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PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You might have noticed that even on Firefox (depending on your lists) YouTube may detect uBlock Origin on Firefox now

There's already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They're both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don't load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

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[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Using FF with UBO, absolutely no problems. "May detect"? I'm pretty sure they either can or can't. They're not going to detect some FF with UBO and not others. The only thing that may affect whether or not you're detected is if you're using a VPN or other encryption.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well it detects it for me and I am neither using a VPN nor any additional encryption. I'm guessing it's just their normal thing of slowly rolling out changes instead of to every user at once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Congrats, you've managed to make a post in which nothing makes sense

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin's default lists with both Firefox and uBO being on their latest is currently undetected. By that I mean they've already released fixes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They will actually, as they're looking for specific things to be blocked/altered using JavaScript that is easily affected by enabling certain custom lists. In case you don't believe me, you can look on uBO's official statement regarding this.