YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.
Some solutions:
- Android
- iOS
- Yattee with this guide
- (Adding Piped/Invidious website to Homescreen)
- Web
- Desktop
- FreeTube
- (Using any of the web solutions as PWAs)
- TV
- Android TV
- Apple TV
- Yattee with this guide
Vinegar on iOS is also still working perfectly
Can’t say that’s it’s been working perfectly both on my iPhone and on my iPad, but it’s certainly helped a lot.
Nice, this is one of the primary reasons I haven’t used Safari in my Apple noobness, relying on Brave and another browser for YT ad blocking. Going to give this a try too.
ReVanced still and option for Android, though I have to recommend NewPipe and sponsor block
Grayjay gang :D
I don’t actually use it, I tried it out but I still prefer LibreTube. Just included it because it might be useful for others.
I switched to it from NewPipe w SponsorBlock (fork) when it went public for testing. For a prerelease it does everything I need, except SB functionality. Hoping that is in the pipeline.
Subscription feed works for you? When I imported my subs it said the subscription feed is disabled to due to issues with YouTube API limits. Getting nebula in my home feed is nice though. Mostly still on NP+SB in the meantime.
It does, yep - I just opened it and it already had a video posted just 11 minutes ago. There have been a couple bugs I’ve found and reported but it’s all small, out-of-the-way stuff. I have around 65 yt channels I follow.
Going to try Yattee tonight, thank you!
when following the guide for Yattee, does it serve as a drop-in replacement for the Youtube app, i.e. does it open Youtube links from other apps and everything? I don’t use iOS, but I’d like to know how viable it would be as a recommendations for my friend who do.
I don’t use iOS anymore and I don’t exactly remember how Yattee behaves. Just recommend them to try it out, they can always look for another solution if this doesn’t work.
I give it a year, tops, before they start serving ads in premium too.
But that’s the only benefit of premium (on YouTube itself). I guess there are still YouTube originals but that kind of died as far as I can tell.
Yes. And? You think they care? Premium isn’t there to benefit you, it’s there to benefit Google. As soon as the money stops coming in, they’ll look for other ways to squeeze it. We’re already seeing it with streaming providers shoehorning ads into their paid services. It’s not that much of a stretch.
The only benefit now, but what if they start to serve 30 non-skippable ads without premium and ONLY 5 with premium, what a deal! Right? If you hate ads you can just buy higher tier for ONLY $5 more.
Let’s just keep fingers crossed for ublock…
Update, they did it.
Kind of. If anybody signs up for that premium lite they’re fools.
They’ll introduce premium platinum for 2x the price, and then normal premium will be changed to YouTube supporter class, with select advertisements
But they’ll do this very quietly, and everyone will get grandfathered into YouTube supporter if they don’t do anything. So in public they’ll still say YouTube premium has no advertisements, even though they’ve moved the goal posts
This is scarily believable.
But on the good side, they offer 3 months of “reduced” cost ( but still more than old premium cost) for those that upgrade now
More realistically they’ll bump up the price of premium a bit more and then have a reduced ads tier for like $6-7. But, I also have my doubts about that. The business model is significantly different than other “streaming services”.
Fuck YouTube
YouTube had a good humble beginning before monetization fucked everything up. It was a bad idea to begin with. For now, best stick with piped and all the apps that use piped as backend. NewPipe and LibreTube. Want to support a creator? Go buy merch or something. Dont give Google a second of your time.
I mean it’s a fine idea it’s just been capitalismed to death
Wasn’t YouTube unrelated to Google at first?
It wouldn’t shock me if they removed ublock origin from the chrome store
Just use Firefox. It’s better as a browser, anyway.
I switched back to ff in 2018 but then switched back to chrome after it deleted my bookmarks sporadically for the 5th time. I’ve logged bugs about it too.
I will when they finally fix dragging tabs between windows
Edit: I’m not saying the operation isn’t functional, I’m saying it lacks certain small visual feedback aspects like popping a tab out into a new window while dragging. This in and of itself isn’t breaking, but Firefox had a lot of rough edges like that every time I used it, and I’m using this specific one as a benchmark to judge if I should give the browser a shot again
Huh, what is the issue? Been working fine for me for years.
Classic layer 8 problem
PEBCAK baby!
Popping out a tab doesn’t turn it into a draggable window, but just into cursor basic cursor held object. This gives no visual feedback on what is actually happening and makes the whole operation much less visually clear
It’s a small thing, but in the times I tried Firefox, I noticed a lot of these rough edges to the point that it became frustrating to use. I’m using this specific one as a benchmark for when I’m willing to give it a shot again
Fuck’s sake, what a stupid thing to get hung up over.
You’re all getting quite hung up about someone voicing that they’re not ready to switch to your preferred browser tbh
Like, it’s not that you are negatively affected by me having UX preferences
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Could you find a smaller potato?
Is that a typo, or a saying I’m not familiar with?
It’s a small potatoes means that’s it’s extremely inexpensive and misses the big bag of perfectly food, if not above average potatoes
It never bothered me. You can just stop dragging anywhere and it will turn into a window.
Privacy >>> UI
To some extend, yes. But convenience and workflow trumps both.for example, I moved to DuckDuckGo a while back. Not because of privacy, but because Google kept removing customisation options, and it’s search results where getting worse and worse.
