Their detection script is probably trying so hard that it hits false positives.

Ironically, with an up-to-date uBlock Origin, you wouldn't see this popup.

It’s really great when you put on some calming music for sleep that’s 8 hours long and has an ad break every 5 minutes.

I've heard Firefox's inbuilt tracking protection often trips whatever detection method they're using, and like, I'm not turning that off for Youtube.

Lol that's like too funny now. Hitting legitimate users with the nagware, so that the only ones having a good experience are the pirates :D Tale as old as the first VHS tape

It is a false positive as Googlie tries to find a way to detect and block adblockers on browsers they don't control. install ublock origin and it should solve the issue.

Here's something that I "don't allow" Google:

Letting corporations use MY computer equipment and MY Internet connect to conduct their business. I'll block whatever I want and if Google and YouTube don't like it, they can take their advertising machine, roll it up real tight and cram it.

Ah, enshittification at its finest.

We have a family premium plan and I still got this message. Guess I'll cancel YouTube Premium now...

I get most of the content I want via patreon anyway now.

Ublock Origin and SponsorBlock and Enhancer for YouTube will make the YouTube experience SO MUCH better!

Ublock blocks ads, SponsorBlock blocks sponsorship deals that the YouTuber includes (Clash of clans, Norton, etc), and Enhancer lets you play with the settings on a whole other level, including blocking things like end cards.

You probably have antitracking enabled which can trigger this dumb prompt.

You’re welcome

Got that too (Firefox and ublock origin). So far i can just click the X and continue to watch without ads. Pops up about every third video.

Happened to me, I just blocked the notification objects. Still let me play videos so far. I have firefox + ublock.

I use a Firefox extension to redirect any YouTube links to open in Ungoogled Chromium, which so far seems to be immune to Google's anti-Adblock campaign.

edit: Extension is called Open In

can we maybe stop using Google/Apple/amazon/m$ etc at some point? they scam us since like ever.

It doesn't matter your browser or adblocker, Youtube is cracking down in ALL adblocker. Adblockers are probably going to find a way around it, it's a cat chasing the mouse game.

Just use the piped.video frontend.

Do you have Firefox's tracker blocking enabled? That can block some advertising related code and as such will also get detected as an adblocker. I've had that be the issue for other websites that block ad blockers in the past before I stopped being willing to ever turn Ublock Origin off.

“not using an adblocker? report the issue.” 🤷‍♀️

Somehow you're using something that Google thinks it's an adblock. Maybe it's a cookie blocker or tracking blocker. Disable all plugins and then try YouTube.