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While using Ublock, change your user agent to chrome. Never seen the warning again.
Edit: I use Firefox.
Does this work? Can anybody verify it?
Worked for me as well. I changed to windows 10 chrome and it went away for now. Using Firefox with ublock origin on Linux.
Ah yes, the reason for our user agent hell :D
I’m still using uBlock Origin to block ads everywhere, but I no longer use YouTube directly, instead I go through Invidious or Piped.
I started using ytp-dl and mpv after receiving those adblock warnings. My life is now 420% better because I stopped reading Youtube comments as a side-effect. Also, mpv is 5 billion times better player than any web browser media player can ever be.
i installed karamel and now my comments are from reddit posts that discuss the video i’m watching. i find that to be really helpful.
What’s that?
Looks like it’s only available on Chrome based browsers, oh well.
an extension.
You sound like Senku from Dr. Stone. I’ve been trying to find an extension that opens videos in any player not just mpv
10 billion percent better
or you could use a piped instance.
If their self install instructions were worth a shit I might agree with you.
This. I tried to self-host Piped and it was a PITA. I am experienced in self-hosting but setting it up behind a reverse proxy was next to impossible and basically no guides exist.
I did vidious, very easy. Sadly max 720p if you proxy from YouTube and if you proxy from your instance 1080p buffers like mad even on a bidirectional 1gig internet on a gaming PC style server. So back to unlock for me since a lot of my videos watched are 4k
I don’t host an instance, so I don’t know how hard it is. You can choose any popular instance like kavin.rocks if hosting doesn’t seem like a viable option.
Doing that since 2018 methinks, enjoying the gigachad life and refuse to go back to web browser streaming. Glad to see more people are becoming enlightened.
Why do you consider not reading comments an improvement? Just asking because I’m curious.
I prefer to knowingly commit mental suicide, like by coming here.
The comments are the best part
Not these comments! /s
The vast majority of YouTube comments are incredibly dumb. I hope the reason is that it’s mostly kids.
It heavily depends on the content. While on dumb Videos there are dumb comments and on Minecraft Videos there are childish ones on the high quality of entertainment I watch only perfectly balanced comments are shown.
It’s true that they’re less “facepalm-inducing” under the smarter videos, but any entertainment video with wide enough appeal is gonna be littered with comments that will make you feel like you’re having a stroke while reading them. It usually gets worse if the channel is more family friendly, I assume because the YouTube algorithm serves it to kids a lot more.
I want my life to be 69% better. Did you follow a good guide? Do you recall which guide it was?
The best guide there is. My brain.
The only thing worse than youtube video comments are youtube short comments. Not even reddit can match that level of unrepentant nazism.
Should be possible to block uid by removing cookies from request (with some extension) which means google will have even less context for requests and even less chances to target an advertisement due to no data to add to profile.
I don’t like to be preachy but thank God for memes I can share this knowledge with people. P.S.- I’m sumwa ova sainees mahselv
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Why should a company like Google just lose money, its not like Google ows you anything… So why tf are you threatening someone?
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i no longer get that warning. now the screen remains black and time is 00:00… but purge always works.
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So im running pihole with ublock on Firefox in Linux. I’ve yet to see this warning. Any reason?
As long as you’re using just the pihole YouTube shouldn’t be able to detect it. The playback blocker is based on detecting common ad blocker extensions in your web browser.
I was told the other day that pihole doesn’t block YouTube ads because they’re served from the same server?
Pi Hole for me blocked some YT ads but not all. YMMV based on the block list you use. I didn’t get very aggressive but still killed most page ads.
From my experience it’s different servers, but it might depend on your location. It’s the twitch ads that come from the same server as the video stream. Those are harder to block.
If you use a YouTube app then yes, the ads don’t seem to be able to be blocked. Browser based YouTube ads still seem to be able to be blocked by pihole
I have the exact same setup and also didn’t get the warning yet. Maybe pihole stops the AdBlock detection?
That would be cool. I mean maybe they use telemetry to determine if you’re using an adblocker and the pihole blocks that?
I’m not using pihole myself and just rely on uBlock Origin. I should probably set it up sometime.
It’s surprisingly easy
Ditto, except Win10. Never see warnings.
