YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

Post by boy8768 » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 5:57 PM UTC

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Post by kitsunesoba » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 5:59 PM UTC

makestuff wrote: post #514

kitsunesoba wrote: post #226

This doesn't really affect me since I subscribe to premium, but something that a lot of ad-based services don't seem to grasp is why people block ads. It's because they've become increasingly obnoxious. Nobody blocked ads when they were a simple column of links in the gutter or maybe an animated GIF banner with 3 frames. No, adblockers became popular because ads kept getting more loud (both visually and audibly), in…

I pay for YT premium because the ads were getting ridiculous (I think this is partly their goal to push people to premium subscriptions) and I want to support the creators. However, now every video has a damn host read ad embedded in it. I find it incredibly frustrating that my $15/mo isn't enough. I watch on my TV mainly so I can't use one of those plugins that skips host read ads. I just manually skip them. Maybe t…

Post by crush0923 » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 5:59 PM UTC