YouTube progress not saved when Ad Block is active

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David Koppenhofer

• May 22, 2020 15:29

My YouTube app on Android stopped noting my watch progress, and sometimes the history also. I finally realized that it was Ad Block causing the problem; disabling it for my phone fixed it. Is there a way to keep Ad Block, but still preserve progress recording?

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  David Koppenhofer

  • May 22, 2020 15:49

  Update:
  The following link says the following exception will allow progress to be saved

  @@||s.youtube.com/api/stats/watchtime$image
  https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/issues/919

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  David Koppenhofer

  • July 21, 2020 03:34

  I added an 'allow' rule for s.youtube.com, but progresses saving is still not consistent with ad block turned on.

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  Alak

  • December 02, 2020 01:43

  This has been happening to me too and I didn’t realize that it was because of Firewalla!  Did anyone find a solution?

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  David Koppenhofer

  • December 02, 2020 03:12

  My "allow" rule for s.youtube.com seems to be allowing progress to be saved now.

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  David Koppenhofer

  • January 06, 2021 16:44

  ...and it's broken again. Some limited research says I also have to allow youtube.com. Fortunately, I don't need to block YouTube at all, so the allow rule is ok for me.

  @firewalla, could we have pattern matching for rules, so I can only allow the watchtime URL instead of the whole domain?

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  David Koppenhofer

  • January 06, 2021 18:57

  Doesn't seem like allowing youtube.com and www.youtube.com works either. This is almost annoying enough to make me turn off ad block. 😡

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  Alak

  • January 06, 2021 21:09
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  Try also adding: video-stats.l.google.com

  I am having success with YouTube history by including allow rules for both of the following:

  • s.youtube.com
  • video-stats.l.google.com

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  David Koppenhofer

  • January 07, 2021 20:02

  I think those 2 allow rules worked; thanks Alak!

  Since I changed a bunch of filters and settings to try to fix it, I'll have to let this configuration settle in for a few days. Changes I make in Firewalla don't seem to take effect immediately.

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  Alak

  • January 07, 2021 21:41

  Glad it worked!  You might find the following website useful for building your whitelist.

  https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/commonly-whitelisted-domains/212

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