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Youtube is sweeping updates for areas and browsers almost daily now blocking adblockers, Ublock Origin for firefox pretty much is pumping out updates within 10min to an hour after of the youtube update blocks. If you get a youtube block and this doesnt work, try again in an hour or so and it should work by then. To update the ad block follow steps below. I have seen a few people post about the new blocks but no one with easy to find solutions.
Click on the widget in the top right corner to open it up. Then click in the settings button (see red arrows)
After this click on filter list and click Purge all caches (see red arrows) Then after Purge is done you can click "UpdateNow" Then close the browser and reopen it. I recommend just using Firefox for watching youtube. This is a basic guide on how to update the adblocker after youtube updates their side to stop it, this has been working for me for about 2 weeks now. Hope it helps.
If this works for you or you have another trick thats working for you feel free to comment.
FP edit: YouTube would make an absolute killing if they gave the app an option to work closed and play audio ads instead making the app not work when the screen is off(to save battery) unless you pay for premium.
wozat
There are rumors that some people's accounts are being banned and notified by email... this is disturbing because they're threatening us with potential malware
jonalexassblast
A certain porn site has a giant banner at the top of the page that says they detect an ad blocker, please disable it, or white-list us please!! Meanwhile I use said adblocker to make the banner disappear and the page looks as normal.
nxrble
All this for 0.6%
thekingdomofarbos
It's funny cause I was legit thinking of getting youtube premium when this first messaged popped up. The blatant greed soured me on the thought.
nintyuk
Also the cobra effect means they will drive more people to use ad blockers, and additionally the people who use ad blockers would not be people who click on ads regardless.
hotaru251
FYI: If you wanna give YT the finger? Switch to firefox and don't use Chrome (as its googles browser). Firefox is great browser and one of the very few who aren't Chromium based.
ManOfKent1967
I get that servers and web space cost money, etc, so some kind of revenue is needed and I do watch Youtube a LOT (more so than our Freeview telly here at the UK) but £13 a month for premium is just too steep. I'd consider if it is something like £5 a month then this way I could watch content ad-free on all my devices (PC, iPad, smartphone and TV), but for now an adblocker on just Windows Chrome is the way (I prefer to watch on a monitor anyway).
TheRidg
If the quality was there people would pay for it, the problem is it's all lumped into one heap; with ads it's no different than watching on ITVX or 4od but it's problematic when you have to watch an ad before finding out the video you clicked on is complete trash. If YT curated the content into channels they might do better but for the moment it's a service I can live without.
jeffoisdubois3000
Right click, open link in private tab. Enjoy.
Peloquin
This is what I've been doing, until the dust settles.
Skevoid
If they ever manage to shut down all adblockers on YouTube, I'm buying a subscription to Nebula, not YouTube Premium.
digitalagriculture
Reminder that Google is fundamentally an advertising company with the goal to own and control the entire web and you should stop using their web browser because of that.
Azwyrd
This worked for me immediately. Thank you so much for showing an easy to follow tutorial! I'm not good at tech stuff, so I was trying to keep it updated, but I was missing the clear cache step.
Sensiblyinteresting
I'm glad, I'm not too tech savvy either and it took me about a week to figure out a simple way to do this without creating filters yourself lol
whyowhyareallgoodusernamestaken
So YT, what about the abuse of the reporting system that hurt legit content creator but leaves bogus channels unharmed? And there are more problems, suggesting advertiser friendly content to history channels.
IcyLucario
Sweet, I'll try it out. Weirdly, simply refreshing removes the pop-up for me.
OldmanSerious
https://gadgetstouse.com/blog/2023/05/15/bypass-ad-blockers-not-allowed-on-youtube/ I LITERALLY did this five minutes ago. Youtube finally remembered me and has been spamming the "You got adblocker!!!" message at me. The link above has a nice list of different things to use. Seems to work (so far).
Hexidimentional
i wouldnt block the ads if many of them didn't contain viruses
Wholivesinapineappleunderthetree
Brave Browser is still working fine
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
You guys and your ad blockers! How is Google going to put food on the table now?
Marikhen
By monetizing site user metrics, same as they've been doing ever since Google bought YouTube. Ad revenue is having your cake & fucking it.
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bigmrlloyd
Any way I can donate the creator of uBlockOrigin? It's saved me so much time and effort. I would much rather chuck them a couple of coffees than the alternative. I cant find out how?
Sangueffusor
"The uBlock Origin project still refuses donations, instead advises all users to donate to block list maintainers."
d3jake
Does the approach of playing videos via VLC skip past the ads?
