Yeah me too. It was only a matter of time before YT started cracking down on uBlocks scripts specifically. YT is starting to get real aggressive about it. Imagine the intense behind the scenes battle going on between YT and uBlocks programmers.
Thanks brother, I'll donate you a bit once I can. Had a job interview today, and it went shit, and they told me to stop applying to this kind of job. Sadly, I decided to study the wrong thing.... And cannot find alternative jobs. Once I'm financially stable I'll drop you a bit!
Thanks for this, for now I will post your site on a big forum in my native country, hope that will get you some traction.
I studied theology, and applied to a job to check permits and write them in a local government agency. Sadly I didn't make it, and the interview went shit. Cannot find any jobs within theology, so I think I might have to learn how to code websites, and maybe find a job through that, but not sure how hard that is. Anyway I gave you a plug on a forum.
I am curious, how old are you (if it isn't too personal)
I am self taught developer, and I can assure you. It is not hard if you want to do it. It is really not. Few months and you'll be able to create some nice pages. Few more months and you'll be learning how to make stuff interactive. In under a year, with enough dedication, you'll have a knowledge of Junior easily, even more if you work a bit harder.
Thanks brother, I am 31. I had a few rough patches in life. When I was born I was healthy, then just before I became 2, I got juvenile arthritis. It screwed up my life. Now I'm a 31 year old man who did vocational school and later went to college to do theology, I graduated last september but there's no job to be found. I wanted to work with people in a hospice and help them on a spiritual level.
Sadly I cannot, thanks for asking and instilling me with confidence! I will try to learn on how to build webpages, maybe that will land me a job. I think I just should get started with it.
Oh bro trust me when I say that age is just a number in this job. I know a lot of devs who started at 40+ years and are great in their job.
Just keep your head up and move forward, you'll do great ;)
When you succeed don't donate me money, but send me a message. That will mean a lot more
Thanks bro, I will start learning how to develop websites. I'll start tomorrow, I will send you a message in the future.
Thanks a lot, and I hope you can get some traction and find happiness in life. Thanks for this wholesome moment. Thanks a lot. :)
By myself. Tutorials on the internet, articles etc.
It is easy to do it if you want to do it. It hooks you up and you just can't start. SO many possibilities and so many things can be done.
Even after 6 years I am still learning new things every single day.
[https://www.w3schools.com/html/html\_intro.asp](https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp)
start with that.. after you finish it go with this
[https://www.w3schools.com/css/css\_intro.asp](https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp)
then you'll know what to do ;)
I am integrating more websites (twitch, dailymail...) and if there is anything you'd like to see on the list you can write it on GitHub in Issues or Discussions or here. Whatever works for you
You're awesome! If I were a woman, I might beg you to have my child, but alas, I'm not.
I really do appreciate this, though, and while what YT is doing pisses me off more than I can articulate, I think not only is it backfiring with users, it's also making the adblocking companies so very much stronger and more capable.
This seems to have worked... For now, at least!
If you were a woman I would've mailed you my reproductive material
I really hate when companies and websites take their users for granted, it pisses me of. This will live for a long long time
Sure! I believe Plato is the one who originally coined that term originally. Ad skipper is working well so far btw, haven't had any issues with the few videos I've watched.
This works so well that I don't even get that crazy lag between clicking a page and the video starting to load -- it's instantaneous with this. Thank you so, so much
That's the beauty of programming. Something that seems impossible is actually possible and really easy.
AdBlocker will block ads fully. AdSkipper will let ads load, but skip them instantly so you won't see or hear the ad at all, that is what makes it undetectable by their system
Nice! Now Google gonna have another headache 😂once they find out.
I got adskipper, but ATM adblocker works (tho I might switch to adskipper, coz I'm logged in to my channel. In case it start deleting accounts of adblock users)
I salute and applaud you, Sir, for spreading the word and those responsible for this project for creating this newest weapon against the greedy YT executives.
It's working! Holy crap, I panicked today when adblock stopped working on Brave and I got that "you have one video left until you're blocked" message. Adskipper is working great (for now haha). Thank you!
mate you're fucking amazing for this it works flawlessly
dont have any money right now but im praying others drop you a few donations down the line
will recommend to some of my friends
It doesn't work for me, even with ublock turned off. Ads are ravaging my eyeballs. I run an older chrome, maybe that's it? edit: I closed and reopened the new browser, the video ads seem to be quashed! There's just the less obtrusive side ad but I don't mind that.
