YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers more aggressively, here's how to bypass it

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Google is taking a more aggressive stance in detecting ad blockers on YouTube. The issue seems to have become more widespread than before, here's how you can block the anti-adblock measures.

In case you missed it, Google began detecting ad blockers such as uBlock Origin on YouTube a few months ago.

Disabling your ad blocker is not a good idea, as it could cause some privacy issues, in addition to wasting your time and impacting your laptop's battery. Google doesn't care about these problems. It is all about the money it wants to gain by pushing its YouTube Premium subscriptions.



While this pop-up is not new per se, I experienced it personally for the first time.  The strange thing is, I didn't run into such issues last night when I was watching some videos from a playlist that I had saved. Most of those videos were developer diaries of upcoming games, so I believe they may not have been monetized.

That might explain why I didn't see any warning like the one above. However, when I tried to play some videos this morning, I ran into the pop-up.

Martin wrote a tutorial on how to fix the issue last month, but things have changed slightly since then, you need to do some additional steps to block the anti ad blocker on YouTube. According to the developers of uBlock Origin, the latest change in YouTube's anti-adblock was made on October 6, 2023. This is just for reference, but the anti-adblock script's ID is 7c155e84.
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