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YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge (gizmodo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It really isnt getting harder to dodge past the initial recent push. "Go to settings, purge cache, refresh list, refresh youtube" is just as many steps today as it was when this recent push started

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've still yet to see it.. not even had to do any of those things. Something about my setup I guess neutralises it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Me neither.

  • Windows

  • PiHole (AWS Lightsail instance)

  • Edge

  • TubeBlock extension

Waiting for the hammer to drop. OTOH, I don't watch much Tube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was, but they stopped appearing once I completely cleared browsing history and cookies. I also did another purge and update for good measure.

The only pain in the ass was that I ended up changing the username of some of my accounts but forgot to update them in my account manager, so it took a bit to find and log into them. But that was completely on me and won't happen if you're not being an idiot like I was.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

YouTube thinks I'm using an outdated version of Chrome running in Windows 7

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This. I've gotten this popup about four times since this happened, telling me the video player was blocked because I had an adblocker still. Each time, I purged cache and updated and it went away.