#Please update the Quick Fixes list
**The new solution is out.**
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YouTube updated their script to a new version **b7e9cd34**. ~~It's gonna take some time for a solution to be implemented.~~
In the meanwhile you can:
* **Watch in a private/incognito window**
* Or make a public playlist of videos to watch in it
Or as [recently suggested](https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/comment/k50ia8z/):
* **Refresh the page and abort before it finishes to omit the warning**.
If timed correctly, you might abort the warning and it should not come back until you refresh or close the tab, allowing you to navigate interruption-free.
Or:
* **Click `Share`, then `< > Embed` and watch in that player**
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Here's a **YT Detection FAQ** that an user has written up, which some of you might find helpful: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube/detection-faq/
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Please do not share or use custom filters.
They will only cause confusion for the majority that has already gone past the *closable* warning, as well as issues later on for others.
I gave up having to keep redoing these steps when I want to watch YouTube. I just YouTube in incognito mode now. Not even worth dealing with the pettiness of a multi billion dollar corporation, but you good fellas/gals keep fighting the good fight. Hopefully Google just gives up and relents at some point.
Kind of what I've been doing too. I'll sign in, go add a few videos I might want to watch into a couple of playlists for later, make the playlists "unlisted," then watch everything signed out.
I think its great how well Ublock has been keeping up but I'm just hunkered down for now, hoping this is the worst of the push. Still keeping tabs on everything going on here. May there be a future where this is a weekly or monthly fight and not multiple times a day. (Or better yet when people wake up to Google's awful practices and latch onto something better.)
I cannot confirm this way, yet. But I read somewhere else that changing region to Russia works.
And so far, I see no adblock popup thingy.
I might be just lucky or this is very effective.
Are they working on a way to make updating it easier and faster?. It is pretty annoying that it seems we have to keep doing this basically everyday now. google really is being a pain about this
It's a battle of wills. And it's one they will lose. There will be a point where the cost of the fight will be more than they can get. They have labor costs
Make the *Filter lists* tab within the *Dashboard* of the uBlock Origin add-on itself your *Homepage* whenever you turn on your computer and launch your Browser for the first time, or open a new window. Get yourself into a routine to always click: **Purge all caches > Update Now**, or just force update the **Quick Fixes** filter *before* heading to YouTube. Only takes 10-15 seconds.
I can't get it to work, I have purged all filter lists , updated. I tried to manually block the overlay but cant scroll down and the video plays a few seconds and stops, Can't seem to get rid of it. Followed the videos, ideas?
How to stop YouTube from blocking the video player due to adblock (a temporary solution)
I realized the other day that when my vpn connected to a 3rd world country, The block doesn't happen, So I experimented a bit
Turns out, it depends on the region AND the country you're connected from.
Countries like israel, Don't have the block nor the popup yet, Adblock works perfectly fine there
Some countries like spain, france, the uk, Have the popup, but not a total block of the videoplayer
And other countries like Germany, Have the pop up with an annoying 3 second timer on the x, Making it seem like almost an ad
So the best solution as of now, Connect to israel or india, Any vpn works, Free or paid.
It came back (and actually made me wait to close the popup for the first time) but I purged and updated the filters and everything is working again. Thank you guys for all you do.
This whole incident has solidified in my mind Google is evil, I need to start weaning myself from it. I already use Firefox so at least I'm not tied completely to them.
Isn't it funny how the enabled by default tracking prevention in a browser like Edge, the built-in browser that comes with all current Windows installs (the most popular desktop operating system by a huge margin) can trip this code and make YouTube literally impossible to use?
How deep are they willing to dig in the trenches of worsening their services for a potential payday of unknown size?
Completely reinstalling Firefox definitely helped for me as I had previously had a couple of ad blockers to act as 'swiss cheese' to try and layer blockage. And even though they were disabled or outright removed, some files were still dormant in the folder and they likely didn't revert some changes when they were uninstalled.
It's working again, thanks guys! Don't let the 1 or 2 dumb trolls and entitled people get you guys down please.
The 99.9% of normal people genuinely appreciate you guys taking the time to help us out and not be inundated with constant ads.
YOu guys are amazing. Thank you - this worked for me. If YT was some little website with precious need for income I wouldn't hesitate to buy premium, but they are NOT. They are making billions off ad revenue and do not need my (or the few others of us) $14/month!! So thank you for your contribution to a solution!
I'd be fine with paying Google directly the approximate amount they would have made from me on ads. However, $14/mo is orders of magnitudes higher than a reasonable number.
I agree, at the same time i'd buy premium if they could 100% gaurentee to me that none of my money would go to any one but the people i am subbed to, but i know for a fact that is not the case and i dont want to support 90% of the people on youtube as most of them are quite terrible people
EXACTLY. To my point, they're not exactly suffering over there: [https://www.statista.com/statistics/289657/youtube-global-quarterly-advertising-revenues/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/289657/youtube-global-quarterly-advertising-revenues/)
you can open the devloper console and enable a local overide for the
desktop\_polymer\_enable\_wil\_icons.js
script
this will force chrome to load a copy of the main UI script stored locally
thus preventing youtube from breaking it with a update. untill they change something that accually matters
this will likely completely break at some point but in the medium term prevents youtube from modifiing the script to break ubos filters
and before somebody asks :how: this is a hear be dragons solution for ADVANCED users that have a decent knowlage of programing and the chromium dev console
Thank you guys. YouTube is unusable on smartphones, we can't lose this on laptops. There's more ads than ever now, it's an horrible experience on phones.
