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  • Last time I watched Youtube without ad blocker I got 3 ads in a row from our local nazi party. Sure as fuck not gonna do that again.

    • Interesting, why do I get the weird suspicion the right is never encouraged to change their minds, let alone listen to the other guys?

      Look at their tantrum over GTAVI for not looking like a country club, if they have the right to never have their sacrosanct opinions questioned, so do I.

  • There is some kind of weird bug with my Firefox, part of which is that my adblocker just works, no warnings about adblockers or anything. I also can no longer see youtube comments, that part of the page is just blank for me, which is just fine. Also, I cannot search for videos. That too leaves me with a completely blank page, which is actually kind of annoying. Still, I can search for the videos in a different browser, then just paste the URL into Firefox and it just works.

    • call that a win

    • That's interesting, I've done something similar to news sites that block you from viewing them and scrolling down.

      I used to take one of my adblockers and select individual elements to block in hopes I could read the article normally. It rarely worked and typically I still wouldn't be able to scroll. Did you happen to do something similar with youtube a couple of weeks ago when they started getting more aggressive and adblockers didn't have their filters updated yet? If so maybe reinstalling your adblocker will help, but tbh I'm not amazing with technical stuff like this.

      • No, I was unable to see Youtube comments months before Youtube started their campaign against adblockers, I just didn't search for a solution because I had no interest in seeing Youtube comments. I have not been messing around with any settings for anything.

  • Thank you for posting this, the comments made me want to try and get the ad blockers to work again instead of copying and pasting into a private browser. I've been stuck doing that for several weeks now and it's very tedious.

    And you know what? I got it to work, at least for now!

    Here's what my issue was: I was using too many adblockers at once. So I turned off everything but Ublocker and Sponserblock, and cleared Ublocker's cache before updating it as another user recommended. It looks like it's back to normal now! And yes, I'm using Firefox.

    Hopefully that helps someone with similar issues.

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