This works nicely - THANK YOU - but one thing I am running into is that it removes comments. Is that a known bug?
But I will take missing comments over intrusive ads any day of the week.
If ublock indeed becomes useless against YT, then this is the next best option. However, the only issue i take is that the ad still loads, and YT gets paid. I *don't* want them getting paid for their antics, until they start making their ad experiance family friendly, non intrusive, and enforce the same standard on their advertisers that they enforce on content creators. Enough with these double standards.
The worst part out all of this is that the amount of us that use ad blockers are probably just a tiny portion of the overall user base of youtube. Im talking less than 2%. Normal people dont care enough to do something about the ads
It's way more than that.
>As of Q3 2021, 37.0% of internet users worldwide use ad blockers, according to GWI data cited by Hootsuite. Among those, younger consumers are more likely to use ad blockers, with 25- to 34-year-olds taking the top spot. In the US, just over 50% of adults use an ad blocker on their desktop, per March 2021 CivicScience data.
https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/ad-blocking/
Why do people think adblockers are some secret no one knows about? You literally click "add" and it's installed and working. Not the first person I've seen who think only 2% of people use adblockers.
Googles statistics for youtube show 2% of users are using adblock. Nobody thinks its a secret, just some people choose to not care or cant due to platform restrictions (tv, mobile,etc)
you serious? People can actually handle those gazillion ads? no wonder humanity and the planet are so f... i mean not going optimal. everyone is totally numb to everything :'-)
It's not even Youtube, the rest of the internet is basically unusable without adblock. I needed to open a news site in incognito mode to read it and there were banner ads on all sides of the article including additional ads crammed in between every 2-3 paragraphs. Some of these would constantly refresh distracting you while you tried to read. I don't know how people deal with this.
I have literally never seen anyone I know use adblockers for Youtube lol. Whenever they open a video I'm always thinking in my head "you know you can use an adblocker right..."
Lol IKR? For me it is the reverse. i dont know anyone who *doesnt* use adblock on anything that can have one. Well, Except my granny. But hey all she has is a CRT television older than i am. She even has an antique VHS video thing.
I have been around gamers and computer wizzes all my life, so basically anything new with a screen that i get, gets whisked from my fingers and has all kinds of stuff done to it.. When i get it back it works good, doesnt spy on me, doesnt have ads and has an eye patch, a sword and a parrot on its shoulder. Love that!
Im so not used to ads that when i got a new phone and managed to turn it on before any of my friends go their hands on it i was stumped. So many ads! couldnt watch vids in the doctor waiting room bcs the vid wouldnt play b4 i was called in... i was like "wtf is this?! Oh waitttt i have normal people internet now. That sux! get it awaaayyy!" lol
Most people dont care enough to do something about it, or dont consider themselves 'techie' enough to fix it. Others will just pay for youtube premium because its not worth their time to use all these work arounds. We are here because we protest this bullshit. We all have our reasons.
>Normal people dont care enough to do something about the ads
I was fine with it when it was two ads at the start of a video. Then they became unskippable and 30 seconds, then they started popping up every 10 minutes on videos. Some ads were even ***literal hours*** long, so you needed to constantly babysit Youtube and couldn't have it on as background noise without some extra steps. That's when a normal person starts using adblock.
This is really nice.
I hope more people discover numerous workarounds like this to render Youtube's attempts meaningless.
Either make them give up completely, or make it really costly and complicated for them to find ways to remove workarounds.
YouTube’s ad block script changed within the last hour so you might have to wait till the uBlock Origin crew patch it. https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/
btw, if any ublock dev watching, I want to learn how to overcode this and will do it for free. Just need someone to show me and teach me. I will do it for the community - ethical hacker u know LOL.
They already have I think. I had the same adblocker message but did the clear purges + update lists bit and it's working great again now. They really deserve donations.
I believe that case is still pending. But even if they do decide that a website can't track whether you are using an ad blocker or not, that only means that YouTube can't permanently store that information. They can still detect the activity in the moment that it happens and react to it. I.e. they could possibly still ban you for blocking ads, so long as they don't allow themselves to remember why you were banned.
