How to Stop Ad Blocker Detection on Websites Like YouTube

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1. Install Tampermonkey [Chrome] [Opera] [Firefox]
2. Click uBlock => Gears Icon => Filter lists => Custom
3. Add the following URL:
   • https://raw.github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer/master/anti-adblock-killer-filters.txt
4. Click [Apply changes]
5. Browser Settings => Privacy and security => Cookies and Other site data => Toggle on, Send a “Do Not Track” request with your browser traffic
6.  You are now done. Enjoy!
7. For more info, visit the following link:
   • https://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/

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I have been working hard to try and combat this annoying issue. I do not want to allow ads as they can be a security risk, well the ones on YouTube as they have tracking. Anyway, I found another way around it, that seems to be working for now, they keep making code changes. The way I found only works in Linux and requires you to install an application, or two.

1. Open Terminal
2. Run the following command in terminal:
   $ sudo apt install snapd
   Step number two installs an application store that is commonly used on Linux.
3. Run the following command in terminal:
   $ sudo snap install red-app
   Step number three installs an application called “Red – Youtube Client for Linux”.
4. Open the app called “Red” or “red-app”.
5. Make sure you check for updates by occasionally running the command,
   $ sudo snap refresh
6. You are now finished. Hopefully this works.Note: If anyone is having issues, let us know, and I am sure one of use will have something that can add to help.

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I found another Linux solution that might work for people.

1. Install the following applications in terminal:
   $ sudo apt install mpv
$ sudo apt install snapd
$ sudo snap install youtube-dl-pro
2. Open DL-YOUTUBE
3. Copy and paste the YouTube link in the app.
4. Click Download or Play
5. Enjoy!

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I finally found a workaround. It takes a little configuring, but here is how you do it.

1. Go to: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en
2. Click: Download your data
3. Click: Deselect all
4. Check: YouTube and YouTube Music
5. Click: All YouTube dad including
6. Click: Deselect all
7. Check: subscriptions
8. Click: OK
9. Click: Next step
10. Change: 2GB => 50 GB
11. Click: Create export
12. Wait for e-mail
13. Open e-mail
14. Click: Download your file
15. Go to download location
16. Unzip or uncompress file
17. Go to https://piped.drgns.space/
18. Click: Register
19. Make an account
20. Click: Login
21. Fill in account info
22. Click: Feed
23. Click: Subscriptions
24. Click: Import from JSON/CSV
25. Click: Choose File
26. Open CSV file from the file you downloaded
27. Click: Import
28. Enjoy ad free and no sponsors

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Update
The piped sites were giving me issues today and yesterday. You can view the website and copy over your playlist, but for now the videos are not working.

Workaround
You can use Invidious (https://yt.oelrichsgarcia.de/) to make YouTube video work again. It also allows subscriptions importing.

Positives
Ads skipped.

Negatives
Sponsors not skipped.

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piped.dragon.space is still not working, so if you need an alternative one, where your login should still work, and all your saved data, you can use the link below.

https://piped.video/

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An update to this post on how you can get YouTube to work constantly.

1.  Install Piped Watch for your browser [Chrome] [Firefox] [Brave]
2. Check Piped sites to see which ones work.
   
3. Open YouTube.
4. Right-Click the video you want to watch and open in a new tab.
5. The video will open, and you should be able to watch the video.

Note: You might need to check the quality as when set to auto, it might use a very low quality.
Note [2]: You can open the video by clicking the video like normal, and press F5 on the new page to open it in a Piped site.
Note [3]: Repeat step 2 if the Piped site is not working or the video is not loading in a Piped site.

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There are two ways to avoid as on YouTube. Option one has a GUI, but option 2 removes the ads from the videos and works better.

Option 1

$ sudo apt install snapd

$ sudo snap install ytdownloader

Option 2

$ sudo apt install python3-pip

$ mkdir ~/Videos/Youtube/

$ cd ~/Videos/Youtube/

$ python3 -m venv yt-dlp-venv

$ source yt-dlp-venv/bin/activate

$ pip install --upgrade yt-dlp

$ yt-dlp your_youtube_video_url

Option 2 [Script] Save as yt-dlp.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Install dependencies (if not already installed)
if ! command -v python3 &> /dev/null; then
  sudo apt install python3 -y
fi

if ! command -v python3-pip &> /dev/null; then
  sudo apt install python3-pip -y
fi

# Create or enter the download directory
DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Videos/Youtube"
mkdir -p "$DOWNLOAD_DIR"
cd "$DOWNLOAD_DIR"

# Create and activate a virtual environment
VENV_DIR="$DOWNLOAD_DIR/yt-dlp-venv"
if [ ! -d "$VENV_DIR" ]; then
  python3 -m venv "$VENV_DIR"
fi

source "$VENV_DIR/bin/activate"

# Use the virtual environment's python executable
"$VENV_DIR/bin/python3" -m pip install --upgrade yt-dlp

# Prompt the user for the YouTube link
read -p "Enter the YouTube video URL: " YOUTUBE_URL

# Download the video
if [[ -n "$YOUTUBE_URL" ]]; then
  yt-dlp "$YOUTUBE_URL"
else
  echo "No URL provided."
fi

# Deactivate the virtual environment
deactivate

Option 2 [Run Script]

$ bash yt-dlp.sh

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