Youtube now stopping Ad Blockers

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Nov 23, 2023 22:02:51 GMT -5 schma said:

Nov 23, 2023 21:59:36 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Ah ok, I don't watch him, but I looked it up and got a compilation video of John Oliver, it's old, so maybe that's why it worked.

Canadian rights are all f***ed up always, you know that. Something must have expired with the Canadian rights to his show.

Oh yeah, I'm used to seeing that screen telling me I can't watch something here. It just took me by surprise because I've been watching his show for years. I'll figure something out.

Proxysite used to work for YouTube. Haven’t tried it in years and years though.

[Lizuka #BLM]

For some reason when I'm signed in on my desktop - and only under those conditions, I don't have the same issue on other devices or when in incognito - the stuff to actually like do anything with ads just plain does not appear. I can't skip them because there is no option, there is no link for me to click on, the thing you click to give feedback on ads isn't there, it doesn't even tell me how many ads there are going to be playing at a given time. I basically have to continually reload over and over until I get an ad that's short enough to endure sitting through.

[H-Virus]

Well, finally got my first message using Safari. Nothing about blocking me if I kept doing it, just a standard "Hey, could you not?" message that I closed out of.

I've also been noticing on mobile that almost all ads have become unskippable no matter how long they are. I can refresh past the first of them, but any that pop up midway through become a lot more annoying.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

I wouldn't mind ads TOO much if I didnt keep getting those f***ing Heroes Wars ones.

They should be banned. They are completely misleading and absolutely nothing like the game.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

I am in no way right leaning, so why the f*** do I keep getting ads aimed at me that I can only interpret as bullshit right wing culture war talking points?

I can't f***ing wait till the blockers get fixed.

[Hypnosis]

I wish Firefox could translate Japanese pages like Chrome.

[Rumble McSkirmish]

In the latest bit of Youtube Ad annoyance:

Has anyone else have their main Youtube page put advertising videos all up and down the columns and rows of their suggested video tabs?
(Before they used to have one in the upper left hand corner, but now they're everywhere.)

I get why they're doing it because they want people to "accidently" click on them when trying to click on another video, but still bad form from a platform that is taking a lot of heat from their advertising practices from all corners.

[Sponsored by Groose Wipes]

Dec 6, 2023 5:43:32 GMT -5 Rumble McSkirmish said:

In the latest bit of Youtube Ad annoyance:

Has anyone else have their main Youtube page put advertising videos all up and down the columns and rows of their suggested video tabs?
(Before they used to have one in the upper left hand corner, but now they're everywhere.)

I get why they're doing it because they want people to "accidently" click on them when trying to click on another video, but still bad form from a platform that is taking a lot of heat from their advertising practices from all corners.

As if Youtube Shorts taking up half of my home page was not bad enough.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I see YouTube is now going with the "Slow the website down to 1996 levels of speed" as an incentive to get people to pay???

[john84]

Yeah I tried Ad Blockers on YouTube cos I didn't want to spend even more money just to stop the ads when I try to watch videos on there and kept getting the ''we do not allow this!'' thing.

[Deleted]

Youtube thinks they are slick but there is a simple workaround as right now it is just adblock that is creating the slowdown.

Just use Ublock untill they update adblock.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

I legit was wondering why Youtube was buffering so much and having a hard time loading in the site the other day

It's back to normal now on my end

[lucas_lee]

Dec 4, 2023 1:37:20 GMT -5 TWERKIN' MAGGLE said:

I am in no way right leaning, so why the f*** do I keep getting ads aimed at me that I can only interpret as bullshit right wing culture war talking points?

I can't f***ing wait till the blockers get fixed.

I get the same **** on Facebook and Twitter although I do watch a lot of right wing fail videos so that might be why.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

Jan 15, 2024 7:26:31 GMT -5 lucas_lee said:

Dec 4, 2023 1:37:20 GMT -5 TWERKIN' MAGGLE said:

I am in no way right leaning, so why the f*** do I keep getting ads aimed at me that I can only interpret as bullshit right wing culture war talking points?

I can't f***ing wait till the blockers get fixed.

I get the same **** on Facebook and Twitter although I do watch a lot of right wing fail videos so that might be why.

Until I blocked it, it kept recommending Ben Shapiro to me because I've watched a few videos making fun of him.

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

all because they can't show the crappy ads?
why aren't google showing their OWN ads then, and not random idiocy???

i'm not using it until it gets back to full accessibility

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

YT keeps telling me I'm offline when I am clearly not (I can use other tabs perfectly fine).

[Hurbster]

I just keep ublock up to date and it works on my PC, just purge and reload the lists when I get that message. And I just use Adguard on my mobile.

[LiamMcDuggle]

YouTube is massively slowing videos for anyone who has Adblock on their browser. EVEN if its turned off and EVEN if you have it paused on the site.

I really don't get how this can be remotely legal.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Jan 16, 2024 0:43:53 GMT -5 LiamMcDuggle said:

YouTube is massively slowing videos for anyone who has Adblock on their browser. EVEN if its turned off and EVEN if you have it paused on the site.

I really don't get how this can be remotely legal.

Even when it does load, videos are coming in at 240p.

Seems to be running fine today for me, but I have AdBlock off and UBlock on, which currently reads 845 blocked ads, not sure how it counts, because I am only 2 seconds into a paused video, but that seems right anyway.

From what I have read, it's a bug in AdBlock, they'll get her cleared up soon. YouTube is just making AdBlock better, even if we have to suffer for a couple days.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

One way to get around the whole mess is to set your VPN to a country that doesn't allow monetisation of YouTube videos, like Moldova or Albania. No ads by default.