youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos

I find it funny that a company as big as Google is loosing to little ol uBlock

Some arms races aren't what they appear to be: https://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday-hack/

I switched over to piped.video and no ads. Just moved my subscriptions over. Not sure how long it will last but so far it's good

If that doesn't work, get the youtube enhancer extension. Turn off it's built in adblock. You'll have a bunch of buttons on the bottom of the video, one of which is remove ads, which becomes skip ads when an ad plays. You will still get ads, but you'll be able to instantly skip them all without setting off their adblock detector. (Ps, to get the bar in fullscreen, set it to bottom of window)

They are probably hitting people in waves, in an effort to make sure this isn't a surge, then a massive protest like the Unity situation.

But once google realizes they'll have to burn serious money and make their product worse on the global stage to fix the problem, they'll quit just like Microsoft, AOL, and Netscape.

But I think this campaign is just there to loosen the people who installed an ad-block, but have no idea what an ad-block is.

Which will be different from the people who know about "alternate methods," and will easily slip the google net unnoticed.

Updating uBlock and filters has a bigger Impact than choice of browser. You could be situated in one of the data clusters that implement new detection methods first, so the filter lists are not updated yet when they hit you with a changed detection script.

Also, if you use Enhancer for YT, disable the built-in ad blocking there. That feature triggers the pop-up as well.

In other words, the general population likes to be used by companies and really don't give a shit as long as they can watch videos.

Blocking ads on YouTube is kind of like eating meat. It can't quite be morally justified, but I'm still guilty of it.

Currectly I'm updating uBlock 3 times a day to keep up with YouTube's detection algorithms, so I'm obviously willing to go to great lenghts to block ads, but after it gets difficult enough, I'll most likely just give in and get a subscribtion. It's by far the most valuable streaming service for me, yet I've used it (ad)free for more than 15 years. If now is the time they say enough, then fine. It was good while it lasted. I don't think that ads-based bussines model is the way to go anyways, so perhaps I should practice what I preach. Currenltly I'm only paying for Spotify and one podcast.

If competiton comes along that's even one tenth as good, I'm perfectly willing to jump ship, though. Google has lost my trust.

We really are all sissies now aren't we?

I’ve been using free tube for about a month now and been really happy.

My only downsides are that I use it on multiple comps, and like to watch YouTube on my tv as well, and by freetubes very nature, those don’t sync subs/history etc. which is expected of course.

The other bummer for me personally is I did really like the YouTube algorithms suggestions for me, so it’s a little harder for me to find new creators now.

But all in all, minor issues for some completely free software that works well and does what it says it’ll do! Would absolutely suggest people at least give it a try!

Anti-adblock killer by Reek

That thing is unmaintained and have not been updated for over 7 years. It will do absolutely nothing.

If you have issues with YouTube: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/about/sticky?num=2

I have to add some things though:

1. Read the thread thoroughly, you may have missed a step or 2, or may have misunderstood something. There's a lot of noise in the replies. Filter maintainers can't always give support or keep up with the noise. Being pushy, unfriendly, or replying to the thread without doing every step will not fix the problem for you. If you have technical knowledge, consider contributing that knowledge.
2. Do not add random filters, scripts, extensions from random users. If you don't understand what you're doing you may add something that may work against you instead of for you, or in worse cases add something malicious.
3. YouTube seems to update their anti-ab script at least twice a day more or less. So just: Click 🛡️ uBO's icon > the ⚙ Dashboard button > the Filter lists pane > the 🕘 clock icon at the end of the uBlock filters – Quick fixes list > the 🔃 Update now button. Do NOT click purge all caches and update now, that will only add more pressure to the filter hosts.
4. If there's a mismatch between the filter fixes and YouTube's latest fixes, just wait, watch the video logged out, or use an alternative front-end like piped, invidious, or whatever.

Also just coming to the realization that advertising on the internet has always been done atrociously (not that RL advertising is any better but at least follows some kind of structure and isn't thrown in your face repeatedly) and that a large swath of people do not want to deal with it or interact with it.

Rather than fix something that is clearly broken, they'd rather double down, throw money at it and make it more of a problem than admit they need to reign it in and put some common sense and sanity checks on how advertising should take place online.

How did you compute that?

the engineers won't get tired, they are paid not to. Not to say that people shouldn't try to evade it. This is super predatory but understandable cause of its income model.

how much money do you think yt is losing to ubo, and how much does it cost for yt to keep updating the code? financially it may not be worth it.

