I’ve got chromium-extension-ublock-origin-lite from the AUR installed in chromium, and the thing is that when I bring up a YouTube video while logged in at YouTube — which is how I would normally do it — then instead of the video itself playing, I get a black frame with a warning that ad blockers are verboten, and that’s it. No way to play the video.
However, if I right-click on the link to the same video and choose to open it in an anonymous browser window, then the video plays without any problem at all, and I get no ads.
So, how can this be? I have uBOL’s filtering mode set to “optimal”, by the way, which is 3/4 of the way up.
No, that should be the same. The only things anonymous mode does is that it doesn’t log you in, it doesn’t keep a history, and upon closing the window, it deletes the cookies of the sites you visited while in anonymous mode.
I have seen the same thing on a few occasions - but I don’t usually use Chromium but Firefox.
The solution was always to remove all the cookies - which will force you to log in again.
Happened three or four times so far - every few weeks or even months.
Sometimes they complain and whine with a message instead of opening a video - but dismissing it and reloading always worked.
The only time I’ve seen something like that (but more consistent) was when youtube changed something and the ad blocker needed updating. That was with firefox.
Yes, but this is uBlock Origin Lite, which is permissionless, and which works with Manifest version 3, as now required for chromium extensions.
It has worked well so far, and it still works excellently in anonymous sessions — no ads and no nagging popups — so why does it not work in evading YouTube’s anti-ad-blocker algorithms when I’m logged in?
I was thinking perhaps something low yield, like 0.2-0.5 kilotons… Backup your bookmarks to restore later, and perform a browser refresh (however it’s done on Chromium; I’ve never had to). If nothing else, that might rule out contributing issues on your end.
You might want to consider KeepassXC, Bitwarden or similar.
Despite promises browser vendors make, I’ve personally never been comfortable relying on browser native mechanisms for that; not even Firefox, which I tend to favour above all else.
I’m already using kwallet, but for some reason it does not automatically open, and I have no idea which login credentials from chromium it stores, because it does not show them.
And what I like about this, which I also use, is that I sync my .kdbx database file to my tablet with Syncthing where I can open is with KeepassDX and use it as if it were my PC. So I’ve always got all my passwords with me.
Which is handy when your average password length is somewhere about 36 characters and they’re auto-generated randomly.
One of the only other solutions would be to tattoo all credentials to your chest, backwards. For that to be effective, one must enjoy pain and carry a mirror around everywhere.
I do concede that there must be people in the world who might actually prefer that.
cant say whehter this is the exact cause for you , but since plasma 6.3.5 or 6.4, kwalletd5 is no more, there is only kwalletd6 now. i had chromium not connecting to kwallet which was corrected by altering line in chromium config file to;
