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Revisiting YouTube's Anti-Ad blocker Message (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by admin@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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The original post I made about this is here.

At first, I implemented the uBlock Origin method, recommended by @salarua@sopuli.xyz, and it seemed to work at first.

Today, I got another Anti-Ad blocker message and decided to try the method described by @Peekystar@kbin.social and, again, this seemed to work at first.

Later today, neither of these methods work when trying to use YouTube itself. The redirect methods, probably, work fine if you are NOT using YouTube itself.

Does anyone else have another solution?

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[–] Boozilla@beehaw.org 26 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Please be careful, as YouTube is owned by Google, and getting banned by Google is potentially devastating for some people. Google's products and services dominant the web and mobile, unfortunately.

I'm not saying you will get banned, just pointing out the potential risk.

The whole thing is a cluster. Ad blockers are a necessity IMO.

[–] Haphazard9479@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So how do i get blocked by google? That sounds excellent.

[–] Boozilla@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

They ban people for all kinds of crap. Some of it is for violating their TOS. I'm guessing some is just arbitrary corporate BS, too. I mean it is Hooli, er, Google.

Trying to circumvent their anti-ad-blocking detection on YouTube could get you banned on YouTube or maybe more.

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