🟥 ALL YouTube issues: D-O-N-'T COMMENT without reading the 1st post🟥 (closed - March 2025)

[stephenhawk8054]

Please continue discussing in new ongoing YouTube thread pinned at https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues

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⚠️ P-L-E-A-S-E, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE read and follow all of the instructions first ⚠️

Note: After each step, close your current tabs and open new tab to test again or it won't work.

• I have created a new browser profile with only uBO and its default settings, and confirmed the issue still occurs in that new profile

• I updated uBO to the latest versions (1.62.0+)

video tutorial

1-update-uBO.mp4

• I removed custom config / reset to defaults. <== This means removing your custom filters (or disabling My filters) and disabling ALL additional lists you have enabled MANUALLY, including the ones listed by uBO. DO NOT disable DEFAULT filter lists. It might be quicker to make a backup of your config and restore to defaults instead.

video tutorials

2-disabling-custom-filter-config.mp4

2-2-reset-to-defaults.mp4

• My filter lists are up to date.

click this link then load Youtube in a new tab.

• I completely disabled ALL other extensions AND browser's built-in blockers. <== They might interfere with our solutions. However, DO NOT disable "Firefox Multi-Account Containers" add-on.

Some browsers with built-in blockers

• Opera, Vivaldi, Brave
• Edge: Click on "lock" icon at the left of URL bar -> Turn off Tracking Prevention

video tutorial

4-disabling-extensions.mp4

• I did not remove any of the default filter lists, or I have verified that the issue was not caused by removing any of the default lists.

• I verified the issue does not exist if I turn off uBO.

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🟥 When reporting, A-L-W-A-Y-S provide your Troubleshooting Information! ALWAYS!! 🟥

• On YouTube page that has issue: click 🛡️ uBO's icon > 💬 Report > Click "Troubleshooting information" > Select all > Copy > Share it.

video tutorial

5-copying-troubleshooting-info.mp4

• Then share the EXACT links / URLs that you see the issue.
• Describe the steps to reproduce in the most details as possible.
• Provide video recordings of how to reproduce the issue.

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If you suffer slow loading, test

www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)
www.youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.web_enable_ab_rsp_cl, false)
www.youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.ab_pl_man, false)
||googlevideo.com/videoplayback$xhr,3p,method=get,domain=www.youtube.com

at your own risk.

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Old youtube threads

[stephenhawk8054]

June 2024 - YouTube SSAP ads issue: PLEASE UPDATE QUICK FIX LIST by clicking this link

When reporting, please tell exactly which BROWSER you are using, which METHOD you are testing and DESCRIBE the steps to reproduce the issue in details, including the URLs where you see the issue.

[TheAGames10]

Is there a way to get rid of AdSkip YouTube? It started showing up this morning and it's basically destroying YouTube no matter what browser I use, making it laggy and slow. I know it has nothing to do with AdBlock Plus, but I just disabled it and AdSkip still shows up. I have no other adblockers on my browser.

[iam-py-test]

I assume you mean "AdSkip YouTube" the browser extension? Can you show a screenshot of about:addons or chrome://extensions?

[TheAGames10]

I assume you mean "AdSkip YouTube" the browser extension? Can you show a screenshot of about:addons or chrome://extensions?

I can, but I can show you what I'm seeing via embeds through Twitter:

I do not have AdSkip YouTube on my Firefox or Chrome addons/extensions.

[iam-py-test]

Disable everything other than uBlock Origin and see if it does away.
Then, enable them one-by-one and see which one caused it.
Thanks

[TheAGames10]

Disable everything other than uBlock Origin and see if it does away. Then, enable them one-by-one and see which one caused it. Thanks

The culprit is Tampermonkey... for whatever reason.

[u-RraaLL]

The culprit is Tampermonkey... for whatever reason.

It's the userscript you've installed called RemoveAdblockThing.

[FrostedNiips]

No idea how all this works, or where to even report - i assume here since it says that - but after getting ublock for youtube, my youtube - and only that site - will spam refresh. And on the off chance it will play a video, it'll go back to spam refreshing within a few minutes. I only have a few extensions, and I turned off Opera's adblock before getting uBlock. I would appreciate some help if anyone can, thank you!

[somebody0278]

Ublock breaks youtube on mac for me.

uBlock Origin: 1.53.0
Firefox: 119
filterset (summary):
 network: 104128
 cosmetic: 43497
 scriptlet: 18720
 html: 1098
listset (total-discarded, last-updated):
 default:
  user-filters: 0-0, never
  ublock-filters: 36130-144, 25m
  ublock-badware: 7447-5, 25m
  ublock-privacy: 661-0, 25m
  ublock-unbreak: 2194-1, 25m
  ublock-quick-fixes: 175-7, 25m
  easylist: 75238-700, 24m
  easyprivacy: 32873-725, 24m
  urlhaus-1: 10735-0, 24m
  plowe-0: 3723-1, 24m
filterset (user): [empty]
userSettings: [none]
hiddenSettings: [none]
supportStats:
 allReadyAfter: 395 ms (selfie)
 maxAssetCacheWait: 147 ms
popupPanel:
 blocked: 33
 network:
  youtube.com: 10
  doubleclick.net: 9
  google.com: 8
  googlevideo.com: 6
 extended:
  ###player-ads
  ###merch-shelf
  ##.ytp-ad-progress-list
  ##[target-id="engagement-panel-ads"]
  ##div.ytd-ad-slot-renderer
  ##div.ytd-in-feed-ad-layout-renderer
  ##ytd-ad-slot-renderer
  ##ytd-promoted-sparkles-web-renderer
  ###player [class*="suggested-action-badge-icon"]:upward(.ytp-sug…
  ##+js(trusted-replace-fetch-response, /(contextParams":"Q0F[A-Z]…
  ##+js(trusted-replace-fetch-response, /((?:(?:&|%26)id(?:=|%3D)o…
  ##+js(trusted-replace-xhr-response, /"adPlacements.*?\"\}\}\}\]\…
  ##+js(set-constant, ytInitialPlayerResponse.playerAds, undefined…
  ##+js(set-constant, ytInitialPlayerResponse.adPlacements, undefi…
  ##+js(set-constant, ytInitialPlayerResponse.adSlots, undefined)
  ##+js(set-constant, playerResponse.adPlacements, undefined)

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/assets/143534364/370cc4f7-9521-4859-9a3f-ed70aa89895c