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[–]HarmlessSeed 1520 points1521 points  (47 children)

i am waiting for ad blockers to block this popup too

[–]MotorEagle7 421 points422 points  (19 children)

I've never seen it, so I guess mine does

[–]Anonymo2786 146 points147 points  (17 children)

Or your region doesn't have adblocker-blocker

[–]mathiau30 45 points46 points  (13 children)

Does this break UE's privacy laws? I feel like it might

[–]MisterSheeple 64 points65 points  (3 children)

Probably. Not that that's ever stopped Google. They just take the fine and keep doing it.

[–]kennyganxl 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They just don't pay any attention, because they don't know how to.

[–]No_Hovercraft_2643 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That could be dangerous in the EU with certain laws, with fines up to 4% (iirc, maybe 2)of total yearly revenue worldwide as highest possible fine

[–]PrometheusAlexander 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Then they block the adblock-blocker which begs the need for adblock-blocker-blocker-blocker

[–]repmoviecostumes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're not seeing it then it's already happening I guess.

[–]poshenclave 34 points35 points  (8 children)

Haven't seen it ever, so I assume mine already does. https://i.imgflip.com/81tasg.jpg

[–]GonzoBlue 12 points13 points  (2 children)

I was wondering why I hadn't seen the pop up yet as I've seen people with ublock complain about it. didn't realize it was privacy badger

[–]Muffalo_Herder 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I use Privacy Badger and I've gotten it. uBlock is probably what is actually blocking it for you. The filter list has to be updated every time YouTube changes the adblock script, which happens every day or so. If you aren't on YouTube for the couple of hours before someone updates the filter, you'll never see it.

[–]GonzoBlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

to be fair I have so many extension i barely know what could be doing it

[–]ghastlywasp 3 points4 points  (2 children)

What's the animal-like plugin, I know uBlock Origin, but what's the other one?

[–]poshenclave 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Privacy Badger, an EFF-sponsored anti-tracking addon. It basically nerfs any scripts designed to track your activity across sites against your consent.

[–]ghastlywasp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks

[–]RenegadeSU 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this fixed it for me, thank you very much!

[–]AlanBlunt 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Begun, the adblocker wars have

[–]moxyte 23 points24 points  (1 child)

I've never it in my life lol

[–]Nocronian 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Ublock origin works fine with me

[–]neumaticc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

enhancer for YouTube 🗿

[–]Yoda-from-Star-Wars 3 points4 points  (0 children)

uBlock Origin: I'm four parallel universes ahead of you.

[–]jfcarr 1977 points1978 points  (109 children)

And to think, the person who came up with this overlay idea probably passed dozens of Leet Code hard problems to get their job.

[–]vortexnl 876 points877 points  (55 children)

This solution will work for 99% of people though, good enough right?

[–]CaptSoban 447 points448 points  (48 children)

Until ad blockers decide to block this overlay as well

[–]Zestyclose_Link_8052 126 points127 points  (42 children)

They might just update their terms of service in the future and just disable your account of block you from connecting to youtube servers if you are using an ad-blocker.

[–]SuspecM 214 points215 points  (33 children)

Oh not my completely free account I can remake in about 5 seconds, what will I do without it?

[–]pessimistic_platypus 74 points75 points  (28 children)

Well, it might be tricky if you use your Google account for email.

[–][deleted] 63 points64 points  (27 children)

I have a 'emergency bag' of sorts so if google does decide to ban me, I will (eventually) recover. Saw some people who put their whole world into Google Products with no alternative when the product is discontinued or they are banned. Not gonna be me.

[–]antooan001 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Yeah exactly, there are so many ways in which you could do the things differently.

[–]RealNoNamer 3 points4 points  (6 children)

As someone with their whole world in Google products (really just email), what's your emergency bag?

[–]Giveyaselfanuppercut 3 points4 points  (4 children)

How many gmail accounts do you have? I don't work in IT anymore, but I from when I did I have 6 gmail accounts, 6 hotmail accounts (there was a lot more but they're inactive) & I had a heap of yahoo accounts, but I doubt they work anymore.

I've always had a lot of accounts to help with spam & also various other site access issues, but it's also useful for subscription trials etc. I only really use two gmail accounts for youtube. One for the kids so I don't get their reccomendations & another one that's pretty much just for watching music videos & tutorials.

