Poll of the Day > Youtube started serving me Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube.

(+) Yeah! (+)

I didn't believe you all.,
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/1/3/AAZknmAAE7Yl.png
It might actually be the beginning of the end.

So far you can just close it and keep playing the video.

Yea I'm guessing some lists in uBlock Origin just need to update to match the new revision of Youtube's stuff. I'm surprised I caught it at the wrong time seeing as I'm terminally online.

yeah I keep getting that too... not sure what to think about it. the last time I tried youtube ads I got a really disturbing (and dishonest) PETA ad, and that pretty much solidified my choice to use an ad-blocker.

rjsilverthorn posted...

So far you can just close it and keep playing the video.

For me the X is replaced by a little progress wheel when it first loads. Presumably, it'll turn into an X when the wheel finishes, but I just refresh the page as soon as it shows up and it doesn't appear on the next try.

Just press "Report issue" and gaslight their system

ublock origin still working fine 4 me

Like with piracy, the likely scenario is that ad blockers are going to evolve to continue blocking ads on YouTube faster than YouTube can actually prevent them from doing so. To the point where you're going to start seeing ad blockers that exist solely to prevent YouTube ads specifically.

I could even see someone clever inventing an ad blocker that literally exploits the code somehow to trick YouTube into thinking you're watching the ads while not actually showing them to you.

From what I've heard, ublock is still working fine in firefox and works like half the time in chrome. That's probably why they added a little timer to the X button today

I got the only 3 more videos and you wont be able to view any more videos message, so I caved and disabled my blockers.

I did add a Chrome extension that automatically clicks the skip ad button, though.

my YouTube account is glitched. i dont pay for premium and havent seen a single ad on YouTube in probably two years. idk what happened. i exclusively watch YouTube on my iPhone and ps5

uBlock Origin works fine in firefox. Just make sure it's updated to the latest version. I wouldn't use google's browser if they paid me. I keep hearing people trying to defend youtube/google for this stupid campaign against adblockers. It's borderline unethical forcing people to watch their questionable ads unless you pay them $13.99/mo. Talk about creating a problem in order to sell the solution. Adblockers aren't exactly hurting their business considering every year is a record year in profits for them and they already made like over $15 billion this year alone.

If they do manage to break all adblockers then I'll use my VPN and connect from Albania or some shit where they don't serve ads. If that doesn't work anymore then bye bye youtube. I haven't seen an ad on the internet in like 20 years and I plan to keep it that way.

I tried white listing YouTube

I'm still getting that message. I get less ads though

I haven't run into it thankfully. I'm using chrome too.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

Sometimes now I seem to get ads that bypass ublock, but at a pretty low rate as if it's only a few getting through, so I'm really not sure what's going on.

That happens periodically. Ad-blocking is a perpetual arms race between advertisers and blockers, and every now and then advertisers figure out a new way to deliver ads that gets around the current state of blockers. A few ads leak through for a day or two, then the blockers catch up and they go away again.

kind9 posted...

Adblockers aren't exactly hurting their business considering every year is a record year in profits for them and they already made like over $15 billion this year alone.

I especially like the "if you don't watch ads, we can't support the creators you enjoy" excuse. If I just sent a dollar directly to each creator from which I watched more than ten videos, they'd be making more money off of me than Youtube would ever pay them for my views. There's a reason so many creators have Patreons instead of relying on Youtube's pitiful compensation rate, arbitrary demonetization, and willingness to let random butthurt nobodies destroy creators' careers.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Like with piracy, the likely scenario is that ad blockers are going to evolve to continue blocking ads on YouTube faster than YouTube can actually prevent them from doing so. To the point where you're going to start seeing ad blockers that exist solely to prevent YouTube ads specifically.

I could even see someone clever inventing an ad blocker that literally exploits the code somehow to trick YouTube into thinking you're watching the ads while not actually showing them to you.

There is already a youtube adblocker extension available, which I am using. look up "Adblock for Youtube"

BoomerKuwanger posted...

Sometimes now I seem to get ads that bypass ublock, but at a pretty low rate as if it's only a few getting through, so I'm really not sure what's going on.

Go into the dashboard for uBlock (the gears icon in the uBlock menu), then select the Filter lists tab. Click Purge all caches, then Update now. uBlock automatically updates the filters periodically, but this will force an update right away.

adjl posted...

