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Is there only one type of warning?​

No, there are 4 stages to this:

  1. A closable popup warning.
  2. A closable popup warning with a time delay.
  3. The 3 video countdown to when they'll stop your playback.
  4. The in-player message. Playback is stopped.
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Is it me or is YouTube having issues the last 24-48 hours or so? I don't think it is my connection as I've tried both my BT and EE ones (though EE is owned by BT so may be a common issue) but not got around to testing on anything else.

Quite often the site or parts of it are delayed loading or never load, videos can take 5-10+ seconds to start playing with the spinning circle, etc. when it used to be near instant ( not a bandwidth issue at least https://www.speedtest.net/result/15390987316 ). Quite often typing something into search does nothing for 10-20 seconds then the page reloads, or partially reloads, and you can search after that.

Not having issues with other sites.
 
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jpaul said:

Is there only one type of warning?​

No, there are 4 stages to this:

  1. A closable popup warning.
  2. A closable popup warning with a time delay.
  3. The 3 video countdown to when they'll stop your playback.
  4. The in-player message. Playback is stopped.
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even if you get the in-player message in windows
... seems you can just pick&zap the popup with the 'elementbug zapper' from ublockO control window and playback works

playback had stopped working for me in the chrome browser, but was continuing in opera , zapper got it working in chrome too.
 
Changed it again..

Video player will be blocked after 2 videos
It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Video playback will be blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled.
Ads allow YouTube to be used by billions worldwide.
You can go ad-free with YouTube Premium and creators can still get paid from your subscription.
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jpaul said:
even if you get the in-player message in windows
... seems you can just pick&zap the popup with the 'elementbug zapper' from ublockO control window and playback works

playback had stopped working for me in the chrome browser, but was continuing in opera , zapper got it working in chrome too.
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Did that and now, just replaying the same video three times

Ad blockers violate YouTube's Terms of Service
It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Video playback is blocked unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled.
Ads allow YouTube to be used by billions worldwide.
You can go ad-free with YouTube Premium and creators can still get paid from your subscription.
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They are going to lose support over this :mad:
 
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3. Force an update of ONLY the uBlock filters – Quick fixes list. <== This is within the extension. Lists are what determine what's blocked or not. And this list is where we counter YouTube.

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This worked for me so far!
 
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Neil79 said:
UPDATE : TEMPORARY FIX

3. Force an update of ONLY the uBlock filters – Quick fixes list. <== This is within the extension. Lists are what determine what's blocked or not. And this list is where we counter YouTube.

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This worked for me so far!
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Yup working for me.

As some have said, if YTP was even £7 or £8 I'd absolutely consider it. But it's not, it's £14pm in the UK. The cost is too damned high just for ad free content and a bunch of silly things that I will never use like keeping videos playing when I've locked my phone. And as has been said the Ads are getting ridiculous. 25-30 second unskippable, and then often another 20 second one after that too.
 
Maccy said:
Tried to VPN to another country to sign up for premium, Youtube just kept saying it couldn't verify which country I was in.

Getting more and more fed up with Nord :/
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I'm getting sick of Nord too, soften using a UK VPN it thinks I'm in Scandinavia or somewhere
 
Also tried the workaround. Works for now.

james.miller said:
Yes, stop hosting videos that nobody watches. That'll make a huge difference.
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Of course it will. Anyone with an internet connection can upload an infinite amount of videos if they choose, which are all stored indefinitely. This going on near 20 years one might add.


Stumble Bum said:
Lose support from who? Noncontributing users. Oh no lol.
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Users liking videos and subscribing to their creators is support. Wouldn't YT prefer you did this on their platform, rather than migrating to Rumble and doing it there?
 
NoobTeamAgain said:
Also tried the workaround. Works for now.



Of course it will. Anyone with an internet connection can upload an infinite amount of videos if they choose, which are all stored indefinitely. This going on near 20 years one might add.




Users liking videos and subscribing to their creators is support. Wouldn't YT prefer you did this on their platform, rather than migrating to Rumble and doing it there?
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But the likes/subscribtions is support because the creators in turn get paid by YT given how many likes/subs they have. YT pays them because these are popular videos so the ads they show are worth something. If no one is watching the ads, then the support doesn't mean much anyway from YT's perspective?
 
Probably needs to be an intermediate pricing option - I don't want there not so high quality music .... but for removal of adds might consider £1/m.

My favourite free weather forecaster https://www.meteoradar.co.uk/en-gb gimped their interface this week, now a less accurate forecast,
unless I pay, frankly, the value of this is greater to me than youtube.
 
MissChief said:
And as has been said the Ads are getting ridiculous. 25-30 second unskippable, and then often another 20 second one after that too.
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Prior to premium (of which I got about a week ago) I would close a video and reopen it if it didn't give me the length of add that I wanted (A.K.A 5 second or a skippable one). It would try and give me a 15 second one every now and then but I would close the video and click on it again.

Now I never had a chance to test this but it will be interesting to see if it is possible to train the ad algo to give you shorter ads, because prior to me adopting this I would reguarly get 10 second unskippable ads. Not going to lie it is tedious at times.
 
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