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youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tiita to c/technology
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youtube getting more aggressive.. i've got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

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[–] SneakyWeasel 54 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

It updates Ublocks filters. They are updating those as YouTube changes things. Ublock has worked flawlessly on firefox YouTube for me so far. I have not even seen the popup once.

[–] KneeTitts 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus you should add Anti-adblock killer by Reek, a combination of those 2 makes the entire problem go away... for now. I would also whitelist youtube in other addons like disconnect as those can also trigger youtubes immune response.

[–] Frellwit 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anti-adblock killer by Reek

That thing is unmaintained and have not been updated for over 7 years. It will do absolutely nothing.

If you have issues with YouTube: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/about/sticky?num=2

I have to add some things though:

  1. Read the thread thoroughly, you may have missed a step or 2, or may have misunderstood something. There's a lot of noise in the replies. Filter maintainers can't always give support or keep up with the noise. Being pushy, unfriendly, or replying to the thread without doing every step will not fix the problem for you. If you have technical knowledge, consider contributing that knowledge.
  2. Do not add random filters, scripts, extensions from random users. If you don't understand what you're doing you may add something that may work against you instead of for you, or in worse cases add something malicious.
  3. YouTube seems to update their anti-ab script at least twice a day more or less. So just: Click 🛡️ uBO's icon > the ⚙ Dashboard button > the Filter lists pane > the 🕘 clock icon at the end of the uBlock filters – Quick fixes list > the 🔃 Update now button. Do NOT click purge all caches and update now, that will only add more pressure to the filter hosts.
  4. If there's a mismatch between the filter fixes and YouTube's latest fixes, just wait, watch the video logged out, or use an alternative front-end like piped, invidious, or whatever.
[–] KneeTitts 5 points 1 year ago

Anti-adblock killer

Wow I didnt know it was unmaintained, I see that now. Well something I did actually worked because Im currently not getting any warnings from youtube