Since May, YouTube has ramped up its block of ad blockers and the company has now fully launched this policy worldwide...
  • Anonymousllama@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    1 year ago

    I get there’s a heap of people on here who’ve somehow never seen these new anti-popup measures before, but they’re definitely becoming more prevalent.

    I switched to uBlock and purged the caches and it seems to have fixed the issue (for now anyway)

    At some point I’ll have to find a more permanent solution like switching browsers but right now things are working

    • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      a more permanent solution would be using an alternative front end like piped. there are a lot of public instances available

      • doctorcrimson@lemmy.todayEnglish
        68·
        1 year ago

        But it’s difficult to trust Piped and other 3rd parties with your login credentials. Especially for people who make a living on YouTube. Even if they themselves might be trustworthy, they can’t be perfectly secure, so it becomes added vulnerability.

        • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          1 year ago

          wait what? piped doesn’t use your login in any way tho? you manually import subscriptions from Google checkout and you create a piped specific login for syncing that across devices. at no point will piped ever ask for your Google account

    • Yinchie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      Use clients such as LibreTube. It works great and even allows skipping sponsored content.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      112·
      1 year ago

      never seen the youtube anti-adblock stuff.

      Mullvad vpn + mullvad browser + ublock origin + never logging into google…

      Also freetube, also newpipe…

      Maybe they don’t bother trying to block vpn users?

    • yata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I saw them, then I purged ublocks cache and updated and they have been gone ever since (also on firefox, because I switched as soon as I read the news that they would pull this stunt on all chromium browsers a year ago).