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I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I got a popup "Adblockers are not allowed on YouTube" on Firefox running both Ublock Origin and Adblock, not signed in two days ago. I don't know what to do with that information.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

In the UBlock plugin settings, click update cache. On mobile so CBA to give better instructions, but it will fix it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I had a moment of mild panic two days ago when purging and updating the cache didn't work. It turns out I got caught by it in the short interval after Youtube deployed the new attack but before the blocklist maintainers deployed a countermeasure, and it worked when I tried again an hour or so later. (Using Freetube instead of a browser worked in the meantime, BTW.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Bad idea, won't help. Above commenter says they have adblock enabled alongside uBO- that needs to be fixed first. Adblock is tripping YouTube, not uBO

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought you weren't supposed to use uBO with Adblock?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This may be true but I have not seen it before. Do you have a source?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't have a source either, but I can confirm having heard the same advice.

In general, even if uBO has been updated to avoid Youtube's adblocker-detection, if you're running multiple adblockers it's possible the popup is triggering because it detects the other one.

More to the point, (a) you shouldn't need another adblock alongside uBlock Origin anyway, and (b) pretty much every ad-blocker other than uBO has sold out and been compromised, including Adblock, so using it is a bad idea to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It was something he posted on Twitter: https://nitter.net/gorhill/status/1033706103782170625

I was checking github, which is why I couldn't find it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Thank you, I appreciate this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I may have hallucinated this, but I could have sworn that gorhill said something to this effect, but now I can't find it.

I'll keep looking. I genuinely could be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Never combine adblockers. ONLY use Ublock Origin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

both Ublock Origin and Adblock

That's the problem.