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[–] Anonymousllama 62 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I get there's a heap of people on here who've somehow never seen these new anti-popup measures before, but they're definitely becoming more prevalent.

I switched to uBlock and purged the caches and it seems to have fixed the issue (for now anyway)

At some point I'll have to find a more permanent solution like switching browsers but right now things are working

[–] LordKitsuna 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a more permanent solution would be using an alternative front end like piped. there are a lot of public instances available

[–] Yinchie 15 points 1 year ago

Use clients such as LibreTube. It works great and even allows skipping sponsored content.

[–] snausagesinablanket 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

purged the caches

Do this daily.

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

I only had to do it once. Haven't seen the pop up since.

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

never seen the youtube anti-adblock stuff.

Mullvad vpn + mullvad browser + ublock origin + never logging into google....

Also freetube, also newpipe...

Maybe they don't bother trying to block vpn users?

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

I use a VPN, and I saw the popup.

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

from what I've read incognito mode is still unaffected, but thats just rumors online

[–] Nihilore 3 points 1 year ago

If you have a VPN just set your location to a place they don’t run ads

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

I saw them, then I purged ublocks cache and updated and they have been gone ever since (also on firefox, because I switched as soon as I read the news that they would pull this stunt on all chromium browsers a year ago).