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Yeah I use Wipr and they hit me too.
Just use new pipe
Maybe this will help me waste less time on YouTube.
Yep lots of these are popping up today. Wonder if google is going to start going hard on this.
Ads allow YouTube to be used by billions worldwide
They’re literally giving us more reasons to use an ad blocker.
Time to ditch youtube and find a FOSS alternative.
Unfortunately, I don’t think there is a mature enough FOSS video streaming platform. it turns out video hosting is really really expensive and complicated.
Peertube exists and fills the role quite well.
I mean it exists…that part is true.
Peertube is working on it.
I recommend trying out GrayJay, it has YouTube and it’s most popular alternatives in one app, this way you can still watch folk from YouTube and support other platforms
Thanks! I’ll take a look
If you are a little experienced and know how to deal with Docker, you could self-host Invidious yourself on your local PC or laptop. Works fine for me for multiple months.
You’d be still using the videos of YouTube, but without their ad-flooded UI.
Give it a day or two
Wasn’t Annie always singing about tomorrow?
lol its already fixed for me
Tomorrow never comes.
It didn’t need to this lasted like 12 hours
So what, Google? You violate my privacy, I violate your terms of service, I’d say we’re even.
I don’t think they can actually have an ad blocker installed on your machine be a violation of their terms of service. It’s on your device. It’s like Ford would say driving one of their models with a green shirt is a violation of their terms of service. What’s next, your camera will be monitored by Google and you violate their terms of service if you turn your head away whenever an ad is playing? Well, yeah, they wanted to pause ads when your eyes would turn away from the screen, so they really are that evil.
Google was such a nice company at first, now it’s pure evil. Just like all the other mega corps. Open source and Piracy is the future.
I haven’t had to do much more than reload a page after getting this. Ublock, noscript, privacy badger on firefox. I think the unlock folks work long and hard at this. Makes me want to give them money.
I got the warning yesterday and then nothing happened. They just threatened me and then didn’t follow through.
happened to me this morning. purge your ublock filter cache and all is good
Already back
People have already said how to fix this, but I’ll add this different piece of advice: start using FreeTube.
Where? Lemme VPN there and see it for myself. I’m in USA and uBlock Origin still works. (Android, Fennec)
It’s account/fingerprint-based, not location. YouTube will issue you 3 of these warning messages within a certain time frame if you access the site with adblock. The third message is the one OP posted, where the video player is disabled.
Seems weirdly intermittent. I just ignored it and it still seems to be working. I just couldn’t play certain specific videos in certain windows. Once I opened it in a new window it seems to work, and now I know the settings I need to tweak
After scrolling for a bit on Lemmy I saw a post that Grayjay had a desktop app now too. No need for ad blockers etc. Just use Grayjay! It’s awesome! (no yt shorts cancer for example, and multi platform support so not just yt) Grayjay.app
Just tried Grayjay on desktop last night. Syncing with mobile is awesome.
But on desktop, I’ll continue to use freetube because i can block channels (or even content by keyword) from showing up on my feed.
If you only watch content that you’re sibscribed to, then this shouldn’t even be a concern.
That’s so cool I might download the desktop app and maybe keep pipepipe on my phone I wanted something that isn’t Electron.
Edit: Nvm its electron 🤢
