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UPDATE 2 It seems that starting today, uBlock Origin is working to combat this Youtube Block. Mine started working again! Lets all thank the devs of UBO for fighting this fight!

UPDATE So as new info comes out, I'll be posting it here. It seems as if this Rollout Has Several Parts.

Part 1

You get a popup message over top of your video, blocking the screen:

  • This is the first sign. If you see this popup AND are logged into a YouTube account, your account has been selected.
  • At this stage you can likely close or block these messages with an adblocker.

Part 2

This message will change, indicating that you have 3 remaining videos to watch without ads.

Will insert photo once one has been found

  • At this stage your adblocker will imminently stop working in 3 videos time.
  • Personally using Firefox + uBlock Origin and tweaking filters and updates does not even fix it.

Part 3

None of the video loads now, everything looks blank.

  • At this stage you must tred new ground to avoid ads. I have posted methods in the comments. If you want to bypass this end page, read down there.

End of Update


YouTube has started rolling out anti-adblock to users inside the United States, which means that they are preparing to roll this out to the entire country. Personally, I have been blocked already. I want to gauge how common this occurrence is.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got so many layers of adblock it's hard to know which one(s) are responsible for blocking the ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same here. Was just explaining to a coworker who was complaining about YT ads that I "just" use PiHole+Unbound for network blocking, AirVPN with DNS blocking, mullvad Private DNS on Android, and then Libretube to view my self-hosted Piped instance. As I said it I realized how ridiculous it's gotten and how deranged I probably sound.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just use use uBlock Origin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This all sounds like extremely reasonable to me. Fuck the haters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For those who don't know: VLC also takes a YouTube video address as input (in the menu: Media | Open Network Stream...).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is such a better use of their time and dollars versus improving their service to make it more attractive to customers.

If this is the change that really sets them financially straight, then I would say they have a failing business model.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is such a better use of their time and dollars versus improving their service to make it more attractive to customers.

Making their service more attractive to customers is precicesly what they're trying to do.

It's just that an advertising agency's customers are not the folk who watch, read or hear the ads, it's the folk who pay for the ads.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not sure if it will work out like this though. The amount of ads they are forcing down peoples throat is isane. Eventually it will make people consume less videos and with that less ads overall.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

And thus the enshittification cycle completes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You are not the customer. You are the product.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but if they destroy their products (aka drive users away) their real customers (ad companies) will pull out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Less viewer numbers to show to advertisers.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If premium cost $5per month I'd pay for it, u use YouTube all the time

No way in hell it's worth $15 a month though, their pricing is completely brwindead

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

So you know that the people watching YouTube aren’t really considered “customers” by google in the traditional sense, right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll just stop using YouTube like I've stopped using Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm ready for that. When being a youtuber started looking like a job I think the site lost something.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, YouTube was better when it was a bunch of amateur cat videos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd say just smaller, less scripted content. Maybe that's what tiktok is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There was a sweet spot when cat videos went pro. Then the spam killed it.