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Youtube is at it again
4/2/2024 | Me

Posted on 04/02/2024 11:24:12 AM PDT by ducttape45

Has anyone else noticed that Youtube is at it again, trying to block users who use an adblocker? The past several days have been hit and miss. About the only way I've been able to get around it is one of two ways:

1. to save videos to Watch Later, close the browser, then reopen the browser to view them, or

2. delete all cookies and cache and then log back in.

But either of these two fixes are temporary because it happens almost every day now. Has anyone seen this, and have a newer fix for this?

Thanks.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: adblocker; crysomepre; freeloader; nofreelunch; noyoutubewelfare; payup
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To: ducttape45

I turn off the adblocker for Youtube, but I am still blocked. I do not know why.


41 posted on 04/02/2024 1:32:17 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Disambiguator

ping


42 posted on 04/02/2024 1:45:30 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Disambiguator

I have that, and that’s always been good in the past. Not so much the past several days.


43 posted on 04/02/2024 2:11:08 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: CatOwner
When they start to bother me about ads, I go with a separate browser that is not logged into YouTube and whose cache is cleared out after each session. The limit there is I can't submit a comment or thumbs-up a video. I usually go back to my logged in browser, ignore the message, and summit the comment and/or thumbs-up.

This is pretty much what I do. Watch on Edge without being signed in and pull up on Firefox for commenting and checking for new videos on subscribed channels. I started doing this months ago when I got a message stating I had to stop using an ad blocker.

44 posted on 04/02/2024 2:16:21 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: Disambiguator

I’ve been using ublockorigin for months now. Works great to block YT ads. If it stops working be sure to update it.


45 posted on 04/02/2024 2:19:53 PM PDT by brianl703
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To: TexasGator

What “product” of YouTube’s do you mean? YT doesn’t make all those videos. The people who post videos can pay for the right to post them, but YouTube has gotten so GREEDY that it’s actually a burden waiting for the adds to play before watching the desired content.

Whenever I try to watch a video from a link posted here on FreeRepublic, I have to sit thru one, and frequently TWO commercials of at least two minutes each in duration before I can see the subject I went there to watch.

It’s extremely frustrating and irritating. RIDICULOUS…


46 posted on 04/02/2024 2:20:32 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: ducttape45

Try updating it.


47 posted on 04/02/2024 2:20:48 PM PDT by brianl703
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To: TexasGator

Actually, the business model is that YT has STOLEN lots of music. And then they collect ad revenue from listeners. How is that okay under the “personal use” exemption?
This is a consequence of Supreme Court ruling on sharing videos from way back during the VCR days.
They could not have foreseen YT and internet sharing.
The SCOTUS occasionally has to CHANGE the law. Like they did with the Wayfair decision on Sales Taxes.
Does Texas Gator understand?


48 posted on 04/02/2024 3:26:49 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: ducttape45

I was told there’s a browser called Onion that is pretty much unregulated. Has anyone used it?


49 posted on 04/02/2024 3:35:39 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: ducttape45

I have posted more than 1000 long videos to Rumble. Total views$ 2!


50 posted on 04/02/2024 3:37:45 PM PDT by Lou Foxwell (The bleak winter of catastrophe is upon us.)
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To: paulcissa

Except Father Fish


51 posted on 04/02/2024 3:39:47 PM PDT by Lou Foxwell (The bleak winter of catastrophe is upon us.)
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To: ducttape45

Hit refresh.


52 posted on 04/02/2024 3:41:38 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: ducttape45

FreeTube. You can send all your subscriptions over free tube. Anytime you’re on YouTube and you add another subscription, it automatically adds it to free tube.


53 posted on 04/02/2024 3:46:42 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: Don W
"Brave browser plus Proton VPN"

My exact configuration. I am a light UTube user so haven't been blocked but some with same configuration have.

So many comments that say.. Use Brave, or Use DuckDuckGo, or Use some other blocker...

The thread is NOT about blocking ads, it is about you being blocked by UTube.

54 posted on 04/02/2024 3:52:42 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: CatOwner

it is my understanding that the Brave developers are usually the quickest to respond to YouTube changes.

Brave is really good about that. Also, Brave's incognito mode is actually private, unlike Google Chrome.

55 posted on 04/02/2024 4:01:13 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: ducttape45

Two easy ways to fix this. Use the Brave browser. You can use your favorite adblocker with it.

Or use the adblocker ublockorigin extension in Firefox.


56 posted on 04/02/2024 4:14:07 PM PDT by Boomer (If the Rats, Rinos, Uniparty wins, everyone loses. Democrats can no longer claim they are American.)
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To: Westbrook

Their money goes to leftist stuff. Why would I support that?


57 posted on 04/02/2024 4:15:53 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: ducttape45

I hate to disagree with everyone here but YouTube is a business, not a public service. They make money by their adds. If you do not want to watch their adds, then do not watch YouTube.


58 posted on 04/02/2024 4:55:07 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: ducttape45

Yes, my Brave browser with an ad blocker built into it was crashing each time I tried to link to Youtube. I had to switch back to Firefox for any Youtube link.


59 posted on 04/02/2024 4:55:12 PM PDT by Wuli (ena)
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To: Wuli

I was using Windows 7 so I didn’t have all the benefits of a newer Brave browser. So I’m on Windows 10 now, with the latest Brave, to see if that makes a difference.


60 posted on 04/02/2024 5:37:09 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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