UPDATE 2 It seems that starting today, uBlock Origin is working to combat this Youtube Block. Mine started working again! Lets all thank the devs of UBO for fighting this fight!
UPDATE So as new info comes out, I’ll be posting it here. It seems as if this Rollout Has Several Parts.
Part 1
You get a popup message over top of your video, blocking the screen:
- This is the first sign. If you see this popup AND are logged into a YouTube account, your account has been selected.
- At this stage you can likely close or block these messages with an adblocker.
Part 2
This message will change, indicating that you have 3 remaining videos to watch without ads.
Will insert photo once one has been found
- At this stage your adblocker will imminently stop working in 3 videos time.
- Personally using Firefox + uBlock Origin and tweaking filters and updates does not even fix it.
Part 3
None of the video loads now, everything looks blank.
- At this stage you must tred new ground to avoid ads. I have posted methods in the comments. If you want to bypass this end page, read down there.
End of Update
YouTube has started rolling out anti-adblock to users inside the United States, which means that they are preparing to roll this out to the entire country. Personally, I have been blocked already. I want to gauge how common this occurrence is.
The irony of the straw poll site throwing up an anti-adblock banner 🤣
Same. If I really need the website, I now use https://yewtu.be
piped has been giving me more issues recently, I think Google’s fighting them?
I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen an ad on YouTube
Not from US but my uBlock has a problem with YouTube since yesterday. It blocks the ad video but the sound of it is still audible.
I followed this from Ublock’s Reddit page, it’s working for now.
Current anti-adblock status: Latest fixed (ID: 462a8d5d)*
Please, remember these 3 steps:
Force update all your filter lists (click uBO icon > ⚙ Dashboard button > Filter lists pane > 🕘 Purge all caches > 🔃 Update now)
Turn off all other extensions AND browser’s built-in blockers
Remove all your current custom filters AND custom filter lists that you have enabled / added manually (Adguard lists…)
It might be quicker to make a backup of your config and restore to defaults before proceeding to step 1.Fixing anti-adblock can cause ads slipped. If you see any ads slipped, please report back the EXACT URL and your country when accessing the URL so volunteers are able to investigate.
The filter lists can be updated multiple times a day, so please always do step 1 before reporting.
- About the ID above, it’s the ID of YouTube’s script that’s used for anti-adblock, you can monitor it via this link: https://pastefy.app/G1Txv5su/raw (top to bottom is oldest to latest). It means that the current fix is matched with the script with corresponding ID.
If the latest ID (the last line) does not match the current one written above, it means YT has updated the new one and it might cause anti-adblock again. If it matches and you still get anti-adblock, kindly check the 3 steps above. Thank you.
If you are on Linux you can just use freetube. Maybe it’s also available on windows but that’s something I don’t know
