I don't think I've done anything and I'm still yet to see an add.

I do most of the watching on phone, so might be I just missed the transition

I just updated the filters and it never happened again.

I had it exactly once. I watched three videos and then used it as an excuse to just go to bed. Did exactly nothing and haven't had another pop up since *shrug"

Firefox user with auto-clear cache on closing: I didn't notice a thing. On Android I use NewPipe, didn't notice anything either.

Firefox gets those ads. Librewolf doesn't so i have a browser specifically for YT xD

cleared yt cache, no issue since

Firefox user in Canada here. The last few weeks ads would try to load, but nothing would play. If I refreshed the page the video played as normal.

The last few days I've had no issues at all.

Did you disable enchanced tracking protection in Firefox for youtube and remove all other adblockers? Enhancer for youtube has one built in for example.

I just shrugged and decided I didn't really need to see that music video after all, so I added youtube URLs to /etc/hosts and mapped them to "0.0.0.0".

My experience can be summarized as: lol. lmao.

I'm on Chrome. I just keep uBlock updated and turned off automatic Chrome updates. I've had Privacy Badger, uBlock, and HTTPS since forever.

They can bite me.

Didn't get any of these popups yet, instead uBlock doesn't block ads sometimes. I have to refresh the video a couple of times before it stops showing them. It gets really annoying.

Using firefox+ublock origin. Showed up once for me but I found out that youtube enchancer also has their own ad blocker. Once I disable their ad blocker I haven't had any issues since.

I'm so confused on how rollout happens. Is it random? I'm in a first world country (not the USA), using Firefox and Ublock Origin and have never experienced the popups. I use YouTube daily, often watching 10+ videos a day, and have never seen an ad or the popup. I have also never done anything to update my extensions or purge the cache as you mentioned. I've just had 0 issues. On mobile, I use Newpipe (BraveNewPipe, a fork with sponsorblock) and once again, 0 issues.

Firefox doesn't really work anymore for me with ublock and privacy badger. I don't always get the popup but the video usually won't buffer. I'm using a different browser now for YouTube only with ublock and it works so far. Never had the timer or blocked video player though

In the initial phase, the official fix (just purge your cache and redownload the filter lists to get the latest ones) didn't work for me, but the second revision of a filter someone posted to Lemmy did. It had the side effect of making it impossible to scroll down on video pages, but it's not like the comments on Youtube are super valuable most of the time anyway.

After a week or so I deleted that one to see how the official filters were doing, and it turned out they worked great and I haven't had an issue since.

I was using Chrome and doing the usual steps once a week kept ads away for a while but about a week ago it was no use.

We use a Mac for our main TV and were using Chrome, but it was taking up a ton of space and CPU so I just deleted it. I'm using Safari for now, All ads for the first time in a decade..

My secondary computer/bedroom TV is a crappy HP with the non upgradable RAM, I use edge and ads are still blocked with Ublock origin, for now

I have a Firefox extension for creating PWAs (Progressive Web App), and had a profile setup for Youtube. The adblocker detected popup just appeared a couple weeks ago. So i just deleted the YouTube PWA profile, recreated it, and added Ublock back. Havent seen the popup or ads since.

I had pretty much the same experience you did. I did randomly find a reddit post with a ublock custom filter to avoid the whole "page not loading at all" thing. Ever since, I've had only one ubo failure that I fixed with the routine filters refresh, and dare I say youtube's actually been getting faster for me lately? I did have that slowdown, due to their thing that prevented the page from loading, but now it's almost like they've ramped down on their efforts.

Edit: I'm here to stand corrected. Fuckers are messing with any browser that's not theirs. Add the following filter to ublock if your video pages take 5 seconds to load: www.youtube.com###+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), 5000, 0.01)

I refreshed filter lists in ublock once, business as usual since then.

I experienced pretty much the same thing as you. Had to do the clear cache+update a few times. But it's been good for a few weeks as you said. I've also noticed that it can take 5-10 seconds for the video page to load. But not the biggest deal, at least I don't see fucking ads.

I don't use AdBlock, I use Peertube. no ads by defualt. Never had any problems with YouTube knocking at my door.

Peertube, while empty at the content level, there are some known YouTubers who have a presence there. Especially Linux and open source YouTubers. But you will always find new people who only post on Peertube.

I don't use adblock ([thunderous booing] Yeah yeah I know.) despite that fact sometimes videos flat out won't load for no fucking reason.

Kind of reminds me of antipiracy which ends up harming normal consumers more than it does the people it's intending to target.