off, did you do a complete refresh (usually Ctrl-F5) or just a refresh (usually plain F5)? The difference is the complete refresh forces reloading all the cached scripts and stuff that Adblock may have neutered while it was on. One of my banks was that way.
I keep going to YouTube to see if I’m going to start getting these nasty demands, and so far nothing. I’ve probably gone to YouTube more in the last week that I had in the past year.
I’m using Firefox with Ublock Origin, running on Kubuntu. I also fired up Brave (using built-in ad-blocking only) and went to YouTube, and same result - no problems, no ads.
Have I just been extremely lucky so far?
Me too. I’m left to only conclude that these messages are nothing more than ads for YouTube Premium one of the two clickable buttons.
Same here.
I don’t know if I’ve been using Youtube more than before — about the same — but have only noticed the occasional “Do you want to try Youtube Super Premium Whatever?” thing that’s been around for quite a while.
Even disabled Adblock Plus (but left UBlock Origin on) for fun. Still nothing.
But most things I’ve viewed are short clips from older movies, and old music performances (“old” being, you know, 1960s or 1970s at the latest), as well as short clips uploaded by unknown musicians giving a demonstration or brief performance.
Mostly Firefox, but also Brave browser (AFAIK I haven’t added any extensions at all to Brave) as well on occasion. On desktop/notebook computer only, just running bog standard latest Ubuntu with Xfce, so nothing special or fancy.
Guess just lucky!
It is possible to block ads within the YouTube app on IOS and Android. On IOS you can use things like uyou+, and on Android revanced. Both apply patches to the YouTube app so it does not show ads. Neither of these are trivial to install, and I won’t be giving instructions or linking to either, because I do not know which side of the “pirating” line they fall on this board.
Any real discussion of their legality is going to be deeply mired in discussions of copyright, fair use, DMCA, and CFAA. It will take court decisions and appeals to arrive at any real conclusion, and that will never happen, because none of the hobbyists who created them are ever going to be able to engage in a fair fight with Google. So stating they’re illegal is premature, and saying their legal is overly optimistic.
Well I dont know about anyone else but YouTube got hard tonight and after 3 videos here’s what you get :
" Ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service
and won’t leave that screen…
See Post #82 for a possible workaround.
Also, I have found Incognito/Private Window to help too.
Personally, I have had mixed results but usually manage to get it all to work.
had to jiggle some buttons but it works for now… and I’ve had this ublock origin for about 3 years and didn’t knowyou could turn off ads in incognito mode
I have used BRAVE as my browser for about 4 months now, and it automatically eliminates ads, especially on sites like youtube etc. Just two days ago I got the youtube ALERT telling me that I have an adblocker and they are really displeased about that. Just click the close button, easy peasy. 
That’s how it started for many of us. Then it progressed. Then Google locks you out.
Yeah. They are turning the screws. But slowly. That manages the level of hue and cry from the public.
Same story as everyone else here before the timer window, then the three strikes window then the lockout window.
What happens if you then delete your Youtube cookie?
I just pay the $14/mo for Premium. I feel like I watch it enough that I’m getting at least 47 cents worth of entertainment out of it every day.
After using free tube, and then incognito mode (because it’s easier) and also one round of ad block off for regular youtube in chrome, things seem to work again like it’s suppose to work, like it always has worked with ad blocking blocking ads.
I tried. Too easy. Doesn’t work.
I once thought it was easy peasy as well. Now I’m blocked but incognito works, even after signing into my account so I can get my history/channels/etc. I wonder how long this will work. Assholes.
From the Reddit Youtube uBlock Origin thread (cited previously):
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/178yasm/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_16_2023/
YouTube changes their detection scripts twice a day, which means that even if you got a filter update earlier today, another one might be required soon. There’s no way around this if you want to remain logged in.
Thus keeping filters up-to-date is a hassle so the incognito/private browsing or Freetube approaches are less hassle.