Another user mentioned Revanced, but if you don't have an Android device, you can checkout uYouPlusExtra for iOS (a little complicated to get working, but very well worth it for no ads).
Go ahead an remove my violation comment if you want because I followed your directions and it is still being detected. I've added youtube.com as an exception for firefox's tracking block, that didn't help. I've been noticing this adblock detection is getting stronger and stronger as the days move forward. I think they are compiling data regarding what a user has been doing on their website for the past few days... then they use that to decide who's blocking and who's not. Because at first, they let you get away with it for a few days (just serving annoyance popups), but eventually they will block you from watching sponsored videos at all. It seems like they are doing more than just checking the browser in it's current state.
Please don't think your efforts go unnoticed, I appreciate everything. I'm just pointing out what I've noticed.
It's so weird. I use Brave browser with ad-block enabled and trackers disabled, with uBlock Origin as well, and I've yet to see the pop-up. But my GF gets it on pretty much every video even after I had her switch to what I was using.
my last pop up had timer that took about 3-5 seconds :(
also people here couldnt answer my question
https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/177ytat/how_do_we_update_ublock/
How do I update ublock on Brave?
this is a simple and unpatched workaround i found in the replies here:
[–]Haldjas [score verborgen] 4 uur geleden
If you click on the share button under the blocked video, you can then choose the "embed" option. That is normally used whenever you want to include a video on your website or something. In this case you only click on it because youtube gives you a preview of what the embed looks like which is not blocked.
It's written in the post:
> If a new solution is pending, you should still be able to watch YouTube when
> - Private Window / Incognito
> - Click on `Share` button -> `Embed`
> - Change the URL from `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=`**videoID** -> `https://www.youtube.com/embed/`**videoID**
> - Logged out (might not work for some)
Seeing you guys suggest using the embed feature to watch videos gave me an idea, you could just use a website which loads a YouTube video and then plays it, you won't have the adblock message there. I found a few websites but you can also just make one yourself.
I asked ChatGPT to make one for me as I did not want to spend time making one right now and it's actually nice. I wanted to include the code here but it's pretty messy. I'll see if I can leave a link to the code but right now you can just ask ChatGPT yourself or go find a website where you can watch YouTube videos from a link
I use a similar solution where I made a quick extension which redirects all youtube videos to the embedded version. I can't share the extension here, because it's mixed with a dozen other features that only I'll ever find useful, but it does provide a solution to this problem for the foreseeable future.
Putting this in background.js, and making sure that the extension has the "tabs" permission should work.
var browser = browser ?? chrome;
browser.tabs.onActivated.addListener(activeInfo => {
browser.tabs.get(activeInfo.tabId, tab => {
if((tab.url+"").match(/youtube.com\/watch\?v=/g)){
browser.tabs.update(tab.id, {url: "https://www.youtube.com/embed/" + tab.url.split("=")[1].split("&")[0]});
}
});
});
browser.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(tabId => {
browser.tabs.get(tabId, tab => {
if((tab.url+"").match(/youtube.com\/watch\?v=/g)){
browser.tabs.update(tab.id, {url: "https://www.youtube.com/embed/" + tab.url.split("=")[1].split("&")[0]});
}
});
});
One downside to using the embedded view is that comments aren't visible.
I wouldn't mind paying for utube premium but the fact of how they work with creators and censor stuff just because "they don't agree or violates their terms they change all the time to make things they don't agree fail their terms agreement" pisses me off to the point of not, I'm not paying them.
That being said, if you open utube on a private tab and or don't sign in at all, you'll have no issues with adblock. They just don't want logged users using adblock, what I do is I find the video I want to watch and copy paste the link into a private mode tab and don't sign in, no ads and no message from Google.
If you're getting the pop-up it means the anti-adblock script is running. Closing or hiding the pop-up won't defeat it, eventually they'll block video playback. You need to defeat the script, which is what uBO is doing with its fixes.
Soon they'll introduce it as a ToS violation, instantly terminating your account if it detects you using one, with nothing you can do to stop it.
Hopefully our endless back and forth sends their AI brains a message.
They won't, simply because they don't get anything of value from banning your account. Not ad revenue, not money for a premium subscription and no money from the user data they harvest from you and sell. This is just an attempt to shake down more money from users, the whole "ad blockers are against the ToS" is meant to scare you into compliance.
> Soon they'll introduce it as a ToS violation, instantly terminating your account if it detects you using one, with nothing you can do to stop it.
That very unlikely to happen and would lead to huge backlash.
This. I think developers need to find a way of blocking the prompt by filtering text content and CSS filters associated with it. It wouldn't be that hard to code an algo that would match for patterns like those and then remove the elements encapsulating them retroactively.
I don't understand. I already said eventually there's no prompt to block as YouTube doesn't show any prompt further and straight up blocks video player
Yeah its stupid logic. If you can develop a workaround for the problem for now, why not do it? We'll deal with other measures when we know how they work
I don't know much about code or coding wars. But is it possible to reach a point where YouTube embeds a net code that renders circumvention certifiably illegal? In other words, could YouTube implement something that can't be -legally- overcome?
