YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer

I’d pay for YouTube premium if t wasn’t more expensive than HBO. It’s ridiculous. Especially considering YouTube has no production costs. It’s all user-generated content.

Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube

• ad blockers are not "on youtube", they are on my devices

• allowed by whom?

• fuck you

ublock origin users:

Dear Youtube: Bring back the downvote count, allow me to disable shorts, allow me to disable your bullshit annoying ass startup music, then half the price and then we'll talk about paying for your "service".

I am paying for YouTube Premium, and yet I still have to skip over US-exclusive sponsor sections which almost every Youtuber has nowadays…

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Ah YouTube, the site where I watch a video that tells me in ten minutes what I could read in one. And only 5 advertisements!

Oops, six. I forgot the ad the creator slipped in between minute 1 and 2.

and this is why you should use third party clients/patches like revanced

There is something fundamentally wrong with a service that shows more ads than content.

fuck YouTube premium. why would I pay £19.99 a month when literally the only defining feature for me is no ads. all this will do is allow for more complex ad blockers to be made to bypass this

Up next: An AI-enabled Web Browser extension which

• mutes the YouTube ads and overlays it with cute cat videos
• clicks the "skip" button for you

"While the duration of this timer isn't revealed, we expect it to be somewhere around 30 to 60 seconds."

Peak journalism.

I just got my first 30 second UNSKIPPABLE ad on my TV the other day...I closed youtube, as watching a 1min video is NOT worth 30 seconds of ads

The really annoying part is YouTube gets all their content for free, while every other subscription video service pays for content.

The worst part of YouTube ads is super long ads (sometimes even multiple hours long). It has happened to me multiple times. And coincidentally it always happens when I'm feeling sleepy.

Here is a screenshot.

Man, all these companies just pushing me away from using their services. I don't need it.

This is one of these problem with multiple unsolvable issues:

• people are used to ad block and won't change
• the price is too high for part of the population (-> ad block for part of them)
• $1/month, $10/year would attract new paid account but not that much
• people can't afford/don't want a subscription everything
• users don't see any value in it
• a fraction of the paid will go ad block with the price increase
• people will circumvent the ad block block
• capitalism
• ...

I actually don't have a problem paying for online services. I host my own email, I pay for Kagi search and I do monthly donations to Mozilla and Wikipedia. What I have an issue with is services that start out as advertisement based and then introduce paid plans, because now you still have all these shitty mechanics just for driving up engagement which results in unhealthy incentives for content creators and rabbit holes. I want a service that is for YouTube what Kagi is to Google Search. But perhaps that model is too difficult to monetize, I don't know.

Who the hell pays $140 for a service that was totally free a few years ago???????

Next they will detect if you mute the tab and go to another one to wait the ad out.

NewPipe, and YouTube Revanced are great apps you can use on mobile. They aren't attached to any Google account so you can just use them and skip adds all day without getting any account theoretically banned.

For those who continue to use YouTube and adblockers on PC, simply just make a new throwaway Google account. In the case that they aren't actually bluffing (they are) then at least your temp account will be banned.

Dear YouTube,

Go fuck yourselves.

Sincerely, the 1% of people who actually use adblockers happily.

Getting banned from YouTube might be the best thing google has ever done for me

clicks on link

It looks like you are using an ad-blocker

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Just use yewtu.be instead... It's a better YouTube frontend

But what happens when the timer is done? Just a scare tactic?

i was a YT premium subscriber when google play music didn't suck.... they lost me when they switched it to youtube music

They force ads and steal money from the content creators, and people still flock to use their services. How fucking braindead can you be?

Just stop using YouTube. That will fix their problems real quick.

Is the photo for this article two naked chicks smoking at a bar for anyone else?

I just went to yt's front page, which I haven't done in a long while (usually use NewPipe or use a direct link). There is a LOT of garbage on there. I mean, holy crap! It's not the creators' fault, I know. The Algorithm decides, and they must appease The Algorithm. Still, though. And, now, this timer bs for the 2% who use adblockers?

I have been minimizing my google property usage more and more since the mantra became Don't not be evil. Certain channels have earned the privilege to be white listed but when I get blocked completely I will do the same thing I did with the latest cycle of repeated and tiring reddit drama.... close my account with no chance of a return.

So what are my options on windows? I just know about patched clients on Android

How do the 3rd party clients for youtube work? Can they still circumvent the adblock-blockers or where are the "positioned" inside youtube's code? Sorry for the weird terminology, I'm no programmer.

I couldn't read this article because AndroidPolice wanted me to disable my adblocker.

Have you considered, you know paying for the service. God forbid you pay them.