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Does anyone know of an ad blocker blocker blocker?
I saw this with firefox and ublock origin installed. Dismissed it and continued not seeing any ads.
I just refresh the page and it works fine
Freetube on my PC and devices, Smartube for Fire TV.
Just be patient for the inevitable uBlockOrigin update that will fix it.
True aha. yt-dlp still works mostly, so I suppose I could just use it to download my subscribed and watch offline. There’s always a way
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you can add “–cookies-from-browser firefox” or whatever browser you use, to the end of the yt-dlp target
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you need a phone number to register a new one
So what has worked for me in the past is: Get a cheap android/ChromeOS device (or power-wash one that you’re not using any more) and ensure that there’s not a working SIM card in it. When you power it up and it goes through the first-time-user setup, it asks you for your Google account, and provides you with the option to create one if you (claim you) don’t have one. Since there’s no SIM card, the newly created Google account has no phone number attached.
I imagine that you could copy down the info about this newly-created account (after making sure it has a password and you know what it is), and then wipe/power-wash the phone/tablet/Chromebook and do the process all over again and create another Google account.
Every google-OS-running device I’ve ever owned has gotten a new Google account created for it.
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Downloading a video is functionally identical to watching the video. I’m not 100% sure they can’t tell, but they certainly shouldn’t care… You’re not circumventing anything by downloading a streamed video, they just obfuscate the download functionality.
I imagine they might care because advertisements are their source of revenue on that platform, which I believe loses money regardless. They’re also getting increasingly adamant about breaking people’s ad blockers.
It also appears to me that every combination of functional use requires some form of identification:
- If you’re logged out, they’re okay with you browsing from an identifiable home IP address.
- If you’re on a VPN, they’re okay with showing your videos if you log in so they can track your viewing habits.
- If you’re on a VPN and make a new account, they want your phone number so they can tie your identity to an actual human being.
It might be a bit paranoid, but these factors combined suggest that Google does not want us to watch videos without providing some form of (inferrable) personal identification. And if Google can’t get what it wants, specifically data and ad revenue, they might be very willing to terminate an account that’s draining their coffers.
I’ve been using Firefox With Ublock Origin (and YouTube ReVanced for mobile) for years, and have yet to see this message outside of a screenshot.
Others have already weighed in, but:
This warning doesn’t seem to be persistent. Using ublock/regularly clearing cookies seems to keep this at bay. Sometimes it helps to open new links in container tabs as well.
I got this earlier this week and clearing my cookies/using container tabs seems to reset it.
I got this with Firefox + uBlock Origin yesterday but was gone a couple videos later, uBlock must have updated.
Use a front-end like Piped or Invidious and be happy.
Negative comments and dislikes incoming in 3, 2, 1…
Why do you think you’ll be downvoted for that? I see people recommend them literally all the time on similar posts
Firstly. People don’t like Piped or Invidious because they often gets broken due to Google’s work to try shut them down completely.
Invidious is basically all broken already because of this. And it can be hard to find a good Piped instance that works.
I have Piped installed on my server and it happens that I get “login to prove you’re not a bot” or what the error message is.
And secondly. People tend to be very mean online and I don’t trust any people until they have proven they are indeed nice and not mean in any way (like judging or trolling).
Lastly. I am in a very bad mood which boosting the second reason.
Ah alright that makes sense. (Also just to make sure, wasn’t meaning any like rudeness in my reply, im autistic so if I did sorry)
You were not rude to me. You asked a simple question, that’s it :) I’m autistic too.
Yep. Got this yesterday (UK).
I had a couple of adverts make it through yesterday in the UK, just closed the tab and went to some locally hosted content instead. Seems like its working again today. I don’t log into youtube at all.
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You can hit the x and continue. This just a stern warning with no consequence for now
You just close the window. I’ve seen this twice in the last three years and never experienced any actual change – still no ads or even black screens where ads should be.
this happens for a short time about every six months
if you haven’t already, make sure ublock is updated, then toggle “quick fixes” (if it’s on, turn it off, if it’s off, turn it on)Freetube is patched often and remains usable 99% of the time for an ad(and sponsor, if wanted) free experience.
As Youtube makes changes solely to break these players, they are quick to jump through the new hoops.
Freetube also has DeArrow built in to replace clickbait thumbnails and titles!
Also Newpipe for mobile. You can find it on f-droid.
I use freetube without anything but the issue is that my VPN is blocked now, and a self hosted invidious or piped won’t help with that, right? I imagine I’m going to need some kind of split for the VPN, where some apps don’t use VPN.
But even freetube is somewhat clumsy for queueing videos and proper theater mode without borders. Using Youtube is becoming more and more cumbersome lol.
I wish there was a simple executable that pre-downloads and buffers my youtube channel videos and then just launches an optimized local web server that has good UX.
but the issue is that my VPN is blocked now, and a self hosted invidious or piped won’t help with that, right?
If I’m not mistaken this is incorrect, when you self host Invidious you also must host their companion tool to help skirt around YouTube’s blocking system.
https://docs.invidious.io/installation/#linux
You have to run this command on the same public IP address as the one blocked by YouTube. Not necessarily the same machine, just the same public IP address.
You will need to copy these two parameters in theconfig.yamlfile.
Subsequent usage of this same token will work on the same IP range or even the same ASN. The point is to generate this token on a blocked IP as “unblocked” IP addresses seems to not generate a token valid for passing the checks on a blocked IP.Documentation here is a bit outdated but I assume this is how it still works, just automated without the need to manually run their commands.
Huh, thanks. I don’t quite understand it but I guess a token makes sense. Similar to how I can use reddit with VPN when logged in, but not without. I don’t even have a youtube account any more though since they forcibly degoogled me by demanding my phone number.
You can block element on that pop-up with uBlock Origin, and it starts working again.
If you can’t click anything, there’s a transparent layer still in the way, so you may need to do a second block element (click anywhere and the entire screen should highlight).
Weird side effect is that the scroll stops working sometimes, but if you make the video full screen then back it fixes it.
for anyone interested:
the scroll not working is most likely due to the main container in the page (usually the <body> tag but it can be some other element) having the
overflow: hiddenCSS property assigned to it.overflowdictates the behavior of an element that has its content overflow past the parent element’s boundaries.the property can have four values:
visible, where the overflow is fully visible and allowed to extend past the parent element,scroll, which clips the overflowing content and allows the user to scroll the parent element,hidden, which clips the overflowing content and prevents scrolling, andauto, which works almost identically toscroll
most sites run a script that assigns this property with the value of
hiddento the <body> tag, making the user unable to scroll the page.ive seen this behavior the most with sites that blast you with an unavoidable cookie banner which you have to click through to access the page. usually removing the cookie banner element is not enough to freely access the page, and so you have to additionally find which element has its overflow set to
hiddenand disable that property.i reckon youtube’s adblocker popup is doing the same thing, and coincidentally turning off fullscreen also runs a script that makes sure the overflow is set to either
scrollorautoIt feels strangely vindicating when symptoms that just look like ‘a weird bug’ to my dumb ass actually make sense to folks who know what they’re doing.
Thanks for the insight!
There are a few browser extensions that force a scrollbar even on pages its disabled if you need to work around it.
Though not being able to scroll down to YouTube comments should be considered a blessing.