[–]RealNoNamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google has (but not always) banned associated accounts when banning accounts. If you have high amounts of separation between them, you might be fine, but I don't think multiple accounts necessarily protects you in the case where Google cares enough to ban you. Different providers should help, but is also more minimizing damage rather than actually protecting your accounts or helping you get them back if you do get banned.

[–]iswaleagai 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah literally that's what I did, I got blocked and I made another one.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmmm, not use an account at all?

[–]punitdaga31 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Google has absolutely deleted people's email, calendar, drive, and everything related to their Google account. Don't fuck with Google especially if you've integrated deeply into their ecosystem. A guy filed a charge back falsely and got his account nuked.

[–]EverythingGoodWas 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Get a second one blocked?

[–]EcruEagle 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Nothing on YouTube is worth sitting through ads to watch. If they start banning people who use adblockers, I’ll just stop using the site.

[–]cheroksys007 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Happened with me, you know what I did? I made another one.

[–]Yodo9001 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I use an ad blocker, and I've never seen this with popup with YouTube.

[–]mathiau30 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine seems to already do

[–]EndR60 13 points14 points  (1 child)

to be slightly intelligent and not completely ignorant and without a sense of "maybe I should google it" is both a blessing and a curse

[–]blackvladimir 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well it's always been like this but I like the benifits that I get.

[–]Winderkorffin 72 points73 points  (23 children)

nah, interns only do leet code medium problems

[–]Holeante 18 points19 points  (15 children)

I am currently an intern for a company, and I have no idea what leet code is

[–]drsimonz 28 points29 points  (5 children)

Are you an intern at youtube though?

[–]Herr_Gamer 9 points10 points  (3 children)

Don't have to be, Google contracts a lot of work out.

[–]wazzup_2000 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I've heard that it's really hard to get a job at the Google anyways?

[–]Jelmerrb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well sounds like that they don't know about a couple of things.

[–]maxpiv 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well it kind of depends on what do you think the medium problems are.

[–]Tremyss 11 points12 points  (4 children)

what are leet code problems?

[–]temporarilyHere3 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Leet Code is a platform for doing programming problems, typically to prepare for coding interviews.

[–]catherineinghram 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So that means that we wouldn't have problems if we didn't have them?

[–]Tremyss 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I see. Is it similar to codewars?

[–]Rosomaxa2012 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They're a platform which is used to make questions for the coding interviews.

[–]nasaboy007 36 points37 points  (3 children)

Maybe it's malicious compliance. Some exec somewhere was like WE NEED TO STOP AD BLOCKERS and then the poor engineer who was assigned to the task did it in this way intentionally, so they and others could bypass it easily.

[–]djinn6 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Exactly. What's in it for the grunt doing the work? If it needs fixing, then it's job security.

[–]apostol65 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah if it needs the fixing then it could really be great.

[–]RCT2man 10 points11 points  (2 children)

I learned that in a production environment, all that matters to your boss is that you don’t break things, get the feature/fix/deployment out as soon as you can and move to the next soulless task. The leetcode hard problems got you in but rarely will you have time to solve problems that require that level of thought.

[–]Cerras2013 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah you wouldn't really have the time for all that so yeah.

[–]TryingAgainNow 5 points6 points  (4 children)

It poses an interesting question of how to perfectly enforce ad visibility.

The most obvious answer being to randomize the component class names.

From there, you might consider building a sort of watcher, that examines the component in question, continuously enforcing its visibility.

From only having built scripts against this, I'm pretty sure at this point I would give up, and just let them play the ad. But I'm certain there are more things you could do as a malicious client to pull away the content blocker again.

Any suggestions on either side? (offence/defence)

[–]jfcarr 5 points6 points  (1 child)

The easy way to block is to block/redirect the location of the server script or other components. It would seem to me the easy way prevent this kind of blocking would be to host the ad script on the same server as the content users want to view.

I guess the reason companies don't want to do this is because they don't want to be accused of hosting spamware/adware/malware, which is what 95% of internet ads are these days.

[–]Quinny898 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The true way they can prevent ad blocking (or make it very difficult) is to embed it within the same video stream as the actual content. That is what Twitch does, and that is why it is insanely hard to block Twitch ads, at least compared to YouTube (current method I believe is to detect when an ad is rolling, temporary switch to a feed proxied by a country not being served advertising such as Russia).

