UPDATE 2 It seems that starting today, uBlock Origin is working to combat this Youtube Block. Mine started working again! Lets all thank the devs of UBO for fighting this fight!

UPDATE So as new info comes out, I'll be posting it here. It seems as if this Rollout Has Several Parts.

Part 1

You get a popup message over top of your video, blocking the screen:

This is the first sign. If you see this popup AND are logged into a YouTube account, your account has been selected.
At this stage you can likely close or block these messages with an adblocker.

Part 2

This message will change, indicating that you have 3 remaining videos to watch without ads.

Will insert photo once one has been found

At this stage your adblocker will imminently stop working in 3 videos time.
Personally using Firefox + uBlock Origin and tweaking filters and updates does not even fix it.

Part 3

None of the video loads now, everything looks blank.

At this stage you must tred new ground to avoid ads. I have posted methods in the comments. If you want to bypass this end page, read down there.

End of Update

YouTube has started rolling out anti-adblock to users inside the United States, which means that they are preparing to roll this out to the entire country. Personally, I have been blocked already. I want to gauge how common this occurrence is.

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[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I have a script I used to auto download new stuff from my subscriptions using yt-dlp. I never watch videos on youtube anymore because it's just garbage, buffering all the time or just straight up not playing content. The only thing I miss is sponsor block but I don't care that much

here's instructions on setting the script up if you're interested

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[–] Neon_Dystopia@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wouldn't know because I use firefox. Fuck google.

[–] Waluigi@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (32 children)

Sad thing is that this will affect even Firefox + uBlock

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[–] randint@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Mine is not blocked yet. I am definitely worried about this though. I am in East Asia.

Wonder how much YouTube is going to squeeze out of this ad blocker blocking.

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[–] janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Here's hoping YouTube Revanced on Android and Adguard on desktop continues to work, eh...

[–] Lt_Cdr_Data@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tbh, at this point there's no reason in them disabling ad blockers. If you haven't gotten used to this insane amount of ads by experiencing the slow, uphill creep, having to go from seeing no ads to suddenly this, is impossible. I couldn't watch youtube videos in the current state of ads, so I'd just have one less vice.

I had already stopped once, when youtube vanced went offline (until i found revanced) and I will do it again

[–] viking@infosec.pub 10 points 2 years ago

Firefox has zero issues with adblock on Desktop. On mobile I prefer Newpipe, but hey. Anything goes.

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[–] twena@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not from US but my uBlock has a problem with YouTube since yesterday. It blocks the ad video but the sound of it is still audible.

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[–] MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago

I feel like we can ignore this and it'll mostly be a non-issue. Hopefully I don't have to eat those words later.

YouTube can detect common current adblocking methods, and use this to hinder you now, prompting to comply with them. If you do, they win. You pay for no ads or you have an exception in your adblocker.

As another comment mentioned, it's a cat and mouse game. Adblockers will get ahead of it. So just wait it out.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

Ublock Origin still works for me

[–] roon@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't get this banner yet maybe because I'm using ublock origin

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[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago (14 children)

should I vote if I'm not in the US?

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[–] Echo71Niner@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They are rolling this out in stages to users worldwide, It happened to me 3 weeks ago, on Brave, Firefox, and on Chrome. I had to junk Brave, update firefox, flush out my extensions (remove them) and reinstall, and now I run 6 different ad blocking and tracking extensions and its back working again. You should also know that Adblocker Ultimate are also involved and working on blocking their extension from working so they can sell premium app, which is now an app that runs on your computer, not an extension anymore.

[–] mineapple@feddit.de 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

6 adblockers?! Have you looked into uBlock origins customisable block lists? You can combine at least 3 blockers with that. Additionally you could add custom block lists.

Edit: clarifications and spelling errors.

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[–] Sanrasxz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is quite concerning. Hopefully the adblocker extension devs are able to bypass this. I expect a cat and mouse game eventually.

[–] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It will be a cat and mouse game, which YouTube will loose in the long run. Don't remember the name, but there is a very clever solution: They download all the ads so YT thinks you are watching. However, ads are never shown to you. This is extremely hard to detect and it muddies the data collection of Google since you watch and click everything.

IMO: This is a net loss for YT/Google. Their collection of data looses value. And advertisers wont be willing to pay the same amount for clicks, since a registered click is not necessary someone who watched and the targetting got worse...

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Worst case of this solution is you might have to wait before watching your video. It wouldn't be unreasonable for google to refuse to send you the video until $ad_duration has elapsed.

Still beats watching ads though. I could queue up a bunch in a "watch later" playlist and have a program get them all ready for me.

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[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Freaking ironic that I get an ad on strawpoll stopping me from seeing the results.

[–] tombuben@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

I pay for premium.

I spend like 20x time on YouTube compared to other premium streaming services, knowing the money at least partially goes to the creators and that it's usually a much larger source of revenue than the midroll ads (and the fact I spend like 40% of my watch time on an iPad) makes it pretty worth it to me. Other than that I use uBlock on medium/high, but if there was an extention that could skip the sponsor segments inside the videos themselves I'd use it in a heartbeat.

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[–] Platform27@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Until today I haven’t seen an ad on YT, for years. Then I searched for a video, clicked, and got an ad. Clicked off the video, restarted the browser (also updated uBlock’s filters), and that fixed it.

Edit: I wrote this and got another ad. No video, just the audio.

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago

*Laughs in PeerTube

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 years ago

Firefox and ublock as usual, still good

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Firefox + UBO and ReVanced still working rn.

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