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Are any of these (firefox) extensions causing the 'Adblockers are not allowed on Youtube' message for you guys? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Figured I'd make a dedicated post this time instead of leaving it in a comment.

If more details are needed, please leave a comment and tell me.

ClearURLsDisabling this extension did not remove the popup, but here's my settings anyways:

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Return Youtube DislikeRemoving this one did initially seem to work yesterday, but today it isn't.

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DuckDuckGo Privacy EssentialsRemoving this did not work, but this extension has caused adblocker-blockers to yell at me before.

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[–] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ublock Origin is working well again, google keeps updating their script but it only takes a few hours to get a new fix.

[–] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If there ever was a best time to donate to them its now

[–] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Agreed, but they don't accept donations. However, they do ask those willing to donate to do so to the creators and maintainers of the filter lists.

[–] IntentionallyAnon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I keep getting the box with an x in the top right that takes 5 seconds to click

[–] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go to ublock's settings, purge the cache and update libraries. That should fix it.

[–] IntentionallyAnon@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

It was probably because one of my YT modders had Adblock enabled

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

YouTube updates their adblock detection script twice a day meaning you have to update the "quick fix" filter list twice a day aswell. There's currently no permanent fix. It's a cat and mouse game.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPenguin@kbin.run 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Youtube keeps updating their anti adblock so ublock keeps having to update, it's a silly arms race.

[–] exscape@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The strange thing is that I've never seen any kind of AdBlock notice/warning on YouTube, ever. I'm also using uBlock Origin.

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

They are evidently doing trial areas and not all IP are affected.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPenguin@kbin.run 1 points 1 year ago

They've only just recently started rolling it out

[–] LocustOfControl@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago

I have Bitwarden, RES and uBlock Origin, plus Enhancer for Youtube.

My fix was

  1. disable "Block Ads" in Enhancer for Youtube
  2. add this to uBlock under "My Filters":
! from https://gadgetstouse.com/blog/2023/05/15/bypass-ad-blockers-not-allowed-on-youtube/
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
[–] IvyRaven@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume it's uBlock Origin. I have that and another one that I can't remember the name of, but it 'clicks ads' and you don't see them. I disabled uBO and left the other running. Worked fine for a few videos Sunday but Monday it was throwing the 'you can't use an ad blocker' again.

But I'd wager just about anything that affects YT on your end will throw that message at this point since they desperately want people to pay for premium or watch 3min of ads per 5min video.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

AdNauseam, rly great tool for fighting invasive ads (since it doesn't click on "do not track"/privacy respecting banners)

[–] IvyRaven@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

Ah yeah that's it. I'd had no issues with it, but I bet it's getting flagged on YT even though they're getting those sought after clicks and such. Cause I'd never click on an ad of my own choice.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

dunno, using libredirect to pass to freetube for the duration...

[–] SnowBunting@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Just started using freetube as well. It's working for now.

[–] Vincent@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It's linked to your account. If you view YouTube without logging in, you should have no issues. You can use the Multi-Account Containers extension to log in selectively per tab, if you need to.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 points 1 year ago

Block 3rd-party frames and scripts and see no ads or popup. Videos still play. I'm surprised that the EU consent banner still works.

[–] XYZinferno@lemmy.basedcount.com 6 points 11 months ago

One a complete side note, that Wii Shop Channel Music extension is absolutely hilarious. I love it

[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me it’s multi account containers.

[–] manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 4 points 1 year ago

Fuck, I rely on this for gmail and whatsapp

[–] blotz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been changing my useragent to chrome when I get the adblock popup. I haven't seen any popups while using a chrome user agent. Not sure if it works 100% of the time but I hope it helps!

[–] UdeRecife@literature.cafe 3 points 1 year ago

I had two issues triggering the ad blocking warning. Mind that I'm running Firefox and Ublock origin.

The first was the setting to block ads on YouTube enhancer add on.

The second was a rule I created on Ublock origin to block the notification bell.

After clearing both, no more warnings. At least for now.

[–] DetectiveSanity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You may want to enable other filters for uBlock as the defaults are neant to keeep it all functional!

[–] weedwhacking@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Adblocking on YouTube is an uphill battle, especially on mobile.

Sign up for a VPN trial, set it to a random country. I think I used Argentina or something. Sign up for YT premium, the prices will shock you. I pay ~2$ US a month for a family subscription.

Turn off your VPN, and enjoy YT premium on the cheap, in your native country.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sure but I'm doing this out of spite at this point. I literally use Firefox as my youtube client because I can't use ReVanced (patches required a rooted phone which would block my access to some banking apps)

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can use ReVanced unrooted. I patched my apk fine and don't have a rooted phone.

[–] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Double check the wiki. There's a Revanced community on lemmy with an up to date version. I have Revanced YouTube and YT music on my unrooted phone and both work fine.

[–] Stephen304@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm unrooted and I use revanced manager to patch YT and didn't notice anything about needing root. I use the change package name patch so I can have the official YouTube app installed side by side with the revanced version since Chromecasting only works for me in the official app.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

ahhh the reason i can't is because my youtube app is a split APK which does require rooting 🫠

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

You could grab a prepatched APK from somewhere trusted. Mobilism is generally fine

[–] Stephen304@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah that's annoying, I just search for the version on apkpure or apkmirror and usually one of those will have a standard APK I can download and select for patching.

[–] Schlecknits@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least on Android you have NewPipe, which is an easy to install alternative Frontend for YouTube, or YouTube ReVanced, which applies multiple Patches to the original YouTube-App in order to make it more useable, however sometime the patching process causes trouble.

I'm currently using Revanced and it still works like a charm and completly adfree.

[–] weedwhacking@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

2$ a month is honestly very worth be not having to deal with sideloading and any of that, and having it be Ad-free on all my devices including my Apple TV is very worth the price. Also I can share it with 9 people

[–] Iamhangry@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I bought using turkey as the country and caught a year plan. Argentina for some reason stopped accepting my credit card.

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Doing the lords work

[–] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Block element with ublock

[–] DefinitelyNotAPenguin@kbin.run 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That doesn't really work, it ends up breaking and not letting you scroll the page.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

As in you can't scroll the comments? That's a feature.

[–] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You need to block that element as well. There is like a greyish overlay. Right click on it (the whole screen will be marked.), block element. Then it should be working.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPenguin@kbin.run 1 points 1 year ago

I blocked the overlay too and could play the video and interact but couldn't scroll.

[–] Lunachocken@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 1 year ago

I literally press the full screen button and somehow it's fine.

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 2 points 1 year ago

I've been lucky or my extensions/network have kept me from seeing any notices.

Alphabet (Google) through yt does block IP, refresh or change fixes it.