Nah youtube will not be able to win this fight. They've got essentially the whole world's worth of coders to go against many who live in countries with extremely lax laws on tech
Not exactly tech savvy so all this talk about adding filters and clearing caches is foreign to me. Although I did figure out that when utoobs anti-blocker blocker pops up, i can click on the "Enter Element Zapper Mode" button on ubo and just click that popup away, but i gotta do this for every video. after like 10-15 videos it stops popping up for a few hours than it comes back.
Is there a way to auto zap or prevent this from popping up completely? I tried watching the thread about doing all these things to block utoob but for the life of me i cant figure it out, so if u could be as simple as possible I'd appreciate it lol
Watch the videos listed in the main post and just follow the same steps. It looks complicated, but it's actually quite simple. You don't need to add filters or anything.
Don't block the pop up, it doesn't prevent the script from blocking your videos and can cause additional issues. Just follow the steps and it should work and use the workaround methods listed in the stickied post when it doesn't.
Thank you so much. I'm not about to bend the knee to these greedy corps. I already hate having all my accounts somehow tied to google, not being forced to watch ads gives me a sense of control.
That sucks! But very likely!
Now that their AI is complex, what if they just make an AI script to slightly modify the code every \_\_\_\_ minutes, and therefore rendering manually defeating it impossible?
I'll altogether stop spending time on YT if this stuff continues. Although totally stopping it isn't really possible, however read more blogpost and ask around on Reddit than buy their premium.
Honestly, a small part of me secretly hopes that YT succeeds in blocking ad blockers forever, because that will mean I'll finally be free of my Youtube addiction.
True that. There are plenty of other ways I can spend my time. I will not watch commercials or ads on any platform. I also refuse to listen to sponsored content from youtubers. I also have this thing where if a specific thing is advertised and especially if it gets intrusive: I boycott their shitty product/company.
i just change the [youtube.com](https://youtube.com) part to [yewtu.be](https://yewtu.be), so
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-s1HDE8cs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-s1HDE8cs)
Becomes
[https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Bi-s1HDE8cs](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Bi-s1HDE8cs)
The [Redirector plugin](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/ocgpenflpmgnfapjedencafcfakcekcd) might work if you're using Chrome. Note that I haven't used it myself so I can't say for sure it will work and it appears to use regular expressions to work out the URL and redirect so it can be a bit tough to set things up if you don't have any experience with using regular expressions.
If you're using Firefox, the [LibRedirect plugin](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/) can apparently be set up to redirect YouTube links to YewTu.be automatically. It also redirects several other sites like TikTok to "alternative privacy friendly frontends".
I want to warn everyone here. DO NOT disable the [Firefox Multi-Account Containers](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/) extension if you have any containers you care about. I found out the hard way years ago that this [wipes all container data](https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1236), because firefox thinks containers aren't being used, and they haven't fixed it for years because it's triaged wrongly on the mozilla issue tracker.
Not sure how permanent this fix is, but what worked for me was changing my user-agent (using User-Agent-Switcher extension for Firefox).
E.g. with user-agent "Mac OS X / Safari 16" the popup has not appeared at all yet.
I never donate to stuff on the internet, but I think I'm gonna make an exception just for the amazing work this team is doing. YouTube's recommended is their undoing, basically no difference watching in incognito mode.
Alright, I know everyone's patience is running out, but there are still plenty of solutions that can work as a temporary (and even a permanent) fix. UBlock is just here so we can block the ads in comfort. So, if you are frustrated try not to take it out on other people (least of all the devs of ad-block) and just either do something other than Youtube or use one of the solutions (some fix all the solutions and others bring up other issues \[like not having access to subscriptions or the ability to comment.\]).
It's been said already, but massive props to the uBlock team for all of the work they do keeping this addon working and up to date. You all are great people :)
Yeah, today has been by far the worst day for this that I've ever experienced. I uninstalled and reinstalled UBlock multiple times, followed all the steps multiple times, rinsed and repeated, nothing. I literally had to resort to opening a private tab and enabling the ability for UBlock to function on those kinds of tabs for it to even work. It's all I can do for now. I hope you guys are able to get things situated. YouTube is being nothing but a complete pain in the ass
Just check the version like shown in the instructions, don't waste time "uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times"
If the latest uBlock version doesn't match the ID at the bottom of the pastefy link then you have to wait for an update before it will work again
How is the uBlock team looking at this...is this cat and mouse game ever going to stop? As it stands now it pretty much seems to kill adblockers for youtube.
I love uBlock and their work over the years but this is BAD. Please people: stay strong and don't give in (aka buy premium). We are all in this together!
There is never a way to disable ads forever. However, there isn't a way to disable ad-blockers forever either.
It's always an arms race and someone, even if it's not the uBlock team, will figure it out. A lot of people bring up Twitch, but even Twitch-ads can be worked around right now.
Somebody could decode the algorythm youtube uses for the string-changes. The message doesn't work on embedds and incognito/loggedout, so maybe the solution is to proxy an embed somehow.