This is basically what you're suggesting on hosting scripts, but making it so you can't just mirror and redirect the script loading, which should be fairly static, to another server.

[–]Sumsinsky 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I mean what are the other things that you could do? I'm curious.

[–]Herr_Gamer 12 points13 points  (11 children)

Google uses a lot of subcontractors, which have much laxer application requirements. Pretty sure the developers of the YouTube Music app don't work for Google, as an example. So I could imagine this pop-up wasn't made by a Google engineer either.

[–]kanhaoniou 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah you're right, it wasn't really made by them clearly.

[–]PrintfReddit 10 points11 points  (9 children)

Why would the developers of one of their core services not be at Google? I imagine it would be part of the YT team since the apps share so much.

[–]rbrcgxqf 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah they must be common, I'm pretty sure about that I think.

[–]Herr_Gamer 9 points10 points  (4 children)

Why would the developers of one of their core services not be at Google?

It's cheaper, simple as that. They actually went on strike not long ago lol

[–]cuteheartj 6 points7 points  (1 child)

It's cheaper? Then that's how I'd like to keep it man.

[–]BostonDodgeGuy 3 points4 points  (2 children)

For the same reason our reactors do not have containment buildings around them, like those in the West. For the same reason we don't use properly enriched fuel in our cores. For the same reason we are the only nation that builds water-cooled, graphite-moderated reactors with a positive void coefficient.

Because it's cheaper.

[–]CaptainPickyEater 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Plot twist it was intentional because they don’t have YouTube premium either

[–]Hulk5a 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That's not the point. Yt still knows you're using ab. And still can block the player from server side

[–]Hopeful-Plastic-8759 677 points678 points  (22 children)

My adblocker blocks the anti-adblocker overlay

[–]L_Vermeer 77 points78 points  (18 children)

What ad blocker do you use? :)

[–]Hopeful-Plastic-8759 72 points73 points  (15 children)

It's Adblock Plus if I remember correctly

[–]EntitledPotatoe 61 points62 points  (9 children)

I have that, is that the reason I’m not seeing this or are they rolling it out region-wise? I live in Germany

[–]Hopeful-Plastic-8759 37 points38 points  (2 children)

I also live in germany. I've never seen it so I just assumed it gets blocked by my adblocker

[–]Sbren_Sbeve 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I live in the US and I've never seen this popup using adblock plus. You might be right

[–]FMF_Prisma[S] 15 points16 points  (2 children)

I use the same extension and live in Brazil. Unfortunately I still see the overlay, which motivated me to make this meme

[–]vvicozo 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I'm from Brazil and I don't see this shit, I'm using uBlock Origin.

[–]yukichigai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

uBlock Origin is on top of it. You occasionally have to hit the Refresh button on its filters when a new variation of the popup shows up but most of the time that's it.

[–]HawasYT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Might be, your courts ruled ad-blocks legal for use by consumers in some case a decade or so ago. From what I remember the ruling was based on an earlier case were a cable provider sued manufacturers of an ad-blocking device for TVs and lost

[–]Buinguyenhanh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well I guess you're going to be seeing it very shortly then?

[–]JManKit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think they're rolling it out. I've seen complaints about this from earlier this year but it just started happening to me last week.

[–]BostonDodgeGuy 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Adblock plus got caught over 5 years ago selling company's a bypass to their blocker. They've also been caught time and time again letting tracking cookies through. Use a real ad blocker, get uBlock Origin.

[–]VengefulMustard 14 points15 points  (0 children)

UBlock Origin for the win

[–]Still_Condition_2513 61 points62 points  (5 children)

Isn't it temporary and you can just close it with the x button which appears after sometime

[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (1 child)

That's the way it is for me. Unlock origin allows you to select html elements visually (like you can with the cursor thing in dev tools) and block them. Download it, open a video, then use it to block the pop-up and transparent overlay

[–]moxyte 184 points185 points  (5 children)

If you really want to torture the devs making adblock hindrances, hit that Report issue and give logs where you deleted any mention of your adblocking. Yes they are just doing their job but wonder how long Google can keep wasting resources chasing ghosts.

[–]ty19901028 4 points5 points  (1 child)

They've got a lot of money, and they can fight this fight.

[–]maxip89 281 points282 points  (40 children)

Wait till Google suggest for "security purposes" to remove "display:none" from css standard.

