Youtube adblock blocking (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I know the topic of whether adblock is piracy is debated, but I am guessing there are a lot of adblock users here and I was wondering if anyone has seen the youtube adblock warning message in the wild. I use ublock origin and still haven't seen it once.

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[-] maxprime@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

How do you know that? I’m fairly certain that google can tell if they have served you an ad, and cutting off access to their streaming services seems like a straightforward thing from their point of view. How could ublock (or anything) prevent google from blocking the stream? It’s not about blocking ads, or blocking messages to turn your adblocker off. It’s about google acknowledging that they haven’t served you an ad. You can’t force them to serve a video, I don’t think.

This “feature” is being rolled out slowly, which probably means they are taking lots of telemetry about how users try to circumvent this. It also means that just because you or I haven’t seen it does not mean we are safe against it. I’m not saying there is no solution, but I don’t think the solution is an adblocker or a sinkhole.

[-] Kururin@talk.kururin.tech 6 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/7636#issuecomment-1619437317

[-] kajib@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting! So if I'm understanding correctly, the scare about YouTube stopping adblocked users was being caused by the Enhancer for Youtube extension? If so, that's a relief.

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Uhhhhh not quite, the fact that we're probably not going to see the "stop blocking ads plz" message doesn't mean that Youtube can't block access to their website with an adblocker. It's entirely possible, there are websites that already do it.

[-] Kururin@talk.kururin.tech 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really. The “Enhancer for YouTube” was causing problem with the YouTube anti-block to show up. So disabling what effectively allowed uBlock to block those anti-Adblock notices. I think they now fixed the issues with “Enhancer for YouTube” extension.