AlcoholicsAnonymousBYO
Yup, also NewPipe for Android via F-Droid
AnonsAndMinions
I actually stopped using YouTube because of this shit. I cannot fucking stand ads. Banner ads? Sure! Sidebar ads? I guess...but fucking multiple unskipable advertisements? No. This isn't cable TV. Fuck publicly held money grubbing asshole corps. Fuck 'em. I'll get my content elsewhere.
OriginalSyn
Also recommend Firefox (or Vivaldi) because Google has baked user ad tracking that you can't turn off into Chromium (the open source base thay Chrome, MS Edge, Opera and other browsers are based on)
bobimg
Vivaldi is also Chromium. Literally everything is except Firefox (Quantum) and Safari (Webkit... although thats where Chromium originated sooo...). Im not clear on how much those branching off Chromium can or will do to solve this issue. I would expect Vivaldi or Brave to be the first to do something if they can.
OriginalSyn
Vivaldi is also chromium but they disable the API https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no-google-topics-in-vivaldi/
alaest0r
I just switched to librewolf (downstream of firefox) and ive been loving it. It's just firefox without the bullshit.
OriginalSyn
What's the bullshit of Firefox?
alaest0r
Pocket, cloud integration, google, telemetry, defaults, policy,... I'm also just not a huge fan of Mozilla any more. The yt vid "how mozzila ruined firefox" is a decent overview as to why.
OriginalSyn
I can see why you would not want those in your browser in the first place but I found that they are pretty transparent about them and can opt out of each pretty easily. First thing I did when I installed was disable pocket, telemetry and switched the search to ddg, and never setup a sync account. I can appreciate Mozilla's position as well though, development is expensive and they need revenue from somewhere.
Pontisto
Vivaldis builtin blocker is now also denied by YT.
phordlesscone
Please call it 'ublock origin', there is a ublock that is not the same thing.
mephiston
maybe they're not using origin? I use origin and I'm not getting this popup at all. I also use firefox though.
RayneOfSalt
It's being rolled out to accounts in batches, not browsers. I use firefox and I've been getting the popup.
mephiston
oh ok, thanks.
Sensiblyinteresting
Can't update the title, it's correct in the guide part.
phordlesscone
So it is! :)
Justanotherimgurbrowser
Youtube is losing 0.6% revenue to ad blockers. They are starting this war, to get 0.6% more money.
I use chrome and ad block. I have the message, but I can just close it and keep watching (for now)
Sensiblyinteresting
They are losing money the same way I'm losing 40 million dollars by not having my lotto numbers come up every week
AsheLake
"Losing" money they imagine they might have gotten. I don't believe it.
MurderousCoat
So instead of fixing their garbage apps or any of the website features that have been crippled by various updates over the years, the new-ish head of Youtube decided ads were what he should focus on. What a fucking muppet.
mephiston
Did youtube hire the guy from unity or something?
Marikhen
Ad blockers are the condoms of the internet, and Google/YouTube refuses to guarantee that its ads are clean or comp people when they aren't.
Marikhen
I get why people go to the monetary debate, but malicious/compromised ads caused 100% of the PC infections I've seen in the last decade.
Einstein9073
I got the three-video countdown. Don't forget to pause (or uninstall i guess) adblock after you switch to ublock.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
I literally had this come up while I was reading this post on another tab.
AnthonyBC
I just got the countdown this evening too. Had about a week or so of them asking to just turn off my ad blocker. This is getting serious for me now. Time to get ublock if they want to play this game. I don't appreciate threats. I only use that browser occasionally to watch a handful of videos, while my mobile devices don't have have a blocker and I watch significant amounts of videos. Now it's time to remove all ads in response to their threats.
Zoroasterisk
I've been using Chrome and had no problems since I followed this guide: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976
williamshakesbeer
Thanks for the info, I'll look into it when I get off work. Very much appreciated.
Zoroasterisk
That doesn't work any more. At least, not for me. You'll probably want to switch browsers. Firefox works for me without issue
williamshakesbeer
So funny enough I booted up my computer to look at the tutorial anyway, but when I went to YouTube, the prompt doesn't show up anymore. I don't know why because I didn't delete my cache or update anything. Oh well if it works now I'm not going to fuck with it.
Zoroasterisk
I wouldn't either
MarshmallowFluffernutterPie
Love how they openly declared war on their entire userbase like this.
tryyshokk
It's about the ad revenue. You don't have to even have an account to provide ad revenue.
Hendlton
They literally don't care. The "userbase" that is affected by this is actually losing them money. So they don't care if everyone using an adblocker stops watching videos. And if even 1% switch to YT Premium, that's a nice bonus, but other than that, they don't care.
