They are slowly rolling it out; the reports have been trickling in for the past few weeks. Last I heard was firefox users getting hit. Apparently not even uBlock is immune.
It's a contest of endurance between the uBlock devs/open source community and Google. There is nothing they can do to fully prevent us from blocking the ad on our end, but they can make us keep changing how we block it over and over - I suspect this will continue until enough people give up on ublock and just buy YT Premium that Google chalks it up to a win and stops for a while.
Have done similar projects and can confirm. It's not mentally sustainable.
It's worth noting that it's not exactly the uBlock devs who are updating the filter lists. The people who make the filter lists are pretty separate. Then lots of adblock extensions use those same lists.
The filter list people do generally accept donations btw. If you go through the uBlock Origin list configuration, you can find links to the homepages about some of the lists. If they accept donations, I’m sure there’ll be a prominent link.
I imagine this is pretty thankless work, so if adblock has been valuable to you, you may wish to research donating.
Disclaimer that I am not socially or financially associated with any mainstream internet ad blockers or filter lists.
I got it in ublock but used the block element feature to block it. Now I can't scroll down to comments or see the recommended vids but videos play fine.
I use ublock and FF across 4 devices and got a warning on one computer over the weekend.
if they get aggressive with it, it'll just reduce my YT usage. like if I really want to watch something, I'll open up a crap little chromium browser that does nothing but watch youtube videos. assuming ublock and FF don't find a way around this.
uBlock will block it and it will stay blocked for like an hour, and then it will be unblockable until uBlock updates again, and so on and so on. It's a contest of endurance between their devs and google's IMO.
I haven't seen this and i use ublock origin. Is there any context or other source  ?
They are slowly rolling it out; the reports have been trickling in for the past few weeks. Last I heard was firefox users getting hit. Apparently not even uBlock is immune.
You just have to keep updating it unfortunately. It's messing up my custom filter blocks which is annoying
https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/178yasm/youtube_antiadblock_and_ads_october_16_2023/
It's a contest of endurance between the uBlock devs/open source community and Google. There is nothing they can do to fully prevent us from blocking the ad on our end, but they can make us keep changing how we block it over and over - I suspect this will continue until enough people give up on ublock and just buy YT Premium that Google chalks it up to a win and stops for a while.
I'm kind of worried this will burn the devs out. Not sure how much work this would be for all of them. Sounds pretty stressful though.
Have done similar projects and can confirm. It's not mentally sustainable.
It's worth noting that it's not exactly the uBlock devs who are updating the filter lists. The people who make the filter lists are pretty separate. Then lots of adblock extensions use those same lists.
Ah that makes sense then for the update list setting they give you. Either way I hope you have less stressful projects now!
The filter list people do generally accept donations btw. If you go through the uBlock Origin list configuration, you can find links to the homepages about some of the lists. If they accept donations, I’m sure there’ll be a prominent link.
I imagine this is pretty thankless work, so if adblock has been valuable to you, you may wish to research donating.
Disclaimer that I am not socially or financially associated with any mainstream internet ad blockers or filter lists.
Oh awesome I had no idea. I’ll definitely do that they deserve it big time.
Can confirm, it sucks
I got it in ublock but used the block element feature to block it. Now I can't scroll down to comments or see the recommended vids but videos play fine.
Considering that suggested videos are all just repeats of videos you already watched and the comments are always ass I see this as an absolute win
Yeah I get repeats non stop. Wtf is the point?
I use ublock and FF across 4 devices and got a warning on one computer over the weekend.
if they get aggressive with it, it'll just reduce my YT usage. like if I really want to watch something, I'll open up a crap little chromium browser that does nothing but watch youtube videos. assuming ublock and FF don't find a way around this.
slowly rolling out andf ublock doesnt stop it (maybe soon) which sucks ass.
uBlock will block it and it will stay blocked for like an hour, and then it will be unblockable until uBlock updates again, and so on and so on. It's a contest of endurance between their devs and google's IMO.