Hey everyone,
since YouTube started annoying us with their “disable ad blocker” thing, I managed to get rid of it by uBlock Origin and a Tampermonkey script. Yet, the stupid popup is back. To everyone who’s gotten rid of it until now: What did you do? Can you point me to the resources you used? It’s annoying!
I just use uBlock Origin (without any additional scripts) and whenever it stops working I update the filter lists manually (it updates them automatically every now and then).
Which lists do you use?
Just the standard ones. Do a purge and a manual update. So long as the script has been updated, you’ll be good to go
Not using the default ones is a probable cause for why your browser gets flagged. Restore to default settings and make sure you don’t have other adblockers enabled (such as the one built into YouTube Enhancer add-on) If you still get the pop-up you can update the “quick fixes” list or wait an hour or so for the uBlock team to catch up with Google’s latest updates to the detection script.
The problem is, I use far more sites than Youtube, and the other filter lists are needed here. AFAIK I haven’t been able to find a switch on uBO that makes a site use only a specific set of filters, so if I want good internet experience it has to be the default filters and some more, or nothing.
Looks like there is a syntax to set a custom rule to exclude a domain from a particular filter list. Honestly I couldn’t be arsed to figure it out at work and Google has been ruined by SEO but there is a way!!
I use the standard ones plus everything under “Annoyances”.
How do you update manually? It won’t let me anymore since an update (the update button is always grayed out now)
You can click the clock icon next to the list/group you want to update as well.
Thanks, I’ll try this!
Update your filters lists on uBlock Origin. That may help.
Use FreeTube and use Privacy Redirect or LibRedirect to redirect to FreeTube.
Privacy redirect has been discontinued for years, I strongly suggest using libredirect
Privacy Redirect still have Nitter support.
But Nitter doesn’t work anymore, does it?
I linked a working Nitter instance.
Didn’t see the link at first. Thanks! I thought all instances were dead.
I use the LibRedirect browser add-on to use Invidious on desktop and NewPipe on Android. Never use youtube.com, problem solved.
Are you using Firefox?
Yes
Updating your filter lists in uBlock Origin should fix it. Nevertheless, there are better solution for watching YouTube videos without Google’s crappy ads and trackers. There are private frontends like Piped and Invidious, you can use LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links to your desired frontend. You can also use a native client like FreeTube on Desktop, LibreTube or Tubular/NewPipe on Android, Yattee with this guide on iOS, iPadOS and tvOS, SmartTube on Android TV or this app if you have an LG TV running webOS.
I guess it’s time to update uBlock Origin lists.
Idk why this never happens to me. I’m been using unlock origin on ms edge.
I set my user agent to the Google bot for youtube. It seems to work last time they pulled this shit. The only down side is that it forces desktop view if on mobile.
I haven’t used it, but couldn’t you use the mobile version of the useragent string?
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
I’ll have to give that a try.
I use a locally hosted frontend.
Restarting Firefox usually fixes everything for me.
to keep me sane I just use Freetube on destop and Tubular on phone
you can’t post comments on both but I feel this is a positive
Part of the experience to me is reading all the comments and leaving my 2¢. So I’m using the Share → Embed workaround so far.
I haven’t been stopped from watching YouTube videos for several months now, despite the fact I use different devices at different times. I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adnauseam/reviews/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/reviews/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dearrow/reviews/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link
I did have problems using YouTube many months ago, but I tried to watch a few videos each day and after a few days things started working normally again.
God damn, please remove these pesky
?utm_parameters from your links. They make your links unnecessarily long and your comment becomes pretty annoying to read. You don’t even have to do it yourself, just click on “Copy Link Without Site Tracking” in Firefox. Make it a habit to always use this option. If you don’t want to deal with it at all, install the ClearURLs addon or enable the “AdGuard URL Tracking Protection” list in uBlock Origin.Those URLs came from
about:addons. I think it’s important to provide as much provenance as I can to help people get programs, so I didn’t edit the URL Firefox provided to me.You can still use Right-click -> Copy Link Without Site Tracking
It’s a built-in feature that was added in Firefox 119 and it removes all kinds of nasty, unnecessary stuff in URLs. 80% of your comment consists of long URLs and you didn’t use new lines so it’s hard to see where the first link ends and the second one begins.
Status tracker of various Invidious instances: https://stats.uptimerobot.com/89VnzSKAn
Brave browser. No need for plugin.