MarshmallowFluffernutterPie
They'll care when we all have somewhere else to go.
Hendlton
Which is exactly never. Even if someone else wanted to start a new platform, it would take hundreds of millions of dollars. How would they get their money back? Certainly not by allowing people to watch videos ad free. They could charge money, I guess, but that has been tried multiple times and it failed every single time. There is just no way to compete with YouTube.
MarshmallowFluffernutterPie
Then I guess it's a digital arms race to preserve our way of fuckin' life.
Hendlton
That a bit overly dramatic, but yeah, sure. All they care about is money and we're non paying customers, so of course they're trying to kick us out. I hate ads, I've been using an ad blocker for over a decade, but I know it can't last forever. Someone someday is going to find a way around it. Sponsorships were one way, but we got SponsorBlock. This is the next thing.
GenStrike
P2P video streaming is real.
GenStrike
It already exists.
HypnoCT
You know, I wouldn’t use an ad blocker if you could be REASONABLE about the number of ads. But you got greedy, and I got fed up. And here we are
howshegettinon
For me it's the ads that try to scam kids/people that I report and they say it didn't break their guidelines so they won't remove them.
Blank1612
Fuck adds, even if it was just a single one a day I would use adblocker. I am delighted if multi-billion dollar companies spend money on me instead of earning.
Anthedon
I still would. Ads have been malicious and laden with malware since the dawn of computers. It's about safety concerns as well here.
Jewdakris
Not me, you can put shit ads around the video but the video should remain untouched.
Murmull
I wonder how much revenue youtube has spent on developing these countermeasures vs revenue lost due to some people not watching ads, and revenue lost by people not watching youtube at all because of ads directly.
WeHaventMet
And let's not forget that half the ads they show are for some far-right project calling for the genocide of queer people. And the other half are scams.
InnsmouthTourist
"How would you like to make a music playlist with all your favorite videos? WELL FUCK YOU!!!"
anerdwithaknife
Not only that but they also just now (effective Oct 25th) decommissioned Premium Lite, so there's no subscription that just offers no ads anymore without the other bullshit like Youtube Music, background play etc, effectively doubling the price of ad-free Youtube.
Catplane
I would like a blocker for the cookie pop ups.
TheDozenPercent
And the tracking and privacy invasion. Because they couldn't just show you ads. In fact, even if you pay, they still track you.
aducksayswhat
I can't remember a time when advertisers had restraint, a lot of the old IE toolbar/activex/popups hellscape was rooted in advertising
TheBlueMuppet
I dont know how old you are, but in the late 90s/early 00s not only did we have ads pop up in new windows that took focus from the main window and covered it up , they would sometimes move away from the cursor if you attempted to close them. They could also spawn more windows on close.
HypnoCT
Im old enough to remember 3 channels. Old enough to remember when cable tv meant paying to have zero ads. And yes, old enough to remember those insanely annoying pop up ads
TheBlueMuppet
Oh yeah, it was all about rabbit ears with tinfoil on them
OmnipotentBeing
YouTube was mostly ad free back in the early days of the platform. I signed up in 2006 and have had the same account since then. The ads got progressively worse, until I as well installed an ad blocker. They brought this all on themselves.
CoinedWatcher
What bothers me is the in video sponsored ads. If you pay for premium to skip ads it's only the cut away ads, and now every video seems to have, "before we get started, I'd like to talk about our sponsor Raid: Shadow Legends."
mantabloke
I don't have problem with these..its what the content makers have to do to make money due to Google fucking them and not paying them for the ads they play
Kitehammer
Sounds like something you should have a problem with.
EvilMatt666
That's how ad blockers got invented.
Grendalloffen
I tried watching a vid on my phone (I don't really use it much outside work, got all I need on the pc) during lunch yday. 7 min watched. 7 ads. Like, wtf. Want some content with them ads?
Dracology
An ad before you watch a video! An ad in the middle! Fastforward ? That's an ad, 3 seconds later another ad because that was where it was placed in the video. Ad between videos as well. Fuck all that.
Tarumbar
Add me
Kittynomnoms
Meanwhile the screen is just 75% banner ads.
darkstar86
Along with started to push ads that are longer than the video itself. I've had a few times where I'm cheacking a short teaser ad, thats under a minute, and it will try to push a 2-3 minute ad. Even had a couple of occasions where its tried to put a 1-2 HOUR advert in the middle of a video I'm watching...
Zeplin
Count the seconds. Without adblocker, 30% of content is now ads. It's getting way out of hand.
