YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers

I have been using Brave as my browser for years, I have never once seen an ad on YouTube. Nor have I ever had any of the issues that have been reported with people using ad blockers.

I’m using firefox + ublock origin and have never had the reported issues either.

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I’m leeching premium from a friend so no ads on pc, but because I’m getting sick and tired of all the shorts shit being pushed onto me (even play automatically when I would open the YouTube app) I’m using Grayjay on my phone instead of the official YouTube app. Never ads and it even has sponsor block. Plus you can follow creators instead of channels, across platforms. And downloading a video means you can actually watch it without a connection too. It has more perks then someone paying for premium has. Piracy pais off.

Shorts are the bane of my ADHD ass

I’m going to have to look into Greyjay for sure just for the no shorts part

On android I use Revanced. It patches the official Youtube app (patches are open source) to greatly expand the base functionality and offer a lot more customization of the UI.

For me the best features are ad block, sponsorblock (skips in video sponsored segments), and complete excision of shorts from all aspects of the app.

It also works on Youtube Music, effectively allowing free premium (just don’t get the local downloads of your most listened tracks to help save data, but I have unlimited anyway).

Also firefox + ublock, but for me, it literally makes YouTube unusable. As in videos just flat out will not play in any way. I just get an endlessly loading spinner for the video

It sometimes happens for me as well

Usually I can get to the vid if I go to the channel and try again. Or trying again a little while later.

It’s fuckin annoying when it trips

I have had that happen a few on desktop if I left a video paused overnight, but refreshing the page sorted it out right away.

I have this problem or it will play for like 3 seconds and then buffer for a bit, play 3 seconds, buffer, repeat for infinity. No matter what I do I have one of these issues with Firefox and any adblocker and it’s super annoying.

Try an extension to spoof your browser agent.

I set mine to spoof Chrome and my Firefox + ublock stopped having any issues with YouTube.

Do you have uBlock Origin, or one of the fake adblockers that try to ride on its name?

Same, that combination never causes me any problems (I use uMatrix too which is always causing problems, but I get to decide which domains to allow cookies, scripts, and XHR requests from/to).

Don’t use brave, they’re shady. LibreWolf with uBlock Origin is plenty.

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Any reason for picking it over all the other chromium browsers?

I do turn off all the rewards and other BS in the browser, but I will look into Firefox and uBlock. Thank you.

I mean they did also inject affiliate links without the users noticing which is really shady behaviour from a browser because it has one job, open the link I click and nothing else. But that’s just IMHO if that is acceptable for you personally then there is no issue with that.

You forgot the VPN service they install without consent.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925192/brave-browser-vpn-windows-11

WIth user agent switcher, you can use firefox for the sites that make you use chrome. Hasn’t failed me yet with the three sites I need to use that would not work on firefox without it.

It’s not so much shady as 1) crypto BS incorporated into it and 2) the CEO is homophobic IIRC.

The “crypto BS” also encompasses running a protection racket whereby Brave man-in-the-middles website ads to replace them with its own, then shakes down the website owners to buy into said crypto BS if they want their lost revenue back.

That counts as shady in my book: an end-user has every right to control what their computer (their property) does, but the third-party interference for the third-party’s benefit crosses the line.

I’m confident its people using Chrome with Adblock Plus

I’ve had this issue where youtube is sort of breaking for me, but it shouldn’t matter because I very begrudgingly pay for Youtube Premium.

(I’m not extremely tech savvy to the point where it’s easy for me to set up a raspberry pi or whatever to watch youtube in bed on my tv OK?)

Anyways, sometimes it like, gets weird and the video player gets stuck at 0:00 and loops like 3 seconds of the video.

Pro top for premium: cancel sub, VPN into country like India turkey Ukraine etc, subscribe with credit card with no fx fees.

Enjoy 3usd per month rate

Assuming they’re not from one of those countries already

Nah that will just ruin regional pricing for those that actually needs it.

Sadly, I checked and if you try to sign up with A VPN it cock blocks you and says “sowwy can’t vewivy yow cowntwy :(”

And you have to make a whole new youtube account just for it.

Lgeblock works great

Blocking adblockers apparently doesn’t work well enough so google resorts to various forms of gaslighting (delayed video playback, api randomly returning wrong video, and now skipping video straight to the end).

Had the random API one the other day. Was nuts. Also the 5 second delay for Firefox too when it was a thing.

I get that 5sec delay for the official YouTube app weirdly enough

I thought I was going insane with the wrong video thing. I have premium but also an ad blocker because the entire internet is a cancerous cesspit without one, so I wonder if I get hit with anti ad blocking measures or I was just tripping?

Yep, they suddenly started doing that early this morning after several hours of playing videos just fine.

Use Youtube frontends. Here is Privacy Guides’ page about Youtube frontends. All of Youtube’s BS will disappear.

I think “all of youtubes bs will disappear” is a stretch. I don’t know the whole state of play but I know invidious has had some instability lately.

It’s not mentioned there because it doesn’t meet the OSI definition, but Grayjay is a source-available Android app that pulls videos from various services (e.g. Nabula, Odysee, PeerTube, etc). I’m hopeful it’ll become properly open source at some point.

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