So, if you’re unlucky enough to live somewhere google’s rolling out anti-adblocker bs for youtube, you’ll have seen the dreaded Anti-Adblock screen pop up should you dare to use one. There’s been a variety of means to bypass this, but usually clearing out Firefox’s cache/cookies and checking uBlockOrigin’s filters to make sure they’re up to date has worked well. So well I didn’t have to do a purge for nearly a week.
Cue today, stuff plays fine via the embedded player, but even disabling Ublock and NoScript now not even the ads will play. While video’s are stuck permanently loading. Which is highly amusing given youtube wants me to suffer through their ads.
Truly an excellent self-own by their programmers lawl. And by tomorrow or Monday uBlockOrigin will have found a fix too
Also - it’s not hyperbole, my worsened ADHD makes their shitty ads more annoying than anything I’ve seen in the horrors of public TV here in NZ, like the Harvey Norman ads before they got hit with the nerf-hammer over volume boosting them. Doesn’t help either they’re usually utterly irrelevant despite everything google has on me
And it doesn’t take much to see why Brave should be avoided at all fucking costs. Besides, if Mozilla Foundation looses the plot, Firefox is mostly Open Source and there’s a healthy range of forks to choose from.
I get the notification about adblocker so turn it off for a while. I dont’ really mind them putting ads at the start of a video, but when they then interrupt it around 5 minutes in for yet another one … adblocker goes back on again until I see the notification again.
If clearing your cache and disabling Ublock/NoScript hasn't resolved the issue, you could try using an alternative browser or private mode to see if it helps circumvent the problem. Sometimes these changes aren't fully enforced across all platforms right away. Additionally, keep an eye on updates for your ad-blocker as they often catch up with these new restrictions quickly, so a fix could be coming soon.
In the meantime, if you’re looking for a way to record content without ads interrupting your workflow or video-watching experience, screen recording software can be a great alternative. For instance, Movavi Screen Recorder allows you to capture videos directly from your screen, so you can bypass ads and interruptions entirely. You can check out more about this tool here: https://www.movavi.com/screen-recorder/.
