YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."
YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."
Ive had my ad blocker turned off for a week on Youtube. Theres a preroll ad on every video and a shitload of ad break mid video and at the last 3 seconds of a video.
Its the worst viewing experience I can imagine. I cut out Twitch and even stopped all my subs when they went mandatory ad viewing. Im full on ready for third party options in the same spirit as Lemmy.
71Get fucked, YouTube.
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24How about you suck my balls accordingly, google?
23Oh no, so how will I be able to tell a difference?
22Google: “Fine, I’ll turn off your adblocker myself!” *rolling out Manifest v3*
19Turning off your ad-blocker is like running in jail, naked. So no thanks, YT.
Both Firefox + uBlock Origin saved me countless times from malicious ads since years. You should do it too.
16I'll just leave this here.
16Keep it up, dumbasses.
Catch the hint...the harder you try the harder we do. There's no trying from our end.
11YouTube losing the war on AdBlockers, lol.
8Kind of shocked it took this long.
It always cost more more but the games that used clever traps were a lot more effective than just drm. Because warez groups can easily check if the game launches. Not if every enemy after mission four has infinite health and pinpoint accuracy.
Just curious if this maps to "shit, Google knows Twitter exists and figured out what we are doing" or "YouTube servers are broken"
7I mean... it definitely will if you turn off your ad blocker.
6Then don't use it.
4Obviously the "optimal" term vary according to the POV folks.
4About all this is doing is making me update my lists in UBO more often.
4I've switched to the FreeTube app on desktop and now I'm just using it without a second thought. No ads and a much faster and better YouTube with absolutely no ads.
I'm not about to pay one of the richest and morally corrupt companies in the world for YouTube.
3This is the best summary I could come up with:
YouTube appeared to confirm reports that people with ad-blockers installed were experiencing a multi-second delay before being able to watch a video.
The Android-based news website Android Authority reported that people who weren't using Chrome noticed the delays, citing Reddit users who said they've experienced this delay while using browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
"In the past week, users using ad blockers may have experienced suboptimal viewing, which included delays in loading, regardless of the browser they are using.
Users who have uninstalled their ad blockers may still experience a temporary delay in loading, and should try refreshing their browser," a YouTube spokesperson told Business Insider.
In June 2023, it began preventing users with ad blockers turned on from watching videos and reportedly experimented with pop-up warnings.
More recently, X users began complaining and sharing screenshots of YouTube pop-ups warning them to not use ad blockers.
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3I've been wondering why YouTube keeps playing the same three videos that I've already watched after each new one.
2How about stop being evil, Youtube?
Oh wait...
2AdNauseam works the best for blocking ads. You can get it on chromium based browsers too, but it's kind of an involved process to do it. It's worth it if you want to use Brave or one of the opera browsers with adblocking.
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