youtube blocking addblockers

Has everyone now been affected?

I have had messages for a few days, and am now blocked.

It doesn’t provide me enought value to pay for premium. I can’t install an adblocker on my works laptop, and when it is just realy annoying how many adds there are.

If the premium option was for the whole google enviroment and meant they didn’t monetise me or my data in any other way, I wopuld probably pay it. IMO they want me to payto be a comodity more than a customer.

Hmmm – IIRC we are not supposed to discuss them on here.  Its not affected me tho I use an addblocker.  But then I am logged out of youtube and google at all times and refuse all cookies

there’s a guthub project to publish their ad content servers. I think if you just block resolution to them or put in false local records it’ll assume there’s network issues and progress onto the next part of the video. 

Just don’t pay, don’t install an adblocker and either have more tea and biscuits or watch less crap on YouTube.

It was affecting me a week or so back. Got the threats, then the threats with a 10 second countdown before you can hit the X button, then the 3 strikes, and after 2 strikes got the you are blocked forever message.

That was kind of intermittent, as Ublock and Brave were in a(nother) whack-a-mole fight with Youtube.

Then with Brave browser with shields up, but Ublock disabled, it all started working again.

When logged in, and making a vid open in an incognito window, vids always played OK with no ads and no warning popup.

NFW am I paying 50% more than a Netflix sub to get Youtube premium. I will consider donating that amount to a couple of content creators that I watch regularly though, via a service that takes a 10% cut rather than 40%.

I think premium is a lot cheaper in other parts of the world, but you have to have a vpn over there. I think the number of adverts is a deliberate attempt to get people to buy a subscription, you either value your time at £13/month or you don’t.

Using a VPN you can subscribe to youtube premium via a country that has lower costs. I’ve not personally bothered but a mate has it via India and it costs about £12.50 a year.

try being logged out?  How do they know its the same person if you are logged out and refuse all cookies?

Not an ad blocker as such I use newpipe on android though you have to download and install apk yourself.

you either value your time

Not if you’re watching enough YouTube for a sub to be worth considering for the sake of getting rid of the ads.

On the TV (well Firestick) I was using Smarttube, which has the sponsorblock feature too. Although since yesterday that stopped me logging in. Not sure if that’s Goliath picking on David, or just an issue. Will play around again tonight.

Was also trying out Freetube (on Linux, but not sure if it’s on other platforms). It kind of works but could also be a showstopper for some. Can export subscriptions from Youtube and import them in to Freetube, where you then watch whatever you want ad free without being logged in. But you won’t get any recommendations for anything else based on what you watch. Also it’s limited to 1080p for some technical reason.

If I have to pay to watch, I’ll be buying another Firestick and putting Smarttube on it (assuming it works again), and stick that in my 2nd monitor.

When I use the Brave browser I don’t see any ads (no need to install any ad blockers).

So what has been happening? Have people been getting pop ups say disable your ad blocker?

Yep, playback of content is disabled until the ad blockers are turned off.

Always thought it was only a matter of time before they caught up with ad blockers, especially in recent years it felt it was coming. Surprised it took so long!
I disabled advertising based on watch history and YouTube used to be fine with that and would suggest videos for me to watch. Now they’ve decided it means I don’t want anything suggested which isn’t true, YouTube could source suggested videos from my subscriptions but that obviously would be too convenient for me.
Screw ’em. Not been watching much lately anyway.

I don’t won’t to watch adverts and old enough to feel like I’m not missing much to dump the service.

U block still working for me.

Don’t object to the occasional ad, but the frequency and length seem to be increasing rapidly right now.

11 quid a month seems a bit steep as streaming subs go.

My Chrome blocker on the PC is still working fine. Brave is fine on the mobile, at the moment anyway.

Long term, if it becomes a real pain I’ll get a cheap foreign sub as I got a 3 year VPN plan for peanuts for kodi purposes anyway.

Ublock Origin on Chrome on a Chromebook is working fine.

I also run a PiHole – and was under the impression that could not block YouTube ads as they are served from YouTube servers.

Confused now. 

It was an issue last week but has been fine this week, that’s using add blocker on chrome.

Firefox and Adblock plus still working on youtube on phone and laptop for me.  I don’t watch youtube on the smart TV because it is unwatchable due to adverts.

I also run a PiHole – and was under the impression that could not block YouTube ads as they are served from YouTube servers.

My understanding too – that it all comes from the same endpoint so pihole can’t block them. Ublock and firefox is still blocking them though,  unsure how that manages to do it.

Still allowing ad blocking for me (or was yesterday).