You seem more stubborn than smart.
I resemble this statement!
It does give a weird form of comfort to see Lemmy become more like Reddit every day
I mean, no ads on youtube is HELLA more convenient than ads on youtube
I agree
I’m using chrome, sponsorblock and adblock+. Google hasn’t told me to turn it off yet.
Maybe it’s because I’m in the EU?
If it starts becoming a problem, I intend to look into writing a pull request to fix the firefox UX issues
Fair enough! In that case I also wouldn’t be pressured to jump ship, in fact the only reason I jumped back to firefox in the first place was because chrome couldnt handle the amount of tabs I had and they started crashing
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I do that all the time with ff?
Strangely nit-picky. The reason this matters to you is because you are used to it. It’s so small an aspect of the browser though that you would forget about it quickly. Imo of course. I never even noticed this when I changed and I use the function many times a day.
Correct, it matters to me
So, as long as Firefox doesn’t really offer something that in my opinion outways all it’s UX issues, I am not inclined to switch
Looking at my score, appearantly that is offensive though
Apparently lol, can’t be different!
It really isnt getting harder to dodge past the initial recent push. “Go to settings, purge cache, refresh list, refresh youtube” is just as many steps today as it was when this recent push started
YouTube thinks I’m using an outdated version of Chrome running in Windows 7
I’ve still yet to see it… not even had to do any of those things. Something about my setup I guess neutralises it.
This. I’ve gotten this popup about four times since this happened, telling me the video player was blocked because I had an adblocker still. Each time, I purged cache and updated and it went away.
Switched to Freetube and convinced my dad too as well. No ads, no algorithms, no shit yt search that never works. We’re chilling.
μBlock Origin works for me still (Firefox), but I had to remove my custom filter to remove Shorts from the Subscription page - seems like they can detect it if I have any YT-specific rules.
I’ve got FreeTube set up as a backup in case μBlock does ever fail - but its lack of tabs really make me not want to use it as my primary access yet. I think they could benefit a lot from creating a browser-based UI, kind of like what Plex has.
So they are cracking down on Adblockers and increasing the price of Premium as well.
I wish there was an alt platform that we could use, because even the FBI recommends using an Adblockers (and TBH what sane person would roll without one?)
I recommend Invidious.
The FBI does not recommend using adblockers so that you can avoid ads on YouTube. That’s just 🤦♂️ worthy.
Every adblocker I know of can be disabled on specific sites.
I know this is an unpopular opinion here, but Google is within their rights to show ads or make you pay. It costs more than it probably should, and they serve more ads than they should, but their platform is unique and expensive to run; most uploads do not make them money.
I’ve just installed Yattee for IOS. It works great. There was a post for this a day ago? Also for other platforms. Fuck YouTube.
Maybe I didn’t do it right. Nothing loads. Do I need to copy and paste each YT link to see something?
https://r.yattee.stream/manifest-invidious-piped.json
Settings——> locations manifest and add the above link. Restart the app and you are good to go.
** https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629/) with this guide - (Adding Piped/Invidious website to Homescreen)
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Thanks your link worked. This is awesome!
Works for me if set to US location, does not work for some others i tried
Freetube for the win. Built in sponsor block.
Im using Yattee on iOS with no issue. From the damn App Store, don’t think they’re cracking down very well.
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LTT is happy to let you pay for their mediocre content plus mediocre extra behind the scenes special boi crap on Floatplane
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You are looking for niche content. The last place to search for that would be a big YT channel since their videos are tailored for the general audience. I don’t know what you expected lol
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Libreddit was killed? How am I still using it?
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Hmm, well my personal instance works fine and has for months, no limitations that I’ve encountered. Guess I’m just lucky
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I wonder if it impacts public instances because it’s rate-limiting the requests, where it’s just me on my private instance so it’s not hitting the limit.
If so then it’s pretty easy to spin one up in docker and get around the issue.
Of course leaving reddit entirely is always better.
Also I’m not tuned in – what laws did they break?
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It’s all about how many people these platforms have to convince them to stop using youtube I guess…
Looks like YouTube is the next tower to fall.
If they really stop people from watching it will just force people to straight up pirate their content.
They won’t ever win this battle.
Youtube fell a long time ago. It’s in ruins as we speak.
I’ve already switched to Freetube on my PC, and New.piped on my phone.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
After beginning to roll out a healthy nudge to turn off ad blockers or subscribe to the platform’s ad-free Premium offering, YouTube is now forcing users’ hands.
As users continue to trawl the depths of YouTube, they will now be greeted with a pop-up warning them to disable their ad blocker saying “video playback is blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled.” This notification began popping up for users across the platform earlier this month, but it was as simple as shrugging it off by closing out the message.
Shortly thereafter, YouTube forced users to acknowledge the message but still allowed them to exit out of it after a brief timer elapsed.
YouTube communications manager Christopher Lawton told The Verge Tuesday that using an ad blocker is actually against the platform’s terms of service.
He also told the outlet that “ads support a diverse ecosystem of creators globally and allow billions to access their favorite content on YouTube.”
Around the same time, the company reported its third straight quarterly decline in ad revenue, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Weird. I’ve been running AdBlock and AdGuard for years and nary an issue with youtube. I just never see ads there.
FWIW it was only when I added a vpn to my mix that I started being made to submit to captchas whenever I do anything like search
