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gorhill | 2 years ago

A reliable way I found to confirm whether there is new anti-content blocker code released by Youtube is to visit uBlockOrigin's reddit sub[1]:

If there are well over 1,000 "here now" (near top right), this confirms the anti-content blocker code has been updated.

If well below 1,000 "here now", all is fine. At time of writing, it's fine.

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[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/

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hunter2_|2 years ago

The number has climbed by almost 100 in the past couple of minutes. Interesting to see if the HN effect temporarily ruins your rule of thumb...

drexlspivey|2 years ago

We are going to break ublock origin if that continues

colpabar|2 years ago

This is clever and I'm definitely using it.

Website idea: a downdetector-like site that uses reddit's "here now" numbers to give insight into whether something is going on with a certain thing.

edit: Has anyone else not really been affected by the new youtube adblock policy at all? I think I have seen the warning a single time, and I use youtube all the time. I only use ublock origin and privacy badger... on chrome. Maybe that's it.

raffraffraff|2 years ago

My wife uses YouTube a lot more than I do. I watch occasional tech related videos or stuff that's been sent to me. She uses it for audiobooks, music, some podcasts. She subscribes to a bunch of channels. It's her account that's logged in on the TV. I've never seen a message warning about adblocker use on my account, whereas her account got temporarily disabled. She ended up paying for premium.

lamontcg|2 years ago

> Has anyone else not really been affected by the new youtube adblock policy at all?

not really. firefox + privacy badger + ubo. once a week or so i do get blocked but then i clear cookies, restart firefox and relogin and then it works.

hunter2_|2 years ago

I bet it's been used for stock/crypto trading for years already.

growse|2 years ago

Someone needs to write a reddit "here now" prometheus exporter.

octacat|2 years ago

and they would break their API again

dmw_ng|2 years ago

Is there some place with a technical writeup of what YT are doing to frustrate circumvention so effectively?

thaumasiotes|2 years ago

Effectively? I've been using uBlock Origin the whole time. Whatever YouTube is doing, it cannot be accurately described as "effective".

SiempreViernes|2 years ago

I think they are just updating their measures frequently, so not really anything technical. In other words: Youtube is continuously spending a lot of money to put out new patches block the latest circumventions.

is_true|2 years ago

haha, it worked! The only problem is the delay between the moment uBO starts working and the people realize