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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I saw this with firefox and ublock origin installed. Dismissed it and continued not seeing any ads.

[–] Mesophar@pawb.social 6 points 5 days ago

I just refresh the page and it works fine

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You can block element on that pop-up with uBlock Origin, and it starts working again.

If you can't click anything, there's a transparent layer still in the way, so you may need to do a second block element (click anywhere and the entire screen should highlight).

Weird side effect is that the scroll stops working sometimes, but if you make the video full screen then back it fixes it.

[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago

There are a few browser extensions that force a scrollbar even on pages its disabled if you need to work around it.

Though not being able to scroll down to YouTube comments should be considered a blessing.

[–] brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

for anyone interested:

the scroll not working is most likely due to the main container in the page (usually the tag but it can be some other element) having the overflow: hidden CSS property assigned to it.

overflow dictates the behavior of an element that has its content overflow past the parent element's boundaries.

the property can have four values:

  • visible, where the overflow is fully visible and allowed to extend past the parent element,
  • scroll, which clips the overflowing content and allows the user to scroll the parent element,
  • hidden, which clips the overflowing content and prevents scrolling, and
  • auto, which works almost identically to scroll

most sites run a script that assigns this property with the value of hidden to the tag, making the user unable to scroll the page.

ive seen this behavior the most with sites that blast you with an unavoidable cookie banner which you have to click through to access the page. usually removing the cookie banner element is not enough to freely access the page, and so you have to additionally find which element has its overflow set to hidden and disable that property.

i reckon youtube's adblocker popup is doing the same thing, and coincidentally turning off fullscreen also runs a script that makes sure the overflow is set to either scroll or auto

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

It feels strangely vindicating when symptoms that just look like 'a weird bug' to my dumb ass actually make sense to folks who know what they're doing.

Thanks for the insight!

[–] Manmoth@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

I always wondered how this worked.

[–] Sivilian@lemmy.zip 24 points 6 days ago

Firefox + uBlock Origin or Grayjay are my go to.

[–] rpa@europe.pub 18 points 6 days ago

I got this with Firefox + uBlock Origin yesterday but was gone a couple videos later, uBlock must have updated.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 12 points 6 days ago

I've been using Firefox With Ublock Origin (and YouTube ReVanced for mobile) for years, and have yet to see this message outside of a screenshot.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Invidious or Piped.

Use a public instance or self host your own. Pair it with Freetube and you can skip in-video sponsorships/ads.

While YouTube has been making it difficult for these services to stay alive they seem to alway work around them.

[–] finix_the_psyker@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

Also Newpipe for mobile. You can find it on f-droid.

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[–] Rodneyck@lemm.ee 19 points 6 days ago

Freetube on my PC and devices, Smartube for Fire TV.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

Others have already weighed in, but:

This warning doesn't seem to be persistent. Using ublock/regularly clearing cookies seems to keep this at bay. Sometimes it helps to open new links in container tabs as well.

I got this earlier this week and clearing my cookies/using container tabs seems to reset it.

[–] salvor_hardin@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I use pipe pipe on android, haven't had any issues and works great. Freetube on the PC, works great!

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 6 days ago

PipePipe my beloved. Never had any problems with it either.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Woot woot, added that to my arsenal.

Vanced, new pipe, free tube, tubular, pipe pipe, mobile brave, yt-dlp->jellyfin, laptop->HDMI splitter-> capture card +comskip

The spice will flow.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 days ago

this happens for a short time about every six months
if you haven't already, make sure ublock is updated, then toggle "quick fixes" (if it's on, turn it off, if it's off, turn it on)

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Grayjay.app

[–] Pondis@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Incognito mode works, but you can't see the history

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Use a front-end like Piped or Invidious and be happy.

Negative comments and dislikes incoming in 3, 2, 1...

[–] Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why do you think you'll be downvoted for that? I see people recommend them literally all the time on similar posts

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Firstly. People don't like Piped or Invidious because they often gets broken due to Google's work to try shut them down completely.

Invidious is basically all broken already because of this. And it can be hard to find a good Piped instance that works.

I have Piped installed on my server and it happens that I get "login to prove you're not a bot" or what the error message is.

And secondly. People tend to be very mean online and I don't trust any people until they have proven they are indeed nice and not mean in any way (like judging or trolling).

Lastly. I am in a very bad mood which boosting the second reason.

[–] Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah alright that makes sense. (Also just to make sure, wasn't meaning any like rudeness in my reply, im autistic so if I did sorry)

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You were not rude to me. You asked a simple question, that's it :) I'm autistic too.

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

AdGuard on Mac for safari, unlock origin for anything other than chrome.

[–] voidspace@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yep. Got this yesterday (UK).

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

I had a couple of adverts make it through yesterday in the UK, just closed the tab and went to some locally hosted content instead. Seems like its working again today. I don't log into youtube at all.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I got one 2 days ago, refreshed and it went away (FireDragon with ublock)

It actually pushed me further, I now browse Youtube logged out and disabled every piece of tracking i could find

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