Also haven’t seen any ads all this time but not because of pihole. I’m guessing it’s because I also have DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials and Privacy Badger installed as they block requests from “googleads.g.doubleclick.net”
Ah, my pihole regularly blocks those. I have over a million domains on my adlist
Same setup, also have not seen the popup
Youtube is using scripts on the webpage that detect in-browser adblockers only.
This was the final straw that pushed me to using stuff like piped and libretube exclusively.
I watched an interesting video about the cobra effect and think at least in my case, its relevant
Yeah I jumped ship to piped too because of this. I also discovered it allows me to circumvent region locks without even firing up my VPN which is a nice bonus
I saw those messages, turned my ad block off for a few days… turned it back on and messages didn’t come back…
For me it actually straight up blocks the video from playing until I refresh UBlock Origin. Today the a couple youtube webpages wouldn’t even load until I did. Doesnt matter, refreshing UBlock Origin still fixes it
So one thing I’ve started getting worried about is whether youtube/google will eventually block/delete youtube/google accounts who use adblockers.
I don’t really care about my youtube account but I have several gmail accounts and losing those would be awful.
I assume they won’t ever go that far, but just the possibility is scary.
So is there an easy way to migrate all your stuff to some other email service and what are some good ones?
Not an “easy” way, but what I’ve been doing is simply whenever I handle an email in the account I want to switch from, I use that particular situation to change the email in the settings of the account of whatever I’m handling in that moment.
That way it doesn’t become an overwhelming task, and if you are consistent with it and do it each time you handle an email, slowly but surely you will have switched completely.
Good point. I guess I’ll slowly get ready for the dreaded migration away from Gmail.
I have a channel which I wouldn’t want to lose. it is a concern
No way that’s happening
Use a dedicated account for YouTube. How will they remove your emails if they’re on a separate account?
I use a YouTube channel account, which might be good enough. I’ve had one in the past banned and the rest of my Google account was left alone.
(I was only just getting into creating programs that communicate with online services and I hammered their API. My program didn’t have any checks and balances to ensure it wouldn’t go over it or to throttle back when the API endpoint attempts tell it to calm down. It only happened once but that was good enough to get it banned)
I’ve been worried about the same. I’m slowly moving my email and all accounts over my own domain name which for now is forwarded onto the same Gmail. Seems like an extra hop but if they block me then all I have to do is point my email somewhere else
I’m trying out Purely Mail. Unlimited email addresses across unlimited custom domains.
I have a cool setup where I have setup an email account at service@service.mydomain.tld, but it’s setup as a catchall for *@service.mydomain.tld (and allows gmail-style tagging). This means I can fill out service forms by inventing addresses on the fly like LemonadeStand+Signup@service.mydomain.tld and the email shows up in one unified inbox, the subject line will include [LemonadeStand], and the message will have the flag ‘Signup’.
I’ll check it out!
I mean there are a myriad of ways to avoid this:
- Log out
- Use container tabs or profiles in your favorite browser
- Use dedicated apps like FreeTube, GrayJay, NewPipe, Invidious, LibreTube, etc. that don’t even ask for a login.
So is there an easy way to migrate all your stuff to some other email service and what are some good ones?
So you can set up a free Proton Mail account and then connect it to your Google account and it will begin archiving all of your emails, past and future. It also has a way better web client than Gmail (not saying much).
Really wish there was an iOS app similar to the open source apps listed above. Currently Safari browser and 1Blocker are still working for me on my devices.
It’s an unfortunate arbitrary limitation Apple puts on their devices.
I know this is because Google indexes your mail but search is far superior on Gmail to Proton. I’ve downloaded the indexes from Proton on my home PC but search is still not good for searching email content.
Proton indexes your mail also now and I’ve had the exact opposite experience. Gmail and G Workspace in general is a fucking shitshow to find absolutely anything.
I’ve gotten the warning, but I just close the window and watch the video. Is that how it’s supposed to work? Because, if so, it’s only a minor annoyance.
Soon it will make you wait a bit seconds before the X appears
And after that it appears in the video window and is unable to be closed.
And then later it won’t appear
This is just the first step, the more you click that X the more annoying they make it until eventually you can’t close it or watch anything at all.
Then I’ll just watch stuff on Invidious.
I mean as this post says, uBlock is still blocking everything.