I especially like the "if you don't watch ads, we can't support the creators you enjoy" excuse. If I just sent a dollar directly to each creator from which I watched more than ten videos, they'd be making more money off of me than Youtube would ever pay them for my views. There's a reason so many creators have Patreons instead of relying on Youtube's pitiful compensation rate, arbitrary demonetization, and willingness to let random butthurt nobodies destroy creators' careers.

Creators have to kowtow to this crap and now they don't even know what words or string of words are going to get their video demonetized. It's a shitty system all around. It should be more like twitch, where you support the creator directly with membership in order to watch them ad-free. I'm a member on several channels that I support, but I have to pay youtube for the privilege of blocking ads? Naaah. If I'm not mistaken what revenue creators get from youtube premium is an even smaller fraction of what they get from ad views.

I have been using Youtube Premium back when it was called Google Music. Honestly, not a bad deal. And before that I just used whatever ad blocker I have on my computer. So yea, haven't seen a Youtube ad in like 20 years.

If GameFAQs started doing that, I am leaving and never returning.

kind9 posted...

Creators have to kowtow to this crap and now they don't even know what words or string of words are going to get their video demonetized. It's a shitty system all around. It should be more like twitch, where you support the creator directly with membership in order to watch them ad-free. I'm a member on several channels that I support, but I have to pay youtube for the privilege of blocking ads? Naaah. If I'm not mistaken what revenue creators get from youtube premium is an even smaller fraction of what they get from ad views.

Yep. Youtube is an absolutely awful environment to work in. The only reason anyone still does is because they've got an effective monopoly on video content creation.

I just got the "three videos until the player will be blocked" message today. Unlike the other warning, refreshing didn't make it go away, and it did lock the player after three tries. But then I updated uBlock and everything works again. So... good job Google, you slightly inconvenienced me for two minutes and got no additional ad views out of it.

Sarcasthma posted...

I got the only 3 more videos and you wont be able to view any more videos message, so I caved and disabled my blockers.

I did add a Chrome extension that automatically clicks the skip ad button, though.

Assuming the countdown "hits 0", which may not even happen, all that youtube does it put some overlay on top of the video, that's...wait for it...blockable by ublock origin.

pvegeta posted...

There is already a youtube adblocker extension available, which I am using. look up "Adblock for Youtube"

Honestly this is a bad approach. You're better off sticking to one trustworthy blocker (ublock origin is currently probably the best one out there), instead of installing random less known crap. Otherwise you're going to end up with an extension that the developer sells it off to some unscrupulous individual that pushes an update that turns it into malware. This in particular is a common problem with Chrome. And highlights why the less is more mantra is important with browser extensions.

sveksii posted...

Honestly this is a bad approach. You're better off sticking to one trustworthy blocker (ublock origin is currently probably the best one out there), instead of installing random less known crap. Otherwise you're going to end up with an extension that the developer sells it off to some unscrupulous individual that pushes an update that turns it into malware. This in particular is a common problem with Chrome. And highlights why the less is more mantra is important with browser extensions.

One trustworthy blocker still might not be enough to protect you from that (see: AdBlock Plus selling out and letting any advertiser who pays them through), but it does at least reduce the odds of such shenanigans and there'll be a more active community able to warn you and suggest alternatives if it does start happening.

I just use YouTube Revanced on my phone. No ads, minimized playback, and so far no ad block messages.

I eventually figured out that the problem was Firefox's Enhanced Privacy Tracking. Disabled that and things went back to normal.
Moral of the story? Only good ad blocking is uBlock Origin. There's a reason it has been #1 for a decade.

adjl posted...

That happens periodically. Ad-blocking is a perpetual arms race between advertisers and blockers, and every now and then advertisers figure out a new way to deliver ads that gets around the current state of blockers. A few ads leak through for a day or two, then the blockers catch up and they go away again.

I especially like the "if you don't watch ads, we can't support the creators you enjoy" excuse. If I just sent a dollar directly to each creator from which I watched more than ten videos, they'd be making more money off of me than Youtube would ever pay them for my views. There's a reason so many creators have Patreons instead of relying on Youtube's pitiful compensation rate, arbitrary demonetization, and willingness to let random butthurt nobodies destroy creators' careers.

And then even then places like Patron and GoFundMe and kofifi take a not minor amount of your earnings. Damn parasites.

TheJustice posted...

And then even then places like Patron and GoFundMe and kofifi take a not minor amount of your earnings. Damn parasites.