I would just stop using it if they blocked Adblockers – the content isn’t worth the ads.

Yep now I’m on the PC, FF+UB working no probs 🙂

YouTube premium family via Argentina is around £1.60 a month with YouTube music as well. 

Ublock origin on firefox seems to work fine for me.

I’ll probably get banned for saying that, but really you have to run adblockers these days, it’s not an option.

YouTube premium family via Argentina is around £1.60 a month with YouTube music as well. 

Do you just need a VPN to Argentina for the initial setup? Or everytime you want to connect to You Tube you need the VPN?

Does the sign up process require a new email address / Google account or can you just use a pre-existing Google account registered outside Argentina?

Just experienced youtube with ads for the first time – jesus, that is shite

CBA with VPNs’n’shit unless there’s a really easy one-time fix so I’m highly likely just to quit the service

YouTube are rolling out the block across a few weeks per account cluster so not everyone will see the warnings and the ultimate block straight away. The traditional AdBlockers will no longer function as they can be detected.

There is a solution though: FadBlock. It only works on YouTube and is incredibly clever. It still streams the ads from the YouTube server in their entirety but it plays them to you so fast that the whole advert lasts less than half a second before the video carries on like normal. All you see onscreen is 1-5 screenshots so just like a stuttery connection for a second at most but YouTube thinks it has delivered the full ads. I was sceptical but it really does work, you can even count the ad breaks per video as each stutter is one ad.

I know the mention of blockers is frowned upon but this one works only on YouTube and the content creators still get the ad revenue as the ads have been ‘delivered’. For clarity I do support the channels I like via merch purchases and Patreon so I’m not a complete freeloader! If YouTube didn’t insist on completely flooding every video with more ads than actual content then these things wouldn’t be required but when it takes 45 mins to watch a 20 min video and the adverts almost always come at crucial points in it, ruining any sort of flow the creator has built, then these things are the result.

^^I’ll be trying Fadlock when the time comes. Cheers.

I know the mention of blockers is frowned upon but this one works only on YouTube

I don’t know, but this discussion is entirely about blocking ads on YouTube, which has no relevance to ads on STW and loss of revenue to the site…Personally, I watch so little YouTube content that I’ve never bothered with an account and while I’ve considered setting one up to post the occasional video, frankly for what I’d post, it’s just not worth it.

I had a look at Fadblock’s github.

The author is keeping the current version free in perpetuity, but any subsequent versions will require a one-off lifetime subscription payment (or as we used to say, “buying it”).

I’m a subscriber to YouTube.

Still get ads INSIDE the content a lot of the time anyway 😐

‘This video is sponsored by Squarespace, more on that later!’  I’m looking at you Matt Jones… 

Fadblock is now installed, and works a treat.

My post got deleted, but with Firefox and 3 selected addons i don’t get adverts on YouTube still

Yes, I’ll be ‘buying’ it when it becomes a paid-for thing as the work they did on it is genius. Had a good read of everything to do with it while I had time to kill im hospital and the only way YouTube can stop it is to reduce their buffering down to sub 10 seconds or less so that it can’t jump the adverts. That will massively ramp up their delivery costs as the servers will have to be much more robust so it should be here to stay for a while yet.

Good others are finding it works.

Still get ads INSIDE the content a lot of the time anyway 😐

That is a reaction to YouTube reducing the payments per ad to content creators, had a discussion with HubNut about it at his recent social and the reduction is substantial. As long as the product is relevant to the content then I don’t mind a small infomercial that is obvious as the money goes direct to the creator. Johnny Smith does it pretty well with BlackCircles where he does a 30 second bit when he mentions the tyres a car uses but things like crappy mobile games can sod off.

I only know one person with a YT sub and he’s minted.

Fadblock installed, thanks for the tip. I’ll happily chip in for it, if it works.

I only know one person with a YT sub and he’s minted.

Can’t be me then. 😂

the only way YouTube can stop it is to reduce their buffering down to sub 10 seconds or less so that it can’t jump the adverts.

For now…

I’ll probably get banned for saying that, but really you have to run adblockers these days, it’s not an option.

Really? I have never run an addblocker. Not found my life adversely effected, don’t have a stockpile of AG1 or whatever the latest add is about. Viewing experience not the best but its free. YouTube has to pay the bills. See Channel 4, ITV etc for other examples.

I watch a lot of YouTube or should I say listen as it’s like my radio, however £11 per month is too steep. I only recently started with an ad blocker as the ad ramped up. I was happy to let some adds play as my payment but when it became so much I installed a blocker.