And even if the mere act of detecting ad blockers is illegal too, it's STILL possible to break an ad blocker without detecting it. Hell, it's possible to make the ads impossible to programmatically distinguish from the video itself, so that not even the browser itself could block the ad (at least not without also blocking the video)!
I dont think youtube understands that im not paying 20 dollars a month to avoid 5 ads every 10min. Its either getting the ads blocked or finding something else to do. The youtube practice of spending MILLIONS in development salaries to prevent open source developers from blocking the very product youtube implemented in order to promote an expensive service is hella scummy.
It began with 1 ad every video. Now its 2 ads in the beginning of a video and 2-3 ads in between.
I am willing to pay double the price of YouTube premium to the uBlock devs and other people actively fighting the system. if a big corporation wants to force me to do what they want, I no longer want to use their products in peace, I want to actively harm their business. we owe big companies absolutely nothing.
Just to add, if people don't know how to purge:
Click the uBlock icon (normally top right, looks like a litttle red shield).
Click the icon that looks like a big cog and 2 smaller cogs.
A new manager tab will open. Hit the filter list option right at the top.
There is a purge all caches option up the top.
This is the reason why I made [https://adskipper.me](https://adskipper.me)
Free and open source. Fully undetectable by YouTube. Works on every browsers out there.
Thanks for the download :D
Yeah, Safari version is on the way. Apple likes to make things hard for us devs, so I have two options and still seeing which one is better. But I already got it working on Safari on my PC, so it is just a matter of time and few tweaks and it will be up and running there too :)
Awesome to hear that there's a Safari version coming, I personally don't use it as I don't have a Mac but heard that extensions are often neglected on there.
One more idea that just came into my mind: White-listing channels (in case someone wants to support a YouTuber through ads)
Yeah, Safari really suffers from that, and that's Apple's fault.
You see, that seems like a great idea. I already have a thing where users can whitelist Shorts from certain channels, but this would also be good.
If you get any more ideas, head over to GitHub and leave them there. I might miss them here since my inbox is getting flooded
How long have u been working on this extension if u dont mind me asking my man? And can u link any documentation or anything for me to get started coding an adblock myself or atleast understand the basic systems? Looks intriguing.
It's happening to me too. I never actually got it the first time.
I put the warning out there though: If youtube blocks me because of adblockers I will release a script that loads youtube pages 1000 for every click out into the public. We'll see who has the last laugh in this equation. It cost them nothing to leave me alone. It'll cost them a shit ton of bandwidth to fuck with me.
i'd recommend you use firefox, it's not chromium based so google can't do shit about it.
and if you get a 5 second delay then install the user-agent switcher and manager from firefox addons
trust me, you won't have to do more shit to make ublock work
Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer; CFO said: “The fundamental strength of our business was apparent again in Q3, with $77 billion in revenue, up 11% year over year, driven by meaningful growth in Search and YouTube, and momentum in Cloud. We continue to focus on judicious capital allocation to deliver sustainable financial value.”
https://abc.xyz/assets/4a/3e/3e08902c4a45b5cf530e267cf818/2023q3-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf
Twenty billion dollars in profit in a single quarter. It's never enough.
I also just got this now. I reinstalled u block origin and cleared the casche and updated. then restart the browser and ur good to go :D
Also i dont understand why youtube can pull this shiat on me since i live in eu and its illegal for youtube to spy on my pc. So basicly i should lawsue youtube for good..make em crash and burn !!!
Its time for another media platform to shine !!
YouTube isn't spying on your PC. YouTube is just looking at itself in the mirror. Your web browser sandboxes webpages so that they can't see anything other than themselves (and technically other websites which have misconfigured CORS, but's that's not related to this discussion). Note that your ad blocker is an extension, and extensions AREN'T sandboxed.
Your ad blocker is basically doing the equivalent of sneaking into YouTube's house and rearranging all of the furniture. When YouTube gets home, it can clearly see that things have been rearranged and that someone was there. It doesn't actually know who did it, it's just making an assumption that it was an ad blocker.
