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"Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube"

by nidnogg on 10/13/23, 1:45 AM with 4 comments

It seems the rollout for the YouTube crackdown on ad-blockers is today, at least in Latin America. Have any other regions affected? They still let you close this warning, but I wager that's not for long.

  • by pwg on 10/13/23, 1:47 AM

    Try out yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

    Downloads, without ads, the videos. The only ads that remain are those that the creators insert themselves when creating the video.

  • by walmart on 10/13/23, 2:42 AM

    Youtube's been acting weird on my end of late. I don't sign in, but allow cookies for YT to recommend me vids. Couple days ago I accidentally opened a YT vid while VPN on browser was on. Ever since then YT stopped recommending vids other than the most popular default ones that I believe YT shows everyone until their recommendation engine catches up with one's interests.

  • by jerojero on 10/13/23, 2:32 AM

    Everyone I know that uses adblock has been affected. America, Europe, Australia, it doesn't matter.

    We'll see what happens with it.

  • by ntw1103 on 10/13/23, 2:45 AM

    I haven't seen it, but I use https://invidious.io when at home and on my phone I use https://newpipe.net