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YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 21:53
by rusty_shackleford
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YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 21:54
by rusty_shackleford
Missed a parentheses on the end if you copied it already, fixed it.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 22:05
by Emphyrio
I haven't seen any ads yet.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 22:06
by rusty_shackleford
Emphyrio wrote: October 12th, 2023, 22:05
I haven't seen any ads yet.
You'll get a popup telling you to turn your adblock off.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 22:08
by Oyster Sauce
Emphyrio wrote: October 12th, 2023, 22:05
I haven't seen any ads yet.
Changes like these are rolled out in waves to boil the frog and avoid too much opposition at one time.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 22:10
by maidenhaver
I hate youtube, but what's the alternative? They have all the music.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 22:22
by KnightoftheWind
I'm shocked they didn't try this years earlier, ads are how they make their money after all.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 22:24
by The_Mask
KnightoftheWind wrote: October 12th, 2023, 22:22
I'm shocked they didn't try this years earlier, ads are how they make their money after all.
They should've implemented this about 15 years ago. It's just proof they really have no idea what they're doing, and that it's a propaganda machine.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 22:30
by GhostCow
maidenhaver wrote: October 12th, 2023, 22:10
I hate youtube, but what's the alternative? They have all the music.
Start collecting high quality flac files instead of streaming music like a faggy zoomer

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 22:38
by maidenhaver
GhostCow wrote: October 12th, 2023, 22:30
maidenhaver wrote: October 12th, 2023, 22:10
I hate youtube, but what's the alternative? They have all the music.
Start collecting high quality flac files instead of streaming music like a faggy zoomer
I hate being tied to music at all, but I hate that shitty music is playing everywhere, now. Cities are streaming music from nooks and crannies, assaulting all my senses.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 22:50
by Segata
maidenhaver wrote: October 12th, 2023, 22:10
I hate youtube, but what's the alternative? They have all the music.
Soulseek, BitTorrent.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 22:53
by rusty_shackleford

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 23:13
by maidenhaver
I don't use bitTorrent for discovering music.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 12th, 2023, 23:24
by GhostCow
I actually find that DDL sites are the best place to get music these days, but I have, erm, eclectic tastes. You can see a sample here: https://www.last.fm/user/Randall_Danger

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 13th, 2023, 13:40
by aweigh
Brave browser sometimes glitches out on a YouTube page with the new code, it will go dark grey and freeze. I assume when it would normally show the pop-up.

Haven't tried with Chrome.

Gonna test now without the "brave shield" and just uBlock + rusty code.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 13th, 2023, 14:28
by Atlantico
Segata Sanshiro wrote: October 12th, 2023, 22:50
maidenhaver wrote: October 12th, 2023, 22:10
I hate youtube, but what's the alternative? They have all the music.
Soulseek, BitTorrent.
Soulseek.. now there's a name I have not heard for a long time. A long time.

It was as if I was blasted back 20 years in a flash. Before the mass surveillance state, before the new monetary theory.

Before the GAE.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 13th, 2023, 14:44
by Emphyrio
Holy fuck eat a dick youtube

can't save Cadillacs and Dinosaurs Episode 1 to my "watch later" list because it's "made for kids"

https://support.google.com/youtube/answ ... it=1&hl=en

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 13th, 2023, 18:09
by aweigh
Nah, Brave/YouTube still 'freezes' with the rusty code. It's very sporadic though, it doesn't do it every time the ad-block pop-up would otherwise appear, instead it freezes about once every 20 videos or so. Hitting F5 fixes it.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 13th, 2023, 18:13
by General Reign
My favorite thing about youtube is channels with 4 thousand subs that do not have their own gay ads in their channel on top of the other ads you have to block.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 13th, 2023, 18:15
by SpellSword
Emphyrio wrote: October 13th, 2023, 14:44
Holy fuck eat a dick youtube

can't save Cadillacs and Dinosaurs Episode 1 to my "watch later" list because it's "made for kids"

https://support.google.com/youtube/answ ... it=1&hl=en
That's creepy, some kind of strange reverse age gate.

From the sound of it they are using "Save to playlist and Save to Watch Later" as part of their data mining, which is one more reason not to use that 'feature'.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 13th, 2023, 19:40
by Humbaba
Seems I can just click the popup away?

Where would I put that code in Brave anyway?



-Humbaba

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 13th, 2023, 21:32
by SoLong
Is this only on brave browser?

Ublock Origin still works on firefox. Or maybe it's the combination with youtube unlocker that stops ad warnings?

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 13th, 2023, 22:25
by J1M
Think of how big the modding community will get if they succeed with adblockblock.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 14th, 2023, 00:34
by Shillitron
What adblocker are you guys using..?
Any of the good ones are completely undetectable.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 14th, 2023, 01:08
by J1M
I just close the browser tab when I see the popup. Youtube needs me to watch videos more than I need to be distracted. Seems to work. Only saw popups twice. Maybe I fell into a bucket of users that don't know how to read or something.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 14th, 2023, 04:12
by Rand
Shillitron wrote: October 14th, 2023, 00:34
What adblocker are you guys using..?
Any of the good ones are completely undetectable.
I've just recently started seeing the pop-up using Brave + uBlock Origin.

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 14th, 2023, 04:12
by Rand
J1M wrote: October 14th, 2023, 01:08
I just close the browser tab when I see the popup. Youtube needs me to watch videos more than I need to be distracted. Seems to work. Only saw popups twice. Maybe I fell into a bucket of users that don't know how to read or something.
TikTokers?

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 14th, 2023, 05:39
by Val the Moofia Boss
Shillitron wrote: October 14th, 2023, 00:34
What adblocker are you guys using..?
Any of the good ones are completely undetectable.
uBlock Origin

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 14th, 2023, 05:56
by aweigh
i reinstalled Brave and the uBlock Origin extension and removed every other filter except the rusty code and now it seems to work fine. Haven't had a youtube page freeze yet and been using it all day.

nah, still freezes. gonna look around for an alternative

YouTube's new anti-adblock

Posted: October 14th, 2023, 10:09
by Roguey
Shillitron wrote: October 14th, 2023, 00:34
What adblocker are you guys using..?
Any of the good ones are completely undetectable.
I used adblock plus then switched to adnauseam then switched to ublock origin, all eventually failed. Freetube still works though.