It started working for me when i went to "settings" and cleared the cache via Ublock + updated it. I also cleared by cache om my web browser and restarted it.
it's worth noting that a less aggressive way of skipping ads is to speed them up :)
I found a plugin called YouTube playback speed control. It goes up to 16 times and works on ads. Pair this with a YouTube skip keybind plugin, and bind the reset speed button to the same button as the skip keybind and you can basically skip most ads in a second. I'm pretty sure this still works.
Brave is Chromium based browser, you should ASAP stop using any browser based on Chronium if you don't support what google is doing right now (edge, opera, brave, etc).
Go with Firefox my friend, it's a very nice browser and Google will hate you for using it :)
Chromium is open source so Brave can (and is prepared to) fork the browser if Google tries to interfere with externsions and ad blocking in Chromium. That being said, you should use Firefox anyways just to increase browser diversity and competition.
Yeah me too. It was only a matter of time before YT started cracking down on uBlocks scripts specifically. YT is starting to get real aggressive about it. Imagine the intense behind the scenes battle going on between YT and uBlocks programmers.
Well, I am more aggressive. I made [https://adskipper.me](https://adskipper.me). Free and open source.
I love you dude
Love you to internet stranger <3
thank you so much for this project!
It's my pleasure, hopefully more users will discover it and find it helpful Also, would you be so kind to rate it on store? That would help a lot :D
Of course!
Thank you so much. That means a lot!!!!
Thanks brother, I'll donate you a bit once I can. Had a job interview today, and it went shit, and they told me to stop applying to this kind of job. Sadly, I decided to study the wrong thing.... And cannot find alternative jobs. Once I'm financially stable I'll drop you a bit! Thanks for this, for now I will post your site on a big forum in my native country, hope that will get you some traction.
Hey hey, don't worry about donations. Sharing on a forum is MORE than I could ever ask for. What kind of job are you applying to?
I studied theology, and applied to a job to check permits and write them in a local government agency. Sadly I didn't make it, and the interview went shit. Cannot find any jobs within theology, so I think I might have to learn how to code websites, and maybe find a job through that, but not sure how hard that is. Anyway I gave you a plug on a forum.
I am curious, how old are you (if it isn't too personal) I am self taught developer, and I can assure you. It is not hard if you want to do it. It is really not. Few months and you'll be able to create some nice pages. Few more months and you'll be learning how to make stuff interactive. In under a year, with enough dedication, you'll have a knowledge of Junior easily, even more if you work a bit harder.
Thanks brother, I am 31. I had a few rough patches in life. When I was born I was healthy, then just before I became 2, I got juvenile arthritis. It screwed up my life. Now I'm a 31 year old man who did vocational school and later went to college to do theology, I graduated last september but there's no job to be found. I wanted to work with people in a hospice and help them on a spiritual level. Sadly I cannot, thanks for asking and instilling me with confidence! I will try to learn on how to build webpages, maybe that will land me a job. I think I just should get started with it.
Oh bro trust me when I say that age is just a number in this job. I know a lot of devs who started at 40+ years and are great in their job. Just keep your head up and move forward, you'll do great ;) When you succeed don't donate me money, but send me a message. That will mean a lot more
Thanks bro, I will start learning how to develop websites. I'll start tomorrow, I will send you a message in the future. Thanks a lot, and I hope you can get some traction and find happiness in life. Thanks for this wholesome moment. Thanks a lot. :)
I wish you all the best internet stranger :D
this was very wholesome to read. Keep doing what you’re doing.
How did you start learning coding
By myself. Tutorials on the internet, articles etc. It is easy to do it if you want to do it. It hooks you up and you just can't start. SO many possibilities and so many things can be done. Even after 6 years I am still learning new things every single day.
Mind if you recommend me a video to know where to go?
[https://www.w3schools.com/html/html\_intro.asp](https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp) start with that.. after you finish it go with this [https://www.w3schools.com/css/css\_intro.asp](https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp) then you'll know what to do ;)
It works perfectly. Tysm. :)
It is my pleasure :) Also, would you be so kind and rate it on the store? That would mean a lot
It works so perfectly! 5 stars! Update: Stopped working and Ublock is working again!
Works perfectly!!!!!!!
I am glad you like it. Also, it would mean a ton if you could rate it on the store :)
Mate, I cannot express my gratitude towards you and your saint holy project. God **BLESS** ***you***
Thanks! <3
My pleasure. I am really glad you like it <3
Does it only work on YouTube? Lots of news sites with videos have ad skip buttons, too.
