ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world9to5google.comexternal-linkmessage-square233fedilinkarrow-up1730arrow-down133file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up1697arrow-down1external-linkYouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world9to5google.comijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square233fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
minus-squareAnonymousllama@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·1 year agoI 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
minus-squareLordKitsuna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year agoa more permanent solution would be using an alternative front end like piped. there are a lot of public instances available
minus-squareYinchie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoUse clients such as LibreTube. It works great and even allows skipping sponsored content.
minus-squareSnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 year ago purged the caches Do this daily.
minus-squareatrielienz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoNo. There are dozens of us! Dozens!
minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-21 year agodeleted by creator
minus-squareyata@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI only had to do it once. Haven’t seen the pop up since.
minus-squareNihilore@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoIf you have a VPN just set your location to a place they don’t run ads
minus-squareyata@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI 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).
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
a more permanent solution would be using an alternative front end like piped. there are a lot of public instances available
Use clients such as LibreTube. It works great and even allows skipping sponsored content.
Do this daily.
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No. There are dozens of us! Dozens!
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I only had to do it once. Haven’t seen the pop up since.
If you have a VPN just set your location to a place they don’t run ads
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).