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Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

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1034 points deryilz | 8 comments | 12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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breve ◴[12 Jul 25 21:51 UTC] No.44545498[source]▶
The best bypass is to use Firefox. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

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Aperocky ◴[12 Jul 25 23:51 UTC] No.44546244[source]▶
Never realized anything was happening as I was on Firefox, until I saw ads as my wife was browsing youtube despite installing ublock for her years ago.
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1. thaumasiotes ◴[13 Jul 25 02:45 UTC] No.44547084[source]▶
YouTube recently started showing ads through uBO in Firefox.
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2. djrj477dhsnv ◴[13 Jul 25 03:10 UTC] No.44547171[source]▶
On what platform? I've been using Firefox and uBO on Linux and Android for over a decade and never seen a YouTube ad.
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3. stubish ◴[13 Jul 25 04:04 UTC] No.44547394[source]▶
They do staged rollouts, maybe a-b testing. It seems to generally be region based rather than platform.
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4. aspenmayer ◴[13 Jul 25 06:07 UTC] No.44547906{3}[source]▶
You might need to check that you are using all appropriate blocklists as well. The subreddit usually has a sticky/pinned post for YouTube related issues as this has been a slow moving target for about a year now.
5. thaumasiotes ◴[13 Jul 25 06:12 UTC] No.44547932[source]▶
I'm on Windows 10.
6. gpvos ◴[13 Jul 25 15:27 UTC] No.44551087[source]▶
Ubuntu.
7. weberer ◴[13 Jul 25 17:09 UTC] No.44551859[source]▶
Do you have other extensions? For example, I can see that uMatrix is also blocking all requests to doubleclick.net
8. Aperocky ◴[14 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44561855[source]▶
I've not seen the ads at least not yet.

There was a few times when Youtube try to top me from viewing because I was blocking the ads.