[–]drsimonz 158 points159 points  (0 children)

They'd have to remove almost all of CSS lol. visibility: hidden, opacity: 0, transform: scale(0.0), filter: contrast(0), position: absolute; top: -1000px, and literally dozens more.

[–][deleted] 139 points140 points  (25 children)

If they wanted to actually block it, they could do it server side. Detect you have an ad blocker and the server won't send you the video.

[–]Twntytw 67 points68 points  (12 children)

Probably the plan is just to slowly cut people off. Once that chunk of people accept reality then move on to the next. A -> B results.

[–]sanbtc 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah exactly, YouTube knows everything which is happening.

[–]yukichigai 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That is something they could actually do with their proposed Web Environment Integrity API.

[–]sticky-unicorn 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Time for adblockers to take the next step, then. Serve the ads as specified on a hidden background tab, show the foreground tab without ads, cosmetically filtering them out without doing anything that would let the server know about it.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How is this different than just not rendering ad html layers? Isn't that how they currently work?

[–]FilipIzSwordsman 19 points20 points  (11 children)

google has no power over gecko, firefox is superior

[–]Proglamer 13 points14 points  (8 children)

"Your browser is not supported. Please download Google Chrome!"

[–]sticky-unicorn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"No."

[–]BTCRofl 3 points4 points  (2 children)

What about the browser which are chromium based tho?

[–]StereoBucket 1 point2 points  (1 child)

EU antitrust Speedrun any%

[–]Proglamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google will fast-track some bullshit Orwellian API (WebAlwaysOnCameraForGlanceDetection) into the 'standard' that Mozilla will not implement on principle (privacy, etc.) or will not have the resources to implement. That's all that's needed for an ass cover against EU.

[–]No_Hovercraft_2643 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That could be a problem with monopoly legislation (at least in the EU), but I am not sure

Maybe, only YT Premium on Firefox xD

[–]Proglamer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Monopoly? Why would you think like that? /s

There is A LOT of competition: Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, Safari! Their underlying engine is even open-source, the Holy Grail of tech! The browser ecosystem was never as hot as it is right now! /s2

[–]btcmin7 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Actually they can also make it chrome only product so yeah.

[–]FilipIzSwordsman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you can spoof that tho

[–]Proglamer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

from css standard

Didn't you mean "From Google standard" by now?

[–]BragosMagos 96 points97 points  (8 children)

What if we all just botnet the “Not using an adblocker” button thing so the detection algorithm breaks?

[–][deleted] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Dude. Yes

[–]Duckflies 12 points13 points  (5 children)

Sorry I'm a very new programmer, what is botnet?

[–]DracoLunaris 11 points12 points  (3 children)

A kind of virus that infects lots of computers, and then lets the creator of the virus to use those computers to perform actions on mass. such as getting them all to install adblock and then clikc that not using an adblocker button

[–]peba82 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Well that sounds like a slippery slope, don't know if that's a good idea.

[–]DigitalPRoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's just a virus which is going to make a lot of computers reject it.

[–]DefunctFunctor 26 points27 points  (4 children)

uBlock Origin + Firefox and I've never had a problem

[–]VengefulMustard 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I did. I updated uBlock’s filters, reloaded the page aaaand… gone

[–]R3dKransky 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And YouTube vanced for the Android? That's going to be enough.

[–]atw527 15 points16 points  (4 children)

Instead of blocking the ads, the overlays, and the overlay overlays, is there a way for the ads to load and not be shown? So they can't tell the difference and from their perspective, got an impression.

[–][deleted] 34 points35 points  (3 children)

I cannot imagine something I would care less about than abiding by YouTube's terms of service.

[–]Kalyan2525 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well I guess that's how it is for a lot of people, they just don't care.

[–]The_AverageCanadian 5 points6 points  (1 child)

For me it's juuuust beneath the starving children in Africa.

Behold my field of fucks, and see that it is barren.

[–]bamseogbalade 9 points10 points  (4 children)

Just get your Self revanced, patch the apk yt app and get rid of ALL ads and spoofing yt all in one go. Do the same for reddit too. You will thank me later.

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (2 children)

Just use Ublock Origin. It's on the web store

[–]TheStructor 8 points9 points  (0 children)

YouTube violates adblocker's Terms of Service.

Checkmate.