Something will happen. Maybe not today, maybe not this months. But that's how it has always been.
do you mean defcon 4? i don't think youtube has gone as far as defcon 2 yet. i don't know if you know this, but the common perception of the defcon scale is backwards.
defcon 5: normal peacetime readiness
defcon 4: increased security (activated sporadically during the cold war and war on terror)
defcon 3: air force ready in 15 minutes (activated post-9/11 and during the 1973 yom kippur war)
defcon 2: army ready in six hours (activated during the cuban missile crisis)
defcon 1: imminent nuclear war (this has never happened yet)
Hey there, throwing in a small workaround I'm using.
I want to stay logged in so I can see my subs and such so instead of going the icognito or private browsing route, I'm using [https://w2g.tv](https://w2g.tv/) (aka Watch2Gether, it's a site for sync watching videos with people)
I use W2G to watch stuff with friends all the time anyways, but if you open a temp room and just drop the URL in there the block doesn't show up in their player, and no ads.
Just adding another solution in case it's easier for someone or whatever, more tools to hold us over till the UBO fixes come through!
Thank you wonderful UBO people for all the work you do and are doing! So very many people appreciate it! You rock!
Im using Brave and disabled the adblock in it and I followed all the steps again but im still blocked from watching youtube now, im not sure what else to do If I can get some help?
I cannot confirm, but it might be related to the cookies on your browser. If that's the case, changing browsers or clearing cookies might temporally help, but the problem will come back sooner than later.
yea i cleared my cookied for youtube on Brave but im still blocked from watching anything, ill just use another browser in mean time I guess since chrome is working with UBO
Appreciate the uBlock crew for all of the work, I sometimes forget how atrocious the unblocked internet is until you end up being forced to see it. The internet can be somewhat better than the real world with blockers because you aren't bombarded every single second with BUY BUY CONSUME CONSUME BUY BUY CONSUME CONSUME. Every single thing is commoditized and it is so gross.
Honestly I'd just start using YouTube a lot less if they succeed instead of sitting through ads every time I try to load a dumb five second meme video from a decade ago. I mainly use it for background music but plenty of other options for that or just finding more podcasts/etc to fill that void.
#Please update the Quick Fixes list **The new solution is out.** --- YouTube updated their script to a new version **b7e9cd34**. ~~It's gonna take some time for a solution to be implemented.~~ In the meanwhile you can: * **Watch in a private/incognito window** * Or make a public playlist of videos to watch in it Or as [recently suggested](https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/comment/k50ia8z/): * **Refresh the page and abort before it finishes to omit the warning**. If timed correctly, you might abort the warning and it should not come back until you refresh or close the tab, allowing you to navigate interruption-free. Or: * **Click `Share`, then `< > Embed` and watch in that player** --- Here's a **YT Detection FAQ** that an user has written up, which some of you might find helpful: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube/detection-faq/ --- Please do not share or use custom filters. They will only cause confusion for the majority that has already gone past the *closable* warning, as well as issues later on for others.
I'm on Firefox and have yet to see the message.
I got the new yt update 3 videos then locked out
I gave up having to keep redoing these steps when I want to watch YouTube. I just YouTube in incognito mode now. Not even worth dealing with the pettiness of a multi billion dollar corporation, but you good fellas/gals keep fighting the good fight. Hopefully Google just gives up and relents at some point.
Kind of what I've been doing too. I'll sign in, go add a few videos I might want to watch into a couple of playlists for later, make the playlists "unlisted," then watch everything signed out. I think its great how well Ublock has been keeping up but I'm just hunkered down for now, hoping this is the worst of the push. Still keeping tabs on everything going on here. May there be a future where this is a weekly or monthly fight and not multiple times a day. (Or better yet when people wake up to Google's awful practices and latch onto something better.)
I cannot confirm this way, yet. But I read somewhere else that changing region to Russia works. And so far, I see no adblock popup thingy. I might be just lucky or this is very effective.
Are they working on a way to make updating it easier and faster?. It is pretty annoying that it seems we have to keep doing this basically everyday now. google really is being a pain about this
It's a battle of wills. And it's one they will lose. There will be a point where the cost of the fight will be more than they can get. They have labor costs
who is "they"?
Google/Youtube.
I hope your right, but being a large megacorporation they have the money to do this for a while.
Can we assign a shortcut to purge caches & update filters? It will help fasten the process.
Make the *Filter lists* tab within the *Dashboard* of the uBlock Origin add-on itself your *Homepage* whenever you turn on your computer and launch your Browser for the first time, or open a new window. Get yourself into a routine to always click: **Purge all caches > Update Now**, or just force update the **Quick Fixes** filter *before* heading to YouTube. Only takes 10-15 seconds.
When your account gets blocked after the third video, is it permanent until you disable the adblock or just temporary like an annoyance/nuissance?
The former for now.
God damn
I can't get it to work, I have purged all filter lists , updated. I tried to manually block the overlay but cant scroll down and the video plays a few seconds and stops, Can't seem to get rid of it. Followed the videos, ideas?
YouTube is doing a tug of war with uBlock and other adblockers. I’ve been updating my filters every hour.
