Youtube trialling new ad-blocking

Hadden89

@aiinseinn The time to test YT-iFrame script is come, it seems ^^

Catweazle

@Hadden89, yes, Adblock Ultimate is very good and works fine, but it isn't free, only a trial. At the end of the Trial it stops working and annoying with pop-ups to pay it or desinstalar it, the letter and continue with Vivaldi blocker and iFrame script, which also works fine and for free.

Catweazle

The only drawback of the iFrame script is in the videos where the user has desactivated the insert it outside of YT, that give this hikarant error

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Video is not available

The owner of the Video has disabled its playback on other websites

Watch on YouTube

No problem, copy the Url and open the SMplayer (Icon in my Windows Taskbar at hand), click on Open Url and the copied URL is already there, Enter and watch the Video. FYT

aiinseinn

@Catweazle said in Youtube trialling new ad-blocking:

At the moment I'm testing Adblocker Ultimate with the Vivaldi blocker and also the iFrame script desactivated, it works from Desktop in hidden mode, Websites don't see that you are using an adblocker. Until now it works fine, even in YT, no ads nor nags.
(Windows, iOS, Android, also as Browser extension)

I installed it but Youtube wont show Videos, only a blackscreen with an startbutton in the middle.
i deinstalled it and activated ublock origin again, gave em an update and youtube works like on the first day.

Hadden89

@aiinseinn said in Youtube trialling new ad-blocking:

activated ublock origin again, gave em an update and youtube works like on the first day

At first it didn't work. Likely google is also storing the block in the cache (which I purge at browser exit)

aiinseinn

@Hadden89 i meant the cache from uBlock Origin
und options clear all cache and then the left hand side button "Jetzt aktualisieren"

sry for my crappy english ..

Catweazle

Anyway is a good idea to have the SMplayer at hand, if all other fail, I put it also as extern player in FreeTube, which also don't like to play some Videos

CalebM

I just want to say that uBlock Origin is still working for me a month after I installed it. I was being blocked when I was using Vivaldi's ad blocker. The moment I installed uBlock Origin, all the blocking ended. It's wonderful to be able to, once again, watch any videos I want to.

Catweazle

@CalebM, no problems with the Vivaldiblocker and the iFrame script, uBO is also functional, but it is not at all clear if it is still effective after Mv3 in 2024 in the Chrome Store, that is, I suppose you will have to install and update by hand from external sources, since that the version in the Chrome Store will surely be "decaffeinated" by Google or eliminated directly.

barbudo2005

@Catweazle Said:

...the version in the Chrome Store will surely be "decaffeinated" by Google…

Raymond Hill (gorhill) has already decaffeinated it himself by creating uBlock Origin Lite which is based on MV3.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh

Catweazle

@barbudo2005, I already imagined, thanks, I prefer to stay with the Vivaldiblocker with the filters that I want and not Google.

iAN CooG

@Catweazle said in Youtube trialling new ad-blocking:

the version in the Chrome Store will surely be "decaffeinated" by Google

apart that they can't alter the extension code, if anything they can only refuse to host it, I want to remind that uBO can be installed from the repo without using the store
https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/releases

Catweazle

@iAN-CooG, I know that I can use extensions or even scripts (like iFrame) out of the Chrome Store, but I prefer to use the inbuild features of Vivaldi if the work well, or if not, Desktop apps if not (Zen?)

karinwalket

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stardepp

New: May 28, 2024: Youtube again tightens the blocking of adblockers:

https://9to5google.com/2024/05/27/youtube-skipping-to-end-adblockers/