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YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 43 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Apparently there is a way around it as I've been watching YouTube all day and haven't encountered a single ad.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    YouTube has been shadowbanning ad blocker users, where you comments appear to post but actually haven't, for a while now.

    I think the issue is with the EasyPrivacy list blocking the heartbeat signals that tell YouTube you are actually someone interacting with the page and not a bot.

    Brave doesn't seem to have this issue as they whitelist those scripts but it has other issues so I recommend keeping it as a YouTube only browser.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)
    1. Why the fuck are you posting YouTube comments?
    2. Why the fuck are you using Brave?

    Stop using the YouTube app/website, get an alt frontend like FreeTube, Grayjay, Revanced, etc. Not only do they remove ads and make it impossible for Google to track you, they have better UX than the official apps.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I noticed one of my comments was shadowbanned, I thought it was the channel that did it. Hmm, I don't comment much on YT, I guess I won't at all now. NBD.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    The issue is with your ad blocker, not YouTube, though YouTube has no incentive to tell you what is going on as it would help out bots trying the same thing.

    I don't like Brave but they seem to have gone to the effort of whitelisting the heartbeats, so use that for YouTube comments.

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