YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker

Worse than using YouTube without an ad blocker?

which is a hilarious threat because the #1 way to make my viewing experience worse would be turning off my ad blocker, lmao

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.

I think my viewing experience will be even worse if I turn off my ad blocker.

Get fucked, YouTube.

Loving Freetube, Newpipe, and Grayjay more and more every day!

The whole page loading delay thing is hilarious because it doesn't tell you why it's happening, so viewers are likely to just assume the service is becoming even more shitty.

YouTube is just messing around. They could encode ads randomly on videos if they wanted to, like podcasts.

How could it be worse than with ads?

Oh no, so how will I be able to tell a difference?

How about you suck my balls accordingly, google?

Can’t make it worse of you don’t use it.

It's official, Youtube now has people employed as product worseners.

I can also just back out and just not watch said videos...

Google: “Fine, I’ll turn off your adblocker myself!” *rolling out Manifest v3*

Way to kill your platform. Sadly there’s no big competition

Turning 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.

I'll just leave this here.

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If for some reason you can't use a full-on ad blocker, "SponsorBlock for Youtube" is another Firefox extension you can install. It doesn't block ads per se, but it will auto-skip segments of a video that have been reported as ad content. Kind of a grassroots thing, like reporting cops on Waze.

Keep it up, dumbasses.

Catch the hint...the harder you try the harder we do. There's no trying from our end.

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PeerTube & Odysee when?

YouTube losing the war on AdBlockers, lol.

Kind 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"

I mean... it definitely will if you turn off your ad blocker.

How can they make the experience worse for people using adblock if they cant even detect it

If they can detect adblockers, why not just block everyone using one like they were doing previously?

Until an alternative to Youtube happens, then this will continue.

About all this is doing is making me update my lists in UBO more often.

Then don't use it.

Obviously the "optimal" term vary according to the POV folks.

I've been wondering why YouTube keeps playing the same three videos that I've already watched after each new one.

This 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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I'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.

How about stop being evil, Youtube?

Oh wait...

AdNauseam 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.

Oh no. God forbid you pay. Gimme free video now. It's mine!