If there are well over 1,000 "here now" (near top right), this confirms the anti-content blocker code has been updated.
If well below 1,000 "here now", all is fine. At time of writing, it's fine.
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Website idea: a downdetector-like site that uses reddit's "here now" numbers to give insight into whether something is going on with a certain thing.
edit: Has anyone else not really been affected by the new youtube adblock policy at all? I think I have seen the warning a single time, and I use youtube all the time. I only use ublock origin and privacy badger... on chrome. Maybe that's it.
The megathread addresses this:
> I've never seen this message. Is this because of my browser being X or Y? No, YouTube didn't roll this out to everybody yet.
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/184fivk/youtu...
On all other days, I was free to watch whatever I wanted while logged in. They might complain at me about ad blocking, or not.
On all days, youtube-dl worked fine. (This matters because, contemporaneously with the anti-ad-blocking campaign, YouTube started sometimes reducing my video frame rate to 0 fps. Audio never suffered at all.)
It's not a strict regime.
not really. firefox + privacy badger + ubo. once a week or so i do get blocked but then i clear cookies, restart firefox and relogin and then it works.
You might want to see my other comment, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38542185
Do people typically respond to the YouTube anti-blocking threat prompt by disabling their ad blocker entirely, or by enhancing their ad blocking?
If it quacks like a duck...
In the end it really is question that when they manage to block adblock do they make more money than they spend in effort.