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Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?

22 points by tefloon69 ↗ HN
Just today I started hitting "This content isn't available. Try again later" pages whenever I visit a YouTube video page in my Helium browser with uBlock Origin. Some new developments in the ad wars perhaps?

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Bender
It changes often. Verify you are on the latest version of uBlock then force an update for any of the ad-block and Unbreak sources in your uBlock config. If that does not work de-select all of them, restart the browser and enable one at a time to see when it breaks which may require restarting the browser each time to get reliable results.
DivingForGold
I got that about 2 weeks ago. Till new versions of the ad blockers appeared, I just used private browsing in firefox. Now I have updated all my ad blockers, seems to work OK..
AlexeyBrin
Got same message in Chrome with uBlock Origin Lite when I clicked on an YouTube link.

Even worse sometimes when I'm in an Incognito window or after I've erased my browser history Google asks me to solve a captcha which made switch to DuckDuckGo for all my searches.

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muppetman
I just reload the page and it works
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Hikikomori
Stopped subscribing to youtube when they removed premium lite in my country. Costs as much as hbo and netflix here.
hexo
Both netflix and hbo are significantly worse with pretty much zero watchable content
angoragoats
If YouTube’s servers choose to serve me data, I am free to do whatever I want with that data. That does not equate to stealing in any way.

If Google doesn’t like that, they are free to block me.

I often use patreon, make donations, buy products/merch, etc, to support YouTube creators. Everything I’ve read indicates that this makes them MORE money than me paying for a YouTube subscription would, and I feel better about not financially supporting a monopolistic company.