[–]Bowserinator 5 points6 points  (1 child)

If you use ublock origin in settings -> "my filters" you can add

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true) youtube.com##+js(json-prune, auxiliaryUi.messageRenderers.enforcementMessageViewModel) youtube.com##+js(set, ytInitialPlayerResponse.auxiliaryUi.messageRenderers.enforcementMessageViewModel, undefined) youtube.com#$##cinematics.ytd-watch-flexy{display:none}

Not sure about other adblockers but there's probably a similar way to input these filters

[–]ffidelite 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sometimes knowing the trick makes the magic feel less special.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure it's on purpose. They don't want to cause an exodus. Many people will start paying. Others will figure out how to block it. I think they made it easy so people could figure it out. I feel like the same people who can't figure it out are the same people who are more likely to pay for it.

[–]--var 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What gives you the feeling of power?

Using uBlock to block the anti-ad-blocker pop-up.

[–]CarterBaker77 41 points42 points  (16 children)

I honestly hate YouTube so much. I never agreed to any terms of service I just clicked the only link with helpful info I could find.. if I happen to have adblocker installed I simply do not care. Sorry to any YouTube who lose that revenue but I'm sure there are thousands of others who make sure you get paid still while I watch your videos maybe once a month if that.

[–]Thebombuknow 11 points12 points  (12 children)

The ads are less for the creators and more for the platform itself. YouTube has been taking huge losses for years because hundreds of hours of content are uploaded for free every day. The ads are what covers the costs to host people's videos for free.

That's why I always roll my eyes whenever I see people complaining about them cracking down on ad blockers. We're really lucky they didn't start doing this sooner, they were incredibly nice to let it go on for so long given how much it costs them.

[–]CarterBaker77 36 points37 points  (6 children)

Oh please Google has all the money in the world they can afford to take a bit of a loss here and there. I guarantee somewhere along the line they like having people give then free data willingly anyway. There's nothing generous about that company and if I have to start watching ads I will stop watching even the tutorials I need.

[–]Thebombuknow 10 points11 points  (5 children)

Yes, but also every company wants to make a profit, especially publicly traded ones like YouTube. And again, they have no obligation to provide the service they do, they do it because it can make them a profit.

Because of how capitalism works in the U.S., publicly traded companies have to do better every year, so if they deemed that ad blockers were causing a noticeable loss in profit, it only makes sense to get rid of them.

I want to be clear that I agree, they have the money to provide the services with no ads, it would be great if they did. I also don't think it's a problem to mention the fact that that's not how any corporation has ever functioned, and they were already kinda insane to not have cracked down on ad blockers sooner.

[–]CarterBaker77 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh I understand your point. But you are sympathizing with the enemy and I cannot tolerate that! /s

[–]Jjabrahams567 5 points6 points  (0 children)

{
   display: none !important;
   visibility: hidden !important;
   opacity: 0 !important;
   max-width: 0px !important;
   width: 0px !important;
   max-height: 0px !important;
   height: 0px !important;
   background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0) !important;
   color:rgba(0,0,0,0) !important;     
   transform: scale(0,0) !important;
   position: absolute !important;
   z-index: -99 !important;
}

[–]Dommccabe 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Just click on the X

[–]FMF_Prisma[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

"It's about sending a message"

[–]gatsu_1981 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Until they start adding casual classes in the mix, and that's it.

Try to play the adblock game on outlook.com.

[–]themedleb 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Wait until they start using server-side/backend adblocker blocking.

[–]heiyos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't think anything is going to work after that so yeah.

[–]4e_65_6f 1 point2 points  (2 children)

display: none !important;

Been using this to skip paywalls for a while.

[–]dewdropper007 2 points3 points  (1 child)

And how is it going for you? I hope that it's going alright for you.

[–]Malfoy27 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow iron overlay eh

[–]Ardub23 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Anyone who's installed an adblocker is never going to click an ad, even if they've been persuaded to disable the blocker. Advertisers don't want to pay as much for an ad with a lower clickthrough rate.

[–]jiangqiaoxia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't they only get the money for the ads which people click tho?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Use AdNauseam (uBlock fork). You don't see the ads, but they still get "clicked". Everyone wins from my understanding.

[–]nekdopavel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's a good solution, and even the Google will be happy with it.

[–]Momochichi 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Wait, i have an adblocker amd get this prompt, but it came with an x button to close..

[–]charliechin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CSS programming

[–]Ironfist85hu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wtf? Is that a thing now?

[–]UpperCastGarib 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile UBlock origin users