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They Finally Shut It Down
YouTube cracks down on ad blocking, users report
YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
As first spotted by a Reddit user this week, YouTube will display a pop-up warning some users that "ad blockers are not allowed."
"It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Ads allow YouTube to stay free for billions of users worldwide," the message adds.
Upon receiving this notification, users will have two options: either disable their ad blocker to allow YouTube ads or consider subscribing to YouTube Premium to get rid of all advertisements.
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- Do you use ad blocking software?226 votes
- Yes74.78%
- No (click here if you're trolling)10.62%
- No (click here if that's a serious answer)14.60%
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Havent gotten this, but can't you just block the popup with the element picker?
this is all because of @JabJab networks
Whack-a-mole youtube vs the world. Bad idea and human resource waste.
I recently started paying for Youtube premium to avoid all the video adverts. Glad I did, makes the YT experience much better.
Might make more people join cheap YT Premium "Families", or get YT Premium via cheap VPN sub. That way YT will make a bit more revenue, but not too much.
which country is the cheapest these days after FX translation? Had YT Prem India before but my CC kept getting rejected and the plan was cancelled
Not sure, I'm using an Adblocker, still.
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Mod edit (angstrom): removed. (Please don't do this)
I am not using an ad blocker, I am cheap and accepted my status with everything that comes with it :P I am even paying for windows licenses but only because there is no ad-supported version. I keep it unactivated where I am experimenting with.
if you use a russian ip there are no ads
It does. I actually don't mind paying that bit at all because
Yes, I'm quite aware of youtube-dl (ytdlp nowadays), torrents, etc. but the convenience factor is there.
I pay for YouTube premium also, I think it's worth it and agree makes the experience better
Finally? They could do this year's ago if they embedded the ads in the video output, or serve the ads from the same ip server as the video. Twitch does the same.
It is. But also very dangerous. Why? Global monopolization of whole media market.
In this case competition very important. There must be equal or similar networks for doing the same, otherwise - it will be global monopolist that control information, media, browsing, internet, and so on. Which is extremely dangerous and profitable.
I actually think that the ads model would eliminate competition because google is king. So, paying is not an anti-competition thing, for as long as you pay to others, not google.
I pay around $0.46 per month for a shared YouTube Premium Family subscription. There is an app called SubSpace, which acts as an escrow service for sharing subscriptions like Netflix and other services. So far, so good.
What exactly did they finally shut down?
I know of Gamsgo, which works fine for Flix at least.
I don't seem to have encountered this pop-up dialog, where did you see it?
No problems for me, since I rarely sitting down to watch youtube.
its an "experiment", only some people get it for now. its not an official "feature" yet.
also, there is no way to win with adblockers, so i wish them good luck.
Can it replace Spotify at all with discovery and auto customized playlists?
This change may be opposed by a large number of users and eventually abandoned.
At the ad blocker level, there should also be a way to block it.
Corporations make money anyway even though I rarely use Youtube.
Nobody is allowed to tell me how I protect my device or how I filter my network. I will continue to block ads as much as I want, whenever I want, because it's my network. If Youtube would be run by a non-profit foundation which helps humanity, I would definitely rethink my stance.
Someone's grade 8 English teacher has let OP and us down. :facepalm:
BlackBerry's could listen to YT while phone locked. Google just being assholes on that.
You might as well as "mass gravel" it.
As a paid-nothing user, I watch almost all ads on YT, and sometimes I just click one of them, randomly.
I've had YouTube red since it came out since it does pay the channels more than just ads.
But on topic of ad blockers.
I wonder how that works against something like PiHole...
Doesn't really matter how stuff is blocked. It should be easy to check if all components of a page were loaded. Many websites do it.