YouTube cracks down on ad blockers

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YouTube blocks video playback for ad blocker users

YouTube has been fighting the use of adblockers on its platform for some time; the company is now forcing users' hands by blocking videos unless their adblocker is disabled for YouTube.

Those still using an adblocker will get a pop-up warning them to disable it, saying, "Video playback is blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled".
 
I found that Vinegar Tube cleaner is working still on ad blocking, not perfect solution but working.
I use Wipr, turning off only Wipr Extra but leaving on Wipr content blocker, this will still gets rid of the text and window adverts, then Vinegar takes care of the video adverts.
Turning off Wipr extra keeps YouTube from blocking you.

Then a few days later you can go back to using adBlocker no problem, they seem to turning blocking blocker on and off every few days

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PaulMurkin said:
For most people in SA, its quite a bit more than R71.99. I've seen people here mention it's closer to R200
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Actually the opposite. Many okes here use the loophole & get Premium for like R40/R50 bucks something. India or Argentina or Turkey etc.

The R72 is the standard single user anyone is SA can get, zero hoops.
 
PaulMurkin said:
OK let me check then. My mother and my other family in Gauteng told me its R249/mo and told me "we're not paying for this s*it!. If I am wrong, apologies.
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Not a chance in hell it is R249 or whatever, it is R72 & has been for yonks.

Just follow the official channels & you will see it is 72 buck.
 
FiestaST said:
Not a chance in hell it is R249 or whatever, it is R72 & has been for yonks.

Just follow the official channels & you will see it is 72 buck.
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Maybe they're confused with Google One, which was R 249 until they hiked it now.
 
ublock origin is working 100% in Edge. When it doesn't you have to go to the extension settings and "clear all caches" and then "update now" and then it works again for a few days.

It has an anti-anti-adblocker.
 
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