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No block channel/video on Youtube front page when logged out.

Open WmRTaylor opened this issue 5 months ago • 3 comments

Pretty much self-explanatory: When I'm not logged into Youtube, there's no "Block video" or "Block channel" options when I click the the thee dots under the video thumbnail. I only noticed the problem this morning, but it may have started last night... Youtube was giving me its "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" BS, and I wound up clearing my Firefox cache and cookies. I've done the procedure before with no problems with Blocktube, but why now? Unless this is Google's fault for their war on adblockers. I do use adblockers (NoScript, uBlock Origin, AdGuard, and Privacy Badger), but even disabling them doesn't fix the problem.

I noticed that this seems to be a recurring issue, so has any fix been found for it? Will there be an update to correct this problem soon?

WmRTaylor avatar Jul 17 '25 14:07 WmRTaylor

Something else I just noticed: Blocked channels are no longer blocked on the front page of Youtube.

WmRTaylor avatar Jul 17 '25 21:07 WmRTaylor

OK, it looks like Blocktube is working normally again. Whatever happened overnight must have cleared things up, so this issue can be closed... for now.

WmRTaylor avatar Jul 18 '25 12:07 WmRTaylor

Having problems like these completely randomly. I noticed that if i start a fresh private mode window and go to a direct youtube link then that page wont have channels blocked until i open a blank page, put the same URL into it, send it, and then close the first one. As far as i can tell all of this resets when the whole window is closed. Quite dumb.

NastyFlytrap avatar Jul 19 '25 22:07 NastyFlytrap