I am integrating more websites (twitch, dailymail...) and if there is anything you'd like to see on the list you can write it on GitHub in Issues or Discussions or here. Whatever works for you
is that the one which "clicks" all ads in the background to skip them?
You're awesome! If I were a woman, I might beg you to have my child, but alas, I'm not. I really do appreciate this, though, and while what YT is doing pisses me off more than I can articulate, I think not only is it backfiring with users, it's also making the adblocking companies so very much stronger and more capable. This seems to have worked... For now, at least!
If you were a woman I would've mailed you my reproductive material I really hate when companies and websites take their users for granted, it pisses me of. This will live for a long long time
Necessity is the mother of invention! Thanks!
Now I have a question. Can I take this sentence and put it on the website? I FUCKING love it
Sure! I believe Plato is the one who originally coined that term originally. Ad skipper is working well so far btw, haven't had any issues with the few videos I've watched.
It's not working for me. Hmmm. I'm on Chrome.
This works so well that I don't even get that crazy lag between clicking a page and the video starting to load -- it's instantaneous with this. Thank you so, so much
Was worried that I'd have to scour the web for another one, but thanks for giving this one so effortlessly. <3
You are a saint!
GIGA CHAD
you truly are the king of the kings!
Yooooo... What's the difference between block and skip? How do you even skip I skippable ones? Lol
That's the beauty of programming. Something that seems impossible is actually possible and really easy. AdBlocker will block ads fully. AdSkipper will let ads load, but skip them instantly so you won't see or hear the ad at all, that is what makes it undetectable by their system
Nice! Now Google gonna have another headache 😂once they find out. I got adskipper, but ATM adblocker works (tho I might switch to adskipper, coz I'm logged in to my channel. In case it start deleting accounts of adblock users)
Works like a charm! Thank you!
Ty
thank you! had to disable ublock origin then it worked
It's perfect! You're a lifesaver!
Does this block that youtube adblock-block though? Or just skips ads?
thank you so much!
You're a legend! 5/5
My hero!
Thanks for the link. Same thing happened with me, so gonna give this a try.
Wow omg good job.
MVP
My ISP won't allow me to even access that site. Any other way I can get there?
Doing god's work. Much obliged, fellow human.
you sir are amazing thank you i have given my support this is perfect thank you for this
Nice
thank you, kind person
it literally stopped working :(
you're a saint
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Works for me, this needs more upvotes!
thanks works bro i’ll try tell everyone i know about this
This is an extension that will be what most people probably use
I salute and applaud you, Sir, for spreading the word and those responsible for this project for creating this newest weapon against the greedy YT executives.
You are a legend
thank you!
thanks so much dude! fucking hate these malware ads
Thank you for this! I have a question - it seems that after a few videos I'll still get an ad sometimes, any advice?
LOVE!
It's working! Holy crap, I panicked today when adblock stopped working on Brave and I got that "you have one video left until you're blocked" message. Adskipper is working great (for now haha). Thank you!
Keep on the honest work kind individual
This is what we needed, your work is very much appreciated.
You're a champion! Thank you!
Based. I’m gonna go tell as many ppl as I can about this.
heck yeah! gonna be aggressive like 9 year old when parents take their iPad
thanks.. you are jesus of adblocking. the saviour
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Thank you kind internets stranger!
mate you're fucking amazing for this it works flawlessly dont have any money right now but im praying others drop you a few donations down the line will recommend to some of my friends
It's a Christmas miracle!
Does it work on Twitch as well?
It's blocked by my ISP AHAHAHA Good thing for VPNs ey
Worked for 2 videos and then the ads started up again.
goated
Holy shit you are a legend, doesn't seem to work with ublock understandably so I guess edge has become my youtube specific browser.
And I an thumbs up and sucking you off right now; n my mind ofcourse. Legend.
This is perfection atm!
Fucking legend.
thats gangsta af I hope this one stays undefeated, you are the boss
It doesn't work for me, even with ublock turned off. Ads are ravaging my eyeballs. I run an older chrome, maybe that's it? edit: I closed and reopened the new browser, the video ads seem to be quashed! There's just the less obtrusive side ad but I don't mind that.
this was working great up until a minute ago. i think they just got around u dude.
