I know reddit is low hanging fruit, but I just can’t with these dweebs.
Something has changed. Using an adblocker goes against the YouTube ToC, so Google has started to detect them. You need to disable Adblock for YouTube, and it should go back to normal.
fuck google for doing this.
Well, Google has every right to do so. It has to pay the content creators for their work, so people need to pay either (as you and I do) through Premium or by having advertisements. When people use an ad-blocker to watch YouTube, they are freeriding on the creators’ work, which is disrespectful to say the least.
why yes, I talk about people who use ad blocker to not have their consciousness invaded by advertisements using “welfare queen” language. how did you know?
They don’t pay creators on YouTube as much as they used to.
I’m not surprised. People are blocking ads all over the place.
YouTube has recently been cracking down on ad-blockers, because they deprive content creators of their rightful fees. Recent changes have caused ad-blockers to misbehave.
Or just, you know, pay for the content? It’s called YouTube Premium. People don’t complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money.
Anyway, it’s your decision what you choose to do. I choose to pay.
I posted it earlier, so I’ll post it here as well
Using uBlock origin works as long as you add the below lines:
! 2022-07-23 https://mobile.twitter.com
mobile.twitter.com##.r-11nfnuw.r-16wqof.r-1dqxon3.r-16y2uox.r-kemksi.css-1dbjc4n
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)
To add these, simply go to uBlock > Dashboard > My Filters, you can just wholesale copy/paste into there
After, go to the Filter Lists tab, and press Apply Changes, then Update Now (or maybe those need to be reversed, it’s been a while)
If you had a youtube tab open, close browser and re open
Haven’t needed to do anything since throwing that script on back in 2023 when YouTube forced the issue
thanks