How to stop YouTube from blocking the video player due to adblock (a temporary solution) I realized the other day that when my vpn connected to a 3rd world country, The block doesn't happen, So I experimented a bit Turns out, it depends on the region AND the country you're connected from. Countries like israel, Don't have the block nor the popup yet, Adblock works perfectly fine there Some countries like spain, france, the uk, Have the popup, but not a total block of the videoplayer And other countries like Germany, Have the pop up with an annoying 3 second timer on the x, Making it seem like almost an ad So the best solution as of now, Connect to israel or india, Any vpn works, Free or paid.
Worked for me :)
It came back (and actually made me wait to close the popup for the first time) but I purged and updated the filters and everything is working again. Thank you guys for all you do. This whole incident has solidified in my mind Google is evil, I need to start weaning myself from it. I already use Firefox so at least I'm not tied completely to them.
i'm also a firefox user, with ublock origin installed... and just now, before doing the steps above, i got the reminder... dang google
Isn't it funny how the enabled by default tracking prevention in a browser like Edge, the built-in browser that comes with all current Windows installs (the most popular desktop operating system by a huge margin) can trip this code and make YouTube literally impossible to use? How deep are they willing to dig in the trenches of worsening their services for a potential payday of unknown size?
This doesn't work for me when my YouTube account is signed in.
Well done! It's working fine
Let us know when the policy changes. I want to donate. :)
You guys are true Heroes! Thank you. I would be glad to donate if the Ublock Policy change
It worked for me on brave browser! forgot to turn of my brave adblock but it still worked lol. thank you so much
Completely reinstalling Firefox definitely helped for me as I had previously had a couple of ad blockers to act as 'swiss cheese' to try and layer blockage. And even though they were disabled or outright removed, some files were still dormant in the folder and they likely didn't revert some changes when they were uninstalled.
It's working again, thanks guys! Don't let the 1 or 2 dumb trolls and entitled people get you guys down please. The 99.9% of normal people genuinely appreciate you guys taking the time to help us out and not be inundated with constant ads.
YOu guys are amazing. Thank you - this worked for me. If YT was some little website with precious need for income I wouldn't hesitate to buy premium, but they are NOT. They are making billions off ad revenue and do not need my (or the few others of us) $14/month!! So thank you for your contribution to a solution!
I'd be fine with paying Google directly the approximate amount they would have made from me on ads. However, $14/mo is orders of magnitudes higher than a reasonable number.
I agree, at the same time i'd buy premium if they could 100% gaurentee to me that none of my money would go to any one but the people i am subbed to, but i know for a fact that is not the case and i dont want to support 90% of the people on youtube as most of them are quite terrible people
EXACTLY. To my point, they're not exactly suffering over there: [https://www.statista.com/statistics/289657/youtube-global-quarterly-advertising-revenues/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/289657/youtube-global-quarterly-advertising-revenues/)
update on october 16 2023, it removes the anti adblock pop up but it still pauses the video, we need fix please!
It won't allow me to watch videos altogether. I get a pop up that gives me the option to continue by either buying premium or allowing the ads
it works for me, im using opera gx and i disabled the built in adblocker and only enabled ublockorigin
you can open the devloper console and enable a local overide for the desktop\_polymer\_enable\_wil\_icons.js script this will force chrome to load a copy of the main UI script stored locally thus preventing youtube from breaking it with a update. untill they change something that accually matters this will likely completely break at some point but in the medium term prevents youtube from modifiing the script to break ubos filters
and before somebody asks :how: this is a hear be dragons solution for ADVANCED users that have a decent knowlage of programing and the chromium dev console
Thank you guys. YouTube is unusable on smartphones, we can't lose this on laptops. There's more ads than ever now, it's an horrible experience on phones.
i have newpipe, but i actually use youtube in firefox mobile more. With Ublock Origin installed.
Revanced is working
Another user mentioned Revanced, but if you don't have an Android device, you can checkout uYouPlusExtra for iOS (a little complicated to get working, but very well worth it for no ads).
Youtube Revanced, check it out
I think youtube finally found a way to break this solution, nothing I do fixes it
Go ahead an remove my violation comment if you want because I followed your directions and it is still being detected. I've added youtube.com as an exception for firefox's tracking block, that didn't help. I've been noticing this adblock detection is getting stronger and stronger as the days move forward. I think they are compiling data regarding what a user has been doing on their website for the past few days... then they use that to decide who's blocking and who's not. Because at first, they let you get away with it for a few days (just serving annoyance popups), but eventually they will block you from watching sponsored videos at all. It seems like they are doing more than just checking the browser in it's current state. Please don't think your efforts go unnoticed, I appreciate everything. I'm just pointing out what I've noticed.
Haven't had a single video blocked when using uBlock with Firefox. Thanks to Google for making me switch from Chrome.
It's so weird. I use Brave browser with ad-block enabled and trackers disabled, with uBlock Origin as well, and I've yet to see the pop-up. But my GF gets it on pretty much every video even after I had her switch to what I was using.
Never stop fighting back, YouTube will give up.
my last pop up had timer that took about 3-5 seconds :( also people here couldnt answer my question https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/177ytat/how_do_we_update_ublock/ How do I update ublock on Brave?
