YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
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Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
#2It doesn't look very complex, nothing a simple ublock/brave block element can't remove, at least not yet.
Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
#3If YouTube blocks me from watching videos because I use an ad blocker then I'll stop watching videos on YouTube. I don't care if this doesn't hurt YouTube... it will help me stop spending so much time on YouTube.
Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
#4On a related note as someone who uses YouTube constantly YouTube Premium is absolutely worth it.
Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
#5On a related note as someone who uses YouTube constantly YouTube Premium is absolutely worth it.
Yeah. Subscribed as soon as my kid got old enough to use it
Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
#6Or just download with yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp).
Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
#7Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35883457
Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
#8It doesn't look very complex, nothing a simple ublock/brave block element can't remove, at least not yet.
Yet. Twitch has some pretty hardcore ad system that even uBlock can't block straight up and you have to use a combination of tools/scripts
https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions
https://old.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/10fgy9y/twitch_adb...
Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
#9Or just download with yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ).
Why even download?
You can use third party media players like MPC-BE or MPC-HC that leverage yt-dlp to stream the video into a media player without any ads of course.
Yes, sometimes it makes sense to download if you want to keep the video, but to just watch just stream it via yt-dlp to a media player.
Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
#10On a related note as someone who uses YouTube constantly YouTube Premium is absolutely worth it.
Yeah, and YT Music is included too right? Because I have YT Music and no ads and it's really cheap compared to other services. I pay COP$17900 which is little less than USD$4. I used to pay around USD$10 for Spotify.