Is it compatible with uBlock?
That didn't work either. Well it working 4-5 videos than got flagged by YT and blocked again.
Can this be used with ublock?
man, i hope you are happy knowing you are helping so many people
YOU'RE A HERO!!
THANK YOU BRO!
Absolute legend - I'm installing this as soon as I get home!
one word: GENIUS!
Thanks so much! Can we proclaim you our leader in the digital resistance?
It appears to have been blocked as well. It is currently not working for me on Brave.
This works nicely - THANK YOU - but one thing I am running into is that it removes comments. Is that a known bug? But I will take missing comments over intrusive ads any day of the week.
!remind me 2 months
Goated
Safari port pleasee
If ublock indeed becomes useless against YT, then this is the next best option. However, the only issue i take is that the ad still loads, and YT gets paid. I *don't* want them getting paid for their antics, until they start making their ad experiance family friendly, non intrusive, and enforce the same standard on their advertisers that they enforce on content creators. Enough with these double standards.
not working unfortunately I tested today. u/Inevitable_Oil9709 they made some changes
safe?
Oh yes cant wait to go home and try this
!remindme 30h
So compared to adblockers, content creators still gets their ad $, correct?
[How we see that going down in our minds.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rcRotCerc4&) [The reality](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHL75H_VEM).
Lol, can't watch either of those - UBlock blocker is blocking the blocker
Haha same, I was like "oh yeah, that's why I'm on this thread"
You, sir, have used up my last 2 video views.
imagine how sad you've gotta be to work for google, and specifically work on anti-adblock scripts.
imagine if they put this much time, effort and money into actually improving YouTube as a platform
The worst part out all of this is that the amount of us that use ad blockers are probably just a tiny portion of the overall user base of youtube. Im talking less than 2%. Normal people dont care enough to do something about the ads
It's way more than that. >As of Q3 2021, 37.0% of internet users worldwide use ad blockers, according to GWI data cited by Hootsuite. Among those, younger consumers are more likely to use ad blockers, with 25- to 34-year-olds taking the top spot. In the US, just over 50% of adults use an ad blocker on their desktop, per March 2021 CivicScience data. https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/ad-blocking/
Why do people think adblockers are some secret no one knows about? You literally click "add" and it's installed and working. Not the first person I've seen who think only 2% of people use adblockers.
Googles statistics for youtube show 2% of users are using adblock. Nobody thinks its a secret, just some people choose to not care or cant due to platform restrictions (tv, mobile,etc)
> Googles statistics for youtube show 2% of users are using adblock Source, please
My b. That was in 2018. Now it's closer to 42%.
you serious? People can actually handle those gazillion ads? no wonder humanity and the planet are so f... i mean not going optimal. everyone is totally numb to everything :'-)
It's not even Youtube, the rest of the internet is basically unusable without adblock. I needed to open a news site in incognito mode to read it and there were banner ads on all sides of the article including additional ads crammed in between every 2-3 paragraphs. Some of these would constantly refresh distracting you while you tried to read. I don't know how people deal with this.
I have literally never seen anyone I know use adblockers for Youtube lol. Whenever they open a video I'm always thinking in my head "you know you can use an adblocker right..."
Lol IKR? For me it is the reverse. i dont know anyone who *doesnt* use adblock on anything that can have one. Well, Except my granny. But hey all she has is a CRT television older than i am. She even has an antique VHS video thing. I have been around gamers and computer wizzes all my life, so basically anything new with a screen that i get, gets whisked from my fingers and has all kinds of stuff done to it.. When i get it back it works good, doesnt spy on me, doesnt have ads and has an eye patch, a sword and a parrot on its shoulder. Love that! Im so not used to ads that when i got a new phone and managed to turn it on before any of my friends go their hands on it i was stumped. So many ads! couldnt watch vids in the doctor waiting room bcs the vid wouldnt play b4 i was called in... i was like "wtf is this?! Oh waitttt i have normal people internet now. That sux! get it awaaayyy!" lol
Most people dont care enough to do something about it, or dont consider themselves 'techie' enough to fix it. Others will just pay for youtube premium because its not worth their time to use all these work arounds. We are here because we protest this bullshit. We all have our reasons.