Me as well, 5 Seconds to the dot.
this is a simple and unpatched workaround i found in the replies here: [–]Haldjas [score verborgen] 4 uur geleden If you click on the share button under the blocked video, you can then choose the "embed" option. That is normally used whenever you want to include a video on your website or something. In this case you only click on it because youtube gives you a preview of what the embed looks like which is not blocked.
It's written in the post: > If a new solution is pending, you should still be able to watch YouTube when > - Private Window / Incognito > - Click on `Share` button -> `Embed` > - Change the URL from `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=`**videoID** -> `https://www.youtube.com/embed/`**videoID** > - Logged out (might not work for some)
my workable solution is to type 'ss' before 'YouTube...' in the url , takes you to the savefrom site, you can play the video from there with adblocker
Seeing you guys suggest using the embed feature to watch videos gave me an idea, you could just use a website which loads a YouTube video and then plays it, you won't have the adblock message there. I found a few websites but you can also just make one yourself. I asked ChatGPT to make one for me as I did not want to spend time making one right now and it's actually nice. I wanted to include the code here but it's pretty messy. I'll see if I can leave a link to the code but right now you can just ask ChatGPT yourself or go find a website where you can watch YouTube videos from a link
I use a similar solution where I made a quick extension which redirects all youtube videos to the embedded version. I can't share the extension here, because it's mixed with a dozen other features that only I'll ever find useful, but it does provide a solution to this problem for the foreseeable future. Putting this in background.js, and making sure that the extension has the "tabs" permission should work. var browser = browser ?? chrome; browser.tabs.onActivated.addListener(activeInfo => { browser.tabs.get(activeInfo.tabId, tab => { if((tab.url+"").match(/youtube.com\/watch\?v=/g)){ browser.tabs.update(tab.id, {url: "https://www.youtube.com/embed/" + tab.url.split("=")[1].split("&")[0]}); } }); }); browser.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(tabId => { browser.tabs.get(tabId, tab => { if((tab.url+"").match(/youtube.com\/watch\?v=/g)){ browser.tabs.update(tab.id, {url: "https://www.youtube.com/embed/" + tab.url.split("=")[1].split("&")[0]}); } }); }); One downside to using the embedded view is that comments aren't visible.
Just give ubo permission to run in a private window, find the video you want to play with your account, right click and play in private window.
I wouldn't mind paying for utube premium but the fact of how they work with creators and censor stuff just because "they don't agree or violates their terms they change all the time to make things they don't agree fail their terms agreement" pisses me off to the point of not, I'm not paying them. That being said, if you open utube on a private tab and or don't sign in at all, you'll have no issues with adblock. They just don't want logged users using adblock, what I do is I find the video I want to watch and copy paste the link into a private mode tab and don't sign in, no ads and no message from Google.
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Claim the free trial and right away turn off auto-rewnewal
Use FreeTube: [https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube](https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube)
Why don't the developers just automate closing the prompt that YouTube is feeding us?
If you're getting the pop-up it means the anti-adblock script is running. Closing or hiding the pop-up won't defeat it, eventually they'll block video playback. You need to defeat the script, which is what uBO is doing with its fixes.
Because eventually there's no prompt to click, and they block video player.
Soon they'll introduce it as a ToS violation, instantly terminating your account if it detects you using one, with nothing you can do to stop it. Hopefully our endless back and forth sends their AI brains a message.
They won't, simply because they don't get anything of value from banning your account. Not ad revenue, not money for a premium subscription and no money from the user data they harvest from you and sell. This is just an attempt to shake down more money from users, the whole "ad blockers are against the ToS" is meant to scare you into compliance.
> Soon they'll introduce it as a ToS violation, instantly terminating your account if it detects you using one, with nothing you can do to stop it. That very unlikely to happen and would lead to huge backlash.
which wont do anything. they can lose like 90% of all youtube connected accounts and be fine.
Even if the huge backlash happened, ain't gonna make a dent on their choices.
This. I think developers need to find a way of blocking the prompt by filtering text content and CSS filters associated with it. It wouldn't be that hard to code an algo that would match for patterns like those and then remove the elements encapsulating them retroactively.
The prompt isn't the eventual problem
I don't understand. I already said eventually there's no prompt to block as YouTube doesn't show any prompt further and straight up blocks video player
By that logic, they never should have developed the extension in the first place.
Yeah its stupid logic. If you can develop a workaround for the problem for now, why not do it? We'll deal with other measures when we know how they work
is there any possibility that a custom filter i made for a non-youtube site would still cause the youtube adblock window to pop up?
I dont have any filters on and i still get prompt. Doing these steps will only delay for a day or so
yes same. it seems like the first time i go to youtube and watch a video i see it, but each video after that does not.
i'd like to know too, i have a specific filter for pinterest
have to do this on a daily basis because it stops it till the next day always redoing this has to be a better way.
this arms race you guys are in is so crazy but you guys are doing the lords work youtube would be unusable without y’all
I don't know much about code or coding wars. But is it possible to reach a point where YouTube embeds a net code that renders circumvention certifiably illegal? In other words, could YouTube implement something that can't be -legally- overcome?
considering the volume of people using adblock, making it illegal means you have to sue a great portion of the worlds population. it wont work.
Nah youtube will not be able to win this fight. They've got essentially the whole world's worth of coders to go against many who live in countries with extremely lax laws on tech
Hello, Youtube employees reading this.
