youtube getting more aggressive… i’ve got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    Get Firefox, install uBlock Origin, clear the filter cache, and reload the filter cache.

    Worked for me and my dad

    It is time to stop the Chrome plauge.

    • Kalash@feddit.ch
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      9 months ago

      Yet, I’ve not gotten any of these messages on Chrome + uBlock Origin so far.

      • HuddaBudda@kbin.social
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        9 months ago

        They are probably hitting people in waves, in an effort to make sure this isn’t a surge, then a massive protest like the Unity situation.

        But once google realizes they’ll have to burn serious money and make their product worse on the global stage to fix the problem, they’ll quit just like Microsoft, AOL, and Netscape.

        But I think this campaign is just there to loosen the people who installed an ad-block, but have no idea what an ad-block is.

        Which will be different from the people who know about “alternate methods,” and will easily slip the google net unnoticed.

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    9 months ago

    What could come of people clicking on the “Report issue” option and sending back tons of false reports claiming that they have gotten the pop-up message despite not using an ad-blocker?

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    9 months ago

    People are going to throw a brick at me, but I’m using brave and have never seen this.

    • khorak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      This has probably nothing to do with the browser in this case. YT is A/B testing this, which makes reproduction harder as they slowly roll it out.

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        9 months ago

        Very plausible. I also haven’t recently been signing in when watching.

        I noticed some thoughts in this thread estimating that this is being rolled out to users logging in for the time being.

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    9 months ago

    Ublock Origin Settings - Clear Cache - Update - Refresh Youtube

  • knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    Happened to me a the other day, so i used piped instead, yesterday my muscle memory got me back to YouTube and everything was back to normal