YouTube has worked fine for me using Firefox with Ublock Origin, with no lag, notifications telling me to turn off ad blocking, or any of the other issues users have reported here.
Nope, never.
There will be issues with SponsorBlock in the future, though. Instead of adding the advertisements on client side, they will be added directly into the video stream on server side, messing up all timestamps.
But advertisement needs to be properly marked by law so users know that what they are seeing is somekind of ads, so I guess we should be able to detect and work around it somehow, even if it’s cutting audio and making the screen black eventually.
The thing is, you need multiple timings or “complex” calculations depending on placement of the ad or if the user has premium or not. All timestamps after the first slipstreamed ad will be off by the duration of the ad.
I wonder how this will be handled with creator-set timestamps in the video description. Those also will be off. Maybe SponsorBlock can hook into this somehow. Classic adblockers won’t block those ads, though.
My experience is the same, but it may be that the anti-adblock measures are still being tested on specific demographics and we are in the lucky group (for now).
No.
Like one time a few months ago and thats it.
I don’t like talking about fight club but no I’ve never had issues with fight club
Anyone dealing with issues: try setting the user agent to chrome to see if this is Google’s doing
I run it as a pwa using an extension. The only extensions I have running in the pwa container are ublock & sponsorblock. No custom user-agent or anything else. Never had an issue
YouTube shorts either don’t start or they play through one and a half times with audio and no video.
Sometimes regular videos sometimes won’t start well and I restart Firefox and then they work.
No other site that I know of has problems like that.
videos sometimes won’t start well and I restart Firefox
Try to refresh first, usually works for me
Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of ads injected in one particular Firefox profile. All I have to do to make it go away (for now) is to switch to a different tab container.
But this is Google rolling out anti-ad-blocking technology and testing the waters. So your mileage may vary.