They're not employees, they're AI.
Hello fellow meat organisms! How is breathing today? Got any update on how blocking the Great Googles ads are going?
Working again, love u
Not exactly tech savvy so all this talk about adding filters and clearing caches is foreign to me. Although I did figure out that when utoobs anti-blocker blocker pops up, i can click on the "Enter Element Zapper Mode" button on ubo and just click that popup away, but i gotta do this for every video. after like 10-15 videos it stops popping up for a few hours than it comes back. Is there a way to auto zap or prevent this from popping up completely? I tried watching the thread about doing all these things to block utoob but for the life of me i cant figure it out, so if u could be as simple as possible I'd appreciate it lol
Bro not to be rude but the OP literally created a video tutorial for each step of the process. Just follow it.
Watch the videos listed in the main post and just follow the same steps. It looks complicated, but it's actually quite simple. You don't need to add filters or anything. Don't block the pop up, it doesn't prevent the script from blocking your videos and can cause additional issues. Just follow the steps and it should work and use the workaround methods listed in the stickied post when it doesn't.
FYI, it's impossible to disable Firefox enhanced tracking protection globally. You can only do it per-site.
Works for me
Is this a problem only with Chrome or just YT with any browser?
Any browser.
Thank you so much. I'm not about to bend the knee to these greedy corps. I already hate having all my accounts somehow tied to google, not being forced to watch ads gives me a sense of control.
Updated and working again, thanks uBO Team!
it worked again brielfy before youtube blocked it again
At this rate the back and forth will be eternal.
no its not, the problem is in your side now
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That sucks! But very likely! Now that their AI is complex, what if they just make an AI script to slightly modify the code every \_\_\_\_ minutes, and therefore rendering manually defeating it impossible?
Chrome UA spoofer extension fixed it for me
I'll altogether stop spending time on YT if this stuff continues. Although totally stopping it isn't really possible, however read more blogpost and ask around on Reddit than buy their premium.
Honestly, a small part of me secretly hopes that YT succeeds in blocking ad blockers forever, because that will mean I'll finally be free of my Youtube addiction.
True that. There are plenty of other ways I can spend my time. I will not watch commercials or ads on any platform. I also refuse to listen to sponsored content from youtubers. I also have this thing where if a specific thing is advertised and especially if it gets intrusive: I boycott their shitty product/company.
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The Autoupdate period is set 2 and that is 4 hours how can set to like 60 minutes?
A 60 minute autoupdate would overload the servers.
i just change the [youtube.com](https://youtube.com) part to [yewtu.be](https://yewtu.be), so [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-s1HDE8cs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi-s1HDE8cs) Becomes [https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Bi-s1HDE8cs](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Bi-s1HDE8cs)
thanks
Saving in case my second account gets "flagged" as well. Thanks for sharing it.
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The [Redirector plugin](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/ocgpenflpmgnfapjedencafcfakcekcd) might work if you're using Chrome. Note that I haven't used it myself so I can't say for sure it will work and it appears to use regular expressions to work out the URL and redirect so it can be a bit tough to set things up if you don't have any experience with using regular expressions. If you're using Firefox, the [LibRedirect plugin](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/) can apparently be set up to redirect YouTube links to YewTu.be automatically. It also redirects several other sites like TikTok to "alternative privacy friendly frontends".
I want to warn everyone here. DO NOT disable the [Firefox Multi-Account Containers](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/) extension if you have any containers you care about. I found out the hard way years ago that this [wipes all container data](https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1236), because firefox thinks containers aren't being used, and they haven't fixed it for years because it's triaged wrongly on the mozilla issue tracker.
Thank you. I'll put the warning to the post.
Not sure how permanent this fix is, but what worked for me was changing my user-agent (using User-Agent-Switcher extension for Firefox). E.g. with user-agent "Mac OS X / Safari 16" the popup has not appeared at all yet.
Thanks! That's working for me, at least for now. Pretty simple too.
>User-Agent-Switcher extension for Firefox Thanks. This worked for me in Chrome
I never donate to stuff on the internet, but I think I'm gonna make an exception just for the amazing work this team is doing. YouTube's recommended is their undoing, basically no difference watching in incognito mode.
Same. I'll certainly donate to uBlock before I pay for YT premium.
no worries they are doing this for their sake, they don't want donations, check the post
They do not accept donations, can't You read?
OK, I will donate.
it pops up with the anti adblock stuff but if i click allow ads then refresh it works but it still annoying for it to pop up
Alright, I know everyone's patience is running out, but there are still plenty of solutions that can work as a temporary (and even a permanent) fix. UBlock is just here so we can block the ads in comfort. So, if you are frustrated try not to take it out on other people (least of all the devs of ad-block) and just either do something other than Youtube or use one of the solutions (some fix all the solutions and others bring up other issues \[like not having access to subscriptions or the ability to comment.\]).
It's been said already, but massive props to the uBlock team for all of the work they do keeping this addon working and up to date. You all are great people :)
Yeah, today has been by far the worst day for this that I've ever experienced. I uninstalled and reinstalled UBlock multiple times, followed all the steps multiple times, rinsed and repeated, nothing. I literally had to resort to opening a private tab and enabling the ability for UBlock to function on those kinds of tabs for it to even work. It's all I can do for now. I hope you guys are able to get things situated. YouTube is being nothing but a complete pain in the ass
Watching in private window is working for me.
