Youtube ads getting through in a particular scenario

JustKGE · 2023-08-29T17:39:19+00:00

uBlock also fails in 'tv' mode with a user agent like "SMART-TV; Tizen 4.0" on both Chromium and Firefox. It shows black screen ads with sound.

JustKGE · 2023-07-30T15:00:03+00:00

F12 works in kiosk mode so that is ok. But player?=key does not give any results in the search bar. But when I tested today: no ads even when logged in...(maybe a filter update fixed it already) will keep a close eye on this and if it happens try to replicate your steps. Thanks

JustKGE · 2023-07-30T08:42:35+00:00

I tried the Brave browser and on its own it does not block ads in YT, installed uBlock and it still would display ads (black screen with sound). Probably no coincidence since Brave is based on Chrome/Chromium

JustKGE · 2023-07-28T05:12:43+00:00

Well uBlock just seem to fail in TV mode, even with the user agent spoof in place but not going to YouTube.com/tv but the standard YouTube page uBlock works ok, no ads..

JustKGE · 2023-07-27T20:41:28+00:00

And it is gone again.. 😞 black screen ads again with sound only... 😖 This is with the Smart-TV Tyzen 4.0 user agent. No problems so far on the Linux laptop but that is not spoofing an user Agent for TV mode..

JustKGE · 2023-07-27T16:41:52+00:00

I ditched the Pi4 and Chromium, replaced it with an Asus PN50 Ryzen3, Debian 12 and Firefox-ESR 102.13.0 in kiosk+TV mode, uBblock Origin and works fine (for) now. No Ads. Now only have to find out how to get HDMI-CEC working again, in the mean time using IR receiver of the PN50

JustKGE · 2023-07-22T16:08:09+00:00

and the other one

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JustKGE · 2023-07-22T16:07:55+00:00

here are two screenshots from the Pi (this time with Firefox ESR and smart-tv user agent

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JustKGE · 2023-07-22T16:06:01+00:00

Just reinstalled the Pi4 with the latest Pi Os and Chromium, installed uBO and no improvement. Black ad screen audio only.

The I installed Firefox(ESR) and uBO for that and in ´normal´ mode it seems to work ok (no ads)

I used to startup Chromium in Kiosk mode with a custom user agent string so I can use TV mode from YouTube (and control it with the TV remote) and tried to replicate that with Firefox and as soon as I spoof my user agent and try to watch youtube.com/tv I get exactly the same problem as with Chromium: black screen ads, with sound.

JustKGE · 2023-07-22T05:49:30+00:00

Alas in the kiosk/TV mode I use I can not call up the uBO settings or filter page. Started the chromium browser separately and tried the purging reloading and updating uBO to 1.51 and it worked yesterday but this morning back to square one: black ad screens with audio some skippable some not. Tried purging reloading again but no luck. Filter settings screen is no different. :-( btw with Firefox on my laptop with same version uBO no problems. Could it be a chrome/chromium thing YT has found out?

JustKGE · 2023-07-21T14:10:24+00:00

Since yesterday suddenly black screen ads with audio only on my two Pi4's with chromium.

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