Yep. I can't imagine it actually takes all that much to run a service that takes money from one person and sends it to another, especially on the scales these services do (it's one thing if you're handling like $100 a month and have to pay for a server, since then you need a significant cut to keep that server up, but those costs do not scale linearly as you handle larger amounts). Some cut is to be expected, since it isn't free to provide the service and those providing it deserve some compensation, but a much more substantial amount gets leeched off than is reasonable.

adjl posted...

but those costs do not scale linearly as you handle larger amounts

The argument in defense of that would probably be that they lose money on smaller transactions so the larger transactions balance things out and make them profitable.

It would probably be a lie, but it's likely how they'd defend it.

It's unrealistic to expect anyone to run a money-transfer service of any kind and not charge fees, though. If you can't make money doing something, no one is going to bother doing it in the first place.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/8/AAQwHjAAE75e.jpg

ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's unrealistic to expect anyone to run a money-transfer service of any kind and not charge fees, though. If you can't make money doing something, no one is going to bother doing it in the first place.

I expect some fees, since as I said people should be compensated for providing a service, but the magnitude is still probably larger than it ought to be, purely because of a lack of competition to undercut them. Still better than Youtube, though.

captpackrat posted...

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Hilarious, but at least post the Reddit link you stole that from.

Got the lock screen again, though another uBlock update fixed it again. They're being particularly aggressive about it this time around.

Yea same here. I guess this is going to be reality until one side caves.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/0/7/AAQwHjAAE80r.jpg

I don't know who that guy is but he is a smart person.

YouTube suddenly gave me a free trial of Premium unprompted.
Guess they're trying out the carrot method now.

Sarcasthma posted...

YouTube suddenly gave me a free trial of Premium unprompted.
Guess they're trying out the carrot method now.

I have bad news about that carrot...

https://youtu.be/p9ZSZFwVqqc?t=55

It's illegal to post classic Christmas songs before Halloween, PO

I mean, I get ads all the time using the Fire app or my phone app, so it being on PC doesn't really bother me.

Sarcasthma posted...

It's illegal to post classic Christmas songs before Halloween, PO

Please tell that to my local radio station that starts playing Christmas music in mid-October.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Please tell that to my local radio station that starts playing Christmas music in mid-October.

In 2003, there was a radio station in the Charlotte NC area (Kara Edwards, the dub VA for Videl and young Goten in DBZ worked there at the time), that as soon as the morning show wrapped up on Halloween day, management told them the station was switching to Christmas music 24/7 and let them all go.

I just got one saying it's going to block videos if I don't start allowing ads... I got ublock origin is there one that works better?

BlackScythe0 posted...

I just got one saying it's going to block videos if I don't start allowing ads... I got ublock origin is there one that works better?

Purge lists and redownload them. This happened to me earlier.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

Idk how I still haven't seen this, and I haven't had to touch anything with ublock. I do shut off my computer every day, wonder if that has something to do with it. Maybe it needs to be done if you never close your browser?

*shrug* I turned my computer off last night and I've been on for a good chunk of the day as I'm off work today. Only started in the last hour. Purging the list and updating worked.

BlackScythe0 posted...

I just got one saying it's going to block videos if I don't start allowing ads... I got ublock origin is there one that works better?

If it does start blocking you, updating ublock should clear it up. Expect to periodically see that over the next couple weeks as they try new ways to get around blockers and ublock has to be updated to catch up (which usually doesn't take more than an hour or so). Don't be surprised if you have problems and other people don't, because Youtube has a history of only rolling out changes for some users, and in this case limiting the number of people they block reduces the chance that somebody working with ublock gets blocked and can work on bypassing it.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

Idk how I still haven't seen this, and I haven't had to touch anything with ublock. I do shut off my computer every day, wonder if that has something to do with it. Maybe it needs to be done if you never close your browser?

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/178yasm
It is incredibly common. I was not affected by the first wave earlier this year but am now.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

Idk how I still haven't seen this, and I haven't had to touch anything with ublock. I do shut off my computer every day, wonder if that has something to do with it. Maybe it needs to be done if you never close your browser?

I shut mine down pretty much every night. Ublock does update automatically, it's just slower than manually doing it because obviously "I click this button now" is going to be faster than any automatic update schedule. Odds are it's mostly just you getting lucky with timing.

ublock seems to fix it, I've had to change adblockers for it though. Which I should have done a bit ago, so thanks youtube.