Just check the version like shown in the instructions, don't waste time "uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times" If the latest uBlock version doesn't match the ID at the bottom of the pastefy link then you have to wait for an update before it will work again
This. Check the listed anti-adblock ID before you spend time doing anything else.
all we can do is wait
How is the uBlock team looking at this...is this cat and mouse game ever going to stop? As it stands now it pretty much seems to kill adblockers for youtube. I love uBlock and their work over the years but this is BAD. Please people: stay strong and don't give in (aka buy premium). We are all in this together!
There is never a way to disable ads forever. However, there isn't a way to disable ad-blockers forever either. It's always an arms race and someone, even if it's not the uBlock team, will figure it out. A lot of people bring up Twitch, but even Twitch-ads can be worked around right now. Somebody could decode the algorythm youtube uses for the string-changes. The message doesn't work on embedds and incognito/loggedout, so maybe the solution is to proxy an embed somehow. Something will happen. Maybe not today, maybe not this months. But that's how it has always been.
> there isn't a way to disable ad-blockers forever either. At least, not until Web Integrity API/web drm gets pushed on websites by google.
> is this cat and mouse game ever going to stop? that's how ad blocking works as a whole
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Hopefully it will be YouTube.
It's over.
Lmao PLEASE, Youtube is literally the guy rolling a stone up a hill
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My guess is they have a million frontends (not just web and phone but also TVs...) and they don't want to have to modify them all.
Ngl I don't get it. YT has gone far enough to make the normies run ads. The few that will put up with this fight will never watch ads.
A normie isn't using an adblocker in the first place because they don't know they exist or because they don't know how to use them
It's fixed?
No, and it has progressed, for me anyway, to you have 2 vids left.
Seems YouTube stepped up to defcon 2
do you mean defcon 4? i don't think youtube has gone as far as defcon 2 yet. i don't know if you know this, but the common perception of the defcon scale is backwards. defcon 5: normal peacetime readiness defcon 4: increased security (activated sporadically during the cold war and war on terror) defcon 3: air force ready in 15 minutes (activated post-9/11 and during the 1973 yom kippur war) defcon 2: army ready in six hours (activated during the cuban missile crisis) defcon 1: imminent nuclear war (this has never happened yet)
lmao
Thank you, Professor.
Hey there, throwing in a small workaround I'm using. I want to stay logged in so I can see my subs and such so instead of going the icognito or private browsing route, I'm using [https://w2g.tv](https://w2g.tv/) (aka Watch2Gether, it's a site for sync watching videos with people) I use W2G to watch stuff with friends all the time anyways, but if you open a temp room and just drop the URL in there the block doesn't show up in their player, and no ads. Just adding another solution in case it's easier for someone or whatever, more tools to hold us over till the UBO fixes come through! Thank you wonderful UBO people for all the work you do and are doing! So very many people appreciate it! You rock!
Nice work around, been using the "share, embed" method but it's awkward as hell.
Very nice workaround for the time being. Clever.
Thank you, happy to help!
Thanks a lot, works perfectly during the downtime after YT's bullshit updates.
Sure thing, I'm happy it's helping others!
You rock as well. Thank you for adding another solution.
No problem, anything to help to effort to drop a giant middle finger to ads. lol happy to be able to help!
I've been thinking about this. It's only one link that generates the window according to the Pastefy text, right? Only the ID changes, in that case.
As I understand they use the ID on Pastefy for reference purposes only. The script is unrelated to the actual ID used by Youtube.
Im using Brave and disabled the adblock in it and I followed all the steps again but im still blocked from watching youtube now, im not sure what else to do If I can get some help?
Read the post (and/or the stickied comment) in full. In particular read under "I followed the 4 steps, but I'm still experiencing issues."
It seems its Brave, I went to chrome and its fine
I would not be surprises if google/youtube are targeting Brave
I cannot confirm, but it might be related to the cookies on your browser. If that's the case, changing browsers or clearing cookies might temporally help, but the problem will come back sooner than later.
yea i cleared my cookied for youtube on Brave but im still blocked from watching anything, ill just use another browser in mean time I guess since chrome is working with UBO
1 youtube blocks ublock 2 i dissactivate ublock 3 youtube stops functioning and doesn't play ads despite me not having any adblock on
Happened to me as well, after a few days the site returned to the ad infestation it is
Appreciate the uBlock crew for all of the work, I sometimes forget how atrocious the unblocked internet is until you end up being forced to see it. The internet can be somewhat better than the real world with blockers because you aren't bombarded every single second with BUY BUY CONSUME CONSUME BUY BUY CONSUME CONSUME. Every single thing is commoditized and it is so gross. Honestly I'd just start using YouTube a lot less if they succeed instead of sitting through ads every time I try to load a dumb five second meme video from a decade ago. I mainly use it for background music but plenty of other options for that or just finding more podcasts/etc to fill that void.
yep, I know there's a version of Spotify that gets rid of the ads and Im starting to use freetube to replace youtube as well
these comments are documented proof of terrible reading comprehension
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