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by colpabar 919 days ago
This is clever and I'm definitely using it.

Website idea: a downdetector-like site that uses reddit's "here now" numbers to give insight into whether something is going on with a certain thing.

edit: Has anyone else not really been affected by the new youtube adblock policy at all? I think I have seen the warning a single time, and I use youtube all the time. I only use ublock origin and privacy badger... on chrome. Maybe that's it.
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hunter2_ 919 days ago
> Has anyone else not really been affected by the new youtube adblock policy at all?

The megathread addresses this:

> I've never seen this message. Is this because of my browser being X or Y? No, YouTube didn't roll this out to everybody yet.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/184fivk/youtu...

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thaumasiotes 919 days ago
It was rolled out to me. I saw several warnings that my ad blocker wasn't allowed, and on one day they blocked me from watching videos, except that they didn't block me from watching videos in Incognito Mode.

On all other days, I was free to watch whatever I wanted while logged in. They might complain at me about ad blocking, or not.

On all days, youtube-dl worked fine. (This matters because, contemporaneously with the anti-ad-blocking campaign, YouTube started sometimes reducing my video frame rate to 0 fps. Audio never suffered at all.)

It's not a strict regime.

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A4ET8a8uTh0 919 days ago
It is not, but it did prompt a discussion with my buddies. What do we do when/if it becomes strict? Solutions are kinda there depending on what you are willing to put up with. FWIW, I started archiving stuff with ydl.
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u320 918 days ago
I have it rolled out to one of my two computers. Same IP, same google account (logged in). So it seems very random.
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raffraffraff 918 days ago
My wife uses YouTube a lot more than I do. I watch occasional tech related videos or stuff that's been sent to me. She uses it for audiobooks, music, some podcasts. She subscribes to a bunch of channels. It's her account that's logged in on the TV. I've never seen a message warning about adblocker use on my account, whereas her account got temporarily disabled. She ended up paying for premium.
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lamontcg 919 days ago
> Has anyone else not really been affected by the new youtube adblock policy at all?

not really. firefox + privacy badger + ubo. once a week or so i do get blocked but then i clear cookies, restart firefox and relogin and then it works.

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hunter2_ 919 days ago
I bet it's been used for stock/crypto trading for years already.
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