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?

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I was using Chrome and doing the usual steps once a week kept ads away for a while but about a week ago it was no use.

We use a Mac for our main TV and were using Chrome, but it was taking up a ton of space and CPU so I just deleted it. I’m using Safari for now, All ads for the first time in a decade…

My secondary computer/bedroom TV is a crappy HP with the non upgradable RAM, I use edge and ads are still blocked with Ublock origin, for now

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Firefox gets those ads. Librewolf doesn’t so i have a browser specifically for YT xD

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Also Brave allows for background playback of YouTube videos on mobile, iOS at least

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Its probably just outdated version or cache. Look into it again, should be a easy fix.

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Firefox user with auto-clear cache on closing: I didn’t notice a thing. On Android I use NewPipe, didn’t notice anything either.

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I have a Firefox extension for creating PWAs (Progressive Web App), and had a profile setup for Youtube. The adblocker detected popup just appeared a couple weeks ago. So i just deleted the YouTube PWA profile, recreated it, and added Ublock back. Havent seen the popup or ads since.

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Didn’t get any of these popups yet, instead uBlock doesn’t block ads sometimes. I have to refresh the video a couple of times before it stops showing them. It gets really annoying.

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What browser are you using?

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Librewolf

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