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Vimium stopped skipping Youtube Ads #4570

Open EslamElHusseiny opened 3 weeks ago

EslamElHusseiny commented 3 weeks ago

Describe the bug Vimium detects 3 links for the "Skip" button of the Youtube ads, but non of them is actually skipping the Ad

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to youtube.com
  2. Click on any video with an add
  3. Wait for the Youtube to show the "Skip >|"
  4. Press f
  5. Try any of the links above the "Skip >|" Screenshot 2024-11-10 at 12 27 54 AM Screenshot 2024-11-10 at 12 28 00 AM

Browser and Vimium version Chromium version details:

Arc 131.0.6768.3 (Official Build) (arm64)
Revision 3ae3f292f24d599b7652b07c82a04cb5b6176a9b-refs/branch-heads/6768@{#6}
OS macOS Version 14.5 (Build 23F79)
JavaScript V8 13.1.176
User agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36


Vimium version: 2.1.2

darkylein commented 1 week ago

This might be off-topic, but if YouTube starts messing with Vimium users, using a browser that supports ad blocking, along with uBlock Origin, could be a workaround.