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youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tiita@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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youtube getting more aggressive.. i've got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

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[+] adam_b@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] 0Xero0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

oh, I've been using Chameleon, it does the same thing and even automatically change the user agent after a custom interval of time from a list you chose, but it kinda breaks the Youtube video UI if the browser is set to anything other than FF though.

And I also just got that pop-up today in LibreWolf and was eventually blocked. But on Firefox, nothing happens. I have 3 adblocking related extesions: UBO, Privacy Badger and Malwarebytes. Turns out it was Malwarebytes that triggered it. Whitelisting Youtube doesn't work, I had to straight up disable the extension. It seems it's not just ads and scams that Youtube want us to see, they want us to get malwares and viruses too.