Good point! Clearing cache on exit is my firefox' default setting. Do recommend!

Only solutions I've seen stop the ad from appearing but not the 2 minute break it forces on you.

That's for ads baked into the video, not the players.

Until alternatives take off because the user experience becomes increasingly shitty. You really think Google isn't going to ratchet up the ads over time?

People who use ad blockers aren't the type of people to click the ads. We're doing a Google a service by improving conversion statistics.

It's always amusing to see people claiming to be these masters of business strategies pushing such excellent advice as "pay money to provide a service to people who supply no revenue".

Don't get me wrong; there absolute is a point where you can be so overly burdensome that you're going to push legitimate customers away and ultimately hurt yourself more than you help, and YouTube absolutely does do some stupid things, but business is so much more complicated than people like to think.

It asked me to include a screenshot of the page and highlight areas of the image to draw attention to them, so I sent a screenshot similar to the one in this post and highlighted every use of the word “ads”. I also sardonically lauded false praise of the site and its advertisements in the written reply.

It's part of listening and reflecting back to the spea..

SQUIRREL!

I know this is a joke but like, seriously, I really believe most internet ads (maybe most ads period) are ableist because of this.

I have to get all notifications and alerts set up just fucking right because of they happen too often my brain filters them out. If they never happen then obviously I miss them. I have to very carefully tweak everything around me.

I literally stopped this post mod sentence to do something else. I don't remember what it is but I'm back now. My life is a living hell sometimes and ads are fucking shit.

Like the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits".

My metadata does more than enough to pay for my usage.

Do you think my data and internet connection is free? Either I give some money, and hope that youtube doesn't insert ads in the premium version of youtube or I give up my data and download obnoxious and potentially harmful ads.

Do you think targeted advertising and creating detailed user profiles for that is the only way to run ads?

Just found out about FreeTube, works great and has 2 methods to get the video. YouTube is now actively blocking my account. That's how a service is destroyed.

So wait how does that work? Are you still using your YouTube account on Piped or is it something else?

It's not illegal, but maybe against YT terms of service. I've seen reports that google is starting to IP ban piped instances.

I'm taking it with a grain of salt anyway, as I haven't read any first hand accounts. And it would be interesting to see if google really is banning IPs, even ones in aws/azure/linode/gcp(lol)/etc IP blocks.

https://github.com/TheRealJoelmatic/RemoveAdblockThing

Update filters and clear your cache and cookies for YouTube.com. Resolves it for me.

Use FreeTube as a desktop app or use a VPN set to a different country. Canada seems to be working fine for me.

you very likely have another extension that youtube is detecting. I had to disable enhancer and then I stopped getting the popup

Clear your cookies.

It can be removed by ublock. I had that screen for weeks. You most likely have another adblock that is detected. Remove it and clear cache. Ublock should work at the moment. But it is a war. Once in a while it stops working for a few hours and then you have to update filters again

I know, the joke is nobody's switching and Vimeo can't win.

Not only demographic but a whole different model that very few companies use unless their content breaks YT guidelines. That's the punchline.

It probably goes into a log system anyway and gets ignored

Bibberty Butual?

Can't escape them.. they spam the MLB playoffs with those commercials.

Under Article 5(3) of 2002/58/EC YouTube are legally obligated to obtain consent before storing or accessing information already stored on an end user's terminal equipment unless it is strictly necessary for the provisions of the requested service.

In 2016 the EU Commission confirmed in writing that adblock detection requires consent.

The only problem with peertube is the lack of monetisation for creators. In fact creators are more likely to have to donate to keep the platform up, especially considering it has not ads. Meaning it's kind of the exact opposite of YouTube

The only way for it to work even remotely like YouTube would be some kind of donation revenue split - any excess revenue not used to keep the platform going goes to the creators of the videos.*

I guarantee with a video platform like that the amount creators could potentially not get much if not anything, as hosting videos is often a few times more expensive than hosting even just pictures.

Peertube only really makes sense as a self hosted archive, just in case you get banned off YouTube or want to archive your streams. That or a platform for not-for-profits to post their video content.

I've been saying I need to get Nebula for years.

I don't know about Rumble: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/24/russia-state-media-rumble-00020184

You should, but these can be two different columns in a dataset. Geoloc, IPs, installed languages, choosen options, history etc. A lot of harvested valuables.

They're maybe letting it slide bcs not too many people use it