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How to circumvent youtube's anti-adblock mechanism: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/178yasm/youtu...

All I had to do was update the rules for Adblock Plus free version. I'd been getting the warnings for several days, then yesterday it would only let me watch 3 videos. I then updated AB+ rules and nothing pops up and things just play like "normal."

All I had to do was nothing. Yesterday I said to myself, this is the end, I'll never go back, never again attempt to view a video on it, because 99% of the time they'll ask me to purchase premium, please dear self, find new hobby. Today my muscle memory took me once more to YT and there are no ads and no popups begging me for money. They pulled me back in.

I'm using not recently updated uBlock Origin + FF.

> I'm using not recently updated uBlock Origin + FF.

uBO automatically updates filter lists by default.

> I said to myself, this is the end, I'll never go back, never again attempt to view a video on it, because 99% of the time they'll ask me to purchase premium

I see this kind of language all the time on HN. Reminds me of "This one hurts, it really hurts. I think this hurts worse than Musk buying/poisoning/killing Twitter. I've mentioned this before but a keyboard feels like an extension of your body". The context was Microsoft closing the support forum for some keyboard software they hadn't updated in years.

The top comment from that thread seems relevant: People need to take a break. Being terminally online and complaining about everything is not a healthy way of life.

You might consider switching to uBlock Origin as advertisers get onto the default whitelist of AdBlock Plus by forking over some cash.

I use both

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