Hebbelille
Worse, you're looking through a video to see if it is the right one you were looking for, or if the guide is correct, bam, 15-30 seconds pr ad before you can find out it is the wrong one and you have to go look for an other one when you're already frustruted by the issue you're solving.
gsynth
And don't forget the sponsorship in the video itself, because Youtube can't be bothered to redistribute money properly the creators need to do their own advertising too !
OniTheWolf1743
I actually fully watch the videos with sponsorships. Since between my 4 ad blockers and script monkey, I never see ads.
Nizedk
Plugin Sponsorblock
Enoan
On twitch I need about 100 viewers to meet my states minimum wage while streaming. YouTube take orders of magnitude more viewership to make the same money.
superlee1985
I've had YouTube try to play me 20minute ads before.
NotACanadian
Don't forget it's the SAME AD YOU ALREADY WATCHED. We get it! Pepsi exists! As does that car I'm never going to buy in my life!
Baaadie
This is what gets me. I’ve tried a few times in my life to go back to watching ads because I realize nothing is free. Rewatching the same poorly made ad for the 5th time in 2 hours is not a good time.
Razadune
Yeah, it's nuts. I have no problem with YouTube on my PC where I have an adblocker, but after trying to use it on my Xbox where it doesn't have one... I would just not use YouTube at all, for anything, if that was the normal experience with it. If it was watch a 5 second ad to start the video it would suck, but fine. Instead they made their ad service the shittiest, most intrusive fucking garbage they possibly could.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
Yep. I could watch youtube on my tv, but since there's no adblocker, I'd have to watch so many ads that I decided it wasn't worth it.
iguessihaveto
The ads load separately from the video too, so if you're casting the video it makes you lose connection to the video you were trying to watch just often enough to be a serious pain
MileysVirus
I've noticed several little things they think people don't notice. When scolling videos it will have the ones music related run muted unless you click on it, then you have to sit through an unskippable 10sec ad, after that they throw another ad at you that is skippable after 5sec. It's really sleazy shit. Another thing they do when you are listening to your "mix" is play ads after the first music video so if you aren't babysitting the ads you won't get the next video.
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dontrike
If it wasn't profitable at any point how would it have lasted this long?
LordAndSaviourBirdJesus
I'm sure running YT must cost a fuckton, their operational costs are likely insane. But I severely doubt it takes 29 BILLION to run and that they're barely breaking even. Also their parent company is literally another billion dollar company who's providing infrastructure and operational support at a lower cost than it does for any external entity. They're greedy fucks.
Lumpyguy
According to Alphabet's Earnings Call/Fiscal Year report for 2021, youtube ads generated 28.8 billion USD, and in the Fiscal Year report for 2022 Alphabet says that youtube ads generated 29.2 billion USD. That's from ads on youtube ALONE. Do you sincerely believe that almost $30 BILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS isn't enough to cover the operation costs of youtube for one year?
nintyuk
Even if YouTube wasn't making gangbusters in money Google/Alphabet is making money over fist and YouTube helps maintain loyalty to their platforms.
CalvinMcFly
You....think they aren't profitable????
LordAndSaviourBirdJesus
Lmao a quick search says they've been profitable since 2009
werrywerry
Wow, well done. This extremely shit take earned everyone of these downvotes and then some.
Helixninja333
Even if they were a reasonable amount, turning it off temporarily got me an "Meet Asian Girls in your Area!" as a Sponsored Ad. It's not only the volume, but the quality as well and I'm surprised they haven't tried to sell me dick pills yet.
alchemist12345
For me it was both the quantity and quality of the ads. My breaking point was when it started pushing unskippable government propaganda
alchemist12345
political ads (I live in Hungary, so a LOT of Soros conspiracy theories and literal russian propaganda).
ijustwonamathdebate
You live in Hungary with that username... Are you a brewer, by chance?
alchemist12345
Also some ads are just so toxic and obnoxious that they break YT's ToS, so when a content creator implemented such an ad into the video
alchemist12345
itself, the video got demonetized due to "inappropriate content".
alchemist12345
As a cherry on top regarding the political ads: some hungarian youtubers found out that such ads are running under their videos and they
JustAnotherRabidToaster
I was streaming a music album on YT while I was driving. I used the YT program on my android phone, rather than my browser (which has ad-blockers) there was an ad before and after each song, with an additional one before the next song (which couldn't be skipped) the further along into the album I went. I never finished listening to the album because the ads drove me buts. Never again.
Greypuppy
I swear they KNOW when you can't afford the time or attention to skip an ad and throw them in right there. When I'm tabbed out on my phone, for example, I get really long skippable ads so I'm forced to stop what I'm doing and tab back in.
