Right? Firefox has been excellent for some time now, and Google has actively betrayed user’s trust for at least as long. It’s easy to switch and Firefox almost always has equivalent plugins and other solutions. There’s very little reason not to switch.
Most often this happens because the user runs some other addon/blocker that interferes with ublock (or gets detected). It’s important to test with only ublock active and see if the problem persists, and if not, to slowly enable more and more to see what is causing the issues.
For me there was about a day where google was winning against ublock even if I was onoy using Ublock. Now though Ublock is back to winning, and I only occasionally have to refresh my cache
I freshly installed win10 Firefox+uBlock and got this message after a while (was around 2weeks ago) first I could x the message, then the message had a timer, then 1-3 vids until block and then blocked.
That was at my parents house, now I’m back in my home with different pc win11 (same fresh FireFox+uBlock) and now I don’t get these messages anymore.
That probably was the “not up-to-date filter lists” problem, or the rare “filter lists themselves not updated yet”, but they are within a few hours usually.
Only had ublock active, still happens. For now it still goes away on refresh or if I switch adblockers (so I’m assuming cleaning out the cache daily will work too).
I use Firefox and also got that pop-up.
Eventually I just grew tired of clicking the “X” button so I went on uBlock origin and added that stupid banner and the banner background to the blacklist.
It’s like nothing ever happened.
And if shit continues to get worse, either someone comes up with a fix somehow, or I’ll just find a way to run ReVanced YouTube apk on my pc or something. I don’t care if I have to emulate it somehow.
Also, on mobile GrayJay is a good alternative to ReVanced. Made by LouisRossmann’s team apparently.
I haven’t seen it yet either, not on firefox nor on chrome. From what I hear it’s being rolled out gradually, so if you didn’t get a notice yet, it doesn’t mean that you won’t get one in the future.
Youtube have been increasing their anti-adblock efforts dramatically in the last few weeks, changing the scripts multiple times a day. The ublock origin team is very quick in updating the filters though. They have a post on their subreddit with some details.
I swear half the users here are running NixOS these days (with the other half on Arch). Redditors like Linux, but Lemmings take it to an whole new level.
You have no idea? You know exactly why people download/buy the most popular thing at any time and you also know most people don’t change anything unless it’s broken.
“Broken” is a variable scale which heavily depends on the users in this instance
I’ve never (almost?) used chrome as main for the past 15+ years
but he’ll, the last years updates are more and more unstable. Tab and browser crashes are to be expected multiple times per week (ok browser crash maybe once per week)
Also I actually miss WebUSB, WebBluetooth (I work with embedded as a hobby and it’s very convenient) and background blur (nobody wants to allow camera blur in ff, especially linux)
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Right? Firefox has been excellent for some time now, and Google has actively betrayed user’s trust for at least as long. It’s easy to switch and Firefox almost always has equivalent plugins and other solutions. There’s very little reason not to switch.
This is not a chrome vs firefox issue. People using an adblocker on firefox are getting blocked just the same.
See:
source (sorry for the reddit link)
Most often this happens because the user runs some other addon/blocker that interferes with ublock (or gets detected). It’s important to test with only ublock active and see if the problem persists, and if not, to slowly enable more and more to see what is causing the issues.
For me there was about a day where google was winning against ublock even if I was onoy using Ublock. Now though Ublock is back to winning, and I only occasionally have to refresh my cache
Yup, for me it was enhancer for Youtube’s ad blocker that was interfering. Didn’t see the popup since turning it off.
I freshly installed win10 Firefox+uBlock and got this message after a while (was around 2weeks ago) first I could x the message, then the message had a timer, then 1-3 vids until block and then blocked.
That was at my parents house, now I’m back in my home with different pc win11 (same fresh FireFox+uBlock) and now I don’t get these messages anymore.
That probably was the “not up-to-date filter lists” problem, or the rare “filter lists themselves not updated yet”, but they are within a few hours usually.
Only had ublock active, still happens. For now it still goes away on refresh or if I switch adblockers (so I’m assuming cleaning out the cache daily will work too).
I use Firefox and also got that pop-up. Eventually I just grew tired of clicking the “X” button so I went on uBlock origin and added that stupid banner and the banner background to the blacklist.
It’s like nothing ever happened. And if shit continues to get worse, either someone comes up with a fix somehow, or I’ll just find a way to run ReVanced YouTube apk on my pc or something. I don’t care if I have to emulate it somehow.
Also, on mobile GrayJay is a good alternative to ReVanced. Made by LouisRossmann’s team apparently.
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I haven’t seen it yet either, not on firefox nor on chrome. From what I hear it’s being rolled out gradually, so if you didn’t get a notice yet, it doesn’t mean that you won’t get one in the future.
Youtube have been increasing their anti-adblock efforts dramatically in the last few weeks, changing the scripts multiple times a day. The ublock origin team is very quick in updating the filters though. They have a post on their subreddit with some details.
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I swear half the users here are running NixOS these days (with the other half on Arch). Redditors like Linux, but Lemmings take it to an whole new level.
You have no idea? You know exactly why people download/buy the most popular thing at any time and you also know most people don’t change anything unless it’s broken.
“Broken” is a variable scale which heavily depends on the users in this instance
Even that might be going a bit short. In the long run it’s probably better to switch to piped, freetuhe, invidous, etc.
I’ve never (almost?) used chrome as main for the past 15+ years
but he’ll, the last years updates are more and more unstable. Tab and browser crashes are to be expected multiple times per week (ok browser crash maybe once per week)
Also I actually miss WebUSB, WebBluetooth (I work with embedded as a hobby and it’s very convenient) and background blur (nobody wants to allow camera blur in ff, especially linux)
also if you are on Windows the new duck duck Go browser takes care of all this automatically