I started getting the dreaded anti-adblock pop-ups on Youtube when they started ramping up their efforts a month or so back, and I initially went through the whole rigamarole: First it was just the pop-up, then it was the pop-up with the timer, then the 3-video countdown finally leading to the video player being disabled outright.
Throughout all of this I did the recommended Purging All Caches -> Update Now routine on the Ublock Dashboard at least once a day to keep the pop-ups away, but when it got to the player getting blocked it didn’t seem to work anymore. Since I’m on Firefox, I experimented using Containers and found that I could just log in to my YT account on a different container to keep using Youtube until that container started getting blocked.
In the past few weeks I’ve noticed no issues though apart from having the video player blocked once, which was fixed by purging all caches and updating and I almost forgot about the whole anti-adblock thing altogether. It does seem like YT pages are loading slightly slower than they used to though.
Are you still having issues with Ublock on Youtube or were you even affected at all?
I just updated the filters and it never happened again.
You only had to do that once? In the initial phase I just couldn’t get rid of the pop-ups for longer than one session
I had it exactly once. I watched three videos and then used it as an excuse to just go to bed. Did exactly nothing and haven’t had another pop up since *shrug"
I don’t think I’ve done anything and I’m still yet to see an add.
I do most of the watching on phone, so might be I just missed the transition
In the initial phase, the official fix (just purge your cache and redownload the filter lists to get the latest ones) didn’t work for me, but the second revision of a filter someone posted to Lemmy did. It had the side effect of making it impossible to scroll down on video pages, but it’s not like the comments on Youtube are super valuable most of the time anyway.
After a week or so I deleted that one to see how the official filters were doing, and it turned out they worked great and I haven’t had an issue since.
Did you disable enchanced tracking protection in Firefox for youtube and remove all other adblockers? Enhancer for youtube has one built in for example.
