Did YouTube finally kill adblocking apps like SmartTube? - Tons of unusual 403 / forbidden errors

[Jeff Q. Anime]

Firefox or other viewers are not going to automagically save you. Directly injecting ads into the HLS stream is, in a theoretically perfect implementation, simply not possible to bypass. Try diving into the world of twitch ad blockers and see how much bullshit they try to go through to trick the system - and it still doesn't work half the time.

I can envision a way to remove ads from a stream using post-processing. Provided that video fragments are delivered in a deterministic manner, you could create a database of hashes of known good video fragments / ad fragments, and cut the ads out of your video file to accomodate baseline reality. Otherwise you would have to use perceptual hashes, which increases the computational complexity for post-processing by a significant degree, as well as the database size. Perhaps you could create a neural network that can detect "ads" - and expedite this detection via scene change algorithms. But you can't do that live if youtube is serving you the stream at a fixed rate regardless of what your client requests.

 

[HahaYes]

INVIDIOUS is unaffected

Invidious chads we just can't stop winning Yt-dlp and newpipe still work as well for the meantime

If Invidious goes down, I can watch vanilla YouTube with Adnauseum. It is a fork of Ublock Origin for Firefox that will both block and simulate "clicks" on ads that it collects to basically defraud advertisers like Google. When it was rolled out for Chrome, it angered Google so much that it had a massive spergout and removed it from the Play store so you know it did something right if it made Google lose its shit.

The big spaz attack google had about AdNauseam is the main reason I moved to it from UBlock Origin tbh. Wasting advertiser money is based and more people should be doing it

 

[skunt]

Firefox or other viewers are not going to automagically save you.

nobody said it would, nerd. the retards responding in this thread saying they're unaffected on [X] browser with [X] addon figured they'd vomit out a quick post before reading the first two sentences of the OP.

browsers aren't affected (yet) - it's apps on smart tv's.

 

[Radiaux]

Firefox or other viewers are not going to automagically save you. Directly injecting ads into the HLS stream is, in a theoretically perfect implementation, simply not possible to bypass. Try diving into the world of twitch ad blockers and see how much bullshit they try to go through to trick the system - and it still doesn't work half the time.

I can envision a way to remove ads from a stream using post-processing. Provided that video fragments are delivered in a deterministic manner, you could create a database of hashes of known good video fragments / ad fragments, and cut the ads out of your video file to accomodate baseline reality. Otherwise you would have to use perceptual hashes, which increases the computational complexity for post-processing by a significant degree, as well as the database size. Perhaps you could create a neural network that can detect "ads" - and expedite this detection via scene change algorithms. But you can't do that live if youtube is serving you the stream at a fixed rate regardless of what your client requests.

Doesn't Twitch do this already? I still don't get ads.

 

[beautiful person]

If it finally starts affecting browsers, then I'll download videos. If I'm no longer able to download videos, then I'll stop using Youtube.

 

[Gangstalker #32194]

I would wait 10 minutes until some autist (affectionate) figures out how to get rid of them again.

the better the technology gets, the better the technology to counter the technology gets

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

Doesn't Twitch do this already? I still don't get ads.

They're geo dependent. They're luck dependent. They're whatever-twitch-adblocker-flavor-of-the-month-you're-using dependent. All up-to-date twitch ad blockers are currently non-functional for me, personally.

 

[xXEddie.DurellXx]

I already only really use YouTube to listen to music and watch some videos. If they put ads in everything ill just stop using it and fuck of to pirating old TV shows for my Intertament. This just really shows you how bottom of the bucket they are with their money and how they need to push for stuff like this try and scrape in some kind of profit.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

I already downlaoded my favorites as audio ages ago. There is nothing worth watching on modern fagtube.

 

[i440BX]

Glad I archived my favourite videos and entire channels from Youtube. They can tongue my ass.

 

[Chimplord1997]

I already only really use YouTube to listen to music and watch some videos. If they put ads in everything ill just stop using it and fuck of to pirating old TV shows for my Intertament. This just really shows you how bottom of the bucket they are with their money and how they need to push for stuff like this try and scrape in some kind of profit.

Really does. If they were less censorious and evil I would be more than willing to pay ten bucks a month for youtube, but if they go full scorched earth I will pay for a month of premium, download everything I need to, and then fuck off for good and make some kind of autohotkey script that loads ten hour bee movie videos over and over again while I'm sleeping just to waste their fucking bandwidth and cost them money.

 

[cybertoaster]

If YouTube finally kills the third-party adblocking applications, will you stop watching or will you be a fucking scab and pay for YouTube premium?

If there's no workaround then I'm gonna make an extension that blocks the ad with a black square and kills the volume until its over so I don't have to watch the fucking ad.

 

[herefortheactualthreads]

so, if youtube is kill what are viable options? odysee? rumble?

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

Update: Newpipe completely stopped working for me. This is so over.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Every attempt by Youtube to kill adblockers only drives more people to use them.

 

[BirdUp]

yt-dlp and youtube-local keep winning

 

[Mr.Logistics]

Ytdl on termux has been broken for me. I've tried a few different formats but I always get hit with a 403 error. No update has been pushed.

If you still can download videos do it now as 100% they're deploying region by region.

 

[rel=alternate]

YouTube is fighting a losing war against ad blockers. The amount of extra money they would make is not worth the effort. Ad block users are a minority on YouTube.

I am always shocked at the number of people I know who do not use an adblocker. Until they meet me I guess.

And that also explains why they pay for stuff like Spotify or Netflix. They just don't know what it's like to watch stuff for free without being assaulted with ads.

 

[Radola Gajda]

Brave on android still works for me

 

[Dambusters' Dog II]

Brave works if I watch a video the whole way through. But if I pause a video for a long time, then when I start it again there's a hiccup and I get served a still ad.