Hey everyone,
since YouTube started annoying us with their “disable ad blocker” thing, I managed to get rid of it by uBlock Origin and a Tampermonkey script. Yet, the stupid popup is back. To everyone who’s gotten rid of it until now: What did you do? Can you point me to the resources you used? It’s annoying!
I just use uBlock Origin (without any additional scripts) and whenever it stops working I update the filter lists manually (it updates them automatically every now and then).
Which lists do you use?
Just the standard ones. Do a purge and a manual update. So long as the script has been updated, you’ll be good to go
Not using the default ones is a probable cause for why your browser gets flagged. Restore to default settings and make sure you don’t have other adblockers enabled (such as the one built into YouTube Enhancer add-on) If you still get the pop-up you can update the “quick fixes” list or wait an hour or so for the uBlock team to catch up with Google’s latest updates to the detection script.
Switched to piped/invidious. There are even a few good apps like Libretube or Freetube. No need to waste time with scripts and stuff.
I have been loving freetube on desktop. I could never get the websites for piped or invidious to work well
“No need to waste time with scripts and stuff.”, you mean other than learning and knowing what the script does as opposed to hoping the apps’ developers are honest, never die, and never sell out.
It’s all FOSS. Whoever gets doubts about the devs can check the source or have it checked by experts. They sell out or die? Switch to other frontends or forks. I’d never trust any dev blindly, but if I can choose between these ones and Google… well.
A compiled app is not FOSS unless you compile it yourself, which, shock of shocks, means need to waste time with scripts and stuff. Sorry, but you are making excuses.
I guess then we have to agree to disagree.
Trusting someone for convenience isn’t ideal, but not everyone has the time and resources to audit, compile, and host a dumb frontend for yt. Most of the people here is good enough trusting literally anyone except a big tech company, including FOSS devs, the people who check the code, and public instances of their software. Even considering recent drama (solved by the community btw) I’d trust any FOSS project over google any day.
Not everyone has the time, energy, or even the knowledge needed to understand what the scripts do. I think most internet users don’t even know what is a function and how it looks like, and they don’t want to change after getting home from the 8 or more hour work and still needing to do house chores, bills and whatever.
None of which is relevant to the comment I made. But I contend that the only thing needed to understand scripts and the functions contained is a web browser and the ability to read. I was pointing out that the advice to let someone else do it for you isn’t actually safe.
FreeTube is the way
Just use a Invidious instance. Don’t even bother with YouTube. You can use an RSS feed reader to port your subscriptions, then use a redirection extension to bring you to the invidious version of the channel.
If you’re so inclined, you can download the video using yt-dlp which you can use to download videos from invidious and even pass a sponsor block flag which integrates with the sponsor block api.
On mobile, if you have Android, you can use Tubular. You can request from Google to give you your subscriptions as a fifle that you can upload to these apps. Tubular also uses Sponsor block as well.
Lastly, if you’re on iOS, the best I’ve found is simply to use the Brave browser.
Hope this helps.
Update your filters lists on uBlock Origin. That may help.
Use FreeTube and use Privacy Redirect or LibRedirect to redirect to FreeTube.
Privacy redirect has been discontinued for years, I strongly suggest using libredirect
Privacy Redirect still have Nitter support.
I use the LibRedirect browser add-on to use Invidious on desktop and NewPipe on Android. Never use youtube.com, problem solved.
Are you using Firefox?
Yes
I set my user agent to the Google bot for youtube. It seems to work last time they pulled this shit. The only down side is that it forces desktop view if on mobile.
I guess it’s time to update uBlock Origin lists.
Idk why this never happens to me. I’m been using unlock origin on ms edge.
Restarting Firefox usually fixes everything for me.
to keep me sane I just use Freetube on destop and Tubular on phone
you can’t post comments on both but I feel this is a positive
You are a smart biped.
Part of the experience to me is reading all the comments and leaving my 2¢. So I’m using the Share → Embed workaround so far.
I use a locally hosted frontend.