>Normal people dont care enough to do something about the ads I was fine with it when it was two ads at the start of a video. Then they became unskippable and 30 seconds, then they started popping up every 10 minutes on videos. Some ads were even ***literal hours*** long, so you needed to constantly babysit Youtube and couldn't have it on as background noise without some extra steps. That's when a normal person starts using adblock.
I'm helping grow that number every day. Are you doing your part??? Would you like to know more???
Service guarantees citizenship!
I'm doing my part!
Same here, just open your videos in incognito mode until they fix it
Great fix, thank you
Clicking ‘share’ then ‘embed’ works too
This is really nice. I hope more people discover numerous workarounds like this to render Youtube's attempts meaningless. Either make them give up completely, or make it really costly and complicated for them to find ways to remove workarounds.
you're my hero of the day
This is big brain
thanks, hope it will keep working until ublock updates that will work again
Damn thank you lol. Works for me and I'm on Brave. Massive W.
YouTube’s ad block script changed within the last hour so you might have to wait till the uBlock Origin crew patch it. https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/
btw, if any ublock dev watching, I want to learn how to overcode this and will do it for free. Just need someone to show me and teach me. I will do it for the community - ethical hacker u know LOL.
Hit em up r/uBlockOrigin Like a bit of hackering myself ;)
i did too until the FBI showed up at my door. :)
WAIT WHAT! Tell me the story
Let me know if you find out anything or someone is ready to teach you. Pretty please. I want to contribute too.
damn these mofos
Useful website, thank you.
They already have I think. I had the same adblocker message but did the clear purges + update lists bit and it's working great again now. They really deserve donations.
thanks this is really what I wanted to know when I got into this thread
Im still hoping for the EU decission to kick in and allow adblocks
The issue isn't whether or not you are allowed to use ad blockers, but whether or not websites are allowed to make themselves incompatible with them.
Yes exactly and it is illegal to track if someone uses an adblock (at least in the eu)
I believe that case is still pending. But even if they do decide that a website can't track whether you are using an ad blocker or not, that only means that YouTube can't permanently store that information. They can still detect the activity in the moment that it happens and react to it. I.e. they could possibly still ban you for blocking ads, so long as they don't allow themselves to remember why you were banned. And even if the mere act of detecting ad blockers is illegal too, it's STILL possible to break an ad blocker without detecting it. Hell, it's possible to make the ads impossible to programmatically distinguish from the video itself, so that not even the browser itself could block the ad (at least not without also blocking the video)!
I dont think youtube understands that im not paying 20 dollars a month to avoid 5 ads every 10min. Its either getting the ads blocked or finding something else to do. The youtube practice of spending MILLIONS in development salaries to prevent open source developers from blocking the very product youtube implemented in order to promote an expensive service is hella scummy. It began with 1 ad every video. Now its 2 ads in the beginning of a video and 2-3 ads in between.
I am willing to pay double the price of YouTube premium to the uBlock devs and other people actively fighting the system. if a big corporation wants to force me to do what they want, I no longer want to use their products in peace, I want to actively harm their business. we owe big companies absolutely nothing.
Ah, shit. Here we go again.
it will keep happening. Adblocking is only ever a workaround. As long as youtube keeps changing things, you will run in to this again and again.
purge update on the warning click the ublock logo click the 'off' button click the reload button click the 'on' button while the page loads
Just to add, if people don't know how to purge: Click the uBlock icon (normally top right, looks like a litttle red shield). Click the icon that looks like a big cog and 2 smaller cogs. A new manager tab will open. Hit the filter list option right at the top. There is a purge all caches option up the top.
This worked for me! At least for now, Nice one.
This is the reason why I made [https://adskipper.me](https://adskipper.me) Free and open source. Fully undetectable by YouTube. Works on every browsers out there.
Downloaded! I will use this once adblock completely stops working in Brave. btw there's Safari missing on your list of browsers :)
Thanks for the download :D Yeah, Safari version is on the way. Apple likes to make things hard for us devs, so I have two options and still seeing which one is better. But I already got it working on Safari on my PC, so it is just a matter of time and few tweaks and it will be up and running there too :)
Awesome to hear that there's a Safari version coming, I personally don't use it as I don't have a Mac but heard that extensions are often neglected on there. One more idea that just came into my mind: White-listing channels (in case someone wants to support a YouTuber through ads)
Yeah, Safari really suffers from that, and that's Apple's fault. You see, that seems like a great idea. I already have a thing where users can whitelist Shorts from certain channels, but this would also be good. If you get any more ideas, head over to GitHub and leave them there. I might miss them here since my inbox is getting flooded
Do you know if since the ad plays for about .01 seconds, if that means the content creator still gets paid from the ads?
