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ardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours ago

Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

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Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

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ardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours ago
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Google blames ad blockers for crashing YouTube view counts while filter maintainers scramble to undo accidental damage seen worldwide
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Adblockers claim that hidden filter rules are the major culprit
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    I have the same problem, and after you start clicking play, often you can wait it out and the video will eventually play on its own after 10-15 seconds

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      This mostly happens when you use youtube while being logged into a google account.
      I fixed this by using firefox containers + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-container/

      • logout from google / clear cookies.
      • switch to a new “google” container and login to see your subscrpitions
      • if a video doesn’t load switch to decontained

      also has the nice benefit of not messing up your reccomendations when clicking on random yt-links from other sites

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        15 hours ago

        This does not work on phone OSes

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          I use Grayjay on Android, and it tends to do a good job. I can have subscriptions w/o being logged in to my YT account, and videos load after 5 secs or so every time.

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            Thank you. You are the best

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