youtube getting more aggressive.. i've got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

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[–] 278 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Get Firefox, install uBlock Origin, clear the filter cache, and reload the filter cache.

Worked for me and my dad

It is time to stop the Chrome plauge.

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  • [–] 154 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It's currently working, but every few days youtube will tweak something, and sometime later (minutes to hours) there will be an ublock update for it.

    Sometimes you have to wait a little longer, but this is the arms race.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I find it funny that a company as big as Google is loosing to little ol uBlock

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's often far easier to attack than defend.

    Google has to find and block every way, ublock just has to make a new way to bypass the blocks.

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    [–] 87 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    My family watches several Youtube channels on the main HTPC. It had Chrome for them to use, as that is what the kids and my wife are familiar with from school/ work. Then this BS started. I use Firefox on my personal PC and have yet to have a problem.

    So I dumped Chrome off of the HTPC.

    It would be amusing if Chrome lost a ton of market share to Firefox and other browsers.

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  • [–] 103 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It won't. We are an extreme minority who really have the know-how to get around this. The majority will just give in and subscribe.

    This is what happened with Netflix. Everyone thought that Netflix would lose subscribers with the crackdown on password sharing. On the contrary, they gained subscribers and is bringing even more revenue: https://www.ign.com/articles/netflix-adds-88-million-subscribers-amid-password-sharing-crackdown-hikes-prices-for-some-plans.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    In other words, the general population likes to be used by companies and really don't give a shit as long as they can watch videos.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    not so much that they like to be used by companies, but that they don't care enough to change or learn how to stop it. for most people, the idea of giving up their favorite online service because of ads or whatever other predatory anti consumer shit it implements is a little extreme.

    as long as it works, the vast majority of people who are not tech-literate will just use it regardless.

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    [–] 52 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Sharing this: don't know why this works, but my dad found refreshing the cache in UBlock makes this thing finally shut the fuck up.

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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago*

    Ublock Origin Settings - Clear Cache - Update - Refresh Youtube

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm glad, uBlock Origin blocks all these adblock blockers.

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    Honestly, if YouTube offered a $5 adfree video plan I’d pay for it. It’s not worth $14/month in my opinion

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    A reminder that if this doesn't work, they'll bake ads into the player like Hulu and Twitch. Can't block those, at least in a way that gets you back to the content seemlessly.

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    I knew Google would get around to killing YouTube sooner or later: Looks like the slow death has begun.

    Like all things Google that people like: It must die, Google will not allow it to live.

    Coming to you in 2025: GoogleTube, brought to you by Alphabet!

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    What could come of people clicking on the “Report issue” option and sending back tons of false reports claiming that they have gotten the pop-up message despite not using an ad-blocker?

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You can put up with that... Or you could just switch to a Piped instance and be done with it all.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I just clear the YT sites' cookies, relog in and it disappears. I use AdNauseam and uBlock Origin and still got this.

    If they weren't so intrusive with the garbage ads (I hate publicity, over 95% of it is condescending and/or lies), I wouldn't mind seeing an ad in the beggining, or even also an additional in the middle of a long video, but getting two unskippable ads in the beggining and one every 5 mins or less is abusive. So fuck you Google.

    Going to install a local instance of Piped or Invidious.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's revanced / gray Jay time

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    You WILL give us your attention and you will like it! -advertisers

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    This pop up, did more to curb my youtube addiction than any other app.

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  • [+] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (23 children)
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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I see nothing wrong with Google wanting to make money on YouTube, and I actually own YouTube Premium myself.

    But they should really fix YouTube experience, if you don't use subscriptions box, your main page will be filled with click-baity low-effort videos and that really sucks. There are also other issues as well.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Please resume watching....Please resume watching...Please resume watching...

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Vimeo wringing their hands thinking this is their chance.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    While uBlock Origin does the trick and has for a every long time, I just installed FreeTube and I am quite happy with it. It is also much better at keeping track at what I have watched, and I can even mark videos as watch (which I cannot over at YouTube).

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