Totallycasual
If all i got was little banners along the bottom of videos and the sides of my screen when browsing sites (non audio, non animated of course), i'd never bother with adblockers. It's the incessant auto-playing video/audio and pop-ups that turn people to these extensions in the first place.
onlyhalfghost
that and the army of drive-by malware downloads that not a single ad provider gives even a half shit about policing. Ads are *unsafe.*
TheIronPenguin
And even if its not malware, javascripts (or flash when that existed) run in the ads can be so poorly written that it crashes the browser or hogs all memory. Unintentional malware.
StaticNull
I just feel uncomfortable having tailored corporate propaganda force fed to me every 2-3 minutes. The idea that all my activity is being packaged and sold to people who see me as nothing but a wallet to be emptied, or fed into a black box trying to predict what manipulative bullshit I will respond to, it all just makes me sick. The appeal of the internet is that it trivializes reproduction cost for most intellectual property. Text, images, music, even video costs pennies to send...
StaticNull
Web 2.0 was a lucrative bubble as tech companies outran legislation held back by dim witted, senile and corrupt politicians. Google does not need the revenue they generate any more than apple can justify a $1000 monitor stand. And the proliferation of data brokers alongside the innumerable companies hoarding insane amounts of private and sensitive information is enough of a hazard on its own without considering...
StaticNull
the industrial scale of call center scammers in third world countries draining the bank accounts of your parents and grandparents. I have a degree and a decade of experience in this industry and I can say with absolute certainty that it is rotten to the core.
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alchemist12345
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-revenue-of-google Yeah google is definitely going broke...
Cowmayihelpu
I don't have a problem watching 1 ad in between videos, but if you interrupt my video with ads I hate you and won't watch your content
alchemist12345
Sure, and if I change the channel on cable TV when an ad break comes on, Im also stealing, right?
TharrickLawson
your local authorities have been notified. you're going to jail for a long time, creep
alchemist12345
Additionally, creators and google get ad money from ad clicks, not impressions. I guarantee you, no one who were blocking ads before will
alchemist12345
now start not only watching the ads, but click on them.
Dracology
The creators get more from my buying one piece of their merch than they will ever get from me watching ads on their channel.
OmgOptimized
Yeah but if you buy merch, that junk has to be produced and you have to either store it or throw it away.
Kakeukh
Unrealistic. They would never use the word "please".
dynamojoe
And most of the IP on YouTube is stolen already.
Helixninja333
I think they realize that people who use adblockers aren't going to change after this. This is just like the war on the homeless: fuck over everybody to get at people who are absolutely not the problem, and make the environment shitty to exist in.
Hextator
When are we going to admit that platforms like YouTube, reddit, Wikipedia, and maybe some others(?) have become so important that they should be regulated by independent international governmental agencies, and funded by the tax payments of the primary participating nations? I already see people agreeing that a computer and Internet connection should be considered to be part of our basic human rights. Places to publish things and collate/view important information should be included, too.
mechanicalchaos
This is an intriguing idea.
triangulum303
Right on 💯
znuff
Sure. Until countries find out how much it costs to run YouTube and then they'd be like "uhm, no".
Hextator
Countries like the ones YouTube is already getting money from? I mean, that money isn't coming from space, as far as I know.
Hextator
Let's have the U.N. establish some committee to just kick Musk out of Twitter and force the platform to be a useful, tolerable place for people to stay up to date on important topics without hate speech having free reign. or some shit. idfk what I am talking about but like these platforms need to be socialized
Hextator
I mean, we all realize that if the pattern of shitty CEOs doing awful things (and causing employees to leave (Twitter), unmoderated hate speech (Twitter AND reddit, and no, this is not an exhaustive list), shutdowns/removals of large swathes of useful repositories of information (reddit), or replacement of reasonably qualified moderators with puppets (reddit...and probably also Twitter)) is to continue, that we'll end up with another Library of Alexandria situation, right?
kramorp
This would quickly turn into a nightmare. If the government ran a social media, then they would not be able to remove most posts without severe backlash. Since people seem to care about that 1st amendment stuff.
Hextator
Anything can turn into a nightmare if you do it wrong, but making a capable governing agency enforce public funding of a safe place for people to reliably host their communications could absolutely be done right. I won't pretend I know how it would work, but imagine if YouTube had government employees numerous enough to address things like "hateful comments left intact, despite being reported", and had funds without having ads, with those funds invested in infrastructure instead of CEOs.
smellsmiketeenspirit
"I won't pretend I know how it would work," Yeah, that's the problem. Dig a little bit more at the history of the idea.