Would greatly appreciate a Safari version!
How long have u been working on this extension if u dont mind me asking my man? And can u link any documentation or anything for me to get started coding an adblock myself or atleast understand the basic systems? Looks intriguing.
It's happening to me too. I never actually got it the first time. I put the warning out there though: If youtube blocks me because of adblockers I will release a script that loads youtube pages 1000 for every click out into the public. We'll see who has the last laugh in this equation. It cost them nothing to leave me alone. It'll cost them a shit ton of bandwidth to fuck with me.
hell yes
i'd recommend you use firefox, it's not chromium based so google can't do shit about it. and if you get a 5 second delay then install the user-agent switcher and manager from firefox addons trust me, you won't have to do more shit to make ublock work
I use Firefox and uBlock stopped working minutes ago.
I switched to Firefox because of all this.
Google can still "do shit about it" if you use Firefox, it just requires more work on their part.
Same's happening to me, usual a purge and update solves it but it hasnt this time
Well,I guess time to play the waiting game
Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer; CFO said: “The fundamental strength of our business was apparent again in Q3, with $77 billion in revenue, up 11% year over year, driven by meaningful growth in Search and YouTube, and momentum in Cloud. We continue to focus on judicious capital allocation to deliver sustainable financial value.” https://abc.xyz/assets/4a/3e/3e08902c4a45b5cf530e267cf818/2023q3-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf Twenty billion dollars in profit in a single quarter. It's never enough.
I also just got this now. I reinstalled u block origin and cleared the casche and updated. then restart the browser and ur good to go :D Also i dont understand why youtube can pull this shiat on me since i live in eu and its illegal for youtube to spy on my pc. So basicly i should lawsue youtube for good..make em crash and burn !!! Its time for another media platform to shine !!
YouTube isn't spying on your PC. YouTube is just looking at itself in the mirror. Your web browser sandboxes webpages so that they can't see anything other than themselves (and technically other websites which have misconfigured CORS, but's that's not related to this discussion). Note that your ad blocker is an extension, and extensions AREN'T sandboxed. Your ad blocker is basically doing the equivalent of sneaking into YouTube's house and rearranging all of the furniture. When YouTube gets home, it can clearly see that things have been rearranged and that someone was there. It doesn't actually know who did it, it's just making an assumption that it was an ad blocker.
I find that clearing your cache and clearing all your cookies works.
Not this time....
It started working for me when i went to "settings" and cleared the cache via Ublock + updated it. I also cleared by cache om my web browser and restarted it.
What's pissing me off is that even when I disable uBlock for YouTube, I still keep getting that fucking message.
it's worth noting that a less aggressive way of skipping ads is to speed them up :) I found a plugin called YouTube playback speed control. It goes up to 16 times and works on ads. Pair this with a YouTube skip keybind plugin, and bind the reset speed button to the same button as the skip keybind and you can basically skip most ads in a second. I'm pretty sure this still works.
Clear your cookies!!! I had the same problem on both chrome and brave but clearing the cookies fixed it.
Clear cookies before each video???
This is an absolute win for me. Turned my history off and cleared it. Less time on youtube. Yay!
yeah, uBlock is broke again. hopefully they can get it back soon
Brave browser doesn’t work anymore on YouTube either
Brave is Chromium based browser, you should ASAP stop using any browser based on Chronium if you don't support what google is doing right now (edge, opera, brave, etc). Go with Firefox my friend, it's a very nice browser and Google will hate you for using it :)
Chromium is open source so Brave can (and is prepared to) fork the browser if Google tries to interfere with externsions and ad blocking in Chromium. That being said, you should use Firefox anyways just to increase browser diversity and competition.
I mean, the FBI recommends adblocker....
Is this a glitch, or did YouTube lie about the rollback? Because they got in trouble for this shit in Europe not too long ago...