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I'm not seeing any YouTube adds. I'm using ublock origin with firefox and didn't do anything special. What YouTube adds are everyone talking about?

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They have been rolling out ad-blocker detection with warning popups telling you to disable it. Mine were skippable the first few times but that lead to a final 3 warnings with the player refusing to load after. They seem to be doing a lot of A/B testing with the system currently.

Turn off Ublock, reload the page, then turn it back on. Usually solves the problem for me.

you can block the detection popup itself with uBlock. Seems to have done the trick for me.

No don't do that. And stop spreading misinformation. There is a thread on Reddit explaining why this is absolutely stupid and will only result in you losing access to YouTube. Or do you really think YouTubes for works like this.

The biggest problem currently are people spreading those types of misinformation see https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17j6ygs/youtu...

How would one lose access? Is Youtube blocking IP addresses? Fingerprinting browsers in a way that Firefox's ResistFingerprinting setting doesn't handle?

The biggest problem is people playing YouTube's game. Let them block all their users, by all means. That can only lead to good things.

How is that misinformation? The site you linked even says it works, just not for long an maybe with negative side effects:

> I was able to hide the popup simply by blocking it with uBO's Picker. Why aren't you doing that?

> This only works temporarily. For stages 1-3. You're still reach stage 4 by doing this. And this might cause scrolling issues and not let videos autoplay.

Maybe you should stop using words as "absolutely stupid" because it makes you look like a snob, and when it turns out you were wrong, it makes you look like a fool.

Seems to be not hitting every user the same way. I also did not have any direct message about ad blockers, but I did notice videos not loading correctly and requiring a page refresh to work. Updating uBlock seemed to fix that issue. It was only afterwards that I heard of others having problems.

In my experience, it ahs not been hitting super users. But somehow they have been targeting people with adblock installed by someone else.

My parents both have been targeted and had to instruct them on how to refresh the quick updates, which has not been easy.

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