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Re: YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock

#83

Post by jsnell »

I wonder which topic has had the most HN front-page dupes. This one is probably in the competition:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793375

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35883457

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782171

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37106802

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37798150

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36277079

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37825887

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37866601

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35916592

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869315

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37883228

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37989682

Re: YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock

#84

Post by simondotau »

caturopath wrote: post #59
kdwikzncba wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This marks the moment Google officially decided it didn’t know how to innovate any longer What? THIS marks that moment? I haven't seen google innovate since they built google search. Literally every other successful thing they have was bought.

Gmail, Chrome, Docs, Android, Safe Browsing, Translate... (Yes, some of these involved acquisitions, but there is a difference between acquiring YouTube and acquiring Android Inc.) Google is in a bad place, but I think it's silly to pretend like they didn't have anything else interesting or successful.

Google has plenty of interesting and successful things in their stable, and there’s plenty of innovation in their 25 year history. The argument being put forth is that little of it is the result of recent innovative activity.

Re: YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock

#85

Post by haxiomic »

jsnell wrote: post #83

I wonder which topic has had the most HN front-page dupes. This one is probably in the competition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35883457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782171 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37106802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37798150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3627707…

I don't think the link makes it clear but this is a new development in the Saga: some users are now getting a new message:

"You have 2 videos remaining, if you continue to use ad block the video player will be blocked"

Previously users simply had a timer to wait through, this is a much stronger action

Re: YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock

#86

Post by JohnFen »

beej71 wrote: post #77
Aken wrote: post #10

I feel like I'm in the minority that has zero problem paying for an ad-free experience. I get tremendous value out of YouTube in both professional and personal ways. I have a daughter who watches it often. Suppressing ads while supporting the service my family enjoys regularly seems like a no-brainer to me. And I never have to worry about them circumventing my ad blocker.

I paid for Premium for years. But then I started asking myself if wanted to give money to a company that pushed things like FLoC, Manifest v3, and WEI. And the answer was no. We used to pay them $284/year for our household services. Now we pay them nothing. Maybe they'll have a change of heart someday, but until then, not a dime.

YouTube is the only Google service that I still use, and I've been paying for premium. But, mostly for the reasons you list, I'm cancelling that subscription and abandoning YouTube altogether.

So that's at least two of us.

I'll have to give Nebula another try. I hope their app is better now. Last time, it was so bad that I cancelled that subscription.

Re: YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock

#87

Post by josephcsible »

blast wrote: post #81
blibble wrote: post #11

step 1: enable ublock origin in incognito mode in options step 2: right click video, open in incognito

> enable ublock origin in incognito mode in options I can't find that option. Where's it at?

Assuming you're using Firefox, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extensions-private-brow...

Re: YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock

#88

Post by [deleted] »

blibble wrote: post #72
Aken wrote: post #10

I feel like I'm in the minority that has zero problem paying for an ad-free experience. I get tremendous value out of YouTube in both professional and personal ways. I have a daughter who watches it often. Suppressing ads while supporting the service my family enjoys regularly seems like a no-brainer to me. And I never have to worry about them circumventing my ad blocker.

> I feel like I'm in the minority that has zero problem paying for an ad-free experience. this is fine until enough people pay at which point they add ads for paying customers too see: cable TV, netflix, disney plus, hulu, ...

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