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YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers (9to5google.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 200 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Blocking adblockers apparently doesn't work well enough so google resorts to various forms of gaslighting (delayed video playback, api randomly returning wrong video, and now skipping video straight to the end).

[–] mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 89 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Had the random API one the other day. Was nuts. Also the 5 second delay for Firefox too when it was a thing.

[–] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 5 months ago

I get that 5sec delay for the official YouTube app weirdly enough

[–] Owljfien@lemm.ee 35 points 5 months ago

I thought I was going insane with the wrong video thing. I have premium but also an ad blocker because the entire internet is a cancerous cesspit without one, so I wonder if I get hit with anti ad blocking measures or I was just tripping?

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 109 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Use Youtube frontends. Here is Privacy Guides' page about Youtube frontends. All of Youtube's BS will disappear.

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[–] AstronautOlympian@lemdro.id 87 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh no!

uBlock Origin updates

Anyway...

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

More and more Im trusting the fact that ublock origin will correct these issues in short order. Youtube must really hate those guys...

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Youtube must really hate those guys...

Makes you wonder how long it will take, before Raymond Hill plummets to his death from a basement window.

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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They have been really good at it over the last few months.

[–] Why9@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

While the developer doesn't accept donations, they do encourage donating to the people maintaining the block lists. I've contributed in the past and would happily keep doing so.

It would be a shame if the devs maintaining the block lists stop doing what they're doing because it's not sustainable enough for them.

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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 72 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Firefox with uBO, haven't seen an add or ran into any issues in ages, both windows and linux.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 58 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Shhhhhhhh..........don't let the mainstream know.......once EVERYBODY is doing it, they'll fix it.

Wait. This is Lemmy. Pretty sure there's like 8 people here......

[–] thimantha@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly 8 upvotes to your comment.. Let's leave it that way.

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[–] Frellwit@lemmy.world 54 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a bug in the filters used by Adblock and Adblock Plus. Afaik uBO or Adguard aren't affected.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 18 points 5 months ago

Can confirm, no issues with uBO and Smart Tube Next on my TV.

[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

YouTube will not stop until the site is Unusable by anyone without over paying for every second they are there. YouTube as a free site is doomed

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've been having this.

My videos are also randomly going from 4k to 360p, and having long hitches/pauses. Thats assuming the page loads at all, which may take a few refreshes...and its not an internet/connection related issue.

happening with Firefox with ublock origin.

edit Honestly, the youtube pages (and only the youtube pages) act slow and laggy like the CPU is running at 100% doing hard number crunching. yet system monitor shows its not even breaking 10% load on the CPU, and that firefox's process isnt even using half that, so it feels like theres something artificially slowing the page down, in retrospect.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)

My videos are also randomly going from 4k to 360p, and having long hitches/pauses

I'm seeing this as well. Except I'm not using an adblocker on youtube, and I am paying for youtube premium...

I don't think it's entirely caused by youtube fighting adblockers. I think it's more likely just a regular, boring, old fashioned fuck-up.

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[–] Kaput@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yup it just started doing it to me, AdBlock on firefox. whelp I'll just download them.. https://github.com/Unrud/video-downloader

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago (14 children)

You can also just play them directly with MPV or VLC.

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[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can download YouTube videos via yt-dlp and add them to a jellyfin server. If you'd want to watch them without ads and off of Google.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yeah but I don’t really want to keep the videos. Need one of these alternative sites to hurry up and take off

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[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 19 points 5 months ago

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)

This is what I do anyways because I am too impatient to watch through 15 minutes of blah blah to reach the end and hear, "in my next video I'll actually show you how to dobthe thing that you came here to see."

Give me a decent web page with searchable text and a few pictures (if needed) and I'll be happy.

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[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Is this happening to any user in the EU?

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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm not having that issue. I also use Freetube as a backup on desktop.

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[–] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Seems like it's working as intended - have you seen the sponsor to content ratio on YouTube these days?

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[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 months ago

I know that once adblockers won't work anymore I will simply avoid YouTube.

[–] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

Just use front ends if you don't care about interacting with the content. It has been a few years since I am used to using them and I dread being forced to go back to youtube again.

[–] YaksDC@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago (11 children)

I have been using Brave as my browser for years, I have never once seen an ad on YouTube. Nor have I ever had any of the issues that have been reported with people using ad blockers.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 228 points 5 months ago (15 children)

I'm using firefox + ublock origin and have never had the reported issues either.

[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I'm leeching premium from a friend so no ads on pc, but because I'm getting sick and tired of all the shorts shit being pushed onto me (even play automatically when I would open the YouTube app) I'm using Grayjay on my phone instead of the official YouTube app. Never ads and it even has sponsor block. Plus you can follow creators instead of channels, across platforms. And downloading a video means you can actually watch it without a connection too. It has more perks then someone paying for premium has. Piracy pais off.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Shorts are the bane of my ADHD ass

I'm going to have to look into Greyjay for sure just for the no shorts part

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[–] 4am@lemm.ee 94 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don’t use brave, they’re shady. LibreWolf with uBlock Origin is plenty.

[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (19 children)

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[–] RayJW@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean they did also inject affiliate links without the users noticing which is really shady behaviour from a browser because it has one job, open the link I click and nothing else. But that's just IMHO if that is acceptable for you personally then there is no issue with that.

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[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You forgot the VPN service they install without consent.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925192/brave-browser-vpn-windows-11

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It’s not so much shady as 1) crypto BS incorporated into it and 2) the CEO is homophobic IIRC.

The "crypto BS" also encompasses running a protection racket whereby Brave man-in-the-middles website ads to replace them with its own, then shakes down the website owners to buy into said crypto BS if they want their lost revenue back.

That counts as shady in my book: an end-user has every right to control what their computer (their property) does, but the third-party interference for the third-party's benefit crosses the line.

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[–] eratic@slrpnk.net 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm confident its people using Chrome with Adblock Plus

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[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

For quite some time now I've had the issue that the video simply refuses to stop playing requiring me to refresh the page. Might be an issue with one of the add-ons too though.

[–] disconnectikacio@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Didnt noticed it with smarttube https://smarttubeapp.github.io/ or https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular ;)

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Good riddance, I can't wait until I'm free from the instant gratification of videos by fancy ad vessels being narcissistic on the internet. The move to video and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

I already use sponsorblock, ublock and dearrow alongside Vanced patches, piped and newpipe on mobile. Quitting YT is the next step.

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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 9 points 5 months ago

YouTube started throwing playback errors for me this last week on pc (Firefox with ublock and pihole).

I was able to get around it by opening links in a container tab without being signed in. New container for each link

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